When you take into account the aggregate shape of human nature, I’d say so. Most people won’t go from zero straight to self custody. They’ll go through fiat products first. This is also why I find the two-layered thinking frame helpful. (the purist’s lens and the practical lens) Fiat and bitcoin will coexist in messy ways that are unsatisfying to the purist for quite some time - AND they cannot coexist indefinitely as a steady state.

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Why can't they coexist indefinitely? I think its either they coexist indefinitely, which I believe they will. Or freedom and bitcoin get crushed (also very likely). Or by a mircale or set of miracles freedom wins (very unlikely as we dont deserve or believe in it and It).