Elon Musk was reminded of one of his favorite video games after seeing Bitcoin’s genesis block.
Elon Musk’s reply to Jack Dorsey Tweet
In a response to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeting the code that marked the beginning of the world’s first blockchain, Tesla CEO Elon Musk noted the 13th anniversary of Bitcoin’s genesis block.
Reminds me of when I hex edited Ultima V to get out of the final maze— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2022
Musk compares it to hexing an edited version of the popular role-playing video game “Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny,” which was released in March 1988.
Musk tweeted in August 2016 that Ultima V was one of his favorite childhood games.
To enable cheats for PC games, some gamers use a hex editor, which is a program for manipulating fundamental binary data.
An asset worth a trillion dollars
Satoshi Nakamoto, who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi, mined the first Bitcoin block on January 3, 2009.
Since then, the flagship cryptocurrency has gone a long way. Bitcoin crossed the $1 trillion mark for the first time in February.
In 2021, the world’s oldest cryptocurrency saw widespread institutional adoption, with traditional financial institutions finally acknowledging it as a separate asset class.
In October, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the first Bitcoin futures-based exchange-traded fund.
Musk claims that he did not invent Bitcoin
Elon Musk recently reiterated that he was not Satoshi amid renewed rumors about his possible involvement in the creation of Bitcoin, according to U.Today.
Nick Szabo, a cryptographer, was also named as Tesla’s top Satoshi candidate.
Musk has repeatedly criticized Bitcoin’s scalability issues, most recently calling its speed “comically low.”
Dogecoin, according to the billionaire, is a better fit for day-to-day transactions.
Elon Musk Mocking NFT Skeptics
In a series of tweets last month, Elon Musk, the billionaire and Tesla CEO, mocked those who are wary of the non-fungible token market.
Keanu Reeves, the hero of the original Matrix trilogy and the recently released film, is one of these critics, believing that NFTs are “so readily copied” and that they are essentially a joke.
In one of his tweets, Musk uploaded a meme of a patient chatting with his psychiatrist, with the latter inquiring if “these fictitious NFTs are with us in the room now.”
Musk ridiculed individuals who are dubious of NFTs in the music industry in particular in a recent tweet. He shared a cover of Gorillaz’s album from 2005.
As a reminder, a number of performers have already jumped on the NFT bandwagon, releasing entire albums and songs as NFTs.
Musk’s ex-girlfriend Grimes, rapper Tony Lanez, Kings of Leon, Ozzy Osbourne, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top are among them.
