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Dan Held
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Dan Held writes The Held Report, a personal blog at danheld.substack.com about economics and business. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Don't Fear Tether”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Held's Substack as a rebuttal to concerns about Tether, arguing it is not that big a deal. Commenters cite it as support for their points on Tether's risks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Don't Fear Tether3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-21
What Hacker News says?
This is the correct answer. This post by Dan held really explains the “it’s not that big of a deal” with tether. https://danheld.substack.com/p/dont-fear-tether
Comment linking /p/dont-fear-tether
on “US Fed Official Calls Tether a ‘Challenge’ to Financial Stability”Submitted Bitcoin vs. Ethereum as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently read the rebuttle to this layer of the Tether saga and it seems this has been addressed (to a degree). https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda/status/1349331577390579718?s... Many of the other points are discussed in this rebuttle: https://danheld.substack.com/p/dont-fear-tether The more alternatives to Tether the better, so long as they compete towards realizing transparency where it matters.
Comment linking /p/dont-fear-tether
on “Reserve – A flexible pool of stablecoins designed to reduce risk”Submitted Can Governments Kill Bitcoin? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Final Boss: Bitcoin vs. Central Bank Digital Currencies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Fear Tether as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Bitcoin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rise and fall of crypto narratives as a story · 1 points
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