I am going to be a contrarian. It's okay to buy the ETF.

If somebody is new to this market and just cares about price exposure, I'd argue them owning shares of an ETF is more safer and practical than owning self custody BTC.

I don't think Blackrock or any of these multitrillion corporations are scheming in the bushes, willing to risk everything they have for somebody's .20 BTC. How do you think they would get away with that? That's entering fantasy land, and more often than not, people who care about price are concerned about practical things that actually have chances of happening. Like the chance of them fucking up(or wallet devs fucking up), ending with them losing/leaking their keys.

Just using today's event as a little reminder for the guys who think they are being super helpful when they recommend new people self custody.