Why I Recommend Coinbase (buy/spend), River (business/nonprofit), Bitkey (long-term savings), and Fidelity (retirement)

Published May 30, 2025

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    00:01 Hey everyone, I thought I’d do a quick
    00:03 video on why I recommend what I
    00:05 recommend and what my thinking is behind
    00:08 that recommendation. So, I’m actually
    00:10 going to go in reverse order of the four
    00:12 names I posted. So, I’m going to start
    00:14 with retirement and where I recommend
    00:15 Fidelity. Now, there are some ways to
    00:18 directly hold Bitcoin uh yourself in
    00:21 self-custody in a retirement account.
    00:23 The most common is Unchained Capital.
    00:26 Uh, but I don’t recommend it because
    00:27 it’s technically, excuse me, it’s
    00:30 technically quite difficult. There’s
    00:32 seed phrases. You have to stamp them in
    00:33 metal plates. You got to not lose them.
    00:36 You got to make sure a hacker doesn’t
    00:37 see them. There’s just, it’s technically
    00:40 far, you know, I just can’t recommend it
    00:42 for anybody but like really technically
    00:44 sophisticated people who really want to
    00:46 go sort of deep down that road. So, even
    00:50 though it’s not ideal for Fidelity to
    00:52 hold your Bitcoin in a retirement
    00:54 account, I also think that retirement
    00:55 accounts are the safest from government
    00:58 confiscation, the likelihood that the
    01:01 government is going to confiscate
    01:02 Bitcoin in a retirement account is less
    01:05 than the likelihood that they would
    01:07 confiscate it at just being held in a
    01:09 custody or a brokerage account. Uh, and
    01:12 obviously they can’t custody it or they
    01:14 sorry, they can’t confiscate it if it’s
    01:16 held in Bitkey in your own self-custody.
    01:18 But for retirement accounts, because
    01:20 there’s not currently an elegant way of
    01:23 holding Bitcoin in Bitkey in a
    01:26 retirement account, at least not that I
    01:28 am aware of, um, that leaves the sort of
    01:30 best option that’s super easy to use for
    01:32 everyone. Uh, Fidelity. Fidelity does
    01:35 hold uh, the Bitcoin on your behalf.
    01:37 They hold it in their own custody. They
    01:39 do not depend on Coinbase or anyone
    01:41 else. They hold it literally, you know,
    01:43 in their own, you know, ultra secure
    01:45 digital vaults on your behalf. And I
    01:48 just found out yesterday that Coin or
    01:51 sorry uh Fidelity for their crypto uh
    01:54 services are is about to roll out the
    01:56 ability for you to transfer Bitcoin
    01:58 directly off their platform into cold
    02:00 storage. Now, I don’t think that that
    02:02 will apply to retirement accounts, but
    02:04 it does mean Fidelity as a whole is
    02:06 going in the right direction. Uh,
    02:08 Fidelity has been involved with Bitcoin
    02:10 since 2014 and which is a long time in
    02:12 Bitcoin, just a few years uh or I guess
    02:15 5 years after it was created in 2009,
    02:17 but much earlier than any other
    02:19 companies got involved um at least
    02:22 companies of their scale. So, I’m a big
    02:24 fan of Fidelity. It’s not ideal to not
    02:27 control the keys to your Bitcoin the way
    02:29 you can with Bit Key. But for retirement
    02:31 accounts, it seems to me to be a
    02:33 trade-off that is uh a trade-off most
    02:36 people are willing to make because of
    02:38 the technical difficulty of using
    02:40 Unchained Capital or some service that
    02:43 uh lets you hold the keys to your
