Robinhood and GameStop proved we need a new financial system
It’s time to shine for DeFi, as the old financial system has rotted and degenerated and has been the main villain amid the GameStop saga. King Midas is most famously remembered through the fable we tell our kids that the king could turn everything he touched into gold. At first, it was a great idea that his greed turned even food into gold, leaving him wealthy but unable to live. Robinhood’s CEO and its board had the impossible King Midas dilemma this week: deciding whether to side with their customers and let them make over $15 billion in profits or halting trading and allow only the sale....
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The video game retailer had its own GME Army pushing the price of the stock to an all-time high before platforms stepped in. Reports are coming in this morning that trading app Robinhood has suspended trading for Gamestop stock and others after GME's price surged in a Bitcoin-like parabolic rally. Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that average Redditors proved their investing power going up against major Wall Street traders short selling GameStop stock. Largely fueled by small-time investors pushing back against large hedge funds, the price of the stock has risen more....
Regulators want to know the details of the GameStop short squeeze. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev will reportedly testify before the United States House Financial Services Committee over the firm’s role in the volatile trading of GameStop and other volatile stocks.According to a report by the American political publication Politico, Tenev is expected to participate in a virtual hearing headed by Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Feb. 18. Politico’s report cited anonymous people familiar with the matter.Waters officially announced the Financial Services Committee’s plans to hold a....
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services hearing will investigate issues around the recent trading surge for shares of GameStop and other companies.
The GameStop saga may indicate a paradigm shift in the financial system or even the creation of an entirely new one. Every significant transformation comes with a new toolset, one that is always surprising at the time and obvious in hindsight. Bitcoin (BTC), climate change and GameStop are all examples of ways in which mass action is pushing for dramatic, not evolutionary, action. We can also see that these are individual vectors of the same movement, highlighting the inefficient parts of the legacy system and the solutions driven by an aggregation of individuals with a collective....
Richard Byworth of EQUOS and Aleks Svetski of Amber share their thoughts on Robinhood's suspension of GameStop stock buys. Over the past few days, a number of stocks, such as GameStop (GME) and AMC Entertainment (AMC), have risen dramatically in price, reportedly in line with attention from Reddit users buying in the face of selling pressure from big players. Popular trading platform Robinhood subsequently began restricting customers’ ability to buy multiple assets associated with the drama. When asked about his thoughts about Robinhood suspending GameStop stock purchases, Richard Byworth,....