Bitcoin is being coopted by the same forces that coopted gold and silver. Custodians, higher layers, ETFs, KYC/AML, treated like a stock for tax purposes, etc. That's essentially "paper bitcoin." All the same stuff that disabled gold and silver as money have happened or are happening. We say "not your keys, not your bitcoin" and that's correct. By the same logic we can say "not cold hard cash in your hand, not your gold or silver." Have you tried using bitcoin as money recently? It works great in a few cases but is far more tedious to use than in its heyday. It has been a while since I used gold and silver as money. It also works great in a few cases but is also far more tedious to use than in its heyday. I don't have to be anti-gold or anti-silver to be pro-bitcoin and neither does anyone else. We are on the same team. The goal is to get governments out of the money business entirely.