- Dan Held is the growth lead at Kraken, the fourth largest crypto exchange by trading volume.
- Held first bought Bitcoin at $10 and began to double down in 2014 after acquiring a “HODL” mindset.
- He explains how Bitcoin might hit $1 million by year-end and what meme token Dogecoin is all about.
Dan Held discovered Bitcoin, like many things in life, by chance.
In 2012, after a friend paid him back for a beer with a facetious coin – a gold coin with the Bitcoin logo emblazoned on it – Held went down the rabbit hole of digital currency.
Immediately, the message of Bitcoin’s supply limit at 21 million and its potential as digital gold resonated with him.