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> I'm here so I can have self-sovereignty of my money.

Except you aren't really. You will always be beholden to one entity or another, in bitcoin the 51% who need to clear your transactions. You just decide to not trust in the current financial apparatus and instead bet on the new.



Betting on something where there is no single interest that can decide to screw you is fundamentally different than trusting something where one entity is in control. In a more principled world, I'd like to think the latter would never exist and people would be willing to go to great lengths to avoid or even protest against its existence.




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