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A blockchain doesn't address the people-trust issue at all. Anyone who has the keys to the address can do whatever they want. You can give other people the keys

• __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
  That's like saying that cars don't address the where-to-park issue at all. It's up to you, the author of the contract/dapp/whatever, to decide on the conditions under which it should make changes, and its up to the users to decide, based on its code, whether they should trust whatever other users (or keys, or data) that it indicates. Users trusting users, not users trusting infra. (Yeah, ok, you could call the contract "infra", but the difference is that once you publish it, you no longer have a privileged position to alter its behavior. It is to be trusted, or not, based on its merits, not on yours. The same cannot be said for certificate authorities, DNS records, databases, or websites, whose maintainers typically retain privileges that are not shared with the rest of us.)
  • arcticbull 3y ago
    > That's like saying that cars don't address the where-to-park issue at all. They don't. Trains and busses do, though, which is why they're better - that’s the difference between a functionally equivalent technology and a superior one. Not really sure what you're getting at.