Most individual people won’t self custody (most already are not). It’s somewhat tragic, but denying that reality doesn’t steer towards practical solutions either.

So we need to build up systems where enough distributed entities have the “fuck you” power of self-custody / on chain movement. These distributed entities being incentivized to earn the capital of individual users is how we might realistically have a shot at more freedom at scale.

Merchants being a significant portion of these distributed entities seems like the right idea here instead of nation states IMO.

But I am talking my own book here. Home mining movement (particularly Datum) is also awesome, and another important piece of the balance.