How Antifragility Increases Bitcoin's Survivability
Bitcoin uses open source peer-to-peer technology to adapt and improve, maintaining its decentralized and finite nature.Let’s talk about antifragility: what it is, its consequences and how it relates to bitcoin and the dollar. The term antifragile was first coined by Nassim Taleb. In the following quote, Taleb outlines the qualities of antifragile systems:“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets....
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