Quote from: ChuckOne on May 17, 2014, 08:05:18 PM

Quote from: Peter R on May 17, 2014, 07:58:14 PM

What I said was completely true.

Come one. An IF-clause is true in most cases because I consider you an intelligent person. But that IF-clause of yours does not answer my question.

Quote from: Peter R on May 17, 2014, 07:58:14 PM

You question was of a personal rather than technical nature, and directly answering a question like that is usually a bad idea. If I had said "yes, I have the genesis hash memorized" you may have called my a liar and I would have no way to prove myself. If I had said "no" you may have used it as an argument to further blur reality.

Well, not true at all.

I would have said this:

You had answered YES => "Well, so where did you read it?" If you had answered then 'from trusted hardware/software', go to NO.

You had answered NO => "I assume, you copied it form trusted hardware/software. So, where did the trusted hardware/software got it from?"

Again what I said was true. I said you may have called me a liar. And you may have (in fact you still might and maybe I am). How do I know what you actually would have done if I had done something different?

Nevertheless, my answer to your next set of questions goes back to my gold analogy: how do I know that a piece of metal is gold? Should I just believe what I've come to know over the course of my life that gold is yellow, shinny, dense, atomic #79, etc? What if it's not? What if everyone is lying to me?

What if cats are actually dogs and dogs are actually cats!!