模因硬幣的興起和崛起：笑話如何成為一項嚴肅的投資

在推出後的幾個小時內，特朗普的Meme Coin $ Trump的價格飆升了多達600％。歡迎來到加密貨幣的墮落表弟模因硬幣的世界。

If I told you about an amazing investment opportunity that involves putting your hard-earned savings behind a product that holds no real-world value, isn’t tied to any physical assets and can’t be used for anything, would you ask me where to send your money?

如果我告訴您一個了不起的投資機會，涉及將您的辛苦儲蓄放在沒有現實世界價值的產品後面寄錢？

Or would your sceptical alarm bells start ringing and you’d have some questions? And how about if I added that two weeks ago, this miracle investment opportunity didn’t even exist?

還是您的懷疑警鐘會開始響起，您會有一些問題？如果我在兩個星期前補充說，這個奇蹟投資機會甚至沒有？

Within hours of its launch, the price of Trump’s meme coin $Trump had skyrocketed by as much as 600 per cent. Credit: Bloomberg

在推出後的幾個小時內，特朗普的Meme Coin $ Trump的價格飆升了多達600％。學分：彭博社

Welcome to the world of cryptocurrency’s degenerate cousin, meme coins. Where major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum were designed to solve a problem, and with a clear ideology in mind, meme coins – also known as “shit coins”, which should tell you everything you need to know – by and large exist for comedic purposes.

歡迎來到加密貨幣的墮落表弟模因硬幣的世界。在諸如比特幣和以太坊之類的主要加密貨幣旨在解決問題的地方，並且考慮到清晰的意識形態，模因硬幣（也稱為“狗屎硬幣”），應該告訴您您需要了解的一切- 總體而言是出於喜劇目的而存在。

They act as tools of speculation, and at their core they have no intrinsic value other than to amuse coin creators and online speculators. And yet they’re becoming increasingly popular with online investors.

它們充當投機工具，並且在他們的核心方面，除了娛樂硬幣創建者和在線投機者外，它們沒有內在價值。然而，他們越來越受到在線投資者的歡迎。