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With traditional banks acting as custodians, is crypto’s decentralized nature under threat?

  • Over $200 billion worth of bitcoins have been lost so far. Do people need a better way to secure their digital assets?
  • “Not your keys, not your coins,” say crypto traditionalists, arguing the space is meant to be free of banks, with a fundamental ‘one’s own bank’ philosophy.
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