Its perfectly normal to place trust in 3rd parties. nobody has the time to become an expert in everything and then personally audit all this stuff.

A big part of learning is ADMITTING WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW.

Its fine (ie, reasonable to me) to *trust* the ECDSA implementation in bitcoin. Obviously I do it too.

But it's retarted to trust ECDSA (without reflection or understanding) but then refuse to examine *other* well-established cryptographic primitives.
because reasons.

usually those reasons are "Team Bitcoin doesn't approve of those specific cryptographic primitives and Im a good team player. Look at my cool laser eyes."

You don't understand Pedersen commitments or know what zero-knowledge proofs are? You don't trust me when I say their probably *at-least* as reliable as the ECDSA sceme you're ALREADY trusting?

Fine, just say "i don't know or care and Im not going to look into it." At least that's intellectually honest.

Or just "I'm a moron and I trust what a block explorer tells me."

Everybody has to eventually place trust somewhere. But that doesn't mean you should shave your head and join the cult.

The absolute state of the bitcoin community
smdh


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