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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Is there mathematical proof?
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coinrevo
on 31/12/2013, 00:02:02 UTC
For that reason: Is there mathematical proof that trust is an implicit requirement for solving the double-spending problem?

I think such a notion of mathematical proof is not very helpful at all. I trust the other bitcoin nodes run the bitcoin source code I know. There I believe with high degree of certainy that the network will be behave in a certain way. What bitcoin as a network does is deal with probabilities. Bitcoin solves problems in the real world by using concept which are absolutely foreign to modern mathematics, viewed in the traditional way.