Dan Held is a Bitcoin marketer and the Bugleverse’s first convicted tweet thief. His canonical traits, established at trial: industrial-scale appropriation of other people’s tweets, a social media team that does his creative work for him, and a block list populated with his accusers.

Arc history

Held’s canon opens in January 2023 in an Austin, TX courtroom, where Judge Wilma Hightower ordered him to pay reparations to 1,000 separate Twitter individuals whose tweets he stole — a verdict the jury reached in ten minutes. The reparations required him to supply each victim with a well thought out and creative tweet, boost its engagement with his expertise, apologize publicly, and unblock everyone who had accused him of stealing content. Held told the court he lacked the creativity to comply personally but assured the judge his social media team could handle it (Dan Held Ordered By Judge To Pay Reparations).

Bitcoin Twitter celebrated the ruling as “a massive win for the Bitcoin Community.”

irl: Dan Held is a real Bitcoin marketer (formerly Kraken) whose reputation for reposting viral tweets without attribution — and blocking people who pointed it out — was a long-running community joke. The trial is fictional.

Appearances

In the news (1)

• Dan Held Ordered By Judge To Pay Reparations To Plebs He Stole Tweets From — 2023-01-12, subject