Memecoins: Good or Evil with Ledger & Stephen Cesaro
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we have two guests debating the merits and costs of crypto memecoins. Ledger (Brian Krogsgard) from the UpOnly podcast thinks that memecoins are financial nihilism that creates room for bad actors and grifters. Stephen Cesaro, from the Alfalfa Podcast, thinks memecoins are something to appreciate and celebrate.
Which side are you on?
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
8:35 Ledger’s Memecoin Arc
11:53 Stephen’s Memecoin Arc
13:20 $DOGE vs. $BTC
18:38 Tokenization of Memes
22:28 Memecoin Intent & Transparency
33:24 Memecoin Theory & Practice
44:30 Investing in Brands
51:55 Reframing Memecoins
56:27 Memecoins vs. Scams
1:09:01 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Ledger
https://twitter.com/ledgerstatus
Stephen
https://twitter.com/0xmagiclines
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Are meme coins better or worse than the attempts at legitimacy that scams or accidental frauds have been? |
| 0:12.0 | Ledger, that's a question to you. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Bankless where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. |
| 0:20.0 | And today on Bankless we explore the frontier of meme coins. |
| 0:23.3 | You can't seem to go anywhere in crypto these days without stepping in a meme coin. |
| 0:27.0 | Whether you're on Twitter and you're seeing D's post about Book of Meme, or you're on |
| 0:30.7 | Farcaster, hearing about Dgen, or you're on Farcaster hearing about Dgen or you're on literally any other chain |
| 0:34.7 | trying to incubate its own meme coin ecosystem meme coins have dominated on |
| 0:39.1 | chain activity in the last month or so is this all the future of finance is good for? Are we destined to |
| 0:44.4 | discover even more degenerate levels of financial speculation? Is the only thing that we |
| 0:48.3 | can muster as an industry new types of on-chain PVP in hopes of getting |
| 0:52.3 | rich? Or is there something to celebrate in me? types of on-chain PVP in hopes of getting rich. |
| 0:52.8 | Or is there something to celebrate in Mem Coins? |
| 0:55.6 | Are Mem Coins just a bad name, |
| 0:56.9 | and maybe we should call them Culture Coins instead? |
| 0:59.5 | Are they a big FU to the man to VCs. |
| 1:08.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. And today on Bankless, we explore the frontier of Mem coins. |
| 1:12.0 | You can't seem to go anywhere in |
| 1:13.0 | crypto these days without stepping in a meme coin. Whether you're on |
| 1:16.2 | Twitter and you're seeing D's post about Book of Meme or you're on |
| 1:19.5 | farcaster hearing about Dgen or you're on literally any other chain trying to |
| 1:24.0 | incubate its own meme coin ecosystem, meme coins have dominated on-chain |
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