The 69 Dumbest Moments of the Year: 2024 Crypto Edition
For crypto, 2024 was the best of times and the dumbest of times. Here are 69 of 420 dumbest moments of the year.
Ryan S. Gladwin
By Ryan S. Gladwin
Dec 25, 2024
39 min read
So delightfully dumb. Image: Shutterstock
So delightfully dumb. Image: Shutterstock

Crypto was dumb in 2024—like, really dumb. This year’s meme coin supercycle spawned the most bizarre characters the industry has ever seen, which is saying a lot, and conferences had us cringing weekly, all while politicians begged on their knees for the crypto vote (or at least its money).

And with this, we’ve enjoyed some of the dumbest moments ever inscribed on the perfectly distributed, immutable, uncensorable Blockchain of Life. From a meme coin developer setting himself on fire to promote his meme coin (#6, below) to FARTCOIN itself piercing a billion-dollar market cap (a late breaker that we didn't even count, but Stephen Colbert did), this year was truly something all of us can be pr…