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Why is self-custody still a choice between losing your keys and trusting a company?

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Opportunity

Hold your own keys and one mistake wipes you out with no recovery. Use a custodian and you are back to trusting a company with your money. Social recovery and account abstraction exist, but almost nobody ships a wallet a normal person can use without a seed phrase or a support line.

Why it matters

Self-custody an ordinary person can actually live with is the gate to everything else in crypto.

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The Opportunity Score is my own read, not a measurement: how much it hurts, how often it bites, and how little exists to solve it today. Higher means I think it is more worth building.

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How much pain it causes when it shows up.

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How often people actually run into it.

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How little good tooling exists for it today.

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