Do memecoins help or harm the crypto market?

[marrcelo]

Memecoins bring a lot of new people into crypto because they are simple, viral and sometimes can make huge profits fast. but at the same time they also increase scams rug pulls and pure gambling behavior in the market. some people enter crypto because of memecoins and later start learning about Bitcoin and blockchain. others lose money quickly and leave with a bad image of the whole crypto space

[asriloni]

Meme is just harming the market. It gives a terrible effect to the retail investors. So it creates a fear for the retail investors to put their money on crypto. Just look so many memes being created for scamming purpose. I also think anyone know very well about that.




So i bring you the best example is pumpdotfun. 11 millions meme already issued in pumpdotfun, and it keeps printing 18k memes daily until now. Meanwhile, 60% of traders are never profitable, and around 10% made nothing. So we can assume memes are only being used as a tool to scam traders.

It gives no positive contribution to the crypto market. So i call meme is the same as a pleague, and it's slowly destroying the market.

[MAAManda]

Questions like this have come up before & I will still remain consistent with my answers.

IMO, the existence of memecoins has both good & bad impacts. The good impact is, as you said, the presence of new adopters in the crypto industry, people who were previously not involved in crypto then became involved. Meanwhile, on the negative side, many frauds have resulted in a bad image of crypto for the victims, perhaps they will never return & be involved in crypto again.

For me, the good always outweighs the bad.

[JeromeTash]

They harm it;
1. Lots of rug pulls and fraud out there. So many new traders have lost a lot of money on this and given up on crypto. They think that crypto is all about fraud and nothing else and this has hindered crypto adoption one way or the other.
2. They have saturated the market so much. Remember how Bitcoin would pump and most of the top altcoins as well? Now that doesn't happen any more. People expected an altcoin season in the recent bull run, and it also did not happen. Wanna know why? One of the reasons is an oversaturated market of memecoins, and people were trying their luck with them.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Meme coin was great back in the days, you get airdropped for free or you can buy at very low prices. The developers are genuine and every meme released was with intention to create community.
After it went viral it attracts many kinds of character including the grifter ones who are deploying thousands of memes every minutes.

Currently it has become cesspool and harm the crypto market more than helping it, there are too many market manipulation, some even becoming lawsuit.

[0xStorka]

You are totally right about the risks and how crazy those losses look, the stats don't lie. But honestly, memecoins are a huge part of crypto culture now and they aren't going anywhere. Sure, it's risky, but that chance to hit a moonshot keeps things exciting. Plus, nobody can ignore how much they actually help major networks like Solana and BNB Chain. They bring massive volume, non-stop on-chain activity, and tons of hype that forces these big blockchain projects to level up. It’s wild, but it keeps the ecosystem pumping

[Smack That Ace]

Questions like this have come up before & I will still remain consistent with my answers.

IMO, the existence of memecoins has both good & bad impacts. The good impact is, as you said, the presence of new adopters in the crypto industry, people who were previously not involved in crypto then became involved. Meanwhile, on the negative side, many frauds have resulted in a bad image of crypto for the victims, perhaps they will never return & be involved in crypto again.

For me, the good always outweighs the bad.

Agreed, I also think that the existence of memecoin has both good and bad impacts. It is not entirely as bad as many people are saying because if it were truly like a pandemic and brought almost no benefit to the market, how could it have survived until now?

Moreover, when it comes to scams and the bad reputation of the crypto industry. We should not put all the blame on memecoin, many altcoin also contribute to this problem.

[sergiorus]

They harm it;
1. Lots of rug pulls and fraud out there. So many new traders have lost a lot of money on this and given up on crypto. They think that crypto is all about fraud and nothing else and this has hindered crypto adoption one way or the other.
2. They have saturated the market so much. Remember how Bitcoin would pump and most of the top altcoins as well? Now that doesn't happen any more. People expected an altcoin season in the recent bull run, and it also did not happen. Wanna know why? One of the reasons is an oversaturated market of memecoins, and people were trying their luck with them.

