[smokey_circles]

I'm not following.

You will not find trust _in people_ anywhere in modern society.

Banks certify transactions, governments certify identity. We can go on and on here. Whole swathes of law around this topic too lol (see: fraud).

Crypto isn't about not trusting people, it's about not needing to trust strangers.

Some of them are scams, ironically, but when there's money involved... well it's pretty stupid to _just_ trust people.

Unless I've missed something?

[strogonoff]

Trust is everywhere. I eat at a cafe being trusted to pay later. In South Korea, I am trusted to have paid for my ticket upon entering the train (no one ever checked it). I trust every person I stroll past in a dark alley to not rob me at knifepoint. I am trusted by my customers to not deliver a backdoored codebase (yes, there is the letter of the contract, but really it comes down to interpersonal trust since they cannot verify it themselves). Etc., etc.