    02:45 Bitcoin in a retirement account. Now,
    02:48 quite a few times I’ve considered moving
    02:50 my 401k
    02:52 uh to Unchained, but every time I’m
    02:54 like, I just do not want to deal with
    02:57 more hardware wallets, more seed
    02:58 phrases, more metal backup stamped, more
    03:02 time locks, more geographic
    03:04 distribution. I just don’t want to deal
    03:05 with all that. I’ve got too much of that
    03:07 in my life already, which is why I’ve
    03:09 got my 401k, uh, Bombgar 401k, which I
    03:13 converted to a, uh, an IRA, a rollover
    03:16 IRA, because it has to be a rollover
    03:18 IRA. If you roll it over from a 401k,
    03:21 that makes it a rollover IRA. So, I’ve
    03:23 got that sitting on Fidelity. Uh, again,
    03:26 because I just don’t want to go tackle
    03:29 setting it up on Unchained Capital. And
    03:31 for the average person, I’m quite
    03:32 technical. for the average person, I
    03:34 certainly would not recommend um you
    03:37 know doing a more technical approach. Um
    03:39 so anyway, so that’s why I recommend
    03:41 that. All right. So if you and and
    03:43 certainly there’s there’s other options
    03:45 over time. Uh Charles Schwab uh says
    03:48 that they’re going to roll out custody
    03:50 services for Bitcoin and there’s going
    03:52 to be a lot of services, but Fidelity
    03:54 just seems to be the clear winner. They
    03:56 lead in the marketplace. If you’re
    03:58 already on Black Rockck, they might
    03:60 already have something similar, but I’ve
    04:02 just had really good success with
    04:03 Fidelity. I know a lot of people who
    04:05 have also had really good success with
    04:06 Fidelity, and so I recommend Fidelity.
    04:09 Um, but again, there’s it’s not it’s not
    04:12 perfect because they custody the Bitcoin
    04:14 for you, but it’s as close to perfect uh
    04:17 for someone who does custody the Bitcoin
    04:18 for you as you can get. And Fidelity
    04:21 supports IRA, Roth IAS, 401ks, you know,
    04:25 every every imaginable form of
    04:26 retirement. Fidelity has you covered.
    04:29 And you can roll it over to Fidelity
    04:31 from another provider. It’s great. They
    04:33 do a good job. They have great customer
    04:34 service, everything like that. Okay, so
    04:36 that’s Fidelity. All right. Working in
    04:37 reverse order, long-term storage, uh,
    04:40 cold storage, long-term savings. Bitkey,
    04:43 uh, bit
    04:45 ke.orld. Bitkey.world is the website.
    04:48 Bitkey is hands down just phenomenal in
    04:51 every way. Every other product I
    04:53 recommend in this video being Fidelity,
    04:57 Bit Key, River, Coinbase, every one of
    04:60 them has tradeoffs except BitKey. Bitkey
    05:03 is as perfect as a product can be and
    05:05 nothing else is even remotely close. Uh,
    05:08 everything else out there, cold card,
    05:10 treasure, Ledger, um, I mean, just you
    05:14 name it. Coin Kite, the coin, any of the
    05:16 Coin Kite products, I mean, everything
    05:18 is way too complicated, way too high
    05:21 risk that you’re going to accidentally
    05:22 screw something up and lose your
    05:24 Bitcoin. Way too likely that you’re
    05:27 going to accidentally lose your seed
    05:28 phrase or get it exposed to a hacker.
    05:30 Like I just do not recommend any of the
    05:33 other products in the marketplace to
    05:35 Bitcoiners other than Bitkey. Bitkey is
    05:38 as close to a perfect product in the
    05:40 Bitcoin ecosystem as literally it’s
    05:43 conceivably possible to create.
    05:45 Nothing’s I mean it’s just it’s amazing.
