| ▲ | jeffrallen 8 hours ago | |
This is why I no longer work on trustless systems. In actually useful business problems, there is trust to be "exploited" to make the system simpler than Byzantine algorithms can manage. And what if the trust is exploited for theft? Then the parties take a loss, learn who can't be trusted, and get on with business. Humans trust. Their systems should too. | ||
| ▲ | bear8642 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> Humans trust. Their systems should too. And indeed as Thompson showed, you've got to trust at some point... https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/R209/Reflections-Trus... | ||