IMO anti fragility is not a binary thing. It depends on the whole community also, not only on the software. If wrong ideas spread into Bitcoin community then Bitcoin can become more fragile. I think ordinals and inscriptions are bad: ordinals proposes a way to break fungibility. Inscriptions gives enemies the opportunity to inscribe “bad jpegs” to allow states to forbid running full nodes. That’s an attack vector that I hope is never used but now it exists and is easy. Also it pushes unwanted MB on lots of node users.

I think the “it’s not spam bc they pay the fees” is a wrong idea that hurts anti fragility. Does not kill it but hurts it.

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Sounds like you think Bitcoin is very fragile…

Good thing you are wrong 🙂

I don’t think it is. I think anti fragility is a feature that emerges from the software AND the community/ethos of bitcoin, not only from the software. I also think (and hope) it can get better.