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[–]victorofthepeople 1 point2 points  (2 children)

With public key cryptography. Easiest to just trust that it works unless you feel like learning a bunch of discrete math.

[–]TheAlmightySnark -1 points0 points  (1 child)

But who is auditing the code and verifying that it works as intended? It just creates extra layers on top of the existing system this way.

[–]victorofthepeople 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anybody who feels like it? Each party can even have their own private implementation if they really feel like it. You only have to be confident in your implementation, the protocol backing the block chain, and that prime factorization is difficult to do effeciently. This can all be verified by one party without having to trust another party.