Journeys

"Lots of my friends lost their savings because banks suddenly shut down and nobody would guarantee their life savings. So...

"My wife claims that I live in the future all by myself. And once in a while, society ends up...

Dan Held is a Texan who doesn’t drive a truck, drink beer, love Trump, or watch sports. He's a tech...

“How advanced would the United States be if you couldn’t send money from New York to Florida? From New York...

“I loved crypto. I loved the libertarian ideas. At that time, everyone was talking about freedom, about privacy, about the...

“If you’d asked people in the late 1800’s what they wanted, they’d have wanted a faster horse and buggy. They...

“In the future, I think people will use money without even knowing what the underlying technology is. Whether it’s the...

“Ultimately, the future is not something to be predicted at all. It’s something to be achieved.”

“The Treasury can just snap their fingers and print money. Bitcoin doesn’t work that way. Here’s this alternative financial system...

“Obvious ideas are obvious after the fact.”

“I started to see that it was the blockchain community who would be happy to have me. My expertise was...

“There’s a lot of tuning we can do to make this thing faster. Right now, we’ve slowed it down to...