As a child of a Black poet and German data scientist, I watched my BTC reserves vanish—not from market crash, but from silent overregulation. This is the story of The Blockchain Group’s €11M bet on centralized custody, and why decentralized trust didn’t stand. In this piece, I dissect the code behind the collapse—not as failure, but as farewell to illusion. No hype. Just cold logic, quiet grief, and one portfolio lost to silence.