Elon Musk Hits Back at Dogecoin Creator

Elon Musk slammed Jackson Palmer, a co-creator of the dogecoin, on Twitter after he labelled the world's richest man a "grifter." Palmer told the Australian news site Crikey that he messaged Musk on Twitter some years ago after developing a bot to help identify cryptocurrency scams. During the conversation, he stated that Musk "didn't grasp coding as well as he made out." Palmer stated that Musk was unable to run the Python script. "He sells a vision in hopes that he can one day deliver what he's promising, but he doesn't know that," Palmer said. "He's just really good at pretending he knows. That's very evident with the Tesla full-self-driving promise."

Musk responded to the article on Twitter with some harsh comments of his own. "My kids write better code when they were 12 than the nonsense script Jackson sent me," Musk tweeted on Tuesday about Palmer's code from 2018. "If it's so great, he should share it with the world and make everyone's experience with Twitter better." Palmer took the opportunity to share the code, which he posted on GitHub four years ago.

"I never said it was super complex, but this simple script definitely worked in catching and reporting the less sophisticated phishing accounts circa 2018," Palmer said on Twitter. "They've since evolved their tactics. I shared it with a lot of people, and it worked for them."