Charles Hoskinson Denies Rumors of Ripple Internship
On Friday (23 June 2023), Charles Hoskinson, a Co-Founding father of Ethereum and Cardano, addressed an internet rumor about his alleged previous as an intern at Ripple. Because it seems, the rumor was based mostly on a case of mistaken identification.
Hoskinson tweeted:
One supply of this rumor was the next tweet:
The confusion appears to stem from a previous revelation by Ethereum’s inventor, Vitalik Buterin. In April 2019, the Russian-Canadian pc scientist shared a “enjoyable reality” about his profession trajectory.
In a now-deleted tweet (despatched in reply to the next tweet by Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO at Coinbase), Vitalik admitted that again in mid 2013, when he was dwelling in Canada, he had tried to return to California to work as an intern for the corporate that later obtained renamed (in September 2013) to Ripple Labs however had failed to take action because the firm sponsoring the visa needed to be at the least one yr outdated:
Matt Hamilton, a former Director of Developer Relations at Ripple, confirmed on 1 Might 2023 that Vitalik was certainly hoping to get an internship at Ripple again in these days:
