We desperately need to leave the crypto bubble for five minutes. Dice? Entropy? Air-gapped devices? Seed phrases stamped into steel? Nobody knows what the hell we are talking about. If securing your life savings requires the average person to become an amateur cryptographer and cybersecurity expert, the product is not ready for the average person. And screaming “not your keys, not your coins” doesn’t solve that. Self-custody is incredibly powerful. It is also completely non-viable for 99% of people in its current form. Until self-custody becomes so easy that your parents can use it safely without understanding what entropy means, we have not solved the problem.

JUST IN: MICHAEL SAYLOR JUST MASTERFULLY EXPLAINED WHY HE SOLD THOUSANDS OF #BITCOIN "WE NEEDED TO DEMONSTRATE THAT IF WE SOLD, BTC WOULDN'T FAIL" "NOW WE CAN ILLUSTRATE $STRC IS ACTUALLY A GOOD CREDIT, AND WE CAN PAY THE DIVIDENDS FOREVER" "IT'S NOT OUR PRIMARY STRATEGY TO SELL" HE HAS OVER 33 YEARS WORTH CAPITAL TO PAY DIGITAL CREDIT HOLDERS DON'T BELIEVE THE FUD 🔥

COLDCARD HACK losses hit $130M — Galaxy Research 🔸At least 15 different attackers. 🔸Over 2,000 BTC stolen. 🔸7,300 addresses affected.

"80% of companies in the United States that are over $100 million are private, so retail can't get access" Christopher Perkins, Head of Franklin Crypto, says pre IPO perps could finally open private markets to retail "That's the beauty of crypto, we're going to start chipping away at this private market. That's the beauty of pre IPO perps, finally retail can get their hands on these things that have been reserved for the accredited guys" "Chairman Atkins is definitely going to go after those rules. He hates them, I could tell. Why is it that in this country you have to be rich to make money? It doesn't make sense to me" "So I think that's going to be very much in scope"

What's your biggest Binance habit? ⬜ Checking prices every hour ⬜ Watching candles move ⬜ Opening the app with no plan ⬜ All of the above

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Senators call for SEC investigation into President Trump's crypto memecoin, accusing him of a "rug pull." $TRUMP coin is down 95% since launch.

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i can’t believe there were over 100,000 people (including me) believed these numbers were valid. now we all know what it really means to “believe in something.”

Securing the backup seed phrase is hard. Can't have someone else read it and say, "oh, that's a nice seed phrase". Can't have it destroyed by fire, flood, etc. Can't have a hacker gain access to it. And most importantly, can't lose it yourself.