What governments brand as "financial inclusion" is little more than a facade. From Vietnam's sweeping bank account crackdowns and India's emerging tool for digital censorship to Christine Lagarde's push to fast-track oversight and sidestep democratic hurdles, world leaders are hurtling toward a nightmarish cashless regime. In this newest Financial Freedom Report, they break down how this escalating tide of monitoring might just drive millions straight into Bitcoin's arms. Financial Freedom Report #91
Does layered self-custody truly hold up as secure amid skyrocketing Bitcoin transaction fees, or are we all just muddling through a hazy zone of partial trust and uneasy trade-offs? Shinobi's piece peels back the curtain on the unspoken realities of what it really takes to stake your on-chain ownership—and exposes how the divide between custodial and non-custodial setups is far more ambiguous than we'd prefer to acknowledge. The Cost Of Self Custody: TANSTAAFL The cost of an on-chain transaction is an inescapable variable in the cost of self custody, even for off-chain layers.
Discreet Log Contracts (DLC)