Wallstreetbets vs. Wall Street: A prelude to DeFi bursting onto the scene?
Was stock trading app Robinhood the villain in the GameStop saga? “In a decentralized trading market, no one would have that power.” Was last week’s Reddit versus Wall Street stand-off really the “beginning of the end for centralized finance,” as Gemini founder Tyler Winklevoss described it? Or was it just a one-time instance of individuals coming together to right a perceived wrong — with no long-term economic consequences?As GameStop, a struggling videogame retailer, came under attack by hedge-fund short sellers, a coalition of individuals spearheaded by r/Wallstreetbets, a Reddit forum,....
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While legacy finance is losing the people’s trust, decentralized finance is becoming the fair and deserved future of money. To function effectively, society has long depended on people having faith in their institutions. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and wide-ranging failures of leadership, that faith has been tested like never before.Nowhere is the decline in trust more evident than in the financial services sector. In its 2021 Trust Barometer, Edelman found that only 53% of American respondents said they trusted those in the U.S. to "do what is right" — down 5% from its 2020 survey.....
Wall Street Chads is the first NFT project to create a decentralized community-run investment platform. Inspired by WallStreetBets, the infamous subreddit community which is credited for the meme-investing craze and coordinating one of the largest short squeezes in history, Wall Street Chads leverages the power of the blockchain to bring the same community-driven investment strategies […]
After beating Wall Street with its short squeeze of GameStop stock, the members of r/wallstreetbets should level up with Bitcoin. The post After GameStop Short Squeeze, r/Wallstreetbets Is Ready For Bitcoin appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
The world is watching U.S. markets with great interest, and more than a little FOMO, as Reddit investors continue to test their might against Wall Street. It all started when retail investors on the Reddit community wallstreetbets began pumping the price of U.S. video game retailer GameStop’s (GME) stock to counter Wall Street hedge funds […]
The retail trader insurgency has massive implications for the future of capital markets.