{"id":31124,"date":"2022-05-31T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/elon-musk-fires-back-at-dogecoin-creator-over-grifter-claims\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T21:55:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:55:58","slug":"elon-musk-fires-back-at-dogecoin-creator-over-grifter-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/elon-musk-fires-back-at-dogecoin-creator-over-grifter-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Fires Back at Dogecoin Creator Over &#8216;Grifter&#8217; Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Elon Musk ripped into Jackson Palmer over claims the billionaire struggled with computer programming.<\/li>\n<li>The Dogecoin co-creator made comments critical of Musk to an Australian news outlet.<\/li>\n<li>Musk responded to the article and said Palmer &#8220;never wrote a line of Dogecoin code.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup &#10;                        headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"10_things_tech\" data-list=\"10 Things In Tech You Need To Know\" data-acq-source=\"techverticalinline\">\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-content\">\n<div class=\"js-loader hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"svg-icon \" version=\"1.1\" role=\"img\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 50 50;\" xml:space=\"preserve\">\n                        <title>Loading<\/title>\n                        <desc>Something is loading.<\/desc>\n                        <path fill=\"#111\" d=\"M43.935,25.145c0-10.318-8.364-18.683-18.683-18.683c-10.318,0-18.683,8.365-18.683,18.683h4.068c0-8.071,6.543-14.615,14.615-14.615c8.072,0,14.615,6.543,14.615,14.615H43.935z\">\n                          <animatetransform attributetype=\"xml\" attributename=\"transform\" type=\"rotate\" from=\"0 25 25\" to=\"360 25 25\" dur=\"0.6s\" repeatcount=\"indefinite\"\/>\n                        <\/path>\n                      <\/svg><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk took aim at Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer on Twitter after he called the richest man in the world a &#8220;grifter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Australian news site Crikey, Palmer said he messaged Musk on Twitter several years ago after creating a bot that could help identify crypto scams on Twitter.  During the exchange, he said it became clear that Musk &#8220;didn&#8217;t understand coding as well as he made out.&#8221;  Palmer said Musk didn&#8217;t know how to run the Python script.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He sells a vision in hopes that he can one day deliver what he&#8217;s promising, but he doesn&#8217;t know that,&#8221; Palmer said.  &#8220;He&#8217;s just really good at pretending he knows. That&#8217;s very evident with the Tesla full-self-driving promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531632887866576904\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> to the article on Twitter with some harsh comments of his own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My kids write better code when they were 12 than the nonsense script Jackson sent me,&#8221; Musk <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531632887866576904\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> on Tuesday regarding Palmer&#8217;s code from 2018. &#8220;If it&#8217;s so great, he should share it with the world and make everyone&#8217;s experience with Twitter better,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer took the opportunity to share the code which he posted on GitHub four years ago.  He did not respond to a request for comment from Insider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never said it was super complex, but this simple script definitely worked in catching and reporting the less sophisticated <\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"component rich-tooltip reference-autolinker no-help\" data-component-type=\"reference-autolinker\"><br \/>\n                          phishing<br \/>\n                          <span style=\"font-size: 0px;\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/span>  accounts circa 2018, &#8220;Palmer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ummjackson\/status\/1531651884288647170\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> on Twitter.  &#8220;They&#8217;ve since evolved their tactics. I shared it with a lot of people, and it worked for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Palmer, who left Dogecoin in 2015 citing a &#8220;toxic&#8221; culture, said in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ummjackson\/status\/1531651884288647170\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter thread<\/a> that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey had told him in 2018 that the social media network was trying to run a similar script.  Though, Palmer noted the code wouldn&#8217;t be as effective today as scammer tactics have become increasingly sophisticated.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who is in the process of purchasing Twitter, didn&#8217;t stop there.  He questioned Palmer&#8217;s involvement with Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that the billionaire has continually promoted.  Musk&#8217;s support for the meme coin on Twitter has repeatedly helped buoy the coin&#8217;s value.  Tesla and SpaceX have even begun accepting Dogecoin as payment for some of its merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Palmer always forgets to mention that he never wrote a single line of Dogecoin code,&#8221; Musk <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531696049064116225\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a since deleted tweet, Palmer called for Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus to respond to Musk&#8217;s accusation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people after us did exponentially more than either jackson or i did on the code base,&#8221; Markus wrote on Twitter.  &#8220;I think i wrote like 20 lines of code and copied the rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet blockquote\" data-lang=\"en\" data-cards=\"\" data-conversation=\"\"><p>\u2014Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mims\/statuses\/1531699416490557440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While both Palmer and Markus are no longer working on Dogecoin, the two started the cryptocurrency as a joke in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Markus, a former IBM software engineer, and Palmer, an Adobe software engineer, hadn&#8217;t even met when they first created the meme token.  Palmer tweeted about investing in &#8220;dogecoin&#8221; as a joke and bought the domain name dogecoin.com.  Markus stumbled upon the site and got in contact with Palmer regarding his own efforts di lui to program a digital currency that could appeal to larger demographics.<\/p>\n<p>The two engineers launched Dogecoin within the year.  The cryptocurrency is now one of the world&#8217;s most valuable digital coins.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer is not the first person to find himself in Musk&#8217;s crosshairs.  In recent months, the Tesla CEO has engaged in Twitter spats with the head of Russia&#8217;s space agency and the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk ripped into Jackson Palmer over claims the billionaire struggled with computer programming. The Dogecoin co-creator made comments critical of Musk to an Australian news outlet. Musk responded to the article and said Palmer &#8220;never wrote a line of Dogecoin code.&#8221; Loading Something is loading. 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