We should not want a trustless system. We should not build for system in which people do not have to trust each other, because of its corollary: if you don’t have to trust, nor must you be trusted. You do not have to behave in a trustworthy way.

I'm going to spend some time to simmer thoughts over this. There's a point there but there is also a deep, deep counter point, namely that even though I believe that most people are honest, prevention is always better than remediation. It saves time and allows us to focus on the important stuff. Productive things.

Bitcoin should be boring.