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
Other Word Forms
- trustlessly adverb
- trustlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of trustless
Example Sentences
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One of the allures of cryptocurrencies is their potential to offer a “trustless” system where investors don’t have to trust whether the person at the other end of their deal will make good on it, unlike the 2008 financial crisis when banks were going bust.
From Seattle Times
Because in the crypto world, a lot of the pitch was “It’s trustless. You don’t have to trust.”
From Slate
The contract also specifies that copyrights only transfer if the NFT is legally sold — so stealing somebody’s token doesn’t give you all the rights associated with them. a16z frames the copyright licenses as a more “trustless” version of NFT ownership, which is right in some sense: it potentially offers more clarity over the tokens’ legal value rather than relying on handshake deals and vague promises.
From The Verge
What we found is this whole mantra of a trustless economy, we shouldn’t have trusted many of these new actors.
From New York Times
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
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