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 Bitcoin will be mostly custodial in the future. The custodians will be the new banks. The rug pull risk will still exist. The risk of these new banks rehypothecating your Bitcoin will exist. So how are we going to prevent another 6102? The difference is that the Bitcoin standard allows you to hold the majority of your savings in self custody while your daily/weekly/monthly spending money is handled by a custodian. The gold standard was the opposite. You held the majority of your gold with the banks. That created a huge rug risk which would be devastating for everyone. Losing a couple hundred bucks on wallet of satoshi isn’t going to ruin your life. So I think we will see people get rugged endlessly by custodians but the damage will be minimized because it’s only a small percentage of your wealth.