[mym1990]

Why trust the tech if it is built by the same untrustworthy people?

The truth is that for something to be truly spectacular in moving humanity along, you need both tech AND people. You named a bunch of celebrities…OF COURSE you shouldn’t trust those people, you don’t even know them.

Not trusting anyone is just a good way to grow old and bitter about the social state of the world.

[blue_light_man]

I should have clarified. By don't trust people I mostly meant people you know from Internet and have never had a meaningful relationships with.

[usrusr]

But if you trust people on the internet, at least your personal life won't implode in formation with your financials. MLM like herbalife and countless smaller ones, many of them in financials also on the product side, had already been preying on personal relationships before Satoshi even tossed his first coin at a hash function. Don't trust anything that looks to good to be true, and be wary of those that might be carefully tuned to stay just below that threshold.

[mym1990]

Gotcha, makes sense. Unfortunately the phase “never meet your heroes” ends up true more often than not.

[chii]

they have provided no evidence for which trust should be placed on their company or product.

Trust needs to be earned, and over a long time. Even a large company like google, have lost the trust they used to have, and have barely retained any back.