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Decentralization
Decentralization is an updated sys tem to access, store, and update data on the internet from not only a few connected portals. Compared to centralization, where the data is kept in only a few servers, decentralization makes every computing device connected to the blockchain, act as an author of and to the data. Thus people can moderate, update the data instantly. Nevertheless, since blockchain requires verification of the data from more than one computing devices, hacking to change the data is hard to achieve.