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James Sneed

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
201 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

To get a sense of what this all looked like to the people inside the meme coin casino, we talked to a guy named Wilk Itzen.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

To get a sense of what this all looked like to the people inside the meme coin casino, we talked to a guy named Wilk Itzen.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

So when Rumi heard that a famous squirrel had become a right-wing political martyr and that he'd been turned into a meme coin, it got his attention.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

So when Rumi heard that a famous squirrel had become a right-wing political martyr and that he'd been turned into a meme coin, it got his attention.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

So when Rumi heard that a famous squirrel had become a right-wing political martyr and that he'd been turned into a meme coin, it got his attention.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

By dust, Rumi is speaking crypto for money. He says he bought $100 worth of peanut when it had a market cap of a few hundred thousand dollars.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

By dust, Rumi is speaking crypto for money. He says he bought $100 worth of peanut when it had a market cap of a few hundred thousand dollars.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

By dust, Rumi is speaking crypto for money. He says he bought $100 worth of peanut when it had a market cap of a few hundred thousand dollars.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

Rumi says the next he heard about Peanut was when Mark Longo took to social media to start talking up his competing meme coin, the one he called Justice.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

Rumi says the next he heard about Peanut was when Mark Longo took to social media to start talking up his competing meme coin, the one he called Justice.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

Rumi says the next he heard about Peanut was when Mark Longo took to social media to start talking up his competing meme coin, the one he called Justice.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

Misesi didn't really buy Mark's altruistic pitch for his new coin. And the other thing Mark was getting wrong was his timing. Mark was hawking his Justice coin weeks after Peanut's death. The viral curve around the story had already started to flatten.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

Misesi didn't really buy Mark's altruistic pitch for his new coin. And the other thing Mark was getting wrong was his timing. Mark was hawking his Justice coin weeks after Peanut's death. The viral curve around the story had already started to flatten.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

Misesi didn't really buy Mark's altruistic pitch for his new coin. And the other thing Mark was getting wrong was his timing. Mark was hawking his Justice coin weeks after Peanut's death. The viral curve around the story had already started to flatten.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

In the meantime, Mark has decided that if he can't join the crypto insiders that successfully made money off these peanut-based meme coins, he's going to try to beat them, legally, to go after them for using his intellectual property to create and promote their coins.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

In the meantime, Mark has decided that if he can't join the crypto insiders that successfully made money off these peanut-based meme coins, he's going to try to beat them, legally, to go after them for using his intellectual property to create and promote their coins.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

In the meantime, Mark has decided that if he can't join the crypto insiders that successfully made money off these peanut-based meme coins, he's going to try to beat them, legally, to go after them for using his intellectual property to create and promote their coins.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

As we wrapped up our interview with Mark, surrounded by peanut memorabilia inside the squirrel's old room, it's clear that Mark himself is still just trying to emotionally process everything that's happened over the last year.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

As we wrapped up our interview with Mark, surrounded by peanut memorabilia inside the squirrel's old room, it's clear that Mark himself is still just trying to emotionally process everything that's happened over the last year.

Planet Money
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin

As we wrapped up our interview with Mark, surrounded by peanut memorabilia inside the squirrel's old room, it's clear that Mark himself is still just trying to emotionally process everything that's happened over the last year.