How to Use decentralization in a Sentence

decentralization

noun
  • In this case, is decentralization tied in any way to the blockchain?
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
  • How blockchain and NFTs and decentralization will lead to new forms of hacktivism.
    Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Their examples show how brands can enter the world of NFTs, the blockchain, and decentralization.
    Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Two, Bluesky should lean into decentralization as a tool to grow the user base.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • In practice, full decentralization has been hard to achieve and even has some drawbacks.
    Alex Tapscott, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The decentralization of artist-to-fan relationships seems to be the next major trend in music.
    Yola Robert, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • In the new age of decentralization, no single company should be the name-keeper of this next frontier.
    On Marketing, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • And because of Bluesky’s decentralization plan, users who don’t think the app is doing a good enough job will be free to try another app based on the protocol.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • Thus, many have pinned their hopes on decentralization.
    Orawan Limnalong, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Tech news has been featuring talk of decentralization for some time now.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • The natural decentralization and lack of oversight by the league ensures that there is no record when teams violate rules, Lasker said.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
  • The Twitter co-founder is a firm believer in the decentralization of social media.
    Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 14 June 2023
  • Sustained brand lift from A-list celebrity endorsement has faded over the years with the decentralization of media.
    Jimmy Decicco, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2021
  • Key to the project is its eventual and complete decentralization, in part to ensure its long-term existence.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Despite many movements for tech decentralization, the dragon’s hoard of gold has kept growing.
    WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • For the portion of the community that believes crypto should stand for decentralization, the merging of two of the world’s largest exchanges will also be cause for concern.
    WIRED, 9 Nov. 2022
  • One of the biggest things users can do is simply stay off the app, a move Schroeder says could help put pressure on the company to make decentralization a priority.
    Simmone Shah, Time, 31 July 2023
  • Despite the talk of decentralization, centralized companies like Yuga Labs, which owns the Bored Apes, have done well.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022
  • State and federal agencies certainly don’t care about decentralization, at least to the same degree as the crypto crowd.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 16 Aug. 2023
  • This caution extends to the crypto community that, time and time again, rushes to build cults around leaders rather than to stay true to blockchain’s core ideal of decentralization.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • At the core of Web3 is the idea of decentralization, which means that data is not stored in a central location but is instead distributed across a network of computers.
    Jamilia Grier, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Chelsea Manning was extolling the virtues of decentralization.
    Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • Michael Dell was a college student and started Dell from his dorm room, which was radical decentralization.
    Dan Patterson, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2022
  • That taught her to allow decentralization and let business subunits breathe.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Despite short-run growing pains, decentralization will be more stable and prices will be more informative about value in the long run.
    Raghav Warrier, National Review, 18 June 2021
  • The concept of decentralization causes most folks’ eyes to glaze over, understandably: the concept is almost as unwieldy as the word itself.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • In normal times, this decentralization is a good thing: a way to build redundancy into the network, so that if one server fails, another can step in.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 8 June 2021
  • Nakamoto framed his proposal, with its focus on decentralization and the limit on the total amount of bitcoin, as a shrewd response to the financial crisis of 2008.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Payment comes in the form of cryptocurrency, which has the advantage of decentralization.
    Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Simply put, Web3 is a response to these Web 2.0 companies, and its driving force is decentralization.
    Jonathan Kay, Forbes, 29 June 2022

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