Keiser vs. Hoskinson Twitter Feud Escalates

A new Twitter fight has broken out between Bitcoin maximalist Max Keiser and Charles Hoskinson, father of Cardano and co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain.

Starting the fight, Keiser used Twitter to say negative remarks about Hoskinson’s connection with what he called “s-coins.”

Keiser vs. Hoskinson: Altcoin Critique, Twitter Feud, and MaxCoin’s Irony

Keiser, a famous financial journalist and “Bitcoin OG,” has been skeptical of many altcoins and their developers in the past. This time, Keiser was after Hoskinson, but the answer he got was not what he thought it would be.

Charles Hoskinson emerges from his shitcoin lair. pic.twitter.com/a5MM2bCLlb

— Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) February 7, 2024

Hoskinson didn’t stay quiet; instead, he responded on Twitter that Keiser might be acting this way because he was losing popularity. He wrote, “Ratings must be low for Maxi,” which made it sound like Keiser might have been stuck in an “oubliette” of not being important.

Ratings must be low for Maxi. And it's called an oubliette -> ou·bli·ette https://t.co/YJ3TByQ2aR

— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) February 8, 2024

The argument on Twitter took a surprising turn when some users brought up MaxCoin (MAX), an alternative coin that Keiser had based his ideas on and that was released in 2014. Keiser had earlier said he supported MaxCoin and pointed out that its cryptography was better because it had learned from Bitcoin.

Keiser has been very angry on Twitter lately, targeting major altcoins like XRP, ADA, ETH “s-coins” and securities. In this way, he agreed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Gary Gensler, the head of the SEC. Keiser shared a lot of negativity about Solana and XRP. He called them “centralized garbage.”

Interestingly, Keiser was going after Solana while the cryptocurrency had its first significant loss of the year earlier this week. When Keiser had a chance to say something, he did so and again called Solana “centralized garbage.” This time, his opinion was the same as Charles Hoskinson’s, who had also made fun of the Solana team about the loss.