If you have more than a few sats in Bitcoin, it's completely nerve-wracking.
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What's nerve-wracking about it?
Anything digital constantly changes, even if you don't touch it. If you do touch it, you can break it or lock yourself out. If you lose access to it, it's completely inaccessible and you can never get it back and nobody can help you.
To be honest, I probably find it _more_ nerve-wracking than other people because I'm a software developer. Like, most people don't even know that the Bitcoin Network is something that constantly moves and changes.
Digital things degrade so rapidly and are constantly in flux and trending in different directions.
Thing is, gold is impossible to spend. When current fiat collapses, people aren't going to be able to transact in gold. It will only be silver or digital. I've self custodied bitcoin for eight years. No issues. And with Square bringing bitcoin payments online, using it is getting easier.
Yes, gold is very difficult to transact in, directly. You usually have to change it to something else, first.
Square is an American thing, like Venmo.
Everyone tells me that they've never had any problems with anything.
Putting money is a bank is nerve-wracking. Carrying gold into a store and leaving without it (and clearly with cash) is nerve-wracking. Getting out of your car at the gas station is nerve-wracking. Life is full of risks. The thing is to assess your own risk tolerance and go from there. The risks presented by hodling a scarce digital asset are more acceptable to me than the risks of doing anything else with money.
Just gotta use it more and that will get less nerve-wracking. Knowledge is power. To many use it for savings, but don't learn.