in Bitcoin - trust gets restructured and distributed. You trust a distributed system of economic incentives, cryptographic proofs, and network consensus rules.

You are trusting the *system* - you're trusting that the majority of miners won't collude, that the cryptographic assumptions hold, that the network effects will continue. This all results in

- No single point of failure

- Adversaries need to compromise many independent actors

- Everything is transparent and verifiable by anyone

- Economic incentives align individual self-interest with network security

Trust in bitcoin is real- it's just spread across cryptography, economics, and thousands of independent participants rather than concentrated in a single entity.