It seems so obvious, but I con't to struggle to wrap it up as a warm cozy blanket as the snow storm rages outside.

In another Bitcoin podcast today. I am hit with with the mantra: "Don't trust, verify"

By 2016 then matra started to edge me, in way that I could not speak it outloud anymore. Something is off.

Bitcoin verification doesn't access external truth is were I am stuck at. At best it It may create a "consensual domain" through shared operation. There is always a point of trust - just deeper away lost in abstraction in some git repo.

The best re-framing I have is the following:

1. First-order reading: "Don't trust, verify" = Replace trust with verification

2. Second-order reading: "Don't trust, verify" = Use verification to create trustworthy results

3. ????

currently working on this 3rd articulation. Shared ideas are welcomed.