Scaling Trust to Social Systems

Social systems leverage trust across various domains and usually mean different things.

• Trust is used to describe truth in knowledge.

• Trust describes strategy or tactics in responding to a circumstance through behavior.

• Trust will replace the word consensus to agree on utility or delegate governance.

Scale either fundamentally changes trust or adds complexity to it.

Is trust as a phenomenon an emergent property of this new complexity?

Does trust change into currency when viewing it at scale?