i think BTC is best held in self custody. i do not encourage anyone to use Strike or any regulated custodian to store their bitcoin over holding their own keys

I commend you for that. But this Tether bank is not positive for bitcoin. The US needs to sell treasuries to keep printing dollars, and now that China and Russia ain't buying Tether is their best customer. Tether is dollarizing the 3rd world rather than orange pilling it.

They're trying to spread out the burden of inflation. It may just end up with more people realising that the dollar too, just like all the other fiat currencies, is not the bedrock they imagine

Proud of you Jack