    05:47 They just they knocked it out of the
    05:48 park with that product. It keeps getting
    05:50 better. I love BitKey. So Bit Key is the
    05:54 only really the only thing here that
    05:56 doesn’t have tradeoffs. Um although it
    05:58 would be nice if Bitkey made it cheaper
    06:00 to buy Bitcoin directly within Bitcoin
    06:03 uh Bitkey, it’s still better to buy it
    06:05 on another platform and then move it
    06:06 over to Bitkey. Um but I’m hoping that
    06:09 the fees will come down uh as soon as
    06:11 they add Strike S I ke. I’m hoping
    06:14 Strike will have substantially lower
    06:16 fees when it gets added to Bit Key, but
    06:19 that has not happened yet. Um, and the
    06:21 current providers are more expensive
    06:23 than I’m comfortable recommending, which
    06:25 is why I still recommend people buy
    06:26 Bitcoin on either Coinbase or River and
    06:29 then move it to BitKey as opposed to
    06:31 buying and selling directly from within
    06:34 BitKey. But anyway, BitKey is just the
    06:36 most amazing of the products that are
    06:38 that I’m covering today because there’s
    06:40 basically no trade-offs. It’s just
    06:41 incredible in every way. So, that’s
    06:43 BitKey. To recap here, we got Fidelity,
    06:46 which is sort of the best of the
    06:47 providers for retirement products,
    06:50 401ks, IRA, Roth IRA, anything you want
    06:52 to put in Bitcoin. Fidelity’s got you
    06:54 covered. Um, but again, with the
    06:56 trade-off that they hold the keys, not
    06:58 you, but it is sort of the next best
    07:01 thing to holding the keys yourself, even
    07:02 though nothing is as good as holding the
    07:04 keys yourself. All right, so then we got
    07:07 Bit Key, which is like hands down the
    07:09 winner. Nothing’s even close. It’s not
    07:11 even a competition. Get yourself a Bit
    07:12 Key. It’s amazing. I’ve tried them all.
    07:15 You know, all the different competitors.
    07:17 I absolutely don’t recommend any of
    07:18 them. Bit Key stands alone. Bit Key is
    07:21 amazing. Get a Bit Key. All right. So,
    07:23 uh, the last category, uh, so let me
    07:26 start with the easy one. For businesses
    07:29 and nonprofits, River is by far your
    07:32 best bet. Nothing even comes close.
    07:34 Absolutely positively. Get an account on
    07:36 river.com. R I Ver singular like one
    07:40 river. r i
    07:43 veer.com. Get a river account. It’s a
    07:45 no-brainer. Makes all the sense in the
    07:47 world. Get a river account. So, um, the
    07:49 reason I say that is it is much, much,
    07:52 much more difficult and costly to get a
    07:55 business account on Coinbase. Coinbase
    07:57 charges an upfront non-refundable $1,000
    08:00 application fee. And the paperwork
    08:03 requirements on Coinbase to get a
    08:05 business account are just about the most
    08:07 painful process I’ve ever gone through
    08:09 to get any sort of account on anything.
    08:11 I just absolutely it’s just unbelievably
    08:15 painful. So, uh, for the vast majority
    08:18 of businesses, unless you’re a large
    08:20 business that’s going to do high volume
    08:22 buying and selling of Bitcoin or you
    08:24 need just sort of super high-end custody
    08:27 services and whatever else, but for any
    08:30 for any small or medium business or any
    08:32 nonprofit, absolutely, River uh, targets
    08:35 that demographic and does a really good
    08:38 job of getting you everything you need
    08:40 to make it super elegant. So, for
    08:43 businesses and nonprofits, Rivers sort
    08:45 of the sort of the clear winner there.
