What else could memecoins be?

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html

A key motivation for investigating & writing about blockchain games was as a potential avenue to channel degeneracy in a less harmful 

Alas, obviously, it's not about fun or accomplishment - it's pure greed, and greed will follow the most degenerate and predatory path

A key motivation for investigating & writing about blockchain games was as a potential avenue to channel degeneracy in a less harmful 

Alas, obviously, it's not about fun or accomplishment - it's pure greed, and greed will follow the most degenerate and predatory path 

https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x12be33f8

Greed isn't good, but it doesn't follow the most degenerate path. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." The problem in crypto is that no one "expects their dinner" from us. We can create that expectation.