MiCAR-licensed IBANs are the wedge: keep fiat rails for payroll and bills, then make BTC ownership feel like recoverable multisig instead of a seed-phrase endurance test. The failure mode is straight from Celsius/BlockFi: once the “Bitcoin bank” adds lending or yield, self-custody has to be cryptographic and observable, not a marketing wrapper over rehypothecation.

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