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Smart Contracts, and the Emergence of the Trustless Society

Would you live in a trustless society? We go our entire lives trusting people around us, often strangers who we’ve never dealt with before. But rarely do we stop to think why. In this video Futurist Chris Crespo unpacks the different ways in which trust has been outsourced from individuals to central institutions and increasingly more, over to technology. We may be moving towards a system where the need for trust enabling intermediaries like Central Banks and Governments will be replaced by computer code, but what tradeoffs would we need to make at a personal and societal level for this to come about?

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Chris Crespo
Chris Crespohttp://nordicfintechmagazine.com
Chris is Founding Partner and Chief Editor at Nordic Fintech Magazine. He turns complex finance into clear, sharp content. With 20 years in consulting and banking across the Nordics, he brings deep industry insight and bold views on money, disruption, and AI. As a behavioral economist, he's fascinated with how people make decisions under risk.