And for me the key question is not what differentiates the hard believers from the hard sceptics, but how do we interpret that section of the population in the middle.
Our freedom is — fortunately — far greater than this, because the real sceptic we need to win over and explain our full story too is chiefly and crucially always ourselves.
Although Facebook says it has a working prototype, the technology is untested; sceptics doubt that a 100-node system, let alone a bigger one, could process thousands of transactions per second.
If, just if, the summit could have gone on one more day… that might have given the two leaders time to build their burgeoning rapport and overrule sceptics in their delegations.
The Burden of Proof Intelligent sceptics know that the burden of proving a hypothesis must invariably fall on them, as the challengers to the status quo, and not on the upholders