# Viral French Shopkeeper Turned Into a Million-Dollar Meme Coin Overnight

- Source: Bitcoin News
- Published: 2026-10-19T09:30:17+00:00
- Category: Markets
- Original: https://news.bitcoin.com/altcoins/pierre-meme-coin-france-riots-shopkeeper-155x/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/viral-french-shopkeeper-turned-into-a-million-dollar-meme-coin-overnig-73008f/

A photo of a man standing guard in his smashed-up store during France’s riots turned into PIERRE, a Solana meme coin that ran 155x in about nine hours on Sunday. The Photo The image is hard to forget, i.e. a long-haired man in a black T-shirt stands in the doorway of a gutted video game […]

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