One last point: Taleb's claim that Bitcoin is an earnings-free asset with no residual value would be true if the protocol was immutable and never amenable to ch

One last point: Taleb's claim that Bitcoin is an earnings-free asset with no residual value would be true if the protocol was immutable and never amenable to change. But even most Bitcoin maximalists accept that at some point in the future there will be significant changes to the protocol (a fork). And we already see the most conservative changes (SegWit, Lightning Network) moving in the direction of opening up paths for future earnings.