kaal:position:2026-07-31-6619

The Double Edge of Absolute Trust: The Ethical Paradox of Blockchain presents the following source proposition: Situations were also documented in which decentralization empowered both legitimate actors and criminals, eliminating consumer protection mechanisms. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Blockchain technology lowers transaction costs by eliminating intermediaries, and it substitutes immutability and cryptography for the trust that intermediaries previously supplied. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.3738.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

The Double Edge of Absolute Trust: The Ethical Paradox of Blockchain

kaal:claim:2998033-001
Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Innovation for Private Investment Funds (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2998033
Source PDF sha256: aafb1be3c25cd33da477d759df9ca2f856f0a8fe133d6396da2e75d0af573dbd

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3738
Mapping ambiguous: true

decentralizationeconomicsreputationconsensus-and-securitycitation-and-knowledgehistorical-responsescholarly-literatureopenalex

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0005 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 17d8196b818b407196400803967d889af0a07162483e0fd68f5c3e6d0f8d10c5
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