Hey, inveterate bitcoin ideologists! Give me, a theoretical noob, one good practical, material reason to self-custody. How does it improve my life? Does it reduce time or effort? Does it pay me yield?

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The reason I don't recommend self-custody to newbs is not because I think self-custody is a bad idea in general. I don't recommend it, because hardware wallet manufacturers are lazy and haven't solved any of the recurring problems with their self-custody model since 2016.

You can drive a car in reverse, but that doesntean you'll reduce the mileage. View quoted note →

People are tired out there. I can't believe that we have Square merchants accepting bitcoin, bitcoin in our IRA's, etc... etc... and people think onboarding is hard. Can you imagine how much harder it is for Monerons? And You don't see them getting any less retarded! Suck it up, winner! View quoted note →

Are we still recommending self-custody to normies, or have we given up? I'm kind of in the "give up" camp.

Blake2B is a mental health crisis. View quoted note →