You have the right to your belief. I find comfort in the math and the fact that there are a lot of eyes on Monero's code. Any "privileged access" to Monero's code would found and be patched immediately.
"The founder defended Monero’s cryptography, saying he could not assist the government with “privileged access.” He said, “I have no privileged access to Monero’s code, GitHub repo, website, Twitter account, DNS records, donated funds, or anything else.”"
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For sure. I don't doubt the code, I doubt the person.
I treat this the same way I do influencer accusations that Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a CIA agent. The code is open with lots of very smart privacy advocates eyes on it who develop it in a way that it is dev greed and sabotage proof. That's the beautiful thing about cryptography, math doesn't rely on trust or lie.
how many nodes are running? mining?