• Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Who even buys meme coins, seriously? It’s not like you can even buy stuff with them, right?

    • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’ve heard multiple stories of people spending stupid money on goldplated Trump $1000 bills and trying to deposit them in a bank.

    • demlet@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yep,the scam worked exactly as planned. If only they were half as competent at governing as they are at scamming their cult members.

  • null@lemmy.org
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    2 months ago

    It served its purpose of allowing Trump to openly accept bribes.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Whether the Trump family was directly involved in a rug pull, it made gangbusters business, raking in over $100 million in trading fees in just two weeks post-launch.

    This was the point of the TrumpCoin scam, not its price. However the coin’s value does reflect on the worthlessness of Trump’s name.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Note: you can’t sell without permission so anyone that sold did so with explicit permission knowing that the price would tank.

  • CatZoomies@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    MAGAts: Welp, this blew up in my face. But thank god my deposit for the Trump Phone is secured. Can’t wait to get it and support freedom! —- wait, you mean we still don’t have a release date and no one is answering our phone calls? What do you mean it has specs from 2018?

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wasn’t this exactly by design? Get lots of supporters to buy in, get the price to surge, and then sell at a profit (the good old ‘pump and dump’)?

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, this is just news for the absolutely 100% idiotic people who purchased then.

      I cannot stress enough how profoundly stupid these people were. How completely and utterly hopelessly dumb they are.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      2 months ago

      It’s literally how these things work. No one gets rich off meme coins except the people selling at the start.