decentralization

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“A crypto exchange brought down by a centralized cloud. You can’t preach decentralization and still depend on AWS to stay online,” wrote one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

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

With the decentralization of the administrative power there was a corresponding growth of the vassal class.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)