My bitcoins are as real as the metal hanging around Lawrence Turauld's neck.
The main issue with your thinking is the assumption that bitcoin is free of counter party risk just because you have the private keys.
I think it's not. MatTheCat is a few Budweisers short of a 6pack
and even so he
also thinks he has figured this out.
ftfy

Holding a commodity form of money in your hand and defending it with an AR15 is really the only way to completely get out of counter party risk.
LOL Until someone offs you with a drone.
p.s. This is real life not some Hollywood adventure/action script. It's also the 21st century. Guns are so 2nd millennium.
I'd love to carry on this lively little discussion but it's Friday night and there are beer, live music and real women awaiting. Catch you later.