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Here are 69 of 420 dumbest moments of the year.</h2><div style="display:flex;flex-direction:row;align-items:center;justify-content:space-between"><p style="font-size:14px;margin:5px 0px">By <span><a href="/author/ryan-gladwin"><span class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">Ryan S. Gladwin</span></a></span></p><div style="display:flex;flex-direction:row;align-items:center"><p style="font-size:14px;margin:5px 0px">39 min read</p><div style="height:4px;width:4px;background-color:#333;border-radius:50%;margin:0 11px"></div><p style="font-size:14px;margin:5px 0px"><span class="whitespace-nowrap"><time datetime="2024-12-27T20:30:19Z">Dec 27, 2024</time><time hidden datetime="2024-12-27T20:30:19Z" style="display:none">Dec 27, 2024</time></span></p></div></div><div style="position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;width:100%;margin:30px 0px"><amp-img style="border-radius:3px" class="cover i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" src="https://cdn.decrypt.co/resize/1024/height/512/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/shutterstock_69687058-gID_7.jpg" layout="fill" i-amphtml-layout="fill"></amp-img></div><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center"><amp-ad width="320" height="50" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/22724166089/decrypt_amp_articles_inline" json="{"targeting":{"pubg_did":["2k/utr-cnd"]}}" rtc-config="{"vendors": { "aps": {"PUB_ID": "600", "PUB_UUID": "1ce5cb1e-d0d8-4aca-84a6-5a0f9f8af593", "PARAMS":{"amp":"1"}} }}" class="i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" style="width:320px;height:50px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"></amp-ad></div><div style="word-break:break-word"><p>Crypto was dumb in 2024—like, <em>really </em>dumb. This year’s meme coin supercycle spawned the most bizarre characters the industry has ever seen, <a href="https://decrypt.co/74396/alas-john-mcafee-we-hardly-knew-ye" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">which is saying a lot</a>, and conferences had us cringing weekly, all while politicians begged on their knees for the crypto vote (or at least its money).</p>
<p>And with this, we’ve enjoyed some of the dumbest moments ever inscribed on the perfectly distributed, immutable, <em>uncensorable</em> Blockchain of Life. From a meme coin developer setting himself on fire to promote his meme coin (#6, below) to FARTCOIN itself piercing a billion-dollar market cap (a late breaker that we didn't even count, <a href="https://x.com/farokh/status/1869716606219427954" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">but Stephen Colbert did</a>), this year was truly something all of us can be proud of. These are the moments that define us, and which we can retell endlessly to our children, and our children's children, all of whom will doubtless be basking in the generational wealth we created in 2024, and beyond.</p>
<p>To commemorate crypto's awesomely idiotic year that was, we’ve randomly gathered an unranked list of 69 of the Dumbest Moments of the Year.</p>
<h2>1. Meme coin mammories</h2>
<p style="position:relative;width:100%;margin-bottom:0"><amp-img height="755" width="1342" src="https://wp.decrypt.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/livemom.jpg" srcset="https://wp.decrypt.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/livemom.jpg" alt="LIVEMOM" class="cover i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" layout="responsive" i-amphtml-layout="responsive"><i-amphtml-sizer style="display:block;padding-top:56.2593%"></i-amphtml-sizer></amp-img></p><p style="width:100%;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;margin-top:5px;font-family:var(--font-akzidenz-grotesk);opacity:0.58">LIVEMOM may be peak crypto degeneracy. Image: Kick Livestream</p>
<p>An alleged mother joined her alleged son <a href="https://x.com/Shaammrock/status/1785983644391092402/video/1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">on a livestream</a> to shake her boobs, begging viewers to invest in her son’s real meme coin.</p>
<p>“Do you wanna see him pour milk over these 36DDs?” she asked, noting—in case we weren’t already horrified enough—that her son “actually suckled on these. Now he’s going to get to pour milk on them.”</p>
<h2>2. Getting cheeky</h2>
<p>The viral success of LiveMom kick started a live streaming meta where meme coin devs would do stupid shit to boost their Pump.fun tokens—some would call it performance art.</p>
<p>One dude <a href="https://x.com/bingingwithbab/status/1789053858867552494#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">tied his hands so he couldn’t dump</a> on investors, another <a href="https://decrypt.co/229889/solana-meme-coin-creator-no-hands-couldnt-rug-lied" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">claimed to have no arms</a> at all (before he revealed them and sold everything), and a third dev said he had <a href="https://x.com/DoonhamerNFT/status/1786047329625145796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1786047329625145796%7Ctwgr%5E38be56fcb4998d698684efc0434bcdc2943d510b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecrypt.co%2F230083%2Fmeme-coin-devs-doing-wild-things-livestreams-pump-tokens" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">kidnapped someone</a>. We wish that was the worst of it, but it definitely wasn’t: one guy <a href="https://decrypt.co/230526/solana-meme-coin-devs-fight-livestream-pump-price" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">lost his tooth while boxing</a>, and another genius simply streamed their <a href="https://x.com/0xRamonos/status/1795606875737915416" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml">spread ass cheeks</a>.</p>
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