Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s love for Dogecoin is no secret. Today, the Dogefather became protective over his favorite cryptocurrency and confronted Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao, Binance’s CEO, with some tough questions.
Musk got into a Twitter fight with CZ regarding issues about Dogecoin withdrawals on Binance. In a tweet, Musk asked Binance’s CEO “What’s going on with your Doge customers? Sounds shady.” 🤔
After a few minutes, Binance’s official Twitter issued a response: “The root cause is a technical issue during the recent upgrade process that caused old transactions to be resent to 1,674 users.” In other words, Binance claims nothing shady is going on.
But Binance’s response didn’t satisfy Tesla’s CEO as Musk kept typing “Doge holders using Binance should be protected from errors that are not their mistake.” Musk cited a thread on Dogecoin Developers which explains that the issue started a year ago.
Binance’s CEO lost patience. He fired back at Musk, referring to Tesla’s October software glitch. Zhao tweeted: “Elon, we are pretty certain it is an issue with the latest #doge wallet. We are in communications with the devs. Apologies for any inconvenience that may have caused you.” Before ending his tweet, he took a dig at Musk, adding “What happened here?” alongside a link to Tesla’s software glitch that caused nearly 12,000 Tesla cars to be recalled over safety concerns. Shots fired.
This isn’t Musk and Zhao’s first spat. Zhao said earlier this year that he was surprised Elon was even an advocate of Dogecoin. 😅