Snowden criticizes Taleb for his abrasive Twitter behaviour and then suddenly this article. Petty reaction<p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/1423037887893839874" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/142303788789383987...</a>
Never knew NNT wrote a Bitcoin "black paper" ;)<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14204.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14204.pdf</a><p>>>> Gold and other precious metals are largely maintenance
free<p>Hard to argue that transacting large quantities of Gold around the world requires little to no infrastructure!
"because people smeared me over bitcoin, its ok to lash out."<p>TL;DR Summary: he doesn't like the guy and suspects his motives to remain in an economy based on oppositional behaviour wrt to most western democracies.