Dan Held

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Bankless · Is Bitcoin Going According to Plan? Gold, Saylor, Satoshi | Dan Held · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

My house has a title and that title is in my name.

And, you know, the IRS and various other entities, anyone in public can walk by my house and see how big my house is or small or whatever it is.

The IRS can ask me where I got that money from because they can see that I bought a house.

And so the idea that you can live in this perfect level of privacy if we just had a perfect private money, I think is a little bit ridiculous.

Like I think...

you can't have perfect privacy.

If you buy any big items, you know, it's kind of impossible.

In a perfect world, if with no trade-offs, absolutely.

And that's where I find the Zcash folks just so dishonest, where they act like we could just snap it with our finger and we could have privacy on Bitcoin's L1.

Obviously, we thought about that.

This isn't like, oh, yeah, we're just being, you know, curmudgeons and we're like, no, we don't want privacy because we're all institutional now.

No, it's not that at all.

It's basically there's a huge trade-off and we're like, the trade-off doesn't make sense for us, but you guys go on and do that.

Cool.

I mean, and then Zcash had that

you know, the flaw in it with the inflation bug and we were kind of largely validated by our concerns.

Yeah, so, you know, Bitcoin, the BIP is basically a Bitcoin improvement to the protocol that's proposed.

You know, there's a couple floating around.

I think a bit 360s around quantum, like improving Bitcoin to be quantum, post-quantum cryptography, basically solving some of the, you know, with quantum, the current issue with Bitcoin is that, you know, when you sign a transaction with your private key, that private key can get exposed.

And if it's exposed, you can steal your Bitcoin.

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