[palmer]

Your lack of knowledge is a great teaching moment. Tulip breeds have some permanence, but mutations are prone to more mutations. Shiny pebbles are permanent but not limited in supply. The latest currency to go viral is a purely meme currency. I'll bet you can't name it. Utility is more than just crime, and crime is a straw man typically created by statists.

Finally: loss. You truly have no idea how easy it is to keep from losing a private key. Millions of people do it day and night. If someone shows up at my door with a gun, even someone with a government badge, they will take (by value) very few if any of my private keys. They will confiscate some devices with hot keys, but won't break in without the usual difficulty, and my ability to protect gets better with every new Apple or other vendor invention to protect personal data. They won't get the cold keys since those can be hidden anywhere. At best they will deny some access by confiscating and destroying and burning my house down. But I'll have plenty left in the cloud.

[narses]

“Your lack of knowledge is a great teaching moment.”

Like your inability to identify any ACTUAL value behind your weird mania. Zip. Nada. This is why, from times ancient, we have always known that “a fool and his money are soon parted...”

Q.E.D.