The world is a giant meme, and rebels will continue to be born

January 3, 2009 is the birth day of Bitcoin, on this day, there is no need for some special ceremony to commemorate, just to spend as an ordinary day, attempts to find and establish meaning will fail, and eventually we will find that the world is a huge meme.

After Musk detonated the first “zoo” mania in 2021, at the end of 2023, the cats, dogs, and dragons of the founders of the major public chains became the protagonists of the second Meme frenzy.

So what should be the earliest Meme Coin, the DOGE that mocked Bitcoin in 2013?

I think it was Satoshi Nakamoto when he wrote “Chancellor on the Brink of Second Bailout for Banks” that Bitcoin the founding Block was born on January 3, 2009, at the same time that the earliest inscriptions and Meme Coin were born at the same time, marking an extreme disdain for Fiat Currency, authority, and centralization.

Chrisma dies and Meme Coin ascends

Solana launched a surprise attack on Ethereum, the most typical is not Decentralized Finance, nor DePIN, but the founder Meme agreed, a new round of god-making movement emerging, Anatoly’s community influence naturally cannot be compared with Vitalik, but that was before!

The birth of the word meme is itself the best illustration of meme culture. **

The meme comes from Dawkins’s imitation of the Greek word Mimema (something imitated) in the book “The Selfish Gene”, which means the most basic unit of human culture, which can be a word, a meme, and, of course, a Token and Non-fungible Token.

Meme is translated as “meme” in Chinese, which is also aptly true.

The cultural elements in human beings are rarely original, most of them are imitated and transformed, Solana can have silly dragons, but at the cost of the extinction of $Bonk, even in the meme track, it is a very small number of people who can really be retained, and most of them can only be accompanied.

If I were to summarize the characteristics of Meme Coin, I would be able to think of two points:

Viral, viral marketing. **Large-scale spread of viruses requires low virulence and long incubation time, otherwise the host will die directly, which will also lead to the inability of the virus to spread, whether it is Bitcoin, DOGE and other multi-year old coins, or silly dragons, avalanche chickens emphasize community ownership, almost no obvious “bookmaker”. Deconstruction, the restructuring of the structure. Whereas the old authority system will form a coherent and distinct structure, the meme coin will disdain all existing authority, and will not even consider itself to be the new authority.

Meme Coin is the latest interpretation of memes, no one has ever tried to combine memes and Crypto Assets, even Dogecoin, it only began to explode after 8 years, this is not a matter of accumulation, nor the result of long-term success, but a mockery of fate under the epidemic.

**Infinite parallel universe, everything is meaningless. **

FORCING SOMETHING, A PUBLIC CHAIN AND SOMEONE TO GIVE MEANING, THE FINAL RESULT WILL DEFINITELY BE REKT, AND WILL BRING ENDLESS PAIN TO SUPPORTERS, WHETHER FINANCIAL OR MENTAL, WHEN MUSK IS EXPOSED TO LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR DOGECOIN, RATIONAL PEOPLE SHOULD LEAVE AND LOOK FOR NEW TARGETS, BECAUSE DOGECOIN ALREADY HAS AUTHORITY, BUT IRRATIONAL PEOPLE SHOULD STAY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST MAN.

It’s all up to you.

The world is a giant meme, and rebels will continue to be born

Solana’s silly dragon and Avalanche’s COQ (avalanche chicken) are both rebellions against Ethereum, and for a long time, both Decentralized Finance and Non-fungible Token have been the absolute home of EVM, and people will only take out other L1s when they think of the word decentralization, and then quickly reinvest in ETH positions to interpret the latest declaration of Vitalik Buterin. **

For the crypto world, Satoshi Nakamoto is a proof of tradition and legitimacy, but Vitalik is the existing crypto prophet, and his every move has room for in-depth interpretation, from low-cost flights to Singapore, to the rationality of the PoS mechanism, even the change in Vitalik’s Holdings in MKR can be regarded as a “punishment” for MakerDAO’s switch to Solana.

This is the typical authoritative image, charismatic Max, in the New Testament, this word is the name of Moses and other people with superhuman will and action, in the Chinese crypto world, the word Vitalik Buterin in addition to the obvious banter, there is also a side that everyone agrees that Vitalik has inhuman and sacred.

But now it’s different, Vitalik Buterin is about to become a little V. **

Anti-authority is synonymous with Meme Coin in 2023 and a brave trait that transcends inscriptions.

Inscriptions, especially those on Bitcoin, are typical of relying on authority to carry a palanquin for themselves. But Meme Coin only identifies with rebellion against authority itself:

• Bitcoin rebels against Fiat currency, not simply against the indiscriminate issuance of dollars, but all centralized currencies;
• Ethereum rebels against Bitcoin, and the Bitcoin community rejects Vitalik’s improvement proposal, so Ethereum focuses on Smart Contracts;
• Then now it’s also the turn of Ethereum as the day to be “revolutionized”.

Revolutionaries are always young, and Meme Coin is not a kind of religious totem of the founder, but a representative of the young Gen Z who rebels against all rigid systems. WHEN MUSK “SHOUTED” DOGE AGAIN AND AGAIN, THE SEEDS OF VARIOUS MEME COMMUNITIES WERE PLANTED BY HIM, AND TWO YEARS LATER, THERE WERE SILLY DRAGONS IN THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON, AND THE MORE PEOPLE TOUCHED, THE MORE PROSPEROUS.

At present, there are at least 30+ L1 public chains, and Ethereum L2 has at least 70+, but innovation seems to be more and more focused on the changes in Ethereum, and there are fewer and fewer innovations from within the Blockchain, ZK, AI, FHE, DVT and other technical paradigms are existing as a technical building block of Ethereum, and there is a feeling of being handpicked by V to gain legitimacy. **

This shouldn’t be what the crypto world should look like.

Epilogue

Bitcoin - DOGE - Silly Dragon, constitute the three stages of Meme Coin, Bitcoin is the beginning of everything, and the rest of the story is a boring story of selfish crypto genes trying to replicate themselves.

A game is a dream, Meme Coin is a unique existence that retains the original cryptographic characteristics, Meme Coin is not as great as the public chains, and the function it undertakes is also very simple - to maintain community identity, so you can indulge and try to play your funny side, just like Xpet who recently swiped the screen in the comment area, you can brush it if you want, ** It should be so simple, we think about the Blockchain too complicated. **

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From Silly Dragon to Minu, take a look at representative meme projects on each public chain

UNDER THE WAVE OF SOLANA MEME, WHICH CATS AND DOGES HAVE BECOME COMMUNITY STARS?

Vitalik’s cats, Toly’s dragons, when this edition of memes set their sights on the founders’ pets…

Recap of Silly’s 10,000-fold journey: How did a dragon become Solana’s spiritual totem?

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