Adam O’Brien

You know what’s interesting? Non-custodial systems remove counterparty risk by design. Custodial platforms add it back for convenience.  That difference will be the most important distinction between bitcoin platforms over the next 10 years.

Canada isn’t broken because of markets. It’s broken because Ottawa keeps picking the “winners” Debt instead of productivity. Housing inflation instead of real growth. Regulation instead of accountability. Alberta produces. Ottawa redistributes. Then wonders why everything feels tighter every year. You can’t build a country by taxing the parts that work to subsidize the parts that don’t. Strong economies are built by builders, not bureaucrats.

Building @BitcoinWell started with a simple question: If Bitcoin is about sovereignty, why do so many companies still hold customers’ bitcoin? Bitcoin Well was built non-custodial by design, even though it’s harder and slower. No custody. No rehypothecation. No seizure risk.  Control stays with the customer. There are easier business models. Custody is one of them. But it recreates the fragility Bitcoin was meant to fix. Non-custodial isn’t a feature. It’s the foundation.

Legacy isn’t what you accumulate and leave behind. It’s what empowers the next generation and remains stable after you’re gone.

Wealth is freedom over your calendar. Everything else is secondary. The goal isn’t early retirement. It’s being present, consistently.

A lot of “growth” over the last decade was just duration mismatch plus leverage. As the financial revolution continues this will cripple most companies.

High time preference explains almost everything. Cheap money rewards speed, leverage, and lots of shortcuts. Sound money rewards patience, skill, and stewardship. That’s not ideology, it’s just incentives.

I keep EO 6102 framed on my wall as a daily reminder. Governments can’t confiscate what they don’t control. That’s why Bitcoin Well is non-custodial by design. No custody means no seizure risk at the platform level. If history teaches anything, it’s this: extraordinary debt leads to extraordinary measures. Don’t be naïve. Non-custodial systems exist for a reason.

I am building Bitcoin Well because I want my kids to inherit a world where their time actually matters. The macro problems are clear. Bitcoin is the solution, and family is the reason.

It’s simple: Broken money creates broken incentives. Broken incentives create broken families. Fixing the money isn’t just economic policy, it’s cultural repair. Bitcoin starts the healing.