Dan Held

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

I mean, I even went on a date in San Francisco and she said, are you a drug dealer?

When she asked what I did.

So like Bitcoin's improved somewhat from there.

Now it's largely perceived as a speculative asset, I would say, which is still a pretty negative connotation rather than a positive one.

And it's like freedom money.

You know, culture wise, like...

We named Bitcoin, which is a fucking random ass magic Internet money, largely perceived as dirty and filthy and bullshit.

We aimed that into what was a tiny, obscure community.

I mean, in San Francisco, you know, I went to the Bitcoin meetups there in early 2013.

It was just Brian and Fred from Coinbase, Charlie Lee, Jed McCaleb, Jesse Powell.

Jared Kenna, who hosted it at 20 Mission.

I mean, there was a dozen of us in a cooler full of PPRs.

Like from that into the president is talking about it and there's a bill in Congress about it.

And Goldman, JP Morgan are all like, yeah, this is legitimate.

And same with the Fed.

I mean, I think we memed it into an existence where people believe it's digital gold.

For me, since that was my original thesis, I think we largely succeeded.

You know, does the everyday person see it that way?

You know, I think market, last time I checked the surveys around market penetration in terms of what percentage of the US owns Bitcoin, I think it's under 10%.

But I might be making numbers up, but I'm pretty sure it's like 5% to 10%.

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