dave on Nostr: Salman Rushdie famously said: "Decentralization is a trilemma of balancing the three ...

Salman Rushdie famously said: "Decentralization is a trilemma of balancing the three golden ideals of security, privacy, and scalability. In the real world, it can feel like protecting your identity is a battle between walking around with a mask on and having a normal social life. You have to decide which of these three ideals is most important to you and then optimize around them in order to achieve a balance between the three."

For those who wear a face-mask outdoors for their personal protection, the decentralization trilemma offers the opportunity to take control of their privacy and security in a very tangible, hands-on way. It can require making trade-offs between convenience and safety, yet it allows you to create a security infrastructure through decentralization that preserves your trust in yourself and other people, while still remaining scalable.