Like in 2010, Bitcoin was hated for being used to laundering money, same narrative is being attached to Monero. This is because the media and the elites in position donot want you to use Monero.

Besides that Monero is a strong competitor to the use case of Bitcoin. Bitcoiner really don’t want their bags to be useless, what they don’t understand is that they are powerless to influence the price of Bitcoin, and has been manipulated.

Well if you can, a monero node.

Self custody is something you need to keep in practice. I use keepassXC everywhere.