# June 3rd: Not Your Keys, Not Your Justice: How Self-Custody Is Breaking Traditional Asset Recovery w/ James Ramsden KC

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Published: 2026-06-10T16:07:00+00:00
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## Resource

As self-custody wallets and decentralised exchanges rapidly grow, legal recovery of Bitcoin and stablecoins is becoming dramatically harder. Over 580 million crypto users globally now increasingly control assets directly through private keys rather than regulated intermediaries, while DeFi volumes exceeded trillions of dollars in 2025 alone. This shift is eroding the ability of courts, banks, and exchanges to freeze or recover digital assets. In practice, blockchain is transferring financial control from institutions and judges toward individuals, code, and cryptographic sovereignty.

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