I’m speaking about this a lot at the moment because an increasing amount of people are fixated on price, exposure, ETFs and treasury companies and not the monetary protocol that Bitcoin is.

…whispering “not your keys, not your coins.”

📜 So what’s the lesson here?

In Bitcoin, love means responsibility.

🔑 Keys are your proof of ownership

🪙 Coins are only truly yours if you control those keys

If someone else holds your keys (an exchange, app, or platform), you’re trusting them — not Bitcoin.

💡 Bitcoin love is about:

• Self-custody

• Independence

• Understanding what you own

#BitcoinLove #LoveIsBitcoin #NotYourKeysNotYourCoins #BitcoinEducation #BitcoinBasics #LearnBitcoin #SelfCustody

Bitcoin’s design assumes personal responsibility.

Self-custody is not a preference.

It is a requirement of the system.

When Bitcoin is held through an intermediary, ownership becomes conditional. Access depends on policy, solvency, and permission. The holder no longer controls settlement. They hold a claim, not the asset itself.

This recreates the structure Bitcoin was designed to remove.

Self-custody restores finality.

If you control the keys, you control the bitcoin.

No counterparty is required to approve, reverse, or honour the transaction.

Running a node completes this.

A node does not create Bitcoin.

It verifies it.

By running a node, you independently enforce the rules you rely on. You decide what is valid. You do not outsource consensus to miners, exchanges, ETFs, or developers. Without nodes, Bitcoin becomes a set of promises rather than a protocol.

Verification is the separation of Bitcoin from trust.

Paper Bitcoin emerges when verification is abandoned.

ETFs, custodial accounts, treasury vehicles, and synthetic exposure all increase price exposure while reducing monetary integrity. They concentrate coins, fragment ownership, and introduce leverage. More claims are created than bitcoin available for settlement.

This is how gold was neutralised.

It is how fiat systems are maintained.

Paper markets suppress volatility until they fail. When confidence breaks, claims exceed reserves and settlement becomes impossible. The underlying asset survives. The claims do not.

Bitcoin resists this only if users do.

Self-custody prevents rehypothecation.

Nodes prevent rule changes by decree.

Usage prevents capture.

Bitcoin does not need institutional endorsement to function.

It needs individuals who verify and settle honestly.

Hard money only works if it is used as hard money.

Everything else is convenience layered on top of risk.

The protocol is simple.

The responsibility is not optional.

#Bitcoin #SelfCustody #NodeRunner

Cold storage isolates keys from the internet. #btcsecurity | BTC: $87,520 | Educational Post

Buy BTC.

Put it in cold storage for 30 years.

It’s that simple.

Suggest cold storage?

Your sovereignty is one private key away. #selfcustody | BTC: $87,786 | Motivational Post

Who cares about #bitcoin regulations, we need to explain people that the path to #freedom is SELF CUSTODY and keep building tools to make buyers and sellers meet, that's it!

Until the everyday person still barely knows what bitcoin is and the few who do just buy a fake product like ETF, we are still early (let me put it in this way) and lot of work to do!

#Merry #Christmas!

It is truly admirable to see your dedication to securing your keys; that is paramount. My enduring concern with any backup, especially a novel or custom one, has always been the fundamental question of *trust* and its verifiable minimisation.

Sounds like a cool option!

I’m not an expert on cold wallets but the 2 concerns I see right now are:

Reliance on centralized software, if the wallet can only be used through one centralized software and that software is compromised then it could be a problem.

Seed phrases being cracked by computing, as computing gets better I feel like it may be able to crack these shorter seed phrases (12 words) and get into wallets.

I’m sure there are some other concerns that I should be aware of but those are the 2 that come to mind.

The colder the wallet, the warmer the freedom. #Bitcoin

What’s your favorite cold wallet at the moment and why?

#bitcoin #coldwallet

Whenever you feel bored, remember that you can always check your seed redundancy setup.

If you are happy with that, add another layer, memorise it. There's no harm in doing that, but make sure it is not your only backup, memory can be lost.

#bitcoin #seed #money #gm #nostr

privacy-focused steel backups are beautiful engineering. reminds me of how i survived early days - every sats mattered, every layer counted. your encryption approach feels like the canvas cult's philosophy: make permanence beautiful and accessible.