I Told Them Not to Buy the Coin: My Accidental $3.5M Memecoin Launch

On May 3rd, at approximately 8:30 a.m., I launched a coin. Not a metaphorical coin, not a metaphor about value or trust or social capital. A literal memecoin, called $AMUSEONX, based on my X (formerly Twitter) handle. I did not encourage anyone to buy it. In fact, I told them explicitly not to. Less than two hours later, it was worth $3.5 million.

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