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Follow me to learn about Bitcoin. Fractional CMO. Prev: Head of Marketing @Krakenfx | Growth @Uber @Blockchain. Founder Zeroblock/Interchange (both acq)

NYC/Austin
Joined July 2013
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Bitcoin fell just 3-4% after the biggest crypto hack ever. Dan Held says panic texts usually mark the bottom, and Bitcoin's resilience shows it isn't trading like a high beta tech stock "Where people are saying, is it over? Usually means that that's like a floor, a bottom." "Those really bearish, it's over sort of stuff, or it's dead, I love that. It sounds like fear and apathy are marking the bottom here." "It used to be the narrative that Bitcoin is a higher beta tech stock. It's not really acting like that at all." "Given the fact that the largest exchange in the space just got hacked for $6 billion, the biggest hack ever, and it's only down 3 to 4%, that's pretty bullish for me."
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Check out my latest long from video where I go in depth about the $6.5 Binance hack with data visualizations. I cover: - When the hack occurred and impact on price - How it happened - Who was responsible - What will happen to customer funds Check it out here👇
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I've been here before. Feeling panic. Despair. Fear. This is normal. We're all human after all. And this is where BTFD and HODL are how you make it.
Bitcoin selloff continues. HODL!!
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Mt. Gox. China bans. The blocksize wars. FTX. Every one of them was supposed to be the end. Bitcoin kept producing blocks. Tick tock, next block.
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BREAKING: Binance hot wallet hacked. Over $2.8B stolen. What we know: - Tether froze $971M in USDT - Funds are moving to non Binance addresses and interacted with Tornado Cash addresses - Binance has not communicated yet officially
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User funds are safe! It does look like a hack on Binance. Appreciate the quick freeze from Tether (~$971m) and Circle (~$823m). I don't manage Binance (.com) anymore, but as a shareholder, I expect all user funds will be fully covered.
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Bitcoin core is still secure after being fully evaluated by top frontier AI models 🔥
Bitcoin Core is some of the most reviewed code in the world. We were curious how our frontier AI model would handle it. Last month we ran 16 agents across 5 of the top models for a week to look for issues in Bitcoin Core v32.0rc1 Impressively, they surfaced two minor items - both now disclosed responsibly. Agentic teams have been a huge unlock so far for our security efficiency. They're also remarkable to watch.
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Excited to lecture at University of Texas this month! Always love educating college students about Bitcoin and tech careers 👏
We’re excited to welcome @danheld, a leading Bitcoin educator and former Head of Marketing at @krakenfx, to UBC 2026! Time for Dan to educate the next generation of Bitcoiners! ₿
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Here's her "legacy:" - Eurozone growth under Lagarde has been a joke next to the US. They’ve been stuck at ~1% while America keeps clearing 2%+. Years of relative stagnation and she’s still calling it “resilience.” - She got convicted of negligence for waving through a €400m taxpayer payout to a Sarkozy crony. No real punishment, of course. Classic elite protection. - Biggest IMF bailout in history (Argentina, ~$57bn) under her watch and it still collapsed. Country defaulted anyway. She took the bet, it failed, and she moved on.
I have just informed my colleagues that I will step down as @ECB President on 7 February 2027. It has been a source of great pride to serve this institution. I thank all of those who have supported me on this journey over the past seven years.
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Bitcoin ETF company Bitwise Asset Management just updated its Bitcoin forecast for 2036: Bear case: $130,686 Base case: $1,599,766 Bull case: $3,667,911 Honestly, I think this is conservative. $1.6M price target 10 years from now is my default assumption.
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BREAKING: Bitcoin's issuance schedule remains unchanged since its launch. There will only be 21M Bitcoin. Forever.
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Me at parties for the last 14 yrs 😂
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AI is the best argument for Bitcoin, not against it. AI will make almost everything easier to produce and copy. No AI, however smart, can produce Bitcoin number 21,000,001. Build with AI. Save in Bitcoin.
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If your financial advisor hasn't recommended Bitcoin yet, fire them.
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We’ve finally made it. Pure retardation.
A brutal year for Bitcoin is just getting started. Give me three minutes to explain why you should dump it now. Outflows from ETFs are signal and will continue. We will test the 57k low again in the next 12 months. Why? Because there are far too many dynamic places to put your money that are creating MUCH more value. Why put your resources into a dead network that offers nothing beyond a store of value? What's the point of place the BTC be if Bitcoin's Ponzi-scheme nature has gone away!?! The viral nature of bitcoin was it's power... if you didn't own you were MOCKED! Now? Completely reasonable, heck, SMARTER, to ignore bitcoin and place other bets! No one is trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin anymore... the memes and NFTs are gone. No one is saying $ BTC can change the world, because it won't — and BECAUSE AI HAS! Just sell and shift from Bitcoin to Super Intelligence because one provides little to no value, and the other provides unlimited upside for humanity. This should be obvious to everyone right now. Bitcoin will never break its all-time high again.
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If you could ask Satoshi one question, what would it be?
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Mainstream economists don’t like Bitcoin because the monetary policy can't be manipulated. Let that sink in.
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It pays to DCA 👏
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Grok bots are now the equivalent output of Marketers with 1-2 yr of experience out of school. Before Grok bot, AI felt more like managing interns. Spending almost more time correcting vs just doing it myself.
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If you liked Bitcoin at $126,000, you should love it at $80,000.
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