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Self-custody security failures are pushing ordinary investors toward professional custodians and regulated investment products instead of managing private keys themselves

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"The fallout has driven a panicked response from affected users, with many of the affected users racing to move Bitcoin off self-custody and back onto centralized crypto exchanges, such as Coinbase or Binance, or freshly generated addresses—an inversion of the industry's usual 'not your keys, not your coins' ethos."

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"The exploit exposes a growing tension as bitcoin enters the financial mainstream: self-custody remains one of the cryptocurrency's defining features, but the technical burden of securing private keys may increasingly push ordinary investors toward professional custodians, exchanges and regulated investment products instead."

CoinDesk crypto_media Source article