TBD | We Made a Memecoin

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Memecoins are a niche type of cryptocurrency with no intrinsic value. But they remain a popular form of crypto, as seen earlier this year with President Trump’s own memecoin. And if it worked for him, then why not our little podcast? Guests: Azeem Khan, advisor to UNICEF’s crypto fund and cocreator of the blockchain Morph. Nitish Pahwa, Slate staff writer covering business and tech. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A quick note, before we get started, nothing we say in this episode is investment or financial advice.
0:06.6	It is meant purely for educational purposes.
0:09.6	All right, here's the show.
0:15.5	Tish, hi, how are you?
0:17.2	Hi, I'm great, Lizzie. How about yourself?
0:20.1	Do you know why we brought you into the studio today?
0:23.3	I hear that there's a new currency dropping. A few weeks ago, we did something a little weird for our show,
0:33.2	something that our producers, Evan Campbell and Patrick Fortin and I, have been working on for a while.
0:40.0	So I would like to show you something that we made.
0:45.5	I would like your honest feedback.
0:48.1	This is something that Evan and Patrick made.
0:51.7	I was just vaguely present.
0:55.2	Here goes.
0:57.3	All right.
0:58.0	Welcome to Boenwum.
1:00.7	Wow.
1:02.6	This is an incredible image.
1:06.2	That's our landing page.
1:07.8	Oh, my God.
1:12.0	We made our own meme coin.
1:15.2	Its name is Bwayne worm.
1:18.2	And what Tish was looking at there was our AI-generated art with a cartoon worm coming
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