A question on protecting your money.

Yes, don't panic.

crypto and bitcoin is not the answer. Everything is dark no internetyou cannot retrieve your 1s and 0s aka cloud money. Good luck bartering crypto to someone. Who controls the access points to this crypto world? Point is good luck bartering crypto let alone getting more of cloud money when shtf.

My guess is everything will require conversion into a new digital currency, and gold/silver may not be allowed in this conversion. Land assets will likely be stolen and people forcibly removed from their land. When the Constitution is made null and void, no laws will be in place to protect people from having everything taken from them under this new dystopian system the psychopaths want to install. Those who have skills of importance will be the ones who may come out of this okay. Those who work in construction, plummers, electricians, computer techs, and chosen scientists will have something they can barter with, while those without these skills won't have much if anything to offer.

Right Preppen for it is going to be 1800s

I put 40k into the garden sprouting micro greens and small animals over a few decades.
Dirt or soil soilless hydroponic aquaponic water storage and rain water recovery.

If you're only worried about them taking your bank deposits for a bank bail in. Then short term T bills. Yes you will lose some value to inflation but you're already losing that now if your money is just sitting in a bank account.
There's two ways this shit show comes to an end. Fed pivots and drops rates back down. Which would eventualy lead to hyperinflation. Everyone is a broke ass billionare. Or rates stay the same or they raise them. This will cause banks to implode world wide and trillions will be wiped out and no one will have two pennies to rub together.
Gold and silver will preserve your wealth as dollars become worthless paper in hyperinflation, where it would be cheaper to burn money in your fireplace rather than buying wood.
Cash on hand not in a bank serves you better during deflationary spiral as there won't be much of it around.
Both will only help you at the very begining of a collapse. In the end better have beans, bullets, and bandaids. Those will all disappear either way. Know how to garden and do for yourself.
In the begining farmers were the wealthy ones, that's when gold was tied to grains of wheat for value.

What about Goldback currency?
Goldback.com
24k Gold embedded in each bill, into smallest denominations. Fungible and a store of value.

Property

But it’s too late prices are up and so are rates.