This makes me uncomfortable in ways I can’t quite put into words

That feels like a pretty big gamble when the consequence for losing is being detained by ICE.

Not for phones though.

The modern internet is literally unusable without ad blockers.

Noone is expecting you to understand crypto, but I hear this about modern technology in general all the time and I just don’t buy it. It’s only brain-melting if you’ve spent your entire life being deeply incurious. There are 80-90 year olds who understand this shit just fine because they bothered to keep up.