A friend claims to have made early investments in bitcoin which accrued considerable value. Problem is, he can't make a withdrawal. His account is locked.
That, and having seen a host of digital screwups making messes, I want no part of the digital dollar. Realizing that the 'value' of the dollar is dependent on its arbitrary acceptance as having value, and little else is scary enough. Depending on something of absolutely no intrinsic value for a medium of exchange that can be hacked, stolen, or removed by a person with the ability to access that, leaving one penniless or worse, deeply in debt is already bad enough.
Most "money" already never gets printed, it is just inconvenienced electrons in cyberspace--the modern equivalent of the Templars issuing letters of credit against deposits of real and tangible value. In theory it was once backed by deposits of "lawful money" and could be exchanged for silver and/or gold, but now?
I do not want to be dependent on that bunch of electrical charges anywhere beyond where we are already.
One Carrington event away...