"Blockchain Trilemma; Balancing scalability, security and decentralization"

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Friends, as we all know that the blockchain technology is revolutionizing different aspects of our lives due to their unique benefits like cost effective, fast and easy way of validating and recording transactions online. That is why, now a days, many industries or platform including the finance, health sectors, and digital exchanges utilizing the blockchain technology to make the easier for them and for their participants.

But despite all these advantages, the blockchain technology is facing some significant challenges regarding the scalability, security and decentralization which is known as blockchain trilemma. This is because, sometimes it becomes difficult for the network to achieve balance between all three aspect due to various reasons which creates numerous challenges.

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During the construction of a blockchain network, if these things are left unbalanced, it becomes difficult to optimize all these three aspect at the same time. It occurs even in prominent Blockchain based network or platforms like Bitcoin and Ethereum etc. This is because, sometimes during the upgradation, they have to sacrifice one of these aspects and left it without updating to keep a proper balance between them.

These three aspects, including the security, scalability and decentralization has a crucial role in the working of a blockchain based platform as each of them have to play its proper role in achieving the desired things. Among them, if we talk about the scalability, it is basically the ability of a blockchain network to validate or record a large number of transaction at the same time.

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As we know, the use of blockchain technology is increasing massively in all sectors of our lives especially in finance and gaming platforms so when a large number of transaction came to validate, it creates massive problems for the network and effects it's scalability. These limitations create significant question regarding the scalability of network as how it will validate a large number of transaction within a few minutes.

Security, is a key component of every platform which are based on blockchain technology but the security is even more important rather the platform is Blockchain based or not. In Blockchain network, the data is stored in the different nodes and the transactions are highly secure due to the presence of cryptographic techniques and smart contracts which make it difficult for hackers to hack the platform and steal important data.

After security, one of the most important feature of blockchain network is its decentralization this is because, due to the presence of Decentralization, the working of a network can't be controlled by a single authority and all the people who are a part of network, have an equal right to whatever they want to do with their assets. Due to this, when a large number of people validate transaction at the same, it affects the scalability and security.

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Many of blockchain based platforms, struggling to solve the blockchain trilemma by balancing all these aspects which we have discussed but it is not very easy. One of the most famous network named Solana, solve the trilemma by neglecting decentralization and prioritizing speed and scalability to validate a large number of transactions at the same time.

Besides all these things, many other measurements can be taken to deal with the blockchain trilemma. This is because, if we manage all these three aspect, including the security, privacy and decentralization the trilemma can easily be solved. With the addition of sharding techniques, layer 2 solutions and improving the consensus mechanisms we can solve the blockchain trilemma and can make the platform more better for people.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we can say that the blockchain trilemma can remain a significant challenge for people who are utilizing it in various industries and sectors. This is because, the security, scalability and decentralization is very important for a network as all of its functioning rely on them. However, all these techniques can be affective to achieve the full potential of blockchain network by solving the trilemma.

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Written by @abdullahw2

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