It’s been very good for the last 130 years, but it’s also a single point of failure in our entire mass system.

在过去的一百三十年内，用这种方法定义质量是很不错的，但其同时也是我们整个质量系统里的一个单点故障。

And when that single point of failure actually did begin to fail in 2015, the flimsy house of cards began to rapidly collapse.

当这个故障点真的在 2015 年开始出现问题时，脆弱的空中楼阁开始迅速倒塌。

The advantages of cryptocurrencies include cheaper and faster money transfers and decentralized systems that do not collapse at a single point of failure.

加密货币的优点包括更便宜、更快的货币转账和不会在单个故障点崩溃的去中心化系统。

This distributed approach also avoids the problem of the single point of failure.

这种分布式方法也避免了单点故障的问题。

It also has the nice property of being decentralized, with no central authority or single point of failure.

它还具有去中心化的优点，没有中央权威或单点故障。