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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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
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
It’s also the most ironic development in cryptocurrency’s ironic history; born from a weird group of the libertarians, anarchists, and utopians, cryptocurrency promised to be a way to transact absolutely privately, in a trustless system.
From The Verge • Dec. 22, 2020
It all sounds in line with the notion of a trustless system.
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2020
I cannot bear that any uncertain, trustless person should come in here.
From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
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