What Breaks Custody
Custody fails in familiar ways. This note maps the incentives, dependencies, and governance gaps that turn access into something conditional.
LeerPerspectivas
Publicamos cuando hay algo significativo que compartir: perspectivas sobre custodia, propiedad a largo plazo y lo que significa construir una institución seria de bitcoin.
Escribimos con poca frecuencia y con intención. Los períodos de silencio reflejan nuestro enfoque en el trabajo operativo.
Custody fails in familiar ways. This note maps the incentives, dependencies, and governance gaps that turn access into something conditional.
LeerA clear disclosure posture makes custody legible. This note defines what should be public, what should stay controlled, and why clarity matters.
LeerSafeguarding bitcoin and keeping access predictable is one job. Yield is a different job. This note explains why we keep those categories separate.
LeerThe ability to leave defines whether custody is real. You can withdraw bitcoin to your own address, on-chain, under clear rules, with predictable handling.
LeerThe simplest relationship in finance: if you hold bitcoin in custody, it is held 1:1 for you. This note defines what "full reserve" means and what it rules out.
LeerThe real test happens on difficult days, not quiet ones. Continuity means designing custody to remain operable through stress, without improvisation.
LeerA bitcoin bank is not a new kind of exchange. It is closer to an older idea: a bank exists to safeguard capital, provide predictable access, and remain conservative when it is tempting not to be.
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