Who We Are: A Snapshot of the Meowcoin Community

A little while ago we passed around a short survey in the Discord and asked you to tell us about yourselves — how long you've been in crypto, how you found MEWC, what you mine on, what you're into when you're not staring at a hashrate graph. Thirty-one of you took the time to answer, and the picture that came back is honestly a pretty lovely one. So here it is: us, in numbers.

This isn't a marketing deck and it isn't a roadmap. It's a mirror. Here's what the Meowcoin community looks like right now.

The short version

• We're a miner's community. More of us found MEWC through mining than through every other channel combined, and most of us still mine it today.
• We've been around the block. Almost nine in ten of us have three or more years in crypto. This is not anyone's first rodeo.
• We're hands-on. The single biggest group describes themselves as power users who build their own PCs — and there's a healthy contingent running homelabs and writing code.
• We're here for the cats. When asked why MEWC, the most common answer wasn't price. It was the shelter mission.
• We're scattered across the globe but we mostly hang out on YouTube and in the Discord.

Who we are

We skew adult and experienced, but we span a genuinely wide age range — from teens to folks 55 and up. The 25–34 and 35–44 brackets are the biggest, with a strong 18–24 crowd right behind.

The tenure numbers are the real tell, though. Over half of us have been in crypto for five years or more, and only two of us are newer than a year in. We've collectively lived through a few cycles, which probably explains the calm, long-game energy in the server.

We're also a technical bunch. The largest group by far are power users who tweak settings and build their own machines — and once you add the homelabbers and the dev/IT folks, the "I just use apps" crowd is firmly in the minority. We can run a node, flash a miner, and read a changelog for fun.

We're a global bunch

Twenty-two of us shared where we're from, and the map is wide open: the United States leads, Vietnam and the UK follow, and from there it's a single pin each across Portugal, Poland, Italy, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, and South Africa. Grouped by region, Europe is the biggest single bloc among those who answered.

No single country dominates — we're an English-speaking-first crowd spread across a lot of timezones, which is exactly why the Discord never really sleeps.

How we found MEWC — and how we hold it

Here's the one that says the most about us. The mining community brought more of us in than anything else — more than YouTube, Twitter/X, Discord, and referrals put together. Mining isn't just how a lot of us hold MEWC; it's how we heard about it in the first place.

And we keep our own keys. Self-custody is the clear default, with mining wallets and exchange balances close behind. This is a hold-and-mine community, not a day-trading one.

Most of us mine

Eighteen of us actively mine, and — no surprise for a MeowPow coin — GPU rigs are the weapon of choice. But there's real variety in here too: a handful of us run Bitaxe/solo setups, a few on ASICs, and at least one brave soul on an FPGA.

We're not maximalists, either. We run diversified bags, and the company MEWC keeps is telling: alongside BTC and the broader alt field, there's a strong showing of mining- and merge-mining-adjacent coins like Litecoin, Ravencoin, Dogecoin, and Monero. Six of us, though, hold nothing but MEWC.

Where we hang out online

If you ever wondered where to find the rest of us: YouTube, basically all of us. Discord is home base, with Twitter/X and Facebook tied behind it, and TikTok and Reddit rounding things out.

And what we like to follow lines up neatly with who we are — crypto first, then gaming, hardware, and finance. A tech-and-finance-literate gaming crowd, more or less.

Beyond crypto

Almost all of us game — overwhelmingly on PC — and the genre spread leans toward shooters and MMOs, with a solid RPG and strategy following. (If a community game night ever happens, now you know where to start.)

Cars are a smaller but real shared thing too — most of us who are into them are daily-driver practical rather than garage-build obsessed, but the enthusiasts are in here.

Why we're here

We asked an open question — why MEWC? — and coded the answers into themes. The result is the part of this whole survey we're proudest of. The most common reason people gave wasn't price. It was the animal-shelter mission.

In aggregate, here's what came through (no individual answers are reproduced — these are summaries across everyone who responded):

• The shelter mission — the most-cited reason of all. Over and over, people framed the charitable angle as the thing that sets MEWC apart from every other coin, and described backing shelters as something tangible and worth showing up for. For a lot of us, the cause is literally why we started mining or holding in the first place.
• It's a real proof-of-work coin. A strong second theme: people value MEWC's mineability and its scrypt/merge-mining heritage. This group overlaps heavily with our most technical, longest-tenured members.
• The community itself. Plenty of people said they stick around for the community and the steady drumbeat of updates. An active, communicative project reads as a green flag; quiet ones are a deterrent.
• Upside potential. A smaller group pointed to the low market cap and room to grow — notably, less often than either the mission or the proof-of-work appeal.

Ideas you shared

We didn't have to ask twice — twenty of you sent unprompted ideas for growing MEWC. Coded into themes, three kept coming up (summarised in aggregate, no individual responses reproduced):

1. Lean into cats on video — especially YouTube and TikTok. By far the most repeated idea: put the cat identity front and center where the community already is. Suggestions ranged from short-form cat content, to a "rig + cat" photo trend, to a playful cat-vs-dog-coin angle, to building our own cat-themed slang.
2. Make the shelter mission the message. Lots of people see the charitable angle not just as a reason to hold but as the way to reach new people — pet owners and animal-welfare folks who don't care about crypto yet. A recurring idea: tie visible donation milestones to community activity, and think pets broadly, not strictly cats.
3. Protect the team; don't over-rotate on price. A quieter but heartfelt thread asked us to go easy on price talk during the bear market and look after the people building this. People framed current price weakness as a whole-market thing, not a MEWC thing — and asked that it not weigh on anyone's morale. (We see you. Thank you.)

A fourth practical ask showed up a lot too: more exchange listings and real-world utility — making MEWC easier to get, hold, and use.

Thank you

That's us. A globe-spanning, key-holding, GPU-humming, cat-loving crowd that mostly found this place through mining and mostly stayed for the mission.

To the thirty-one of you who answered: thank you. You drew this picture, not us. And if you're reading this and you didn't fill it out — now you know what you're a part of. Come say hi in the Discord.

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About this snapshot

Data comes from a faucet-incentivised community survey run in the Meowcoin Discord between 12 and 22 April 2026, with 31 respondents. Several questions allowed multiple answers, so some totals add up to more than 31. This write-up is fully anonymized: no usernames, wallet addresses, or verbatim free-text responses are included, and all open-ended answers were coded into themes and reported only in aggregate. With a small, self-selected sample, the numbers are directional — they describe the people engaged enough to answer, not necessarily every MEWC holder.