Armstrong's eight points read as a coherent vision of where financial infrastructure is heading. Taken together, they describe a system that settles faster, costs less, operates continuously, and extends access to participants currently excluded by legacy intermediaries. That direction is broadly correct and the progress toward it is measurable.

The question worth asking is: if everything I currently hold dropped 60% tomorrow and stayed there for eighteen months, what would I do? Do I have a defined answer to that question, or do I have a vague intention to "hold through it" that has never been pressure-tested?

Nobody gets rugged thinking they are about to get rugged.

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A single point of failure feels fine until it fails. One person who knows everything. One device that holds everything. One backup that exists somewhere. This isn't a system. It's a bet that nothing will go wrong at the precise moment it matters most.