# kaal:claim:3411897-003

**Claim.** Decentralized systems mutate and change easily because their information flow is optimized through dynamic feedback effects, and this capacity to mutate is what makes them more attack resistant on multiple levels.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- holds for systems whose information flow is genuinely distributed

**Source quote.**

> Decentralized systems can also very easily mutate and change because the information flow is optimized through dynamic feedback effects. As a result, such systems become more attack resistant on multiple levels.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future* (2019), Part I: The Past, What is Decentralization?, page 6

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `82f0aea026b3e3a526ec51bc073b3b864dc06cd9083ff9c54c550037045edaa9` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Decentralization%20-%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future.pdf

**Topics.** decentralization, institutional-design, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** decentralization, feedback-effects, attack-resistance, adaptation

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-002
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-008

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