    08:47 All right. For individuals, which is the
    08:49 category most likely to want to buy
    08:50 Bitcoin, I’m torn on this one because
    08:54 um if you’re willing to sort of ramp up
    08:58 to the technical, you know, the
    09:00 technicality and the extra complexity of
    09:03 Coinbase Advanced, um then you can get
    09:06 cheaper Bitcoin buying on Coinbase
    09:08 Advanced than anywhere else. The problem
    09:11 is it’s quite technical and now I have a
    09:13 video on how to do it and you know I
    09:15 walk through it and all that sort of
    09:16 stuff. So it’s not that hard, but um
    09:20 Coinbase just hits you with a lot. Uh
    09:22 Coinbase is constantly marketing random
    09:24 tokens that are one day going to be
    09:26 worthless. Uh and so you have to
    09:28 navigate that. They’re constantly asking
    09:29 you and telling you that 0% of your
    09:32 crypto is staked. And they’re
    09:34 encouraging you to stake your crypto,
    09:35 which is something you can’t even do
    09:37 with Bitcoin. And I do not recommend
    09:39 doing with anything because you should
    09:42 not own any crypto that can be staked
    09:44 because by definition, if something can
    09:46 be staked, that means it’s not
    09:48 decentralized, which means it’s a token
    09:51 or a crypto, whatever, that is not going
    09:54 to retain its value over time. So, um,
    09:57 so there’s just a lot of complexity and
    09:59 the fees on Coinbase Standard are very,
    10:02 very high. So, if you log in right now
    10:04 as a brand new user to Coinbase
    10:06 Standard, the fees are about
    10:08 4.7%. Um, it’s about 4.74. Now, that’s
    10:11 made up of a
    10:13 3.74% fee and a 1% spread, which means
    10:17 they charge you 1% more than the current
    10:20 market price to buy Bitcoin. and they
    10:23 you receive 1% less than the current
    10:26 market price when you sell Bitcoin. So a
    10:28 spread is the difference between the
    10:31 price you pay when you buy and the price
    10:33 you pay you get when you sell as
    10:36 compared to the market midpoint. So
    10:38 anytime you log into one of these apps
    10:40 and it’ll show you the price of Bitcoin
    10:41 and the price of Bitcoins is showing is
    10:43 always the midpoint which is the price
    10:45 at which the very last time someone
    10:48 bought or sold a bitcoin. But a lot of
    10:51 these apps when you actually want to buy
    10:52 or sell, they show you a different
    10:54 price. And that price includes what’s
    10:57 called a spread. And the spread that
    10:59 they include uh adds to or subtracts
    11:02 from the market price on the home
    11:04 screen. So in the case of Coinbase
    11:06 Standard, they charge you 1% more if
    11:08 you’re buying and you receive 1% less if
    11:12 you’re selling. So, there’s a 2% price
    11:14 difference between uh selling versus
    11:17 buying Bitcoin, which means the price
    11:19 you see on the home screen is the
    11:20 midpoint. Basically, the price that it’s
    11:22 actually transacting for. But if you’re
    11:24 buying or selling, you’re automatically
    11:26 uh effectively getting charged a 1%
    11:28 penalty called a spread, which is just
    11:31 uh you know, one more way exchanges make
    11:33 money. Uh but when you add that 1%
    11:35 spread on Coinbase Standard to the you
    11:39 know already very high fees in the case
    11:41 of $100 buy uh
    11:44 3.74% you end up with 4.74%. So that’s
    11:47 just under 5% less. So you buy $100 of
    11:50 Bitcoin and suddenly there’s barely more
    11:52 than $95 in your account which is just I
    11:55 mean those are ridiculously high fees.
    11:56 So I have a hard time recommending
    11:58 Coinbase uh Standard because the fees
    12:01 are so high. Uh but if you’re willing to
    12:03 jump through the hoops of the complexity
    12:04 and you know sort of the technical
    12:07 interface of Coinbase Advanced, you can
    12:09 get the lowest possible fees uh in the
    12:12 market. But again, there’s just a lot of
    12:14 complexity there, which is why I’m torn
    12:15 cuz part of me wants to recommend the
    12:17 easiest thing with it, which is River.
    12:19 Uh but in River’s, you’re going to pay a
    12:21 uh a flat 1% plus a.3% spread. So buying
    12:25 or selling, you’re only ever paying
    12:27 1.3% to buy or to sell. Uh but uh you
    12:32 can get lower than that on Coinbase
    12:34 Advanced. It’s always higher than that
    12:36 on Coinbase Standard, which means River
    12:38 is always going to be a cheaper place to
    12:40 buy or sell Bitcoin than Coinbase
    12:43 Standard, but Coinbase Advanced if
    12:46 you’re doing any sort of significant
    12:47 volume. Uh Coinbase Advanced is going to
    12:50 be cheaper than any of the other
    12:51 options. So, if somebody’s coming to me,
    12:54 you know, from the sort of right out of
    12:56 the gate and they’re planning to buy
    12:58 probably less than $10,000 of Bitcoin, I
    13:01 would say just use River because River
    13:04 is going to have consistently lower fees
    13:05 and River offers zero fees for recurring
    13:08 buys. So, you only pay the.3% spread.