Blockchain allows anyone to create a token within a few clicks and hence everyone is free to do so.
The question is who buys them? What drives those people? Maybe the problem is that the money is way too dumb nowadays?

I'm not defending anyone btw, just discussing. Maybe restricting token creations would be net positive for the industry indeed, but I just can't blame anybody other than the people who buy them.

[asriloni]

The question is who buys them? What drives those people? Maybe the problem is that the money is way too dumb nowadays?

Degens are the only one who gamble in those meme tokens with the hope they can repeat shiba and doge coin history to get a rich over night. The main problem these days are too many gamblers on meme while 99% of tokes in pumpdotfun or any similar are scams.

I'm not defending anyone btw, just discussing. Maybe restricting token creations would be net positive for the industry indeed, but I just can't blame anybody other than the people who buy them.

Yeah, people deserve the blame. I believe they are not that stupid to think if it was a scam. However, the token creation can be restricted as long as it becomes permissioned.

[sergiorus]

The question is who buys them? What drives those people? Maybe the problem is that the money is way too dumb nowadays?

Degens are the only one who gamble in those meme tokens with the hope they can repeat shiba and doge coin history to get a rich over night. The main problem these days are too many gamblers on meme while 99% of tokes in pumpdotfun or any similar are scams.

I'm not defending anyone btw, just discussing. Maybe restricting token creations would be net positive for the industry indeed, but I just can't blame anybody other than the people who buy them.

Yeah, people deserve the blame. I believe they are not that stupid to think if it was a scam. However, the token creation can be restricted as long as it becomes permissioned.

The problem is it's impossible to completely ban permissionless token creation. Even if the US and the rest of developed world do so, memecoin launchpads will keep spawning in the less regulated locations where the founders will be unreachable to the American law enforcement.

I think everyone got so burnt by memecoins, we don't really need to worry about them anymore. A few worldwide cults like DOGE, PEPE or PENGU are not going anywhere though.

[Churchillvv]

The general image of the crypto space is put into dark because of all this Memecoins but however if you one knew what they are doing they would not consider it bad because they are going to be benefit from all the shits but however the overall outcome of Memecoins is that they have put the world to see crypto as scam because a good number of Memecoins are purely to scam the people who will put their hands on it at very last moments of its sells.

I don’t think there have been a good that mentions have done to the market, except fast profit nothing good sha been able to come out.

[Wakate]

The general image of the crypto space is put into dark because of all this Memecoins but however if you one knew what they are doing they would not consider it bad because they are going to be benefit from all the shits but however the overall outcome of Memecoins is that they have put the world to see crypto as scam because a good number of Memecoins are purely to scam the people who will put their hands on it at very last moments of its sells.

I don’t think there have been a good that mentions have done to the market, except fast profit nothing good sha been able to come out.

Memecoins have done worse than bringing newbies into the market to make money. Because of the memecoins market, so many people had lost their money they could have used to invest in other projects that could have lead to profits. Having the mindset that one can make huge profits from memecoins can become a big fallacy majority are not aware about
 

[$crypto$]

Meme coin was great back in the days, you get airdropped for free or you can buy at very low prices. The developers are genuine and every meme released was with intention to create community.
After it went viral it attracts many kinds of character including the grifter ones who are deploying thousands of memes every minutes.

Currently it has become cesspool and harm the crypto market more than helping it, there are too many market manipulation, some even becoming lawsuit.

After the hype continued to grow and the interest of many from the community was getting higher, finally the devs took advantage of this to exit the scam, which was originally intended for the community but in the end for their own interests by devs and clones.

Moreover, Pump.fun provides its platform so it is easier for other people to make memecoins, this is what has become a hotbed of ugliness there, although not all of them but almost the average in pump.fun that memecoins are worthless.

[Yamane_Keto]

Memecoins caused a significant increase in supply; before 2022, the number of cryptocurrencies was much lower than it is now. This large supply affected the price and trust in cryptocurrencies.

Blockchain allows anyone to create a token within a few clicks and hence everyone is free to do so.
The question is who buys them? What drives those people? Maybe the problem is that the money is way too dumb nowadays?

