> the presentation memorable for me was by a physicist, about anti-fragility; and regretably I'm having trouble now finding the presenter's name

wayback machine [delivers](https://web.archive.org/web/20171116135721/http://breaking-bitcoin.com:80/)!

the presentation was by **Ricardo Perez Marco**: "*On Instabilities of the Bitcoin Protocol*", and it was actually a sort of "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Grok Taleb"

adlai

Chaos seems like a bad outcome for Bitcoin.

I used to keep track of the number of times that I told myself, "My previous understanding of Bitcoin was incomplete, and now, thanks to this epiphany, I finally understand how it all fits together! Wow!"

I deliberately stopped counting at number seven, which occurred thanks to an excellent presentation that might well have gone forgotten by most conference participants who were only looking for excitement like the irresponsible disclosure that closed the festivities... the presentation memorable for me was by a physicist, about anti-fragility; and regretably I'm having trouble now finding the presenter's name.

bitcoin

bitdevs

Pruned node reorg UB in Core 31.0 / Knots 29.3 - how a BIP 110 split triggers it

Scoresby

> Chaos seems like a bad outcome for Bitcoin.

I used to keep track of the number of times that I told myself, "My previous understanding of Bitcoin was incomplete, and now, thanks to this epiphany, I finally understand how it all fits together! Wow!"

I deliberately stopped counting at number seven, which occurred thanks to an excellent presentation that might well have gone forgotten by most conference participants who were only looking for excitement like the irresponsible disclosure that closed the festivities... the presentation memorable for me was by a physicist, about anti-fragility; and regretably I'm having trouble now finding the presenter's name.