{"id":1531,"date":"2024-10-23T06:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T06:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2024-10-23T06:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T06:31:42","slug":"elizabeth-warren-challenger-joins-others-in-opposing-michael-saylors-bitcoin-storage-stance-nothing-more-american-than-the-right-to-self-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Challenger Joins Others In Opposing Michael Saylor&#8217;s Bitcoin Storage Stance: Nothing More American Than The Right To Self Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A controversial take on <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) self-custody by <strong>MicroStrategy<\/strong> CEO <strong>Michael Saylor <\/strong>has riled up privacy advocates, prompting disagreements and counter-arguments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: During a recent interview, Saylor called the narrative a &#8220;myth and trope&#8221; propagated by &#8220;paranoid crypto-anarchists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taking a contrarian position, Saylor said that there was a higher risk of seizure if Bitcoin was held by unregulated entities that don&#8217;t have trust in the government and traditional economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jameson Lopp<\/strong>, a popular technologist and Bitcoin advocate, took strong exception to Saylor&#8217;s stance. Citing the example of gold, Lopp stated that most seizures in history happened at financial institutions that held gold on behalf of clients, as opposed to those held in self-custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Most 6102 gold seizures occurred at financial institutions that held gold on behalf of clients.<\/p>\n<p>For example: Frederick Barber Campbell tried to withdraw 5,000 ounces from Chase Bank. They reported him and the gold was confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>Those who &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41479375\/elizabeth-warren-challenger-joins-others-in-opposing-michael-saylors-bitcoin-storage-stanc\" alt=\"Elizabeth\" warren challenger joins others in opposing michael saylor bitcoin storage stance: nothing more american than the right to self custody>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial take on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) self-custody by MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has riled up privacy advocates, prompting disagreements and counter-arguments. What happened: During a recent interview, Saylor called the narrative a &#8220;myth and trope&#8221; propagated by &#8220;paranoid crypto-anarchists.&#8221; Taking a contrarian position, Saylor said that there was a higher risk of seizure if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}