Yeah I know, hence the first line of my post.

How do you build trust? It takes time and good will from a community.

I started developing this app Wed Apr 13 21:13:31 2011 -0400 as per my commit logs. I saw mybitcoin come and go, MtGox and a flurry of other services get hacked.

I tried to build Bitzaar in a way that learned from those mistakes, bcrypting passwords and securing APIs (to the best of my current knowledge) for example.

I'm willing to jump through a reasonable amount of hoops to prove the validity to the community...but it's a catch 22...it'll take time to earn the good will.