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Midcurve is a crypto Twitter insult for a trader in the middle of the bell curve meme: smart enough to construct elaborate analysis, not smart enough to realize the analysis is worthless. The meme places three figures on an IQ distribution. The "left curve" simpleton buys a coin because the dog picture is funny, the "right curve" sage arrives at the same conclusion through deep reasoning, and the crying "midcurve" in the middle overcomplicates everything and loses money. Calling a take "midcurve" accuses it of sophisticated wrongness.

## Origin

The underlying format is the IQ Bell Curve or Midwit meme documented by Know Your Meme, which traces the popular three Wojak version to a July 11, 2020 post by the X account @owenbroadcast, building on the older "midwit" concept from imageboard culture. Crypto communities adopted the template during the 2021 cycle and it became core vocabulary during the Solana meme coin era, when the market seemed engineered to punish nuance: tokens with no fundamentals outperformed carefully researched projects, making the left curve position look like wisdom.

## Usage

In the [[trenches]], "stay left curve" is genuine advice meaning keep the thesis simple: the coin is funny, people will buy it, [[send it]]. "Midcurving it" means talking oneself out of a winner or into a loser through overthinking, for example selling a runner because a chart pattern looked bearish. Commentators including the CoinDesk piece "Midwits, Wassies and HODLers" have noted the scene's surprising respect for performed ignorance, with successful [[degen]] traders styling themselves as left curve even when their edge is anything but naive. The right curve position is claimed far more often than it is earned, and accusing someone of being a "midcurver" who thinks they are right curve is a standard escalation. The meme also frames market structure arguments: holding [[bag]]s through drawdowns, when to [[ape]], and whether fundamentals matter at all.

## References

- https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-midwit-meme-and-what-does-it-mean-the-iq-bell-curve-meme-explained
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/midwits-wassies-hodlers-memes-define-191305360.html
- https://hackernoon.com/the-crypto-curve-left-right-and-center
- https://medium.com/@paulstanlen/it-pays-to-be-mid-curve-in-a-crypto-bull-run-cec0642978a8

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