Before this reply you didn’t ask any questions, so how can you say I’m deflecting rather than answer?

I tried to explain my point of view, and then you made a bunch of assumptions and assertions about my motives. Where did I deflect anything?

I think everyone has financial motives. It would be silly to pretend that I don’t. But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I also had financial motives when I chose to get into bitcoin and tell everyone I know about it.

My thoughts on custody evolved after spending thousands of hours helping people learn about self-custody. I’ve seen countless people choose to pass on investing in bitcoin early, because they found self-custody confusing. If they used coinbase instead, they’d be way better off.

So my belief today is that self-custody needs to exist as an option, and power users like you and me will probably use it, but MOST people will not. They need good custodial options.

I assume you’re probably referring to some specific one but this reply is already very long so I’ll let you say what is the specific thing you’re bothered about and we can continue from there