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Decentralization offers resilience and trust but faces significant challenges at large scale. While it excels in security and censorship resistance, coordinating thousands of nodes creates bottlenecks in speed, efficiency, and cost—often called the blockchain trilemma, where full decentralization typically sacrifices scalability. Centralized systems handle massive throughput far more easily (e.g., Visa vs. Bitcoin), but pure decentralization struggles with coordination overhead as networks grow. Hybrid models and innovations like sharding or Layer 2 solutions are helping bridge the gap. Decentralization suits large-scale applications best when resilience outweighs raw performance needs. sustainabilitydirectory.medium.com https://sustainabilitydirectory.medium.com/what-are-the-impacts-of-decentralization-on-scalability-e6be454f517a

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