A Dogecoin cocreator slammed Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO said bitcoin's energy use was "insane.".
The comments came after Musk said Dogecoin was the "future of currency" on "SNL.".
A cocreator of Dogecoin called Elon Musk a "self-absorbed grifter" in a now deleted tweet after the Tesla CEO stopped allowing customers to pay for vehicles in bitcoin.
According to multiple Twitter users who captured screenshots of the tweets and shared them on the social-media platform, Jackson Palmer said, "Reminder: Elon Musk is and always will be a self-absorbed grifter."
Palmer's tweets came after the Tesla CEO announced the company was halting payments via bitcoin for its vehicles.
Tesla also reported buying $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin in February, according to CNBC, when it said it planned to start accepting the currency as payment.
On Thursday evening, Musk tweeted that he was working with Dogecoin developers to "improve system transaction efficiency. »