I don't disagree. But life is about putting your property in somebody else's hands all the time. When you invite people to your house, they are ready to take your property. It's on their hands. Families do this ALL the time. The family's money is always custodial with somebody. Custody is not only about trust. It's about systems. Companies do the same. The money is always controlled by one or more employees. Even when so, there are securities in place to avoid misbehavior. I don't think we will ever get rid of custodial systems.

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@calle see if you can bake into the Cashu's culture that apps should NEVER lose anyone's money. I do think that is missing in today's devs. They are not caring enough to ship bug-free software and establish mints that have procedures in place to be there until everybody takes their money out. If they open a mint and then just shut the server down because they got bored, their names should be marked forever (and should face lawsuits). They shouldn't play with money if they do not have the structure for it.
Thanks you for these words, as I think they carry weight coming from you. We need to move beyond the dismissive "not your keys not your coin" commentary, even if it's technically true. If the Bitcoin community does not build robust and reliable custodial systems for normal people, then institutions and the mainstream finance world will..which i think we can all agree would not be a positive outcome.