Bitcoin is only freedom technology if you own the keys.

Nobody with power wants Bitcoin to become the reserve currency. This is exactly why it is the best suited asset to become the reserve currency.

When somebody doesn't understand something it makes sense that they don't trust it. Bitcoins seeming complexity slows down general adoption. If only people thought about how complicated the fiat system they use every day is.

How many more cases of currency collapse and civil unrest do we need to see before people wake up to bitcoin?

Imagine the usd price of Bitcoin if everyone that held some on an exchange took self custody. The signal to the market would be huge.