Technically, this will make scam easier. The market is open, and whoever has the money is the one who risks pumping tokens in the hope of getting rich.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

It's doing both and I will give reason why I said so, there are quite a lot of people who are Bitcoiners today who were never Bitcoiner from the start and how they first got into the crypto space was because of some memecoins airdrop that they saw online and decided to try luck with it and it paid off to then although many of it didn't also pay off but on the process of doing those airdrops and buying of meme and other altcoins, they discovered Bitcoin and left memecoins. So, some of those altcoins actually brought many people to the Bitcoin market while it also dismissed a lot of people from the crypto space with bad impression.

[Churchillvv]

The general image of the crypto space is put into dark because of all this Memecoins but however if you one knew what they are doing they would not consider it bad because they are going to be benefit from all the shits but however the overall outcome of Memecoins is that they have put the world to see crypto as scam because a good number of Memecoins are purely to scam the people who will put their hands on it at very last moments of its sells.

I don’t think there have been a good that mentions have done to the market, except fast profit nothing good sha been able to come out.

Memecoins have done worse than bringing newbies into the market to make money. Because of the memecoins market, so many people had lost their money they could have used to invest in other projects that could have lead to profits. Having the mindset that one can make huge profits from memecoins can become a big fallacy majority are not aware about
 

You’re not wrong but firstly we must acknowledge the fact that it had helped to a certain point before it failed so much people now, looking at Memecoins some perform really well that some of us who are into crypto already benefited from but those who head about the money those in crypto already made from the few memecoins in existence rushed to join make the profit and then lost before they came in when the scams are unleashed. Yes Memecoins are entirely harmful to the market but beneficial for those who want quick profit.

[Localhostspeed]

Memecoins bring a lot of new people into crypto because they are simple, viral and sometimes can make huge profits fast. but at the same time they also increase scams rug pulls and pure gambling behavior in the market. some people enter crypto because of memecoins and later start learning about Bitcoin and blockchain. others lose money quickly and leave with a bad image of the whole crypto space

Meme coins didn't bring lot of people, it only attracted believers that used to buy coin and hold for long term to short term profit chasers and they all lost, the people that benefit from those coins are mostly the founders that launched the coins. They took their share and sell immediately they get the profit they are looking for and leave the rest of the people hanging with hope that the market will bounce back but it never did, they are mostly scams.

You know what makes me meme coins last long like this is because people pretend and hide that it's a coin for fun, there is nothing to it and people do what they like, there is no any law that says it's illegal or security where security exchange commission might take actions against you. This is the green flag that make many people including the influencers, many Hollywood actors launched their coins and get away with it.

[uneng]

They cause harm to the market, because they lure investors into losing money. They don't offer long term sustainability and make investors adopt crypto with wrong perceptions in mind, which lead to frustration. Memecoins claim it's easy to make overnight profit in this industry, although in fact it's not true. The marketing involved is not only deceiving, but also cynical.

When entering into crypto world, it's necessary to understand patience will needed from investors, and that profit margins aren't so juicy in a realistic way they used to be in the early years.

[Orpichukwu]

The harm is more than the exposure it's supposed to bring. Memecoin is now a means to pull out money from the crypto market rather than actually bringing in real-time investors. Most memecoins are not much different from Ponzi schemes; those who get in early make some profit at the expense of those who came in late, and when the developer sees enough volume, they rug pull and move over to the next one. Some people have lost faith in crypto because of their experience with memecoins.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Memecoins caused a significant increase in supply; before 2022, the number of cryptocurrencies was much lower than it is now. This large supply affected the price and trust in cryptocurrencies.

There should be a filter to determine if a token qualify as cryptocurrency because meme coins are noises and short lived.
Memecoin market usually won't last few hours let alone days, it should not qualify as crypto otherwise it will tarnish the reputation of cryptocurrency.

In a way, these meme coins mostly just a code that lives on the solana blockchain and not really a crypto, it's just a token.