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Never. It is an asset to be lent against. And many years from now, taproot (Schnorr) multisig will allow us to have flexible signing quorums for implementing these lending events.

I think another use case in the fully capitalized bitcoin future is as collateral for backing e-cash mints. In this way, an e-cash mint user can make claims to a trusted 3rd party service against the collateral of the mint operator if said operator attempts to steal funds or is derelict in their technical operations responsibility.