To be a sovereign Bitcoiner--at once the chief executive, the lawgiver, and the judge--you need all three things. You need to have unilateral authority to execute a transaction and protect it from being reversed (by mining your own blocks), you need unilateral authority to decide what laws you live by (by running a node), and you need unilateral authority to judge who is worthy of your bitcoin and who is not (by using a self-custody wallet). Only with the complete #Bitcoin trifecta are you actually sovereign in Satoshi's kingdom.
— rleed
