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While certainly not wanting to ruing the humorous undertones here, just for the benefit of other readers it's important to point out that the lack of third party trust has a very specific meaning.

Take for web for example. It is trustless in the same manner. There is no third party (apart from the web browser and the server) that you need to trust in order for you to view a web page. There is no International Web Organization that you need to procure permission from in order to set up a web server. You just start it. (And, conversely, also why so much bad actors exist on the web.)

This is fundamentally a different system than for example all economic transactions, apart from cash. This is why some people argues against the cashless society for not being trustless, and also what the people who experiment with private monetary systems study.



Web is not trustless

DNS is part of the web and it is a federated/heirarchical 3rd party trust model you need to route your named traffic to the right server, often managed by states. It's super important to understand, this is why authoritarian governments can still hide what citizens can experience on the internet


Certificates are required pretty much for any websites nowadays. IIRC it has to do with TLS, so basically all https websites. Those certificates are ultimately based on a trusted third party. So web is not trustless, not even close.




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