He does understand. It’s for the people that manage to grow into adulthood without realizing that Ayn Rand was a terrible hack. “Trustless” sounds like a good idea to these most boring of cynics who consider anything but ruthless short-sighted egotism to be weakness or naïveté, all institutions to be corrupt (with the same magnitude of “totally”), and the only debate to be had is if it’s the Wall Street Jews, Hilary Clinton, or all women that are ruining their lives.
I am not claiming the bitcoin whitepaper has anything to do with EVM, but it explains why a trustless, digital currency is needed and how it can be implemented. It predates real cryptocurrencies, so it can read easier without references to cryptocurrencies that exist today. The author has demonstrated incredible ignorance of why things like EVM exist in the first place.
>Trustless doesn’t make it more valuable than the trusted systems
Author doesn't understand why people think it could be/is valuable either.