Did the total amount of money spent on the coin add up to 12 billion dollars? If not, then they didn't 12 billion dollars.
Fucking speculation value is bullshit.
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I'm guessing this was a roundabout laundering / buying power thing.
So while some of his fans lost money, I doubt they're rich enough to lose $12B.
What happened was $12B was intentionally moved from some people to another.
That's not how these numbers work. A $12b drop in market cap in no way suggests a real $12b was ever involved. I don't know the specific numbers to this coin, but say there's 12b coins sitting at $2 each and someone sells 100,000 coins. That looks like $200,000 until you sell the 35466th coin when you blow through all the $2 buy orders. Now you hit a wall where people didn't like $2 and only want to buy at $1.50. The seller ended up with $70,000 at $2 plus like $90,000 at $1.5 but the market cap just dropped $6,000,000,000.
Again, these aren't real numbers to apply to this coin, just an attempt to illustrate how funny reporting on market cap numbers really are. My example is definitely a little extreme.
So it's probably just some greedy pig boy that tried to pull out a couple mil suddenly, and the buy wall didn't hold. Weak ass rugpull, 14 year olds do better
Yeah, I get that, I still think it was some sort of grift / laundering though.
The big grift atm isnt the money laundering (which exists, and is known and the 3 letter agencies used to be active in tracking it down). The grift now is dumping us gov dollars into crypto directly and removing all barriers to money laundering and scamming of the public.
Oh no, who could've seen this coming?
Sounds like a money laundering deal that got cashed in after the shit show with Zelenskyy
Lol Pump n' Dump Trump
When you think about it, no money was lost to Trump supporters. He supports himself after all.
Are there any memecoins that are stable and, you know, currency-like?
Depends on what you mean with 'currency'.
E: Prob still is 'no' in all cases except 'I keep a rare coin collection for speculation purposes'. Saw that the local places which used to accept bitcoin no longer do so.
Memecoins are meant to be unstable and bring no value. It's sad that people get interested by them more than they get interested by Bitcoin, which is a lot more serious and stable
Bitcoin is also unserious and unstable to a degree that woukd be comical if it weren't tragic.
Not meme coins, but stable coins exist - which are tethered to a particular global currency (eg. USD), but their primary/sole purpose is to act as a way to lock in price trades (as actual transfers may not go through instantly and would therefore differ in value otherwise).
"Stable coins" have crashed before too.
The whole crypto currency market is a house of cards. Just some are a bit lower in the structures than the others so don't fall over as often. But in the end, none of it is safe and none of it has a positive economic value.
Someone did some math (an actual paper iirc) on stablecoins, they actually had a mathematical stable value to which it would return, which was around the pegged value. Only one problem, this wasnt the only stable value, as they had 2. The other stable value was 0. Hmm black swans
and they’re as stable as how much you seem to get the point