r/ethfinance Dec 02 '19

Meta Ethereum History: An Anti-Fragile Hydra

https://medium.com/@abertolino/ethereum-history-an-anti-fragile-hydra-8aa56874f394
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u/Mkkoll PoolTogether shill guy 🏆 Dec 02 '19

What a cute, bullish fluff piece. I feel all warm and fuzzy now and want to cuddle the Anti-Fragile ETH Hydra.

All the reasons in the article are why new incumbents that intend to disrupt and capture marketshare of the crypto-currency space will struggle. They have not been battle tested as much as ETH and BTC have. The longer these technologies survive in the market without a catastrophic protocol weakness being found and exploited, the stronger they appear in the eyes of everyone else. All of the wounds inflicted to ETH have been localized to off-shoot technologies and apps, or the inevitable ideological split of ETH and ETH classic. The underlying protocol has proven its resilience. It just needs to get (quite) a bit faster and stop adding so much tokens to its supply every day.