Trust? This word depends on context. Do you trust your spouse? Do your trust your waiter? Do you trust the news? Do you trust that the sun will come up?

I will grant that both Bitcoin and dollars depend on trust. But both are grounded as well. Bitcoin to physical computing devices and dollars to real estate.

That is, Bitcoin is as real as all of the SHA-256 calculations per second across the network and dollars are as real as the mortgages per square mile across the nation.