    13:12 You don’t pay the one the 1% on top of
    13:14 that or.99% I think it is for River. Um,
    13:18 so the the cheapest way to do recurring
    13:20 buys is on River. Um, but the the
    13:23 cheapest day uh place to do sort of
    13:26 non-recurring buys are
    13:28 is excuse me is Coinbase Advanced and
    13:31 obviously Coinbase Standard is the most
    13:33 expensive uh of those three options
    13:36 between Coinbase Advanced, Coinbase
    13:38 Standard, excuse me, and River. Um but
    13:41 anyway, so it it’s definitely difficult
    13:44 if somebody comes to me uh and says,
    13:46 “Hey, I want to buy some Bitcoin. Where
    13:48 should I
    13:49 go?” Uh the the the other thing that
    13:51 makes it difficult is the Coinbase debit
    13:53 card is only available from Coinbase. So
    13:55 there’s no debit card equivalent on
    13:58 River, which means if somebody has
    13:60 Bitcoin on River, there’s no good way to
    14:02 spend that Bitcoin other than to
    14:04 liquidate it to US dollars. And then you
    14:07 can spend it, you know, you can push
    14:08 that money over to a debit card or a
    14:10 credit card, or you can buy everything
    14:11 with a credit card and pay it off with
    14:14 your river account, but that’s just not
    14:16 the same as actually spending Bitcoin on
    14:19 everything you buy, which is what I do.
    14:21 So, uh, so my sort of my world is made
    14:25 up of retirement accounts on Fidelity.
    14:28 Um, lots of different bit keys,
    14:31 geographically distributed, super hard
    14:33 to get to, super secure, time locks, you
    14:36 know, dogs, armed guards, uh, you know,
    14:39 all the crazy stuff that crazy people
    14:40 like me do. Um, so my, you know, sort of
    14:43 secure long-term storage of Bitcoin is,
    14:46 uh, very hard for me to get to, and
    14:48 that’s on purpose because it makes it
    14:49 hard for anybody, uh, including me, to
    14:52 get to my long-term storage Bitcoin. And
    14:55 then on sort of day-to-day usage, I
    14:58 almost always use Coinbase Advance for
    14:60 buying and selling. And then River for
    15:02 anything that involves uh business
    15:04 accounts just because it’s so much
    15:06 easier to use for business accounts than
    15:09 Coinbase and it’s so much easier to set
    15:10 up a business account on River as
    15:12 compared to Coinbase. Uh same for
    15:14 nonprofits. Uh so anyway, so that’s
    15:16 that’s the the sort of the hard part of
    15:19 the equation is people who are new
    15:21 because I want to on-ramp them onto
    15:23 Coinbase. Uh so they can use the
    15:25 Coinbase debit card if they want to or
    15:27 even if they only buy one cup of coffee
    15:29 with it, they can see what it’s like to
    15:30 buy anything in the world with Bitcoin
    15:32 and they can see how it’s instantly
    15:34 converted from Bitcoin to US dollars or
    15:37 whatever the local currency is. I think
    15:39 that whole process of seeing how
    15:41 powerful it is to buy stuff with Bitcoin
    15:44 uh is just really powerful and the
    15:46 Coinbase is the only place you can get
    15:47 that experience. Uh the problem is it’s
    15:49 a lot harder to onboard people to
    15:51 Coinbase uh because you can’t send them
    15:54 like River has the concept of a river
    15:55 link which is I can just say hey here’s
    15:57 $50 free Bitcoin. I send them a river
    15:60 link they create an account or redeem
    16:01 it. It’s easy. uh Coinbase, it’s much
    16:03 more difficult to do that because um
    16:06 there’s a glitch that they are in the
    16:07 process of fixing uh for the last year
