Comment by smolder
4 months ago
It's definitely embarrassing that people losing their shirts in crypto didn't see it coming. It's bad that people think a zero sum game is worth playing against incumbents. The marks aren't the worst part, though. Everyone promoting memecoins and utility-free cryptocurrency in general is either ignorant or just a bad person with a warped idea of success. Personal money accumulation is a sad goal compared to actual wealth creation. The parasites who push crypto on the hopeful proto-bag holders are destroying the prosperity that supports them.
Yeah on memecoins isn’t that just a loophole for running naked pyramid schemes? I.e. a pyramid where everyone knows it’s a pyramid.
Like the weird part about a pyramid is that depending on your risk tolerance it may actually make sense to participate in a pyramid even if everyone involved knows it’s a pyramid. So are that many people being scammed as in tricked (seems hard to believe), or is it just a risky form of gambling that is outlawed in legacy formats.
EDIT: Ponzi -> Pyramid
I've never purchased crypto or had any involvement but acquaintances I know have used that exact argument. They know it's a pyramid but believe they can get ahead because they were in early enough.
They are usually a lot more vague when I ask about their realized gains.
I have many friends who started from really humble beginnings ~5 years ago (or instance, a typical small business like "an e-shop selling bullshit Chinese gizmos online making 20k per month"), and are now uber rich in crypto. Like, hundreds of millions in net worth and spending 200-400k per month. And yes, they don't invest their money anywhere except new and new crypto projects themselves, just because they don't know anything that gives near similar returns. Not one-off success, but 5-10 or more different avenues of making money there (but certainly none of them was about "trading coins" or passively investing in them).
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> memecoins and utility-free cryptocurrency
As opposed to what?
During the previous wave of crypto, there were all sorts of ambitious if doomed plans to do interesting things with blockchains. Even Bitcoin was originally supposed to be a means of exchange, not an "investment".
Now we don't even pretend that $DOGE/$TRUMP/whatever has any utility aside from speculation.
As far as I know the only difference between these so-called memecoins and 'reputable' cryptocoins is that the former have a funny name. Other than that they're essentially the same product.
Bitcoin, ETH, and Monero all have utility in one way or another. Bitcoin is accepted by most black markets (and Monero is even better for privacy). And software is built on top of the ETH chain. No one is buying stuff using DOGE or Trump coin. There's a clear difference between memecoins and legitimate cryptocurrencies whether you like them or not.
The question is: what makes a cryptocoin legitimate, in your opinion, considering that 'ilegitimate' memecoins are usually just a copy-paste version of a supposedly 'legitimate' cryptocoin?
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