Nick Szabo, to me at the moment the most likely candidate to be real Satoshi Nakamoto (not that it matters but it is fun to speculate) wrote this about "trust-less" stuff:
"A block-chain computer, in sharp contrast to a web server, is shared across many such traditional computers controlled by dozens to thousands of people. By its very design each computer checks each other's work, and thus a block chain computer reliably and securely executes our instructions up to the security limits of block chain technology, which is known formally as anonymous and probabilistic Byzantine consensus (sometimes also called Nakamoto consensus). The most famous security limit is the much-discussed "51% attack". We won't discuss this limit the underlying technology further here, other than saying that the oft-used word "trustless" is exaggerated shorthand for the more accurate mouthful "trust-minimized", which I will use here. "Trust" used in this context means the need to trust remote strangers, and thus be vulnerable to them.
Trust-minimized code means you can trust the code without trusting the owners of any particular remote computer."
source worth reading: http://unenumerated.blogspot.de/2014/12/the-dawn-of-trustworthy-computing.html
In (t)his text I find a plethora of possibilities for Darkcoin own Blockchain and its Masternodes...
"A block-chain computer, in sharp contrast to a web server, is shared across many such traditional computers controlled by dozens to thousands of people. By its very design each computer checks each other's work, and thus a block chain computer reliably and securely executes our instructions up to the security limits of block chain technology, which is known formally as anonymous and probabilistic Byzantine consensus (sometimes also called Nakamoto consensus). The most famous security limit is the much-discussed "51% attack". We won't discuss this limit the underlying technology further here, other than saying that the oft-used word "trustless" is exaggerated shorthand for the more accurate mouthful "trust-minimized", which I will use here. "Trust" used in this context means the need to trust remote strangers, and thus be vulnerable to them.
Trust-minimized code means you can trust the code without trusting the owners of any particular remote computer."
source worth reading: http://unenumerated.blogspot.de/2014/12/the-dawn-of-trustworthy-computing.html
In (t)his text I find a plethora of possibilities for Darkcoin own Blockchain and its Masternodes...
