It's good

I wasn't expecting you have a friend that know the difference between custodial and non custodial wallet, most people will recommend custodial (e.g. exchanges) I remembered my friends suggest to use Binance or Sinegy (my local exchange) as wallet lol. Your friends must be a techy person and know Bitcoin from a long time I guess.
That's a long journey and yet 13 years Bitcoin still surviving until now is making you believe Bitcoin is legit. Well that's discussion is similar like Bitcoin replaced Fiat in the future, and someone is right about the collector will collecting physical Bitcoin to adapt new technology.
Well, I'm overwhelmed to hear your past experience... I think this forum saved many people especially in financial, many campaign paid very well if the participants live in third world countries, they can survive by just posting in this forum.