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Nick Navis

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The Memecoin Casino

What do you do when you're not digging into the smarmy back corners of the crypto world?

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

What do you do when you're not digging into the smarmy back corners of the crypto world?

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

Yes, keep them quarantined. Zeke says that first revolution that helped spawn our meme coin filled moment was a cultural one. The one where Dogecoin helped marry the world of memes to the world of crypto. But the second revolution was a technological leap. It came a few years later with the invention of a brand new blockchain called Ethereum.

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The Memecoin Casino

Yes, keep them quarantined. Zeke says that first revolution that helped spawn our meme coin filled moment was a cultural one. The one where Dogecoin helped marry the world of memes to the world of crypto. But the second revolution was a technological leap. It came a few years later with the invention of a brand new blockchain called Ethereum.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

Yes, keep them quarantined. Zeke says that first revolution that helped spawn our meme coin filled moment was a cultural one. The one where Dogecoin helped marry the world of memes to the world of crypto. But the second revolution was a technological leap. It came a few years later with the invention of a brand new blockchain called Ethereum.

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The Memecoin Casino

And this new Ethereum blockchain helped set off a massive surge in new cryptocurrencies starting around 2017 or so. They were called initial coin offerings or ICOs. And these coins were often framed as useful new technologies, cryptocurrencies that would have some sort of real world utility.

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The Memecoin Casino

And this new Ethereum blockchain helped set off a massive surge in new cryptocurrencies starting around 2017 or so. They were called initial coin offerings or ICOs. And these coins were often framed as useful new technologies, cryptocurrencies that would have some sort of real world utility.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

And this new Ethereum blockchain helped set off a massive surge in new cryptocurrencies starting around 2017 or so. They were called initial coin offerings or ICOs. And these coins were often framed as useful new technologies, cryptocurrencies that would have some sort of real world utility.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

It's Bitcoin for farmers. Yeah.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

It's Bitcoin for farmers. Yeah.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

It's Bitcoin for farmers. Yeah.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

You can see that same quintessential pattern playing out again here. An era of utopian promises turning into a whirlwind of fraudful deceit.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

You can see that same quintessential pattern playing out again here. An era of utopian promises turning into a whirlwind of fraudful deceit.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

You can see that same quintessential pattern playing out again here. An era of utopian promises turning into a whirlwind of fraudful deceit.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

But then came the third revolution that helps explain how we got to our current meme coin moment. And this one had both a cultural element and a technological one. The cultural part happened around the time of the COVID-19 lockdowns, when a bunch of bored day traders stuck at home started banding together to buy meme stocks. Companies like AMC and GameStop.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

But then came the third revolution that helps explain how we got to our current meme coin moment. And this one had both a cultural element and a technological one. The cultural part happened around the time of the COVID-19 lockdowns, when a bunch of bored day traders stuck at home started banding together to buy meme stocks. Companies like AMC and GameStop.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

But then came the third revolution that helps explain how we got to our current meme coin moment. And this one had both a cultural element and a technological one. The cultural part happened around the time of the COVID-19 lockdowns, when a bunch of bored day traders stuck at home started banding together to buy meme stocks. Companies like AMC and GameStop.

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The Memecoin Casino

This was the marriage of meme culture and the entire stock market.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

This was the marriage of meme culture and the entire stock market.

Planet Money
The Memecoin Casino

This was the marriage of meme culture and the entire stock market.