[throwaway2214]

this line of thinking is quite difficult to get by in the modern world, same applies to vaccines, or to your car, or to the food you eat the browser you use, etc, in fact if you randomly look in your room right now it is very likely that you will be shocked (e.g. the complexity of the HDMI cable)

[krupan]

My HDMI cable is not asking me to trust it with my hard earned money ;-)

Vaccines and cars and everything else you hint at have been around a long time and the trade-offs are pretty well understood. Proof of stake (and it's various implementations) have a long way to go before they reach that status