The way they structured BTC seems to require third party la…

The way they structured BTC seems to require third party layers to make it work, where you need to trust an escrow to not fuck you over?
If true, it seems the "soundness of $" argument is sophist. The "transaction layer" is akin to bank debit acct debit?

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