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 would 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?"
Well, and as this point, I got you.
Where does the trust come from? => code review, belief, opinions of your friends etc. etc.
Here, I can show you substitution and abstraction:
- substitute each red
you by each item of this list [ChuckOne, Peter R, jonald_fyookball, Mr. Obama, ...] and you will see that it is applicable to each of them
- abstract from that list [ChuckOne, Peter R, jonald_fyookball, Mr. Obama, ...] to
Blockchain Network UserThe logical conclusion here is:
A
Blockchain Network User needs to verify or trust the software he uses anyway no matter if PoW or PoS.