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I’m torn on memecoins. They legitimately feel like a fun new social primitive. Addicting and always something new to talk about with friends. They’re also a zero sum attention vacuum. I don’t feel good when I pay attention to them. Memecoins: passing fad or glimpse of the future?

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Define a memecoin If they create long-term communities, then a potential new primitive for building communities. But if they are mostly built around number go up, eventually number stops going up.

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Why do you not feel good when you pay attention to them? Glimpse of the future is my take - every crypto cycle the hot thing gets blown way out of proportion. However - in that there are some nuggets and kernels of truth that will stick around forever

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warpcast should capitalise on the memecoin hype. we have all the tools in place - frames, actions, & channels.

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I see memecoins primarily as a speculative instrument to make more money There are very few memecoins that are more than that (meaning they have cultural impact, etc.), so my guess is these memecoins (e.g. Pepe) will continue to be relevant in the future After this bull cycle is over, 99,9% of all memecoins will likely go to literal $0 But Pepe and a handful of other memecoins may manage to hold value in years to come

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i currently think about them like ico's and nfts in previous cycles, they are useful for specific use cases but are getting too much hype this cycle and won't see as much activity next cycle

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I am sure they will stay in some form or another no reason for them to disappear, as the cost to create them is 0 and the potential upside ∞ also possible that we might see an even stronger financialization of memes, where a price chart will reflect a meme's popularity in a given time - being something like a financialized version of google trends

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I think we have overflow of addiction and something-new-to-talk-about these days Many memcoins try to financialize most basic form of interactions between humans by exploiting faith and hope of better future. It is inherently zero sum

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1. Durable community -> meme = community coin w/shared culture = strengthened community ✅ 2. Meme coin -> semblance of community = meme coin, hard (impossible?) to develop lasting community❌ - This heuristic is oversimplified because if/when there’s a price correction there’s more risk the 1. community suffers even if it had a strong foundation.

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I think about meme coins as Schelling points to express enthusiasm around a topic. So new social primitives for me

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reply in haiku from last week 👇 https://warpcast.com/bashobits/0x442aa14b

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Essentially this + financial nihilism. It’s mostly young people in crypto. The average young person is short on cash because of cost of living, cost of living housing and student debt. They think “With what I have to invest I need 1000x or more to make a meaningful difference to my life.” BTC and ETH aren’t going to do that any more. They don’t know enough about the space to successfully invest in fundamentals of other coins/tokens but they know memes. And if they lose some money investing in a rug, well their life isn’t meaningfully more difficult than it was before. https://warpcast.com/apex777.eth/0x4cf0b6e8

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Same. Wrote a draft post about this. Can dm it to you if you wanna read

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Interesting to compare them to sports communities. These also bind people together based on a shared hope But w memecoins, membership seems too cheap (from a signaling perspective, all you have to do is buy a few coins, not even at the exclusion of others) and the payoff too transferable (profits taken, losses cut)

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In its average form it’s just a new twist on the attention economy. You can spend 100 hours of your life following the Diddy story and it’s just as vapid and costly as playing a memecoin games. In its best form it’s a new way to coordinate using crypto primitives. Worst form is a straight honeypot/rug pull, but there are scams around anything of value in this world.

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glimpse of the future imo hopefully they become organizing instruments that offer generative wealth effects simultaneously but asymmetric wealth opportunities do not usually go away until new ones emerge in the same territory

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web3 version of slotmachines.

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within every cycle we made easier for people to invest, from icos to know click a button and you create a token memecoin is a broad category, whereas most of them are just short-term noise (and money for some). i'm bullish on brands that are created around a token, and this distributes value within its network

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There’s meme coin and meme coin, I never felt good investing in them, and I was always right to not feeling good 😅

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Memecoins: proof that most coin devs don't understand economics, nor do most of their buyers. Also, in these attention economies, money is imaginary and infinite - time is real and finite; what are you trading your time for - and are you valuing it accurately? That said, I believe there IS value in some of the things that some social tokens have made possible here, i.e. micropayments (often called them tips, gifts, etc) In the future, we'll have tokens with both micropayment utility AND strong fundamentals... for now, choose your own adventure, cap your downside early, and count your earnings in USDC. Just my 2 $DEGEN

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