✍️ Trust | Kernel
The meanings of words are arrived at without trusting intermediaries. Blockchains instantiate this same phenomenon for any programmable transaction. We all know what 'love' signifies, but it takes real relationship to experience its deeper meaning. Exploring these kind of new 'trust spaces' is what Kernel is all about.
🇬🇧 English Available in 2 other language s : ✍️ Trust# What is trust? Who do you trust and why? Would a world without trust be richer or poorer? Liars and cheats# Bitcoin began with the maxim "Don't trust, verify". That is, trust can only begin where verification ends. Trust is only meaningful once we have fully understood how people can lie. Because we can codify the ways in which it is possible to cheat, we can also write executable software rules, with deterministic results, that prevent cheating in the protocols we use to define and transfer value. This demonstrates how to…
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