Currently we trust information by the source it comes from. It’s an authority-based model.
Consensus shifts that trust from authority figures to others in your group. Bottom-up trust instead of top-down.
Consensus shifts that trust from authority figures to others in your group. Bottom-up trust instead of top-down.
When Governments falsify data, in my opinion bottom-up consensus doesn't help, since governments then also could simply participate in that consensus-forming process (see 51% attack)