Black Swan

You are here: Home/ News/ Bitcoin News/ Nassim Taleb Sounds Alarm On Bitcoin Liquidity: Are Investors In Danger? March 29, 2023 by Ammar Raza Bitcoin’s recent rally has raised concerns about its sustainability, as highlighted by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the acclaimed author of “The Black Swan.” Taleb pointed to a…

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You are here: Home/ News/ Debate Sparks Over Bitcoin’s Legitimacy As an Antifragile Asset: Taleb vs. Critics March 12, 2023 by Ammar Raza Renowned author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has sparked a debate on Twitter by questioning the legitimacy of Bitcoin as an antifragile asset. Taleb, known for his bestselling book…

After Friday’s stunning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, questions swirled around the exposure of one of crypto’s top firms, Circle, the issuer of the second-largest stablecoin, USDC. In its March attestation, Circle had revealed that part of its $9.88 billion in cash reserves was held at SVB, although it did…

January 29, 2023 9:10 AM Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. First coined by Lebanese-American thought leader Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the term “black swan” refers to unexpected global events that have a profound effect on society. Some are beneficial, like the invention of the…

Is Bitcoin or gold the better investment? Opinions vary widely, with billionaire crypto fan Mark Cuban favoring Bitcoin—and slamming gold—and Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff going the other way. Nassim Nicholas Taleb has some thoughts, too. This week the author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller The Black…

Many of us will have made new year resolutions to leave things that don’t serve us back in 2022. Kylie Jenner, it seems, included her eyebrows in her list. The youngest Kardashian/Jenner sister has just posted a series of snaps to her Instagram where she poses in the back of…

Several months before this date 30 years ago, a Black Swan event occurred in Japan. The 67-year-old president of the United States, George H.W. Bush while at a state dinner in his honor hosted by the Prime Minister of Japan, leaned forward and then fell on to his side hurling…

You are here: Home/ News/ Black Swan’s Nassim Taleb Slams Crypto Fans As DimWits December 21, 2022 by Aishwarya shashikumar The well-known mathematician Nassim Taleb recently expressed his disapproval of the bitcoin sector on Twitter. Crypto enthusiasts were mocked by Taleb as “miswired technoheads” and “dimwits.” He said that although…

Bitcoin’s responses to black swans are irrelevant to its continued success as a protocol used around the world. This is an opinion editorial by Bernardo Filipe, a life-long thinker, philosopher and author of “The Straight Science.” “Earnings-free assets with no residual value are problematic. The implication is that, owing to…