Dan Held

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605 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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B, there's a lot of very basic primitive financial types of financial transactions that people want.

Lending, borrowing, you know, staking, lending, you know, different types of other smart contracts or options, derivatives.

These are all productive things.

You know, there's a whole host of like, do we need millions of tokens?

I don't think so.

I don't think that's exactly useful.

But taking an asset like digital gold and being able to borrow against it in a trustless manner, there's a massive amount of demand for that.

Being able to lend it out in a way that's semi-trustless.

you know, I think is useful.

Yeah, that's a good question because the early community, the word cash actually means that.

So when the Bitcoin white paper was written, Satoshi wrote it for the cypherpunks.

which are on the cryptographer mailing list, the cypherpunks don't use the word cash to mean everyday transactions.

That's a huge misconception.

Interesting.

I've never realized that.

That's crazy.

Yeah, because, you know, like you had like e-cash, hash-cash.

Like why are they using this word cash?

It means a couple different things.

It means a one-way function.

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