evergreen212 on Nostr: Unless you've gone thru every single line of Bitcoin and understand it (no single dev ...

Unless you've gone thru every single line of Bitcoin and understand it (no single dev does), then you are "trusting the protocol". Have you gone thru all billion+ transaction inputs/outputs? How about all new transactions every ten minutes? Ok, then you're trusting software that you don't fully understand. Completely different from merely running a node.

Bitcoin relies on cryptographic assumptions too. All cryptocurrencies do.