shared ledger technology – APCA Blog http://blog.apca.com.au APCA Views & News Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:00:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.2 Shared Ledger Technology and the snapshot problem http://blog.apca.com.au/shared-ledger-technology-snapshot-problem/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:25:07 +0000 http://blog.apca.com.au/?p=3671 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…

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]]> Why Shared Ledger Technology won’t free us from human fallibility http://blog.apca.com.au/shared-ledger-technology-wont-free-us-human-fallibility/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 23:46:57 +0000 http://blog.apca.com.au/?p=3660 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…

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]]> We need to talk about Bitcoin’s trust issues http://blog.apca.com.au/need-talk-bitcoins-trust-issues/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:47:41 +0000 http://blog.apca.com.au/?p=3649 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…

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