The Fundamental Trade-Off Between Scalability and Decentralization And Why I’m Focused On Bitcoin A core principle in Bitcoin is that every participant keeps a copy of the ledger and is able to verify every change made to that ledger. Without this we must trust someone else.

The Fundamental Trade-Off Between Scalability and Decentralization And Why I’m Focused On Bitcoin A core principle in Bitcoin is that every participant keeps a copy of the ledger and is able to verify every change made to that ledger. Without this we must trust someone else.