I'd argue that we're not pursuing trust "minimization", per se, but rather trust "sublimation" or "dislocation". The trust doesn't disappear. It's transferred from systems with greater risk of defection across time (under-constrained humans) to those with less defection risk.
Great thread summarizing many of my thoughts on social scalability and cryptocurrencies.https://twitter.com/keysheet/status/1050013194138394625 …
Both @Ripple and @EOS_io are "socially unscalable" according to @NickSzabo4.
Here's what social scalability means and why it's so important to @NickSzabo4 
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Thus, when the defection risk can be sublimated into an external system with predictable behavior, we open up *more* space for interpersonal trust atop this sublimated layer. This *increases* overall trust, in the same way that a chess master sublimates prior conscious actions.
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...to open up space for conscious action at a higher plateau of game play. That is what technologies such at
#Bitcoin represent: behavioral portals to higher plateaus of trust-mediated social gameplay.
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I envision a well functioning web of trust based pseudonymous reputation system as a way to increase Dunbar’s number beyond 150; to scale it up progressively, without limit. A different approach to social scalability (distinct from bitcoin’s approach)
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did you just declare your thoughts as great?
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