> Asking a trusted friend or just looking at major forums or whatever would work to get started, and then after that you don't need to keep trusting a third par

> Asking a trusted friend or just looking at major forums or whatever would work to get started, and then after that you don't need to keep trusting a third party. Trust on first use... The 'weak subjectivity' issue doesn't just arise at the first use, it becomes a very important consideration in the event of a network fork (ie, a bad actor attacks the chain, and users attempt to defeat the attack by following a different chain that ignores the attacker). This is a much larger issue, it is easy to find consensus on a 'genesis block', but finding consensus in the moment of an uncertain/contentious chain-split is very different. At best it falls back to trusting some centralized party to make the correct choice, and then having a large enough portion of the users follow them.