Bitcoin is often criticized for its inherent inefficiency. However, in order to maintain its decentralized nature and, as a result, its resistance to censorship, Bitcoin must be precisely ineffective in order to prevent an attacker or group of attackers from easily gaining control of the blockchain and dominating the network. Allegedly, the disadvantages of Bitcoin's efficiency are manifested in various ways: each full node of the network must first load each individual transaction, then check See full review