    16:09 now, but it’s still not fixed that if I
    16:11 send Bitcoin to an email address or a
    16:13 phone number of someone who does not
    16:15 already have a Coinbase account, uh the
    16:17 a money ends up in limbo. So, if I um if
    16:20 they go and create an account with the
    16:22 link from Coinbase, often times they do
    16:25 not actually receive the $50 of Bitcoin
    16:27 and I have to resend it. and then after
    16:29 I rescend it, then in the next day or
    16:31 two, it the first send will magically
    16:33 show up out of the blue. So, it’s a
    16:35 glitch. It’s a known issue. Coinbase has
    16:37 been uh had it in the queue to fix that
    16:40 for uh months now, but it has not been
    16:43 fixed yet, which makes it hard to give
    16:45 Bitcoin to people, you know, that are
    16:47 brand new, starting from scratch to
    16:49 create an account. You really have to
    16:51 jump through a lot of extra hoops of
    16:52 getting them to set up a Coinbase
    16:54 account before you send it to them. and
    16:56 you can’t send them Bitcoin until they
    16:57 do ID verification, which involves, you
    16:60 know, the driver’s license and
    17:01 everything and it’s a fiveminute wait
    17:02 and all this sort of stuff. So, River
    17:04 lets you bypass all that. You can just
    17:05 send anybody Bitcoin with a River link,
    17:08 which is just super elegant and
    17:09 straightforward. So, usually if I’m
    17:11 giving somebody Bitcoin for the first
    17:13 time, I just send them a River Link
    17:15 because it’s so much easier than the
    17:17 Coinbase process until uh Coinbase fixes
    17:20 their process at which point uh it will
    17:22 be equally easy to do on Coinbase or
    17:25 River. So, anyway, so that that’s quick
    17:27 rundown. If what you really value is the
    17:29 Coinbase debit card, uh, and you
    17:31 anticipate having at least tens of
    17:33 thousands of dollars of Bitcoin or
    17:35 hundreds of thousands of dollars of
    17:36 Bitcoin and using the Coinbase debit
    17:39 card for all your expenses, then the one
    17:41 and only place you can do that is on
    17:42 Coinbase because it is the Coinbase
    17:44 debit card and none of the other
    17:46 providers have something equivalent. If
    17:48 what you value is an easy on-ramp
    17:51 experience, a simple interface, low fees
    17:54 even for small purchases, and just
    17:56 everything pretty elegant and
    17:58 straightforward, River is a much easier
    18:01 and more elegant place to start, and
    18:02 that you will not get bombarded every
    18:05 second or every minute or every day by
    18:08 alerts on how you should buy this coin
    18:10 or the PP coin or the Dog Whiff hat coin
    18:13 or the Trump coin or the Melania coin or
    18:15 there’s just a gazillion, you know,
    18:17 You don’t want to be getting all these
    18:19 prompts all day long for random tokens
    18:20 that are ultimately going to be
    18:21 worthless uh that there’s no reason to
    18:24 own any of those anyway. So, River is
    18:26 Bitcoin only. They don’t bombard you
    18:28 with all that stuff. Um so, what what
    18:32 would my perfect uh cryptocurrency
    18:34 exchange be? In my perfect world, there
    18:37 would be a which does not exist right
    18:39 now, there would be a cryptocurrency
    18:41 exchange that’s basically like River in
    18:44 that it’s Bitcoin only, but it would
    18:47 have a debit card and bill pay and
    18:50 direct integration with Bitkey. Uh, so
    18:53 if that existed, it would really be the
    18:54 panacea of cryptocurrency exchanges.
