Ask HN: Can a meme coin be considered modern art?

5 days ago 2

Every night on Binance, someone wakes up rich — and someone else liquidated. The market itself feels like performance art: a theater of greed and hope.

I wrote a short essay about “币安人生 (Binance Life)”, a meme coin that mocks its own players. It has no utility, no promise — only a name that reads like a joke about us all.

What kind of casino builds a game about its gamblers? Binance did. Is this satire, performance art, or just another mirror of capitalism?

(full essay: https://medium.com/@ku3cokr/binance-life-%E5%B8%81%E5%AE%89%E4%BA%BA%E7%94%9F-a-four-character-poem-about-modern-capitalism-1790830e5305)

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