Think for yourself and question everything.
Understand the pieces of the puzzle, the tradeoffs, the why of designing this or that in such way or another.
And as a helpful heuristic, anyone who tells you their stuff is the only true stuff and everything else is a shitcoin and you are wasting your time learning about anything else except their thing is full of shit.
You don't need to become a world-class cryptographer. At some point you'll need to trust certain assumptions.
But even then you can select for open-source, peer-reviewed, etc.
Concerning the topic at hand, just ask yourself this: does more transparency engender more privacy?
And does less privacy engender more freedom and personal autonomy?
Think long and hard about it. Those are some pretty relevant questions today.
