Have the Hedge Funds Infiltrated Reddit’s WallStreetBets?
The media keeps saying WallStreetBets is going after silver; WallStreetBets members say it’s a campaign to co-opt and divide them.
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A major Hollywood studio has won the rights to turn the r/Wallstreetbets saga into a movie — less than a week after the GameStop short squeeze. The r/Wallstreetbets saga which saw a group of Redditors join forces to extract billions from Wall Street hedge funds is set to be turned into a movie. As reported by Deadline on Jan. 31, a newly proposed book by The Social Network author, Ben Mezrich, was subject to a bidding war between major Hollywood studios, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer winning out in the end. The project will reunite Mezrich with MGM producer Michael DeLuca, who also produced the....
The Wallstreetbets collective has denied their involvement with the Wallstreetbets cryptocurrency. A Reddit post by u/OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR claims an ex-mod is behind the scam, which he describes as a “crypto pyramid scheme.” In February, at the height of the Wallstreetbets mania, it emerged that the mods had split over a potential movie deal. A power struggle […]
Reddit’s non-fungible token (NFT) avatars have produced significant market action in the NFT industry, as the collectible’s secondary market sales reached more than $5 million on October 24 across more than 20,000 sales. The demand for Reddit’s collectible NFT avatars minted on Polygon has also spurred over three million Redditors to leverage Reddit’s Vault blockchain wallet. Demand for Reddit’s Collectible NFT Avatars Skyrockets — $5 Million in Secondary Sales Sold Across 20,000 Sales During the first week of July, Reddit revealed the company had plans to release....