@americanhodl8 shows just how difficult “don’t trust. verify” actually is in practice. as a practical matter, nearly everyone still depends on some degree of social trust, except for the truly insane.
NOPE.
Bitcoin does not work because of “trust.". It works because anyone, anywhere, can verify.
You don’t need to trust Mike Novogratz. You don’t need to trust me. You don’t need to trust “the community.”
YOU can run the software yourself. YOU can verify the supply. YOU can verify the rules. YOU can verify every transaction that has ever settled.
That is the entire point of Bitcoin.
It is NOT a shared belief system. It is not dependent on some collective story holding together. It is a monetary network made stronger by every additional individual who independently arrives at the rational conclusion that Bitcoin is the superior form of money.
The “community” is just the secondary effect of that individual discovery process. The primary thing is the verification. That’s what makes it antifragile. That’s what makes it different from every other asset Novogratz ever blew up trading.
Until more tradfi people actually understand this distinction, they’re going to keep reducing Bitcoin to the same trust-based frameworks that failed us in the first place.
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