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You still need to trust the software developers and the miners.



Actually, you don't have to trust all of them. Some miners can go rogue and it won't matter; everything will still work. The software of blockchains is almost always open source, so you don't have to blindly trust it either; reading the source code and checking it for problems it is always an option.


That's not what 'trust' means in the context of cryptocurrencies.




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