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Banks to Blockchain: How Trust Is Changing in 2025

Swati
4 min readFeb 13, 2025

Trust has always been human — a handshake, a signature, a promise. Now, it’s shifting from institutions to algorithms. With blockchain, trust is mathematical, not personal. When trust moves from people to algorithms, does financial security improve, or does uncertainty grow?

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I still remember when I first heard about Bitcoin through a friend. He explained it as digital money that doesn’t rely on banks or governments. It seemed like a financial revolution in the making. But then I thought — If there’s no one to trust, how do we know it works? And what happens when trust is no longer human?

For generations, we’ve relied on banks to safeguard our money and governments to maintain law and order. But now, blockchain is changing the way we think about trust. And that raises a fundamental question — Can algorithms truly replace the deep human bonds that hold society together?

From Institutions to Code

It reminds me of something philosopher Nietzsche once said — ‘God is dead.’ Without a central figure to guide morality, society had to find new values. Today, we’re facing a similar shift — not with religion, but with trust itself. He believed that, in the absence of traditional institutions, humanity would have to redefine its values.

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Swati
Swati

Written by Swati

Writer & Dev. I write about tech, life, and the things that make us think. If you're into casual reads with thoughtful twists,you're in the right place.

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