Elon Musk hits back at Dogecoin co-creator over his ‘struggled with coding’ comment about the billionaire

The world is witnessing an interesting scuffle between Twitter’s new owner and Dogecoin co-creator. Let us see what the conflict is all about and how it started.

Jack Palmer’s Interview

It all began with Jack Palmer, co-creator of Dogecoin, calling Elon Musk a grifter who doesn’t know much about coding.  In an interview with an Australian newspaper, Mr. Palmer told readers about his Twitter chat with Elon Musk few years back. According to him, he had written a bot, a script that would detect crypto scams automatically in Twitter mentions. He had created that script with the product management team and Twitter’s ex-CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey. He shared that script with other crypto influencers and Elon Musk who didn’t understand the coding. The exchange told him that Musk is not familiar with Python script and not as knowledgeable about coding as he made out.

As per Mr. Palmer, Elon Musk is a ‘Grifter,’ he only sells vision in hope that he can deliver on that vision one day.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Response

Evidently, Musk responded to the article with some harsh comments on Twitter. Elon Musk hits back at Dogecoin co-creator by creating fun of his coding skills. According to him, his kids wrote better codes when they were 12 than the nonsense script, Palmer created. He quoted that Palmer is a tool and if his script is that great, then he should share it with the world.

Obviously, Palmer responded to this altercation on Twitter with some explanation that it was never a super complex script. It was designed simply to catch and report less sophisticated phishing accounts. Technology has evolved since then and the scammers have also evolved their tactics. He made it clear that the bot was shared with many and was working fine at that time.

Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus chimed in support of Musk with a tweet that he barely wrote 20 lines of code and copied the rest and the people after them did more work than either Palmer or Billy did. Dogecoin was created as a joke in 2013. However, with support from the community and Musk himself, the crypto picked up. It is currently trading at the market price of $0.081 and has a market cap of more than $10 billion. (Source: Coinmarketcap)