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Podcast: FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis
Episode: S14 E22 Buttcoin, Memecoins, and the Future of FOMO Finance, with Matt Beall
Description: In this conversation, Patrick talks with Matt Beall, Chairman and CEO of Bealls Inc., one of America's oldest retail chains and one of the first national retailers to accept cryptocurrency at checkout. Matt is also a prominent figure in the Buttcoin community, a memecoin born from a 2011 internet joke that has grown into something far more serious than its name suggests. They dig into how crypto became a real payment option at Bealls, what memecoin culture actually looks like from the inside, and why FOMO may be the single most powerful force driving speculative markets today. They also talk...