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two ways of addressing a problem of insufficient variety in the control system. One of them involves reducing the information set, which makes you vulnerable to fraud from the things you are not monitoring. And the other one involves introducing new people to trust, which makes you vulnerable to fraud if they turn out not to be trustworthy.
Dan Davies • Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World
In different ways, Google and Bitcoin protect many millions of people’s digital footprint without an enormous army.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
But while users no longer have to trust each other, they still have to trust the platform itself. That’s about to change, with consequences for many different professions and society as a whole.
Dror Poleg • The Token Society
50 Ways to Protect Your Identity in a Digital Age: New Financial Threats You Need to Know and How to Avoid Them (2nd Edition)
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The killer feature of crypto is trust - you don't have to trust the government or platforms. That's a really transformational idea.
Ben Horowitz • Ben Horowitz explains the rise of crypto
This was surprising to me. So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from Infura and Alchemy without any further verification.