{"id":75968,"date":"2026-03-12T04:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75968"},"modified":"2026-03-12T04:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:16:34","slug":"elon-musks-x-money-smarter-than-bitcoin-says-black-swan-author-nassim-taleb-private-currencies-must-compete-with-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75968","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s X Money &#8216;Smarter&#8217; Than Bitcoin, Says &#8216;Black Swan&#8217; Author Nassim Taleb: &#8216;Private Currencies Must Compete With One Another&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Renowned author and statistician\u00a0<strong>Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/strong>\u00a0found <strong>Elon Musk\u2019s<\/strong> widely touted X Money payments service better than <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">X Money A \u2018Private\u2019 Currency?<\/h2>\n<p>Talib responded to <strong>Musk<\/strong>\u2018s announcement that X Money\u00a0will begin early public access next month, saying, \u201cThis is much, much smarter than Bitcoin. Private currencies must compete with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is much much smarter than bitcoin. Private currencies must compete with one another. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cf2IxeXQ39\">https:\/\/t.co\/cf2IxeXQ39<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/2031719331361427837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>X users differed on what Taleb meant by \u201cprivate currencies,\u201d with some concluding that \u201cprivate\u201d referred to X as a private company rather than privacy features.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Private as in issued by a private company, not as in privacy I assume<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maxence Cornet (@MaxenceCornet) <a ...><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51203683\/elon-musks-x-money-smarter-than-bitcoin-says-black-swan-author-nassim-taleb-private-currenc?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Elon\" musk x money than bitcoin says swan author nassim taleb: currencies must compete with one another>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned author and statistician\u00a0Nassim Nicholas Taleb\u00a0found Elon Musk\u2019s widely touted X Money payments service better than Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) on Wednesday. X Money A \u2018Private\u2019 Currency? Talib responded to Musk\u2018s announcement that X Money\u00a0will begin early public access next month, saying, \u201cThis is much, much smarter than Bitcoin. Private currencies must compete with one another.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-75968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}