Decentralisation

Decentralisation is the principle of spreading power and control across many independent participants rather than concentrating it in one company, server, or person. On the Malairte network, thousands of nodes and miners around the world each hold a copy of the blockchain and help verify transactions. No central office can freeze your coins, censor a payment, or rewrite history, because there is no central office to begin with. Decentralisation is what gives a cryptocurrency its resilience and its resistance to censorship. It also places responsibility on individuals, since there is no authority to undo mistakes. The more widely participation is spread — helped by Malairte being mineable on ordinary home computers — the stronger and more genuinely decentralised the network becomes.