This is why self custody is a hard sell and hard to teach.

Bitcoin safe self custody checklist:
- no single points of failure/loss
- 13th and 25th word passphrases on seeds
- offsite steel backups in surveilled and/or limited access locations
- offsite laminated backups in surveilled and/or limited access locations
- no exposure to password, account control or signing capability loss by storing key material and passwords on internet connected devices or SIM-swappable phones
- no main stack signing capability directly in the home
- redundant cloned signing devices in separate secure locations
- no seed material stored directly in the home
- tamper sealed offsite seed backups
- heavily armed friends and family with rehearsed duress words
- household members who don’t open or unlock doors for unsolicited visitors including law enforcement
- family members aware of firearm locations and trained in their use
- duress wallets with believable balances
- readily available temporary border wallet sweep addresses with encrypted seed backups in multiple cloud storage locations
- encrypted mobile computing solution with transaction building and broadcasting capability
- a hard copy treasure map document that can be found in the event of your death
- an encrypted copy of the treasure map document in cloud storage
- two or more master passwords for key devices and password files, known by the few who may need them, but not until you die and they find/are given the treasure map
- routinely moved main stacks with re-done seed backups and re-done treasure maps. Without making spelling mistakes or sending coins into the void.
- reliable mobile internet access, even if it takes days to establish
- access to power, even if it takes days to establish
- resources for heirs to educate themselves on the tools
- non exchange human resources for converting sats to local currency
- weighing and reacting to the risks of bad actors trying to fuck up the protocol and the asset’s value proposition
- weighing risks of regulatory changes that threaten your savings
- planning alternate living locations that permit transaction of value in BTC.
- navigating tax liability and record keeping requirements to stay out of prison

Easy.

What if the corporations that fund and control these governments worked together to asset strip their citizens and usher in a physical, financial and biomedical surveillance state?

What do you think was the first “acid test” in the US on what outrageous act the government and corporations could perpetrate or permit, in coordination with state controlled media, without triggering widespread social unrest and violent protest? Go back in history as far as you like. I’d love to hear your answers. #asknostr