trustless
Americanadjective
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not worthy of trust; faithless; unreliable; false.
He was trustless when money was involved.
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distrustful; suspicious.
a doorman trustless of all strangers.
adjective
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untrustworthy; deceitful
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distrusting; wary; suspicious
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Origin of trustless
Example Sentences
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As the authors concluded in the paper: “Although Bitcoin was designed to rely on a decentralized, trustless network of anonymous agents, its early success rested instead on cooperation among a small group of altruistic founders.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
As Ms. Blackburn described it, there were very few people “wearing the crown,” functioning as arbiters of the network — “which is not the ethos of decentralized trustless crypto,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
I just keep coming back to, the point of blockchain technology is to decentralize trust — to build trustless systems.
From The Verge ● Dec. 7, 2021
Blockchain devotees say the technology can solve our trust issues—that it is trustless, that it requires no trust.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2020
They were cunning and trustless, narrow-slitted and heavy-lidded, at one and the same time as sharp as a ferret’s and as indolent as a basking lizard’s.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
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