Nassim Taleb, Erstwhile Bitcoin Admirer, Publishes Paper Trashing It

It fulfills the needs of the complex system … because it has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate.

Taleb has since had a very public falling-out with Ammous, deleted his Medium post that contained the foreword and made his tweets private, meaning if you are not among the 743,000 people who already followed him on Twitter, you will now need his permission to see his posts.

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