人际信任、法律信任与数字信任:社会信任的谱系及其演进

Interpersonal Trust,Legal Trust and Digital Trust:Pedigree Evolution of Social Trust

现代社会信任体系因为信息不对称加剧与法律功能下降而式微,区块链技术以去中心化、不可篡改等特征成为一种新的信任机制,从而构建数字信任。由于技术自身缺陷与价值体系变化,数字信任无法成为唯一的社会信任模式,因而当代社会信任体系将由人际信任、法律信任与数字信任共同构成。区块链技术能够通过技术手段重构法律信任进而影响以此为基础的制度信任,法律制度能够通过对区块链技术进行规制而构建区块链信任,进而影响以此为基础的数字信任。

Trust system in modern society collapsed due to information asymmetry and legal function decline.Block chain technology has become a new trust mechanism with the characteristics of decentralization and non-tampering,so as to build digital trust.Digital trust cannot be the only social trust mode due to the defects of technology itself and the limitations brought by the change of value system,so the contemporary social trust system will be composed of interpersonal trust,legal trust and digital trust.Block chain technology can reconstruct the legal trust through technical means and then affect the institutional trust based on it.The legal system can build the block chain trust by regulating the block chain technology,and then affect the digital trust based on it.