I admit, I was a skeptic at first seeing people buy images of spinning cats and dogs with hats. I wondered to myself, why? It felt…..dumb. At first…
The longer you are around crypto the more you realize that rational goes completely out of the window when you have the opportunity to make life changing money. And I am started to understand why because you see, meme coins offer something that we don’t get with other coins and with traditional financial assets, a fair opportunity.
We have heard about those putting in less than $10 and coming out a millioniare just a few short months later. And for generations you more or less needed to be an insider or involved with wall street to find high value opportunities like this. These opportunities are often gated behind privilege, education, and wealth. But meme coins are the opposite because they are accessible to the every day person giving a real shot at life changing money.
A brief history of meme coins
Meme coins started as a joke, a parody of traditional finance that was never supposed to be taken seriously. But humans are not rational. Take Dogecoin, for example, it was created in 2013 as a playful nod to Bitcoin, featuring the famous Shiba Inu dog meme and poking fun at the explosive growth of cryptocurrency. What no one saw coming was that people would see…
