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Card III-10: NICK SZABO – Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable – a deity who is on everybody’s side.

Series III · Card 10 of 21 · THE MAILING LIST

Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable – a deity who is on everybody’s side.

NICK SZABO · THE GOD PROTOCOLS · 1997

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Source

“The God Protocols”, 1997, first two sentences

Open source · nakamotoinstitute.org ↗

About the author

Computer scientist, legal scholar, and one of the key intellectual precursors to Bitcoin. Created Bit Gold and coined the term “smart contracts”.

The question on the back

Who would you trust with a secret without hesitating?