Dan Held is the founder of crypto portfolio service Picks & Shovels. He previously founded data service ZeroBlock, which sold to Blockchain, and served as VP of product at ChangeTip.
This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk's "Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper" series.
Introduction In my last article, "Soil," I covered the Cypherpunks or the "Soil" in which he planted the Bitcoin seed giving it the best chance for survival.