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🗓️ 16 May 2025
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Are crypto meme coins a viable side hustle, or are they just a fast track to failure? We break down the risks, rewards, and what it takes to launch a meme coin that actually lasts.
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0:32.9 | Is it a good time to launch a meme coin? |
0:40.1 | This is kind of a wild episode, a wild topic to delve into from time to time you might hear in the news about various crypto meme coins. |
0:49.5 | It's a coin that, well, it's a, you know, I was going to say fake. |
0:52.7 | I shouldn't say fake. |
0:53.4 | It's virtual digital currency that somebody I was going to say fake. I shouldn't say fake. It's virtual, |
1:00.8 | digital currency that somebody just kind of creates. And then it gets a lot of investors and makes a lot of money. And then all of a sudden it crashes. That's kind of the life cycle of a |
1:06.1 | typical meme coin. Now, most of us know about Bitcoin and maybe some other cryptocurrencies that are actually stable and, |
1:13.1 | you know, have been around for years and have created a lot of wealth for people. |
1:16.6 | But then you also have like all these other ones, okay? |
1:19.4 | And a couple of years ago, I really kind of got into this world just researching a lot from |
1:23.2 | the side hustle perspective because I thought it was just so interesting. |
1:26.3 | I wrote a book called Gonzo Capitalism, which is not all about meme coins, but just about the broader world of people |
1:32.3 | kind of making things and offering it for sale. And here we are once again, meme coins have this |
1:37.6 | mythical reputation. They kind of go away for a while. And lately we've seen a whole bunch of new ones |
1:42.2 | kind of starting up. You might have heard of Dogecoin. There's also thousands of projects that just crash and burn within weeks. |
1:48.7 | So we're going to hear today a question from Matt in Miami. Appropriately, he's from Miami, |
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