The probability that losses deplete capital below the level needed to continue a strategy.
Risk of ruin is best understood as part of a system rather than as an isolated definition. Its related coordinates show the mechanisms, incentives and historical records that give the term practical meaning.
Risk of ruin describes how participants value, trade or obtain exposure to bitcoin. Market behavior can affect adoption and mining economics, but it does not rewrite consensus rules. Price evidence and protocol evidence answer different questions.
Understanding Risk of ruin helps distinguish a verifiable Bitcoin mechanism or historical record from slogans, products and market narratives.
For the clearest picture, read this entry together with Position sizing, Leverage, Maximum drawdown, Trading expectancy. The reverse links also lead from Risk management, Kelly criterion, Maximum drawdown.
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Grounded in a source record
Explains function and trade-offs
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