Vlad on Nostr: The whole point of Bitcoin is self-custody being able to hold your own keys then send ...
The whole point of Bitcoin is self-custody
being able to hold your own keys
then send and receive transactions to/from anyone you want, without asking for permission
Ironically and definitely intentionally, self-custody is also limited technically and discouraged socially
Now we deal with custodians (aka banks) as if the system was designed to lead us down this path
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2026-07-13 02:13:10 CESTEvent JSON
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