But if I ask you to nominate some trustworthy person, I know you will be able to nominate dozens of forum members. There are a lot of forum members whom I will be able to trust with thousands of dollars.
I'm going to disagree here. I'm not in Bitcoin to trust people, and there are only very few people on this forum who I'd trust with $1000. Let me put it this way: if you select 3 dozen people, send each of them $1000 with the agreement to return it after a week, I think you'll end up with $35k or less.