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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by legulere on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:56PM (#15403961)
You still need to trust the software developers and the miners.
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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by troymc on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:31PM (#15404325)
Actually, you don't have to trust all of them. Some miners can go rogue and it won't matter; everything will still work. The software of blockchains is almost always open source, so you don't have to blindly trust it either; reading the source code and checking it for problems it is always an option.
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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by cocktailpeanuts on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:01PM (#15404023)
That's not what 'trust' means in the context of cryptocurrencies.
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