Prominent scholar, intellectual and author of a series of best-selling books on risk management, including "Black Swan" and "Antifragile," Nassim Nicholas Taleb has found a new angle from which to attack Bitcoin.
Taleb has been going on about this since yesterday, when he stated that Bitcoin's major advantage — its limited supply of 21 million coins — does not make this asset valuable in any way.
He tweeted: "There is an infinite number of things in finite supply." On Sept. 13, Taleb published a more detailed post to show what he meant, again mentioning "bitdiots"; this is how he prefers to refer to supporters of flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
His earlier tweet says that the idea that something must be a good investment only because of a limited supply of this asset "is confused" since "necessary" does not mean the same as "sufficient," per Taleb.
The scholar insists that there are a lot of things that are strictly limited in supply, similarly to Bitcoin, and they include "pebbles from Skorpios, underwear worn by Churchill, books owned by Cary Grant."
In a comment thread, when answering a commentator, Taleb noted that anyone can create any number of electronic things and make each of them by design be "limited in supply."
Three years ago, Nassim Taleb was still a Bitcoin supporter who was fascinated by it during the bank crisis and the so-called "WhatsApp Revolution" in in his homeland, Lebanon. However, later on, he became disappointed in BTC as a safe haven or even as an asset altogether.
Yuri MolchanFrom time to time, Taleb keeps taking a jab at Bitcoin. A couple of weeks ago, he tweeted about BTC, calling it a fad. In November, he praised the crypto crash that still continues, expressing joy that he will not live in a world run by "cryptocrats."
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