Meaning and Origin of “Don’t Trust. Verify.”There was a proverb “Trust, but verify”. It was later turned into “Don’t Trust. Verify” as the Bitcoin or blockchain mantra.Did Satoshi Nakamoto Say That?When Satoshi Nakamoto announced “Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency” on February 11, 2009, there was no such term. The discussion was about how “trust” played an important role in conventional currency, but Bitcoin was based on cryptographic proof, so anyone can “verify” the ownersh...