[yanmaani]

> It seems like you reject this premise, maintaining that PoW networks are objectively verifiable? But you didn't really refute the parent's point there, which was that there are no "objective standards" in deciding which bootstrap nodes to use; it's ultimately a matter of trust. If I trust the wrong bootstrap nodes, I can be eclipsed from the real network.

Right, but it's not about trust in the same way. I can add an infinite list of bootstrap nodes. Quantity matters, not quality.

> But PoS involves a very similar 1-of-n trust model; I can request checkpoints from n semi-trusted sources and check that they match.

"Very similar," not the same. You need "semi-trusted sources", and there's no objective standard in case they disagree.