When It RainsTwo market crises landed almost back-to-back in Oct 2025: a violent crypto flash crash and a major AWS outage. One was sparked by geopolitics, the other by technical failure. Both exposed the same thing: hidden chokepoints, fragile trust, and the difference between what you think you own and what you actually control. In crypto, if you do not hold the keys, you do not own the asset. In the cloud, if your stack lives on one provider, your uptime is similarly rented, not owned. In ...