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> Who in their right mind trusts contracts someone sends you on Discord? No one. > It's just the Trust Problem all over again. Decentralized reliance on autom
by PretzelPirate 5y ago
> Who in their right mind trusts contracts someone sends you on Discord?
No one.
> It's just the Trust Problem all over again. Decentralized reliance on automatic software still requires trust that the authors of the software won't scam you. It all comes down to trust.
It does, but you get to decide who you trust rather than being forced to trust one of a small number of large institutions. If you want, you can delegate your trust to a third party who will be responsible for vetting anything you interact with.
You can also choose to trust yourself or other members of your community.
This person shouldn’t trust themselves since they are too willing to go along with people who say positive things about them.
- ajross 5y ago> but you get to decide who you trust And if you trust the wrong people? Per the linked twitter thread, the author trusted the scammers! They only avoided the scam because they were competent to read the contract code for themselves. Is that the standard you want applied to all transactions? Does that seem likely to lead to good outcomes?
- lanstin 5y agoYeah it isn’t trusting people so much as trusting code written by people. Generally something you want to do only very carefully and when you have no other choice. Or have some proper centralized framework of safety engineering to make mistakes harder.
- lanstin 5y agoTo be honest i don’t really trust banks to value my economic well-being so I have almost all my money in a credit union. But as a software engineer I really don’t see how you can trust code, even stuff developed under NASA style care has bugs. Especially where the framework isn’t doing any rate limiting or safety checks.