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2.) $0 Bitcoin kills the financial argument, but not the sovereignty argument (assume USD still has some market value)
I don't understand why people entertain such hyperbole, even if the question came from a newbie without formalized understanding of mathematics, let alone economics.
When physical delivery futures go negative because costs of storage outweigh expected forward resale, does anyone cry over the price of the futures contract "reaching zero"? did it even have a literal null value, at any point along the way?
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1.) financial sovereignty can't stand on a worthless asset
2.) $0 Bitcoin kills the financial argument, but not the sovereignty argument (assume USD still has some market value)
3.) self-custody is really just cryptographic key management, and crypto-keys already secure your entire digital life
4.) if you don't own the keys that secure your interactions online. then someone else does...
5.) every third-party holding your keys or data is a honeypot: leakable, sellable, or ransomable
6.) the same discipline that protects a seed phrase and maintains a bitcoin node is what protects your online freedom, internet identity, communications, and access to infrastructure that isn't trying to control you
7.) cryptography is a modern miracle of mathematics that tyrants and authoritarians hate. That's enough of a reason for further study...