Your view is so negative... where do you live? NY? Your environment is not doing good to you my friend. Is zapping really the only thing you can do with your sats?

All these companies you mention, are all sucked into the fiat machine, what you expect? BlackRock is collateralizing bitcoin, that's how they are robbing us.

Look at our Weekly Sunday, lately @unboiled and others are demonstrating that living on bitcoin is possible. Now, there are fiat companies enabling it, so your sats still going into a AMLed registered entity.

Fact is that is a beginning, things will evolve, and I see more and more private markets surging. Be patient my friend, look for the good company and enjoy your sats with the community around you, privately :)