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by sorbits 4360 days ago
> Yes, you must have some trust in the ledger owner

Then I fail to see the advantage of a decentralised system, as we can let the ledger owner sign each transaction, instead of a consensus.

> although, as mentioned in another post, depending on the type of asset it may not be such as issue.

Can you elaborate or point me to that comment?

> Also, we think there is a benefit to payments not being centralised, even while issuance is. For a start, the ledger is signed by multiple parties which increases trust

I would consider the ledger owner’s signature more trustworthy than multiple third party signatures.

> and resilience against faults (malicious or not).

Making it decentralised has a much larger attack (and bug) vector, so I wouldn’t conclude that decentralised in itself is an advantage (which I think is really what you are saying).