The time of Memecoins has not ended because they have not cease to be getting listed but although the only thing that shifted from Memecoins are people because a lot of people are no longer ignorant of the risk, so actually I believe if before the lovers of Memecoins was 100 percent but now I'm not even sure if is up to 40 percent of people who buys it, however SOL is not a Memecoins but an altcoin and definitely those who says they make profit from it consider it a coin they have been dreaming of while others who prefer a better one do not see it as something with such importance, so the only coin that's worth that is Bitcoin.

Meme coins do not end but their era of life is when they enter a cycle, but unfortunately the number and types of memecoins that are so many will make it difficult for you to find which one can give 100x plus the increasing ease of making memecoins makes scammers able to make it worse. There is no advice I can give about meme coins because in the end you just need to gamble at the casino, both are not much different right?

Are you real?
You are in BTCtalk, but you don't know the current chart of BTC?
You are in the trading section. People here should know the current price action and structure.
I don't know why others are posting here without checking the current BTCUSD chart.
Like OP said and my previous post, BTC already formed a double top.
Usually a double top on the daily time frame shows a signal for reversal. If you are not a trader, you don't know what a double top is. It usually happens even on short-term time frames; it's proven to be a signal for reversals.

Since you know that BTC can drop to $40k, it isn't impossible for it to happen again. We are not fortune tellers to know the future or what the price of BTC will be.
What we can do is analyze the chart and predict probabilities.

The double top in 2021 was the result of FTX pulling a massive scam where they took customer funds that they thought were buying Bitcoin, and dumped them into various shitcoins.  Looking back at that and expecting a repeat here would be expecting another crazy fraudulent event to happen right at the exact same time in the cycle as last cycle.  I don't think that's very likely.  More likely we will continue to rally into September, get close to $200K, and then crash spectacularly once the S&P funds have all made their way into Bitcoin.

That's why I'm less optimistic right now that Bitcoin will reach as high as $125,000 or even $120,000.
That double top formation could mean 2 things. We've already reached the peak of this bull run, or it's just a normal movement and we will see still new ATHs in the following weeks or months.

I looked at the chart, and I didn't see the same bearish divergence that we saw when it reached $109,000 last January. If there are divergences being formed then that's a big sign that the market might be reversing, but so far we haven't seen it yet, so still it is bullish. At the end of the day, it will all depends on how people read the charts. That double top formation might be bearish for some, but for some, that might not be.

As for the Government and those institutions out there, they aren't superheroes where they will save the world.

The institutional investors (yes!) and probably government regulations are making the market more stable now. So a bearish market might not be the same as before, where the price would drop significantly and take a long time to recover. This time, any downturn might be shorter. Earlier this year, we saw bitcoin drop below $100k, hit $70k, and now it’s trading strongly at $100k.

The market will continue to evolve all the time, that's why it takes a lot of time to master it, as most traders always say, it's an ongoing process. What distinguishes experts from beginners is that experts can make a profit not because they are always right, but because they know how to manage their funds well, compared to beginners, trading is more difficult than investing which only requires buying and forgetting in the long term. But from your experience OP, you already understand how to deal with the market and that's good, in the trading world being able to survive for a long time is already a victory.

Mastery in trading takes so long because the trading market itself is so much unpredictable. It’s a game of speculations actually. And even if you can call yourself a master, still those inevitable mistakes and losses remain.

However, with mastered skills and strategies being developed, you get to set limits or minimize your losses, while you tend to maximize being profitable in trading. But for those who remain unfortunate and still suffering from constant losses, probably trading is never meant for them, no matter how much they tried.

You're not the only one. Mine, around 2016-2017, had almost 3 million dogecoin on faucets, plus someone sent me 5 million dogecoin. I traded it into other coins.
If I know that dogecoin could reach $0.68, I am already rich; even $0.5 should already give you a fortune with 8 million dogecoin.

I had many coins before, not only dogecoin, which I mistakenly traded for other coins to hold, but the profit from other coins is not as bullish as dogecoin and other coins that performed very well in 2021.

No, I dont have, because I didn't pay much attention to altcoins.  I'm sticking to Bitcoin investment.
AFAIK, Dogecoin requires a huge amount before you can withdraw it from the faucet, which reason I don't have interest.

So you follow the steps of Craig Wright instead of Elon Musk? (both coin promoters)
That's why I don't like altcoins, it's pure hype when big names promote them and create a buzz in the community.
Look at Dogecoin, which has been heavily influenced by Elon Musk's active promotion, while BCH's relative stagnation can be partly attributed to the absence of a high-profile promoter with high influence like Musk.

You may have a long time experience in trading, but that’s not enough to call yourself a master if you keep making simple mistakes continuously, mistakes that could easily be spotted and avoided. You may be a master at trading for years, but making same mistake over and over again makes you not qualified to be called one. But if such mistakes happens ones in a while, then it can be called a mistake as you prepare to be more careful going forward not to make such mistake again.

Buying at the top is a very big mistake to make, because you’ll never be able to get your initial capital you’ve invested in that token again. This is a very big mistake because if you’d use some amount of money that is too much to be risked, and hope to benefit big from this and it fails, it may take you back to square zero just because of this little mistake of not reserving properly before investing. Every trader makes mistake, but many can be avoided when proper research and approach is make to invest in any type of token or in the case of trading.

All traders are still susceptible to mistakes and losses, as even professionals and expert traders still experience losses at times. And that’s fine, as long as we also take chances to learn from our mistakes and grow.

Whether you chose to trade with altcoins or stick to bitcoin, believe me profitability isn’t on the coin itself. It’s on how you manage your trade, and execute your skills and reliable strategies in order to achieve profits. Those who are still at loss consistently only mean one thing, they aren’t good traders yet in the making.

It's easy to be caught up in the hype because Bitcoin was bullish for sure and for those quick profits anybody would have bought...worse off if you are using the DCA strategy it overrides these rules of buying the top, so don't be hard on yourself 

If you are a hodler you can still breakeven sooner or later as price hasn't dipped so deep far from the All Time High, so room to correct this mistake is still present.

Goodluck mate .