Also, note that "take their stuff through extra-legal means" has become an uncomfortably common strategy in the west. Things like asset forfeiture, debanking in a myriad of forms, increased government intervention in financial systems, changing the rules suddenly every time a totally forseeable at some point financial crisis comes up (there is one every 10-15 years! they aren't surprises).

It is completely reasonable to have some assets that the government cannot take away from you without actually going through the court process, putting the screws to someone and arguing to a judge that a crime took place. And that inflates in a predictable, controlled manner.

The last 3 years has convinced me that I will own crypto by the time I die. Not bitcoin - indeed, I don't know what protocol it will be yet. But something.