I think he is associating Bitcoin to Saifeddean Ammous, author of the Bitcoin Standard. They are both Lebanese, and Taleb wrote the foreword in that book.
Taleb is extremely cautious about pandemics, and Saifeddean hates governement intervention/regulation, which reached a peak with the lockdowns. He is clearly emotional...
However I still don't understand how he even thought of buying bitcoin in the first place, it was always volatile.