In earlier blogs, I talked about Bitcoin’s attempt to do away with trust in payments, and how it has a “snapshot” problem. I now want to explore the implications of this for shared ledger technology (SLT) and suggest a way…
I’ve talked before about how user trust in service providers is still necessary for Shared Ledger Technology (SLT), but I think the question about trust in central third parties is harder to analyse. By “central third party” I mean anyone…
In my previous post, I discussed Bitcoin’s desire to remove trust from the payments process. I now want to look at the nature of financial trust: What does it mean to say we “trust” a third party? Is trust of…
I recently tackled Satoshi Nakamoto’s original Bitcoin text, which has mythical status amongst devotees of shared ledger technology. It is a paragon of clarity on what Bitcoin is really all about. According to its spiritual father, the purpose of Bitcoin…