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.
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!!