3. Crypto has never had the “cover fire” of its two biggest, most Lindy, most headline assets having a free walk to ATHs. You combine that view with the view of many crypto market participants that both BTC and ETH “don’t have enough meat left on the bone”. Up 55% and up 100%? What is this, a pump for ants??? And you’re left with many participants immediately looking down market cap for stuff that can move more than just a double or two. There is a palpable component of financial nihilism here – the idea that cost of living is strangling most Americans; that upward mobility opportunity is out of reach for increasingly more people; that median home prices divided by median income is at a completely untenable level. All of that is true, so you need to really swing for the fences. Why not put $500 into a memecoin that could 50x, knowing that you could likely lose most or all of it? It’s not like the $500 is enough to make any difference anyways. Neither is $1k or $5k. That mindset, which is becoming pervasive in America, is financial nihilism. This is the zeitgeist for young Americans, you’re naïve to think otherwise. And it’s a huge driver of shitcoining.