From memes to multibillion-greenback pumps, cons and rug pulls
Memecoins, or meme cryptocurrencies, began as a cultural phenomenon with the launch of Dogecoin (DOGE) in 2013, influenced by an world-wide-web meme and a critique of the wild crypto industry at the time. Dogecoin was created by application developers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer as a joke to mock what a lot of noticed as…