According to comments from longtime researcher and computer scientist Nick Szabo, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are trust-minimized, not trustless, and that difference matters for how states and private actors can push back.

Szabo warned that while the layer one of a strong trust-minimized system can endure many kinds of interference, legal routes remain a meaningful vulnerability.

He said financial rules are one set of risks the ecosystem has learned to handle, helped by developers and an expanding legal profession focused on crypto , but that laws tied to arbitrary data create a much wider and less predictable attack surface.

Trust Minimized Not Trustless

Szabo told readers that the technical design reduces the need to trust single parties, yet it does not eliminate the need f

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