Antifragility is a property of systems that increase in capability, resilience, or robustness as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. It is a concept developed by Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntifragilityThis is an old article from 2014,
http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/02/bitcoin-is-an-open-network-that-exhibits-resilience-and-anti-fragility.htmlAndreas Antonopoulos explains that bitcoin is an anti-fragile network which not only resists attack, but gets stronger through exposure to attack.
It is true, DDoS attacks, spam attacks, noise created by the media/individuals to criticize bitcoin, scaling debate and high fee has been a stressor for quite some time now, and then the ever changing volatility, but still even after all these bitcoin is going strong, a good example of antifragility.
1. Bitcoin is anti-fragile because of blockchain technology, but if I am right there have been altcoins created using blockchain technology that failed miserably. Why didn't these exhibit antifragility?
2. Bitcoin with the course of time on its own has developed anti-fragile properties. Not removing the blockchain aspect, but taking point one into consideration, popularity, increasing user base, more countries recognizing bitcoin, this is what makes bitcoin different from alts that used the same technology, but failed.
Do you think blockchain technology or bitcoin is anti-fragile?
PS: I don't want to sound stupid, blockchain technology is the core of bitcoin, but apart from its technology, does user base, popularity, going mainstream, mass recognition contribute to its antifragility?