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@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ <h3>Supply chain, long cons, and the vendor you cannot avoid trusting</h3>
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+      <h3>Eight questions to ask about any digital asset</h3>
+      <p>"Crypto" is a category label rather than a description of how anything works. These are the structural questions that separate the things inside it: who can change the rules, who was allocated what, and what it would cost them. Bitcoin's answers are the worked example.</p>
+      <div class="sc-tags"><span class="sc-tag">Mindset</span><span class="sc-tag">How it works</span></div>
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               <h3>Withdrawing bitcoin from a Canadian exchange</h3>
               <p>One process that works on every Canadian platform, what changes on the two that send bitcoin straight to your wallet, and the records the CRA expects you to keep.</p>
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+              <h3>Eight questions to ask about any digital asset</h3>
+              <p>"Crypto" is a category label rather than a description of how anything works. These are the structural questions that separate the things inside it: who can change the rules, who was allocated what, and what it would cost them. Bitcoin's answers are the worked example.</p>
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       <h2>The Canadian version of this is not hypothetical</h2>
 
-      <p>Deposits at a Canadian bank are protected by CDIC up to defined limits. Crypto assets held on a trading platform are not, whatever the platform's marketing implies. Registration with securities regulators sets rules for how a platform must operate; it is not deposit insurance and does not make you whole if the business fails.</p>
+      <p>Deposits at a Canadian bank are protected by CDIC up to defined limits. Crypto assets held on a trading platform are not, whatever the platform's marketing implies. ("Crypto" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. <a href='evaluating-a-monetary-asset.html'>There are better questions to ask than which category something is in</a>.) Registration with securities regulators sets rules for how a platform must operate; it is not deposit insurance and does not make you whole if the business fails.</p>
 
       <p>Canada has its own case study. QuadrigaCX was the country's largest bitcoin exchange until it collapsed in 2019, leaving roughly 76,000 users unable to reach their funds. The Ontario Securities Commission's subsequent investigation concluded the platform had been operating as a fraud. Customers had done nothing wrong &mdash; they had simply left their coins with someone else, which is what everyone does until they decide not to. It is not an isolated case, and the differences between it and the others matter: <a href='how-custody-fails.html'>four platforms, four different mechanisms</a>.</p>
 
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               <h3>Four ways a platform loses your bitcoin</h3>
               <p>Not your keys, not your coins is the conclusion. These are the cases it was drawn from — four failures with four different mechanisms, none of which announced itself in advance, and one of which was Canadian.</p>
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+              <h3>Eight questions to ask about any digital asset</h3>
+              <p>"Crypto" is a category label rather than a description of how anything works. These are the structural questions that separate the things inside it: who can change the rules, who was allocated what, and what it would cost them. Bitcoin's answers are the worked example.</p>
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               <h3>With great power comes great responsibility</h3>
               <p>Self-custody does not just remove the middleman. It removes the work the middleman was doing, and hands you the job. Here is exactly what that job is.</p>
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+              <h3>Eight questions to ask about any digital asset</h3>
+              <p>"Crypto" is a category label rather than a description of how anything works. These are the structural questions that separate the things inside it: who can change the rules, who was allocated what, and what it would cost them. Bitcoin's answers are the worked example.</p>
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               <h3>With great power comes great responsibility</h3>
               <p>Self-custody does not just remove the middleman. It removes the work the middleman was doing, and hands you the job. Here is exactly what that job is.</p>
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+              <h3>Eight questions to ask about any digital asset</h3>
+              <p>"Crypto" is a category label rather than a description of how anything works. These are the structural questions that separate the things inside it: who can change the rules, who was allocated what, and what it would cost them. Bitcoin's answers are the worked example.</p>
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               <h3>The 21 million hard cap</h3>
               <p>The number is not a policy anyone chose to announce and cannot be raised by agreement. It falls out of a halving schedule, and it holds because every node independently refuses to accept a block that breaks it.</p>
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+              <p>"Crypto" is a category label rather than a description of how anything works. These are the structural questions that separate the things inside it: who can change the rules, who was allocated what, and what it would cost them. Bitcoin's answers are the worked example.</p>
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