One distinct advantage of distributed and decentralized networks is that they are more resilient against attacks than other networks, for several reasons:

• Because they involve dozens, or hundreds, or even thousands of devices, these networks won’t easily fail.

• They are harder to hack, for the same reason.

• They are resilient, because if one device, or node, fails, the others will pick up the slack. In fact, when data is shared across all nodes, every node or device on the network but one can be destroyed, and that one device will preserve the integrity of the data, at least for a time. All it takes is one MacBook or Dell to survive the attack.