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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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 ● Jun. 18, 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
You have to use a lot of power to run a global trustless computer and database, and you need a lot of computers verifying the transactions, validating transactions, mining coins, and so on.
From The Verge ● Apr. 12, 2022
It all sounds in line with the notion of a trustless system.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2020
Still we went every day to the gallery and took our old place there, only the countenance of my father was daily growing paler, his step weaker, and his poor boy more trustless and weak.
From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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