Blockchains is a tool for moving trust around in a decentralized network, not a tool for removing it.
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hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoYou really don’t get it? Trust is a problem. Anyone, or anything, can and will fail or be compromised.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
kibiz0r@midwest.social 8 months ago
Security starts with trust.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
so I put my trust in software instead. And by extension its developers. You’re saying of all people, we should trust some programmers above all else. You know, the “move fast and break things” guys.
As a programmer myself, this thought is both terrifying and hilarious.
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As a fellow programmer: what kind of doomer take is this? I don’t have any opinion on the efficacy of blockchain technology, but all of us put an immeasurable amount of trust in software every single day. And it’s not like current banking practices are different in this regard, either: blockchain tech requires faith in the software implementation, while contemporary banking requires faith in banks and the software they use (including a borderline unmaintainable COBOL stack, from what I’ve heard).
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
because problems in the bank’s software are the bank’s responsibility. If they lose my money, it’s their responsibility to get it back. Cryptocurrencies are the exact opposite, by design. If you’re fucked, you’ee fucked. unless of course half the participants decide to fork, half don’t and you end up with two “currencies” out of thin air.
nom345@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Banks and firms that uses their services are audited thoug. It is not blind trust. And regadress the tech used there would sitll be audits.
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Agreed, audits are beneficial in virtually every situation. I just think that, of all the well-formed arguments to be made against cryptocurrencies (especially PoW coins), the fact that it is software isn’t one of them. In my opinion, fueling distrust of software in general is ill-advised.