Something I just realized from Jason Lowery's Soft War is that Bitcoin possession returns us to that period of war when it was hand-to-hand combat, soldiers staring down the musket at their enemy 100 yards away. The human compassion starts to come back into play.
To quote Jason Lowery's SoftWar:
"Soldiers must be trained in how to overcome their natural disinclination to cause lethal injury. Hundreds of years ago, when soldiers still used close-ranged rifles where they could see their opponent's faces, it was not uncommon for them to refuse to fire, even under the threat of death. As one famous example, 87% of the rifles recovered from dead soldiers after Gettysburg (the third-bloodiest battle in American history) were fully loaded (3.12.1)."
To hold bitcoin, you need to be physically strong, able to resist physical aggression (single sig wrench attack) and have trusted friends and family (multi-sig fellow warriors) to help hold back the aggressors.
Whereas war became increasingly non-human, no compassion, nuclear warheads and drone attacks, bitcoin brings it back down to hand-to-hand combat. You need those 100 push-ups a day to hold strong.
I guess that is until amoral AI drones come and steal bitcoin from you.
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AIs are expensive to power and lethal drones are expensive to make and when deployed expensive to apologise for
i would wager that the first time that micro ethno-kill drones are deployed the ones who deployed them will be arrested and tried at the hague
So, i think this whole conversation helped me to understand why self-custody is so important. Giving it to someone else custody it is basically turning oneself into a vassal/drone for whatever war that entity wants to wage. It's essentially a Microstrategy War Bond or a ArkB war bond (or more like a Brian Armstrong War Bond).
keeping it in one's own control brings the battle to oneself. I get to choose what I fight for. It's the ultimate dream of anyone who lived through watching Afghanistan, Iraq, and all the rest.
ultimately, it's not money if it's not in the hands