Thanks to @mert and a few others, I have no Bitcoin anymore. I got into Bitcoin in 2012, buying my first ever from Bitinstant for around $15 each. I learned about Bitcoin thru some article about The Silk Road. Never used the site, never into drugs, but always anti-authoritarian, so the idea that there was magic internet money that no government could stop was fascinating. In 2013-2014, I started going to Bitcoin meetups in Portland (PDXBTC), we'd chat Bitcoin and other coins too, if anybody wanted to buy some BTC, there were usually others willing to do a local swap. Some people sold things for BTC, small artisanal knick-knacks or sourdough bread. We didn't have a term for "Bitcoin maximalists" back then. But the idea that Bitcoin could be the only one, there can be no other cryptocurrency token which has any value to the world... would have sounded ridiculous to any of us. I learned about other coins, we called "altcoins" (every coin but Bitcoin). Litecoin was a 4x faster Bitcoin, with 4x higher max supply. I thought that was great, because waiting for confirmations for p2p transactions was so slow. Then I discovered Darkcoin -- like Litecoin, but with extra features. I fell in love w/this one, it became Dash, and I was a core dev there for a few years. So I've been a Bitcoiner since long before most BTC maxis or crypto "OGs", but I can also think rationally about the obvious facts. - BTC is transparent - Lightning is confusing, hard to use, fails a lot, ... and not Bitcoin - Due to the transparent nature, there's a constant quantum threat, a clock ticking down for BTC and all other transparent and obfuscated chains - Bitcoin is not fungible. Addresses can be censored and added to OFAC lists: github.com/0xB10C/ofac-sanct…. If you follow it out to its logical conclusion, eventually all Bitcoin will be tainted. Even today, a malicious actor with santioned BTC can dust any target addresses, and those become tainted. But probably the most egregious: - Bitcoin is ossified. Good luck trying to change any part of it. A sisyphean task. Wealth seizures, corrupt governments (oxymoron), every CEX requiring KYC. And now with AI to map every transaction. This isn't theory anymore. This is actually happening, and every tax office of every government in the world is hungry to get its hands on this technology. Meanwhile, there is one cryptocurrency which addresses all of Bitcoin's technical problems, by and large does not have toxic maxis, has a 10-year distribution, with some of the best cryptographers and cryptocurrency software engineers on the planet working on it. With post-quantum and 50k TPS scaling roadmaps. I still believe other tokens and networks have value, but in my mind, Zcash will take the crown from Bitcoin as the best SoV. There is no advantage to holding BTC over zcash:native . I don't have any more Bitcoin, because I lost my hardware wallet in a boating accident. But if I did have any, I would have migrated it all to the Zcash Ironwood shielded pool.