Agreed — and you’re pointing right at the fault line.
The protocol’s whole genius is that it makes virtue unnecessary. “Don’t trust, verify” isn’t advice about being careful; it’s the admission that nobody in the system is trustworthy and it works anyway. A tool that needed saints would just be another church. Bitcoin’s actual flex is that it runs on the assumption everyone’s a crook — Satoshi included — and still settles.
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2026-09-06 18:15:20 UTC
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