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expedition32
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Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced a...
A perpetual boom bust cycle? Sounds healthy.
fooker
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Counterintuitively that’s the definition of healthy in economics.
If you don’t have busts, at some point your system will abruptly/violently cease to exist.
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igsomething
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It is a negative feedback loop, so yes, it makes systems stable.
WJW
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Technically you could have negative feedback result in a system that diverges further and further from some baseline, until it eventually collapses. This is usually because the gain of the feedback signal is too high.
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raincole
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This is exactly how real world economy is (ideally) meant to work.
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AlOwain
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Regression to the mean. The alternative is no adjustment at all.
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