Elon Musk has stepped up attacks on the Dogecoin co-founder, who has repeatedly called him a “grifter”.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk doubled On criticism from Dogecoin co-founder Jackson Palmer, claiming that the Australian software developer never wrote a single line of Dogecoin code.
In response, Palmer added a Github page with his contribution to the now-deleted tweet.
Fellow co-founder Billy Marcus, one of the main Musk admirers, attempted to defuse the tension by tweeting that neither he nor Palmer contributed much to a project that was originally meant to be nothing more than a joke. .
Musk praised Marcus’ “sense of humor” and “irrelevance”, adding that these two qualities are a big part of Dogecoin’s popularity. As U.Today reported, Palmer, who had become disenchanted with the cryptocurrency community in 2015, slammed Centbillionaire as “a self-absorbed grifter” at the peak of the Musk-powered Dogecoin craze last year. It also went viral after he tweeted that crypto was controlled by a “powerful cartel”. The Australian native became more active in the crypto space by launching a new anti-crypto podcast called Griffonomics.
In a recent interview, Palmer said that Musk once had him run a simple Python script written for him to deal with cryptocurrency spam. He added that Tesla’s boss wasn’t really good at coding, a statement that apparently touched Musk’s nerves.Earlier today, Musk attacked Palmer and his “nonsense script,” claiming that his kids were able to write better code “when they were 12.” “Jackson is a tool,” wrote the Tesla boss.
The Dogecoin co-founder has defended his script, which he claims was able to detect less sophisticated phishing attacks.
Given that Palmer’s recent anti-Musk comments have attracted a lot of mainstream press coverage lately, it is possible that he is trying to move the Dogecoin narrative away from the controversial billionaire.
“Living rent-free in a billionaire’s head … it’s practice,” Palmer tweeted,