From the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_taleb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_taleb
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The final book of his Incerto series - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - was published in November 2012 by Random House in the United States and Penguin[45] in the United Kingdom. In the introduction of the book, Taleb describes it as follows: "Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better." [46]
Just as the TCP/IP based internet architecture was designed to route-around and circumvent any "disruptions" (i.e. an unrestrained US/Soviet nuclear exchange). Bitcoin, as a system, cannot be constrained, every attempt to bring it down or disrupt it, intentional or accidental, will simply act to prove its resilience. Bitcoin is to the transfer of value what TCP/IP is to the transfer of information. It is rapidly becoming a fundamental protocol upon which many new things can be built.
We've already seen significant disruptions with the blockchain fork (unintentional) and the DHS action (intentional) and many smaller events.
Bitcoin is clearly antifragile, at least in the sense that "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
Brilliant word, antifragile is.
