My money&#x27;s on, he hasn&#x27;t reviewed all the lines of code in the Bitcoin client (or operating system, even!) he&#x27;s running, either, so...trust comes back in a different form.<p>In a way, it reminds me of the ol&#x27; Reflections on trusting trust (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~ganger&#x2F;712.fall02&#x2F;papers&#x2F;p761-thompson.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~ganger&#x2F;712.fall02&#x2F;papers&#x2F;p761-thomp...</a>), but in a somewhat broader sense.<p>For my part, really, at the end of the day, I&#x27;d sooner trust institutions that have been around for a long, long time (far longer than I&#x27;ve been alive so far) than a coding project that&#x27;s been around for less time than most of the popular websites I read.<p>But it&#x27;d be a funny old world if we were all alike, of course.