The Byzantine General's Problem

In bitcoin, we encourage people to verify, not trust. And that's something that you can verify yourself by going in and learning yourself. Instead, what most people do is they want to take short cuts. They're lazy or something, so that they will just go and read whatever the authorities tell them. It's idiotic. That's not the way you're supposed to learn stuff,. You're supposed to actually go and verify whatever. This is where fiat knowledge is very dangerous, because it forces the sort of, like conformity. Some bicorners could use another level of verification. I'd rather be half flat earther than being half flat-earther. Doesn