Remember when your cousin wouldn’t shut up about Dogecoin at Thanksgiving dinner? The one who suddenly became a “crypto expert” after turning $100 into $1,000? Well, welcome to the wild world of memecoins – possibly the strangest phenomenon to emerge from the cryptocurrency revolution.
Picture this: a digital currency, worth billions of dollars, created as a joke about a dog. Not just any dog – a Shiba Inu with questionable grammar skills who speaks in Comic Sans. That’s Dogecoin, the grandfather of memecoins, and it’s just the beginning of this bizarre financial rabbit hole where internet culture collides with serious money.