Why should (or shouldn't) blockchain be trustless?
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
Arthur Weasley (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
I’ve recently read a blog post by Basecamp’s co-founder David Hansson titled ‘A world without trust is not better’ in which he argues that the trustlessness enabled by blockchain networks is a bad thing. That got me thinking on why blockchain was originally designed to be trustless and what kinds of problems it is in fact trying to solve.
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