decentralization

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“I think people overrate the benefits of decentralization, or how religiously someone has to adhere to it,” said Cosmo Jiang, general partner at crypto venture firm Pantera Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

While Bitcoin, for instance, is a decentralized asset, and wide swaths of the crypto industry pride themselves on decentralization, stablecoins and their issuers are centralized and thus carry concentrated risks.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

And yet, for some of us, decentralization has made adoption more complicated.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024

That decentralization makes it hard to coordinate the large, interstate projects needed to connect clean energy to the grid.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023

In England, when much of the industry was dependent for power upon water, decentralization was entailed, for the thin streams of Lancashire could not support more than two or three mills at most in proximity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various