模因硬币的兴起和崛起：笑话如何成为一项严肃的投资

在推出后的几个小时内，特朗普的Meme Coin $ Trump的价格飙升了多达600％。欢迎来到加密货币的堕落表弟模因硬币的世界。

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?

如果我告诉您一个了不起的投资机会，涉及将您的辛苦储蓄放在没有现实世界价值的产品后面寄钱？

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?

还是您的怀疑警钟会开始响起，您会有一些问题？如果我在两个星期前补充说，这个奇迹投资机会甚至没有？

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

在推出后的几个小时内，特朗普的Meme Coin $ Trump的价格飙升了多达600％。学分：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.

欢迎来到加密货币的堕落表弟模因硬币的世界。在诸如比特币和以太坊之类的主要加密货币旨在解决问题的地方，并且考虑到清晰的意识形态，模因硬币（也称为“狗屎硬币”），应该告诉您您需要了解的一切 - 总体而言是出于喜剧目的而存在。

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.

它们充当投机工具，并且在他们的核心方面，除了娱乐硬币创建者和在线投机者外，它们没有内在价值。然而，他们越来越受到在线投资者的欢迎。