Billionaires Mark Cuban and Tyler Winklevoss Debate Bitcoin’s Complexity

Billionaires Mark Cuban and Tyler Winklevoss engaged in an off-the-cuff Twitter debate over the complexity of bitcoin. 

Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise, appeared in an interview with Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano on April 15 and criticized bitcoin for not being user-friendly. In keeping with Cuban, bitcoin is overly advanced and received’t attain mass adoption till it’s straightforward sufficient for “grandma” to make use of. 

Cuban highlighted different “peculiarities” of bitcoin, together with Could’s halving occasion and the underlying means of mining that maintains the cryptocurrency’s blockchain. 

Tyler Winklevoss took to Twitter on April 17 to refute a few of Cuban’s claims, stating that basketball is comparably peculiar and nonetheless managed mass adoption. 

“There’s so many peculiarities to Bitcoin: the halving, the mining.” –@mcuban

The foundations of basketball are much more peculiar, however that does not appear to be holding it again. https://t.co/GO5O3luDtT

— Tyler Winklevoss (@tylerwinklevoss) April 17, 2020

Cuban replied to Winkelvoss’s tweet, arguing that bitcoin is much extra advanced than the sport of basketball. He additionally alluded to bitcoin’s nameless founder Satoshi Nakamoto, whose id continues to be a thriller greater than a decade after the coin’s launch. 

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One was began by a man named James in a fitness center with a peach basket and a ball to entertain youngsters. The opposite was began by a man nobody can discover, that lots of declare to be, with a pc and an algorithm to offer hundreds of thousands one thing to argue about. Which is easy ? https://t.co/nfVS5A1ebq

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) April 17, 2020

Winklevoss, in flip, argued nearly all of basketball followers benefit from the sport with out understanding the historical past or origin of the game. 

My guess is that should you took a ballot of all of the basketball followers that purchase tickets to observe @dallasm video games, lower than 1% would know that the sport they’re watching was began by a man named James making an attempt to entertain youngsters and 0% would truly care.

— Tyler Winklevoss (@tylerwinklevoss) April 17, 2020

The 2 billionaires ultimately got here to an settlement that each bitcoin and basketball have outmoded their origins. 

So true https://t.co/zP95td8XIn pic.twitter.com/lhepuIcr9F

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) April 17, 2020

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