Coinbase – “Charlater’s Paradise”?

Nassim Taleb is the author of Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game and others on dealing with risk and uncertainty Author of non-fiction books. Most recently, he reiterated his anti-encryption stance and criticized those he considered “quacks” in the crypto space.

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Author Nassim Taleb

In addition to cryptocurrencies and blockchain, he criticized startups with the prefix “neuro,” calling them scammers.

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Posted by Taleb tweetSaid that “nervous” has always been “the great refuge of quack doctors”.

Although Taleb was pro-Bitcoin, he changed his mind a few years ago. Since then, he has been critical of BTC and all cryptocurrencies, calling Bitcoin in particular a “tumor” and other similar names, repeatedly signaling skepticism about the asset class.

About a month ago, Taleb appeared on a Bloomberg podcast with Joe Weisenthal and criticized bitcoin as a “very fragile commodity,” the report said.

He believes that the leading digital currency is actually controlled by a few people and is just an accounting system that needs to be maintained at all times.

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in a tweet Most recently, the academic commented on a tweet by analyst Ed Elson on May 2, which shared a list of people selling COIN shares shortly after the IPO on a major U.S. exchange, during April 2021. moon.

The list of people who sold COIN 1 month after the IPO included some Coinbase and Brian Armstrong executives. In particular, he made $291.8 million in that sale, second only to American venture capitalist and early Coinbase investor Fred Wilson. He made $1 billion selling his coins. Taleb stresses that they got rich as a result.

Taleb calls this “skin inversion in games,” contrary to the title of his book. He claimed that Coinbase “sold a story” to investors and then “passed the losses on to inexperienced people.”

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