Bitcoin-focused startup adds Dan Held from Kraken

Bitcoin-focused startup adds Dan Held from Kraken

A start-up that builds up an ecosystem of Bitcoin applications has brought Dan Held on board as a consultant to support the company in scaling its marketing department and the development of product strategies.

Started at the beginning of this year, Trust machines collected $ 150 million from Breyer Capital in February, Digital Currency Group, Goldentree, HiveMind and Union Square, To expand Bitcoin as a defi platform.

The increase in the company should be used according to the Trust Machines website, "to expand Bitcoin from a purely passive value -plot to a final settlement level for a powerful new calculation platform".

"I think Trust Machines and his team are uniquely positioned to bring defi applications to the Bitcoin protocol, which inevitably releases trillion in value," said Held in an explanation.

Holded is Director of Growth Marketing at the Krypto exchange. He founded Zeroblock, which was later taken over by Blockchain.com, where he worked as a product director.

He said last October that Bitcoin's market capitalization could ultimately reach between $ 50 trillion and $ 150 trillion if the asset is successful as a global reserve currency or "Gold 2.0". The comments came before Bitcoin reached an all-time high of almost $ 70,000 last November. Bitcoin's price was less than $ 23,000 on Thursday morning and its market capitalization was around $ 435 billion.

"Dan has an astonishing ability to simplify complex concepts and reach a large audience," said Muneb Ali, CEO von Trust Machines. "We are experiencing a revival of the culture of Bitcoin builders, and Dans Cooperation with us in growth marketing can help to accelerate the introduction of Bitcoin layers and to release productive capital through bitcoin apps."

The recording of Held to the team takes place after Asiff Hirji, President of the crypto loan Figure and former President and Chief Operating Officer from Coinbase, entered the company as a consultant in June.

Also the accession to Trust Machines in the last quarter was Manas Mohapatra as General Counsel, Rena Schah as head of operations and strategy, and Aubrey Strobel as a marketing and communication consultant.

A spokesman for Trust Machines did not immediately answer a request for comment.

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