Security has a concept called attack surface: the more kinds of exposures, the greater the attack surface. Similarly we can think of governance as having an argument surface: the more kinds of decisions there are to argue over, the less functional the institution will be.
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So we want the input be as simple and discrete as flipping a switch (nothing to reverse engineer or game), ie computing a nonce. But can the problem not pop out into the hardware world, eg controlling hardware supply or cheap energy access?
Sadly, nothing in this life is completely trustless. But there's plenty of room for improvement.
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As long as we run commonplace hardware it seems nearly uncrackable. That is, no actor could destroy the multi-trillion dollar IT industry by banning PC components, too much pushback from biz and consumers. With more exotic hardware, more easily targeted, less trustless.
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