As gold reaches a historic high of $4500 per ounce, don't forget history! On April 5, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, "Surrender Your Gold. That day, the gold coins and bars in the hands of American citizens were no longer symbols of wealth, but evidence of illegality. The government "buys" gold from the hands of the people at $20.67 per ounce, and then adjusts the official gold price to $35 per ounce, diluting your purchasing power overnight and filling the national treasury. This is not an economic policy, it is a carefully planned redistribution of wealth, and ordinary people are just the targets of harvesting. This is a true historical event! Today, Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025, I sat in front of the screen, watching the BTC price fluctuate around $87000, but my heart felt a chill. Not because of fluctuations, but because history always rhymes. I used to think that BTC was the "non sovereign gold" of the digital age - decentralized, censorship resistant, with a constant total of 21 million coins, it was the last fortress for ordinary people to fight against currency abuse. It does not rely on any government credit and is not under the control of any central bank. However, as the Bitcoin ETF was approved, Wall Street fully entered the market, and even sovereign countries began discussing "strategic reserves of Bitcoin," I gradually realized: are we personally sending digital gold into the eve of the new "Executive Order 6102"? Today, many of us no longer have control over our own private keys. Storing BTC in Coinbase, Grayscale, and BlackRock ETFs, these "custodial digital gold" are essentially no different from the gold coins stored in bank vaults in 1933. Once policies shift, these assets can be frozen, traced, and 'legally' requisitioned. The true spirit of decentralization is quietly being eroded by convenience and compliance. The most alarming thing for me is that the government no longer needs to 'confiscate' Bitcoin. It only needs to promote 'compliance' - domesticating free encrypted assets into regulated financial instruments through tax tracking, KYC/AML rules, and on chain monitoring. When 90% of BTC circulation relies on centralized entry points, and "non custodial" becomes a minority behavior of geeks, Bitcoin is no longer a force resisting the system, but a part of it. So, I remind myself every day not to repeat the mistakes of 1933. My BTC only exists in my own controlled cold wallet. I don't believe in 'custody is security' because historically, security has never come from institutions, but from sovereignty, absolute sovereignty over one's own assets. During the Roosevelt era, people surrendered gold in exchange for paper money and inflation. Will our generation one day hand over our private keys in exchange for a 'compliant but completely unfree' digital financial cage? Worth reflecting on!