🔒 "Your balance on an exchange is just a number in someone else's database. There are no ghost Bitcoins. There is no spreadsheet that protects you."
That's the lesson many crypto users took from
#FTX, according to Andreas Brekken (
@abrkn), founder of
@sideshiftai.
🌐 As trust in centralized exchanges remains fragile, self-custody and direct-to-wallet trading are seeing renewed momentum in 2026.