Security, Decentralization, and Speed

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The concept Every blockchain design runs into the same wall, often called the blockchain trilemma: security, decentralization, and scalability (speed/throughput) are in tension, and pushing hard on any two tends to weaken the third. There is no known design that maximizes all three simultaneously — every real chain you'll encounter has made a deliberate trade-off, whether its creators advertise that……

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