Cardano's Charles Hoskinson Called Black Swan Author "Garbage"

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson came down heavily at controversial crypto fan-turned-foe Nassim Nicholas Taleb who authored the book, Black Swan.

Hoskinson has gathered a reputation for coming down hard on crypto critics irrespective of their stature even calling the economist, a “piece of human garbage” in response to the latter’s tweet detailing his reasons for rejecting to appear at MIT scientist Lex Fridman’s podcast multiple times.

In a series of tweets, Taleb earlier explained how he declined 10 requests to be on Fridman’s podcast between 2019 and 2022.

Taleb claimed that Fridman was exploiting his role as a “Research Scientist” at MIT as according to him “Research Scientist could be an unpaid external status that allows library access”.

The NYC professor also blamed Fridman for trying to use the name of an institution to build an image and called the whole affair “shoddy as hell”.

And sending mail with the heading “Quick Note From MIT” when a podcast has nothing to do with MIT is shoddy as hell.

Taled also accused the MIT scientist to be a fraud “for pretending that programmatically reading, discussing, and digesting these books once/a week.”

Perhaps this served as the last straw for Hoskinson, who defended Fridman, calling him one of the sharpest, most intellectually curious, and humble individuals he had ever met. Hoskinson also criticized Taleb for “pretending” to read at gatherings.

The majority of influencers and bitcoin fans backed Hoskinson and claimed that there was no justification for attacking Fridman over simple podcast invitations.

Taleb’s thread also caught the attention of Fridman himself, who apologized, wished the former trader a good new year, and praised his efforts.

Cardano Founder Doubles Down On Lace Wallet

After Fridman’s tweets, neither Nassim Taleb nor the co-founder of Cardano has added any further comments about Hoskinson’s vocal message. The underlying cryptocurrency of Cardano, ADA, has kickstarted 2023 on a positive note by trading at $0.25, rising over 3% in the last 24 hours.

Recently the Cardano co-founder expressed his intention of being willing to bet on an upcoming security feature for the new Lace wallet.

The lightweight multi-chain crypto wallet Lace, created by Cardano creator Input Output Hong Kong [IOHK], aims to effortlessly link everything in Web2 and Web3 to a single interface.