Basics every user needs: seed secrecy, URL checks, and never signing blind approvals.

Write the seed offline, verify receive addresses, and practice a small recovery before moving size.

Know issuer, reserves, attestation, and redemption path before treating a dollar token as cash.

Households and firms abroad holding USDT/USDC as a practical dollar account when local banking fails them.

Critics argue S2F overfits history and fails when demand and ETF flows dominate.

An asset held to preserve purchasing power across time. Crypto SV narratives compete with gold and bonds.

Argument that ETF and nation-state demand permanently changed Bitcoin's four-year cycle. Still contested.