But it also represents a striking inflection point for the pattern of rampant market speculation that makes meme coins in any way viable. By one metric, a far larger group of investors traded the ...

Funny money or filch? Meme coins became popular in 2013 with the launch of Dogecoin, which its creators intended as a joke, spoofing the many other seemingly useless cryptocurrencies that were popping ...

With a sharp sell-off that gripped cryptocurrency markets since the beginning of the year, a coin deemed as the biggest joke by many in the community has became the outlier to crypto-land this time.