"Make it make sense."

The global financial system is run by criminals. They WILL solidify their control, and criminally take assets from people by EVERY means potential to them. Do not doubt this, or suffer the total loss of all assets - AS I HAVE.

They do not take all assets from everyone every time they can, because if they did it would be impossible to fall for their traps. Failure to utterly strip assets from everyone they can does not mean that they can't strip those assets if they so decide. Do not rely on their forebearance as some kind of security. Hedge your bets. Have some portion of your assets outside any systems. Eggs, baskets, yada yada yada.

"It was obvious."

It's just as obvious about other things too, such as voting, or media reporting. Just because it's true doesn't mean that it is promulgated by institutions controlled by criminal organizations.

"You think these guys aren't already tracking everything you do already?"

Yes, I do, because I don't use money to make major transactions, and there is no mechanism potential to track goodwill. Even physical cash is preferable to banks, and BTC doesn't expire, which CBDC's provide, among other capabilities, such as being only useful for classes of transactions. If central bank issued currencies are intended to prevent you from buying meat, or real property, or internet service, those features are easily inserted - even after they've been issued with your approval. These features can be imposed on BTC as a wrapper, as you are competent to grasp. These kinds of things are the toothpaste coming out of the tube. LG recently updated it's TOS for TV's it already sold, and people that own those TV's have no option to refuse the update. If your asset is online, it's able to be controlled centrally.

Have options.

"...he's actually undermining the power of his own hedge fund."

No, he's not. BlackRock et al has a controlling interest in ~90% of stock corporations in the world. Stake weighting means that he is the preponderance of votes. It's a direct democracy of stake, not people.

"Explain to me how we are going to be ushered into a world of absolute tyranny and totalitarianism as Bitcoin and every altcoin is pumped to the moon and all the freedom fighters become rich beyond their wildest dreams."

The code is king. Fink can 100% impose the code that governs CBDC's, and can be forcibly wrapped on every digitized asset, such as BTC. They can do this at ANY TIME, even after it's safely in your cold wallet, because you can't transact with that wallet, but have to transact on THEIR internet.

"...it will be expensive as shit..."

Why? Reticulum is being designed to enable cell phones (radios) to roll nodes. There's no reason that 64G of ram on a cell phone can't run a node in a properly hashed protocol. And if there is, then 128G, or 256G resolves the issue. Tech advances. That's what tech does.

"...Blackrock gets to take their half a percent cut every year."

Looks great, until you compare it to just taking the underlying asset by hook or by crook. Citi didn't take my property lawfully. They did take it, because they can out-lawyer me with facility. To fight the case I'd have to fund a legal team for DECADES while paying the mortgage I didn't sign the whole time to keep them from foreclosing. And that is the good scenario in which they didn't own the judge whom they can just blackmail or bribe to rule against me unlawfully. Even that wasn't the full extent of their tentacles because I had property that was free and clear other mechanisms were used to take from me 17 years after my divorce.

That's a long time to be groomed by this criminal organization, and you'll note that BTC hasn't even existed that long yet. Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it isn't possible. Asteroids do hit the Earth from time to time, after all.

Do you think BlackRock gained a controlling interest in ~90% of stock corporations by being better at conducting business lawfully? They did that by having a criminal network that got the USG to contract with BlackRock to manage QE, which they - of course - pumped into stock that granted them controlling interest in those corporations. They achieved their primacy in the markets through a criminal conspiracy and got away with it because that same criminal network controls the media and SEC and every substantial law enforcement institution. Any institution is a hierarchy that can be controlled from the top, and this is why goodwill is secure, because it cannot be institutionalized but is a personal value of good people (which is also why reputation is an ineffective value on Hive, because it cannot be institutionalized, but is actually a personal value that can't be purchased with a bidbot vote).

Crime pays. When it suits them, they will get that paper, even when it's just 1's and 0's. Eventually they will get every pfennig, or the owner of that pfennig will be inducted into the hierarchy and become part of that management team. ~1/million are competent to attain such membership, and they demonstrate their merit competitively. Just being an early adopter doesn't secure your assets from rapine, which provably exists. The first phase of slaughtering hogs is to fatten them up. It's not the last phase, which is cutting them into pieces. They don't tell the hogs about that part when they're coaxing them to the trough, and skinny pigs don't get to grow old in the feedlot either.

The only way out is to jump the fence. The only victory is to die in the wild instead of in the slaughterhouse.

"...the ultimate evolution of securities..."

Has never been discussed out loud. I will say it out loud. It is when there is only one owner of everything. In the true competition for assets there never will be a secure corporate mechanism, because there are no rules that exclude blood money that can withstand the power of that money to purchase security. The ultimate security is solitude, where only one is competent to possess assets, and everyone else are the assets. As long as you are in the game, that ultimate evolution hasn't occurred. As you will note, during that evolution the majority of value will necessarily be destroyed, but a psychopath will haply rule over ashes as the emperor of everything left. That's the big pond the big fish swim in, and don't pretend they aren't farming the little fish, like Hive, and even BTC. All of BTC is just pocket change for Fink and the hierarchy he directs.

"What does it all mean?"

It means you don't profit until the sale. It means caveat emptor. It means your money or your life, and that's the real deal on the table. Take profits early, diversify into a broad range of assets that aren't subject to any single vector of attack. Ultimately, if you can't provide your necessities you can be controlled by whoever does. Real wealth isn't tokens or money at all.

It's a society that can provide it's necessities and defend them.

Thanks!