"trustless" meaning in English

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        "Lacking trust; untrusting."
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          "text": "A trustless network can run even if none of its nodes trusts another.",
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          "ref": "2019, Peter Kent, Tyler Bain, Cryptocurrency Mining For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 30",
          "text": "In the trustless cryptocurrency world, you can still trust the cryptocurrency community and its mechanisms to ensure that the blockchain contains an accurate and immutable—unchangeable—record of cryptocurrency transactions.",
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          "ref": "2020 August, Primavera De Filippi, Morshed Mannan, Wessel Reijers, “Blockchain as a confidence machine: The problem of trust & challenges of governance”, in Technology in Society, volume 62, →DOI",
          "text": "This article draws from the extensive academic discussion on the concepts of “trust” and “confidence” to argue that blockchain technology is not a ‘trustless technology’ but rather a ‘confidence machine’.",
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          "text": "If it becomes cheaper to use a TTP to verify the transaction than some cryptographic or other automated mechanism, then the benefit of being “trustless” becomes an illusion.",
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          "text": "And the system would be “trustless” — that is, it would not rely on a trusted party, such as a bank or government, to arbitrate transactions.",
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        "(computing, cryptocurrencies) Which does not need any trust, or a trusted third party."
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        "Untrustworthy; not deserving to be trusted."
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        "(obsolete) Untrustworthy; not deserving to be trusted."
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