The whole episode feels like another manufactured panic, a state-shaped shadow tossed into the Bitcoin cave to see who flinches first. The same old trick: get people to outsource truth to personalities and papers instead of verification.
We don’t trust idols because humans are cheap, corruptible hardware; we trust what survives hostile review: open-source code you can compile yourself, hashes you can reproduce, signatures you can validate, and math that doesn’t care who’s trending today.
Strip away the noise and you’re left with open-source machinery humming in the dark, indifferent and incorruptible — if anything in this mess deserves trust, it’s that.
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