0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Majjin 16 Jun 2022 \ on: At some point you have to trust, for me it begins with the Lightning network bitcoin
The point of Bitcoin is not to remove trust from everything. I personally think its impossible to make everything trustless. Even if it was, making everything trustless would make us into entirely atomized individuals with no communities, which is a bad thing.
I think that Bitcoin puts trust back where it belongs: family, friends, community. Too long our trust has been with people and organizations who don't know and don't care that we exist. When you learn about Bitcoin, you figure out that with trust comes risk. That's not a bad thing, its just a tradeoff. That tradeoff has been obfuscated by our current system. So people just blindly trust the people and organizations that don't care about them.
I say that as long as you know the risks and you're okay with said risks, allowing yourself to trust at the Lightning level is fine.
Too long our trust has been with people and organizations who don't know and don't care that we exist.
While it's difficult to argue with that, I'd point out that Bitcoin does not care whether you exist, and that's absolutely as it should be.
you figure out that with trust comes risk. That's not a bad thing, its just a tradeoff. That tradeoff has been obfuscated by our current system.
I couldn't agree more. This is the biggest obvious problem with our society to me, the infantilisation of people and even of corporations. Forest fires need to happen etc.
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I'd point out that Bitcoin does not care whether you exist, and that's absolutely as it should be.
That's true! However, Bitcoin is trust minimized. I don't need all the miners and node runners to care about me or my existence because I barely need to trust them. I can just verify the data I get from them with my own node. Our current institutions are trust maximized and don't care out those who trust them.
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