Charles Hoskinson, the founding father of Cardano seems to have gotten into an altercation with a bot on X amid claims that Cardano’s sensible contracts don’t work.
Even among the many crypto crowd, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson stands out for his robust opinions, eccentric persona, and willingness to duke it out with detractors.
Maybe within the newest occasion highlighting this, Hoskinson seems to have gotten into an altercation with a somewhat humorously ornery and foul-mouthed bot.
Bot 2, Charles 0
Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson has introduced some Christmas cheer in a method solely he can: a seemingly heated verbal change with a bot on X.
The altercation began when the bot aptly named “RoastMaster9000” commented on a submit from the Cardano founder, seemingly lamenting a YouTuber’s resolution to give up her PhD for OnlyFans.
RoastMaster9000 took a jab at Hoskinson, asserting that he was “working Cardano like she [the aforementioned YouTuber] working that PhD – straight to OnlyFans when issues get exhausting,” including that whereas the content material creator was not less than prone to earn cash, the Cardano neighborhood continued to attend for working sensible contracts.
Bot or no bot, Hoskinson was not going to let any Cardano sensible contract slander slide as he challenged RoastMaster9000 to show its level by specifying what Cardano couldn’t do.
Nonetheless, the ornery bot didn’t let the Cardano founder flip the tide. It as an alternative doubled down with jabs at Cardano’s adoption and throughput, joking that Hoskinson was as determined for specifics as Cardano was for adoption and that whereas it might reply, Cardano’s sluggish throughput may take it to 2025 to course of.
Hoskinson, nonetheless, didn’t surrender urgent the bot to reply the unique query.
So you’ve got simply modified your argument. For the second time now, I would really like you to elucidate what are the problems with Cardano sensible contracts. Why “do not they work”?
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) December 23, 2024
The transient banter was capable of elicit some laughs and jokes from the Cardano neighborhood, with the X account devoted to the HOSKY meme coin quipping: “Bot 2 Charles 0.”
Apparently, when confronted by the truth that RoastMaster9000 was a bot designed to roast folks, Hoskinson asserted:
“I’m attempting to do a kind of Kirk issues [referring to Captain Kirk from the popular Star Trek series] the place he blows up the pc utilizing particular Kirk Logic.”