    18:57 just somewhere with nice low fees, a
    18:59 direct integration with Bit Key and uh a
    19:03 debit card to spend it if you wanted to
    19:05 do that and uh all of that. But that
    19:08 doesn’t exist. If you want the debit
    19:09 card and the lowest possible fees, you
    19:12 got to use Coinbase Advanced. If you
    19:14 want the uh easy user experience,
    19:17 Bitcoin only, super straightforward,
    19:19 elegant, um that’s River, but again, you
    19:22 don’t get the you don’t get the debit
    19:23 card over there. Now, you can buy
    19:24 everything like Jack Mers does, uh, or
    19:27 Malers. I guess it’s Mers because it’s
    19:29 an A. Jack Morers. Uh, Jack Morers, the
    19:32 CEO of Strike, buys everything on with a
    19:35 credit card and then just uses the bill
    19:37 pay feature of Strike to pay off the
    19:40 credit card at the end of every month,
    19:42 which also works great, I presume. I’ve
    19:44 never done that, but I presume it works
    19:45 great. Um, but it’s not the same as
    19:47 using actual Bitcoin to buy everything.
    19:49 You’re basically just paying off with
    19:52 Bitcoin, you know. uh bill at the end of
    19:54 the month, which is just it’s a
    19:55 different experience than buying
    19:58 everything with Bitcoin and seeing what
    19:60 the actual experience is of actually
    20:02 spending Bitcoin on everything that
    20:03 Visa, you know, everywhere that Visa’s
    20:05 accepted in the world spending uh actual
    20:08 Bitcoin. Now, it’ll get a little bit
    20:10 better because later this year, River
    20:12 and I think River and Coinbase uh are
    20:15 both rolling out bill pay. I expect this
    20:18 is, you know, sort of the rumor on the
    20:19 internet is that hopefully both of them
    20:22 will end up with bit uh bill pay at some
    20:24 point this year. And uh but I don’t
    20:26 expect anybody other than Coinbase to
    20:29 have a Coinbase or to have a debit card
    20:31 that actually lets you spend Bitcoin. Uh
    20:33 I know that’s not in the works or I’m
    20:36 I’m pretty sure that’s not in the works
    20:39 at anywhere other than Coinbase. And
    20:40 obviously Coinbase already has it. So
    20:42 hopefully all that helps. Again, my
    20:45 Bitcoin ecosystem is made up of
    20:47 Coinbase, River, Bitkey, and Fidelity.
    20:51 And those are the four services I
    20:52 recommend. Coinbase or River for
    20:55 somebody, you know, sort of individual
    20:57 use of Bitcoin. Um, River for, you know,
    21:02 small and medium businesses and
    21:03 nonprofits. Bitkey for self- storage,
    21:07 cold storage of Bitcoin anywhere. You
    21:09 can use Bit Key for a business account.
    21:11 You can use it for individual. So you
    21:13 can really use BitKey for anything. Um
    21:15 and then uh Fidelity for retirement
    21:18 accounts just because the tax advantage
    21:21 nature of retirement accounts means they
    21:23 are more complicated to set up and
    21:24 maintain and make sure everything’s
    21:26 right than other accounts which is why I
    21:30 use Fidelity instead of just
    21:31 self-custody uh retirement account
    21:33 because that currently is more
    21:35 difficult. Although hopefully one day
    21:37 self-custody of retirement accounts will
    21:39 be as simple as Bit Key. And when that
    21:41 day arrives, I will absolutely
    21:43 positively move my retirement Bitcoin
    21:46 into self-custody. I just have not done
    21:49 that because it uh there’s nothing as
    21:51 elegant as Bitkey for retirement
    21:54 accounts yet. So hopefully that uh sort
    21:56 of overview of ecosystems is helpful.
    21:59 Love to help you in your Bitcoin
    22:01 journey. in there if there’s any way I
    22:02 can on any front. I’m always here to
    22:04 serve and love answering questions. So,
    22:06 message me any questions you got. And uh
    22:09 I’m happy to weigh in on screenshots of
    22:12 error messages or communication you got
    22:15 that you’re not sure if it’s legit or
    22:17 questions you have. Literally anything
    22:19 you could possibly need on your Bitcoin
    22:21 journey, please message me and I am here
    22:24 to serve. Have a great night everyone.
    22:25 Thanks.

Why I recommend Coinbase (buy/spend), River (business/nonprofit), Bitkey (long-term savings), and Fidelity (retirement). Here’s my thinking!

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