# The trade-off 

**Published by:** [Jojo9](https://paragraph.com/@kingkingking/)
**Published on:** 2021-12-05
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@kingkingking/the-trade-off

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The trade-off here is that becoming a node operator or validator in such a network has much higher hardware demands because those blocks make up a ton of data. This could cause a centralization risk as smaller players are essentially priced out from being a node operator or validator. Anyway, no matter how you slice it, more activity inevitably begets higher prices. And to bring this idea to a head, if we’re to imagine that blockchain technology is to underpin all financial markets, then the current design landscape means the future is probably going to be expensive.

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