According to data provided by Alexes Nakamoto as of this month's 3rd, the image below
(that's if the information in the image is correct though) depicts the total amount of Bitcoin held worldwide by institutions, CEX, individuals, lost BTC, etc.
This indicates that self-custody is still winning despite the number of people investing in STRC and others because of the dividends they will receive.
Many Bitcoiners may be unaware that President Donald Trump's enthusiasm for Bitcoin is not coincidental; rather, it stems from his family's experience of being debanked and antagonized by the traditional banking system when he began his presidential campaign.
This debanking caused him to shift to pro-crypto motivate in 2024. After winning the election, President Donald Trump backed Bitcoin because he realized the true value of assets that were not under state control due to lawsuits and frozen assets he experience suring his campaign, which is why he supported BTC after he won the election.
This shows that if BTC is not outside the regulatory design, it will be just another regular asset, and I hope what I said here is enough to change the mindset of some Bitcoiners who participate in the STRC and other ETF investments or use a custodial platform as storage, know one of the dangers they will experience in the future.
My question now is, do will we still need to be afraid that 51% of BTC could end up in the custody of MicroStrategy/other ETF organizations since Strategy is raising billions of dollars through their STRC dividend offer to investors to buy more Bitcoin almost every 2 months (funny enough, some Bitcoiners are celebrating their accumulation)?
Waoo going by the pictures about seeing here the amount of Bitcoin left to be mined is gradually going coming to an end, because it's less than 5% remaining. From what am seeing we may be gradually seeing an end to mining and when that eventually happens there is going to be an hike in the price of Bitcoin. This is because Bitcoin will become more scarce and important because the value will rise because Bitcoin will not become scarce in terms of circulations.