Crypto may be the one thing you'll truly own in your life, and fully control.

If you own your key, you absolutely own your coins. There's no one, no company, and no organization that stands between your key and your money. Control and ownership is absolute.

There's nothing on the blockchain that will stop you if you have a lien, if a government changes, or if the government decides you are suspected of being a criminal.

There's very few things in this world that you can own without strings attached.

-Real Estate.

I'll start with the one that most people believe gives you the most real ownership.

Even real estate is conditional and has strings attached. You can still get a lien on your house or land, at any time. And ultimately, real estate ownership depends on on a complex system of title companies, local laws, and on a government.

What happens if that government changes? That's how a lot of people throughout history lost their land.

Right now in Ukraine, and in many places around the world, people who've owned their homes all their lives, aren't really sure if the paper that claims their ownership has an validity left, as some of them got swallowed by a new administration.

And throughout even just recent history, we've seen how arbitrary land ownership can be.

But even if you live in a stable government, you never know which new land laws can drop on you. All it takes is a new wacky governor of your state or province. Or run into a problem with a shady contractor and have a lien on your home.

-Vehicle, boats, etc...

There's probably no point going into depth here. It has all the same issues with real estate, but much worse, and with more limitations, and without the level of protection a home gets.

-Cash

Obviously, having cash in a bank gives you the least amount of control or real ownership. But even the cash under your mattress has an arbitrary ownership. And most currencies are the property of a government, and are merely a debt system. It's not actual money.

-Stocks and bonds

Stocks gives you a share of ownership into a company...but not quiet the same as being a co-owner of a business, and with lots of strings attached and limitations. But that's moot, since most people don't even directly own their stock, and own it through the proxy of a broker. And bonds give you the ownership of only someone's debt.

-Metal, jewelry, art, etc..

These are probably the few things in life that you can really own, with no organizations getting in between, and no strings attached. But physical valuables are sometimes difficult and costly to protect.

-Crypto

Crypto gives you a lot of the benefits of gold, and valuable goods, where you truly own something with no strings attached, no 3rd party, etc... If you own the key, you own the coins. It's absolute.

And it has the benefit of not having something physical. You don't have gold bullion you have to put in a secure place, and have to transport. Crypto has the coins stored on the blockchain.

You can travel anywhere without carrying anything, and access your coins anywhere in the world.

Even if you store a seed phrase or something like a Trezor in a safe, as long as your seed is encrypted, they won't be able to steal your funds. And you'll have at a minimum, time to move your funds to a new wallet.

But if are faced with the equivalent of the Ghestapo that's coming to seize everything you have, you always have the option of memorizing your seed, and there'll be nothing they can find in your house to seize your crypto, and you can cross the border seemingly empty handed with your entire fortune.

It's hard to find anything else in the world with this level of absolute ownership, that's also censorship and seizure resistant.