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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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
We did use some great trustless technology like Juicebox, which led us through the fundraising.
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
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 Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
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