"...the risk here is that there's some kind of hack, exploit, or rugpull..."

That is a risk. There are others, such as the ~98% of countries that have introduced some form of CBDC mandate their use, in which an investment in XMR will be no hedge. I realize you consider my caution insuperable, but I am as cautious as I am for very real reasons I have undertaken to explain at painful length, in the hope others can learn from my mistakes and preserve their capital as I did not.

There is a reason BTC crabwalks and gold continues to hit new highs, and my guts all but scream in behest of understanding why. The value of gold does not depend at all on the internet, in fact is almost infinitely increased if competing forms of money are destroyed, and accredited investors know things that enable them to benefit from events that devour the capital of retail investors.

Hedge fundamentally, not superficially. Every hedge I had failed to preserve my capital as everyone I trusted was untrustworthy, while anonymity would have insulated some of it. That is the reason I have valued your trustworthiness higher than almost any other metric. As much as FOMO leads fundamental hedging to appear to waste opportunities, capital preservation in cataclysm is extraordinary, and requires equally extraordinary caution, or foreknowledge. The infamous aphorism 'Buy when there's blood in the streets...' presupposes retention of capital during cataclysm in order to have the ability to buy at such moments. Cataclysm can appear out of nowhere, but sometimes there are clues, such as multiple states declaring states of emergency over a silly eclipse.

That caution is what creates generational wealth.

Thanks!