We really appreciate you sharing your process — this kind of personal discipline and planning is impressive. What you’re doing with encrypted USBs and distributed storage is very much in the spirit of decentralization and self-reliance. This Being said, our project MindGTC Wallet aims to help the next wave of users — the ones who won’t go to such lengths, but still deserve protection. The reality is, most people don’t use tools like OpenSSL, and even fewer will maintain long-term physical backups. That’s where decentralized, automated recovery systems (like ones based on Shamir’s Secret Sharing + quantum-hardened encryption) come in — to bring strong self-custody without expecting expert-level behavior from the average person.(we do not have any access to anyone's keys or shards, its decentralized). In many ways, what we’re building is trying to preserve what you value — privacy, ownership, and trust — but in a way that scales to millions.