The world is one giant Meme, and rebels will continue to be born

The birth of the word Meme itself is the best explanation of Meme culture.

Written by Zuo Ye

January 3, 2009, is the birth day of Bitcoin. On this day, there is no need for some special ceremony to commemorate it. It just needs to be spent as an ordinary day. Trying to find and establish meaning will fail. In the end, we You will find that the world is a huge Meme.

Meme coins are hot again. After Musk triggered the first “zoo” craze in 2021, at the end of 2023, the cats, dogs, and dragons of the founders of major public chains became the protagonists of the second Meme craze. Love the house and the bird, and love Solana. Just take the silly dragon home and wish you a happy Year of the Dragon in advance.

So what should be the earliest Meme Coin? Is it Dogecoin that mocked Bitcoin in 2013?

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

The demise of Charisma and the rise of Meme Coin

Solana has launched surprise attacks on Ethereum one after another. The most typical one is not DeFi or DePIN, but the founder Meme agrees. With the rise of a new round of god-making movement, Anatoly’s community influence cannot be compared with Vitalik, but that was before !

**The birth of the word Meme itself is the best explanation of Meme culture. **

Meme comes from Dawkins’ book “The Selfish Gene”. Gene is a transformation of the Greek word Mimema (thing to be imitated), which means the most basic unit in human culture. It can be a word or a meme. , of course, it can also be a token and NFT.

Meme is translated as “meme” in Chinese, which is exactly what it means.

Cultural elements among humans are rarely original, and most are imitations and transformations. Solana can have stupid dragons, but at the expense of $Bonk’s demise, even in the Meme track, there are only a very small number that can be truly preserved, most of them I can only run with you.

If I want to summarize the characteristics of Meme Coin, I can think of two points:

1. **Virus, viral marketing. **Viruses that spread widely require low toxicity and long incubation time. Otherwise, the host will die directly and the virus will not be able to spread. Whether it is Bitcoin, Dogecoin and other multi-year coins, or Silly Dragon, Avalanche Chicken, they all emphasize community ownership. , there is almost no obvious “bookmaker”.
2. **Deconstruction, reconstruction of structure. **The previous authority system will form a tightly integrated and distinct structural system, while Meme Coin will despise all existing authorities and does not even think that it should be a new authority.

Meme Coin is the latest interpretation of memes. No one has ever tried to combine memes and cryptocurrency. Even Dogecoin only started to explode after 8 years. This is not a matter of accumulation or long-term development. The result of success is the mockery of fate under the epidemic.

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

Forcibly giving meaning to something, a public chain and someone will eventually result in bankruptcy and will bring endless pain to supporters, whether financially or mentally. When Musk was revealed to have long-term support for Dogecoin At that time, rational people should leave and look for new targets, because Dogecoin already has authority, but irrational people should stay because it has the authoritative blessing of the world’s richest man.

It’s all up to you to customize it in one thought.

The world is a huge Meme, and rebels will continue to be born

**Solana’s Silly Dragon and Avalanche’s COQ (Avalanche Chicken) are both rebellions against Ethereum. For a long time, both DeFi and NFT have been the absolute home of EVM. People only think of the word decentralization when they think of it. He will take out the other L1 in a pretentious manner, and then quickly reinvest in the ETH position to interpret the latest declaration of Buterin. **

For the encryption world, Satoshi Nakamoto is the proof of tradition and legitimacy, but Vitalik is the existing encryption prophet. Every move he makes has room for in-depth interpretation, from low-cost flights to Singapore to the PoS mechanism. Reasonable, even Vitalik’s change in MKR’s position can be regarded as an “excommunication” for MakerDAO’s switch to Solana.

This is a typical image of authority and personal charm Max. In the New Testament, this word is the name of people with superhuman will and action, such as Moses. In the Chinese encryption world, the word V God is not only an obvious joke, but also Everyone agrees that Vitalik has an inhuman and divine side.

**But it’s different now, God V is about to become little V. **

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

Inscriptions, especially those on Bitcoin, are a classic example of relying on authority to carry your own weight. But Meme Coin only identifies with rebellion itself:

• Bitcoin’s opposition to legal currency is not simply against the indiscriminate supply of U.S. dollars, but against all centralized currencies;
• Ethereum rebels against Bitcoin, and the Bitcoin community rejects Vitalik’s improvement proposal, so Ethereum will focus on smart contracts;
• Then it’s Ethereum’s turn to be “revolutionized”.

**Revolutionaries are always young. **Meme Coin is not a religious totem of the founder, but a representative of the young Generation Z’s resistance to all rigid systems. When Musk “called for” Dogecoin again and again, he personally planted the seeds of various Meme communities, and two years later, there was a silly dragon in the Year of the Dragon, and the more people touched it, the more prosperous it became.

At present, there are at least 30+ L1 public chains and at least 70+ Ethereum L2. However, innovation seems to be more and more concentrated on the changes in Ethereum, and there are fewer and fewer innovations coming from within the blockchain, such as ZK, AI, and FHE. , DVT and other technical paradigms all exist as a technical component of Ethereum, and there is a feeling that only by being hand-picked by V can you gain legitimacy. **

This is not what the crypto world should be like.

Conclusion

Bitcoin - Dogecoin - Silly Dragon, constitute the three stages of Meme Coin. Bitcoin is the beginning of everything, and the subsequent stories are all boring stories of selfish encryption genes trying to copy themselves.

A game and a dream, Meme Coin is a unique existence that retains the original encryption characteristics. Meme Coin is not as great as public chains, and its function is also very simple - maintaining community identity, so you can indulge as much as you want and try to use your funny side. , just like Xpet, which has been swiping the screen in the comment area recently, just swipe it if you want. It should be so simple, but we think of the blockchain too complicated. **

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

Under the Solana Meme wave, which cats and dogs have become community stars?

Vitalik’s cat, Toly’s dragon, when this Meme focuses on the founders’ pets…

Revisit Silly’s journey: How did a dragon become Solana’s spiritual totem?

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