GameStop tiny crush highlights the power of decentralization

Jan 28, 2021 14:05 UTC

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Jan 28, 2021 at 14:05 UTC

By Clark

What do the traders on r/WallStreetBets have in mutual with cryptocurrency traders? Together are using technological breakthroughs to skirt procedures characteristic in traditional financial systems. The achievement of the GameStop short squeeze in driving the price overhead $370— & the reaction from centralized authorities & markets to it — has tinted the requirement for decentralized finance, rendering to some in the crypto industry.

The stock, which was trading at less than $20 per share previous this month, was thought by members of the r/WallStreetBets subreddit to be under bout by a hedgerow fund which had revealed a large short position in the stock.

As a consequence of the pump synchronized on Reddit & performed by individual traders using stages like TD Ameritrade & Robinhood, hedge fund Melvin Capital Management misplaced a total of $3.75 billion by having to close their huge, losing short position on GME.

Numerous centralized trading stages have today put limits on trading the stock & the president of NASDAQ — the exchange on which GME is registered — optional that trading might be temporarily stopped on stocks purposely targeted by internet users, in instruction to give investors an accidental to ‘recalibrate.’

Eyebrows were also elevated when the subreddit behindhand the short crush, WallStreetBets, was taken offline provisionally & its Discord channel was postponed, seemingly over gratified moderation issues.

The crypto community has observed on with fascination as traditional markets commence to look like crypto markets, only inferior.

CEO Mike Novogratz, of digital assets management company Galaxy Digital, compared what occurred with GME to ‘a giant endorsement of DeFi’ on Twitter, vocation it ‘a revolution that initiated with people not trusting central authority.’ He also drew contrasts between the Reddit founded movement & the present social climate of disparity that has gripped the U.S., as well as numerous other countries, in new years.

Anthony Scaramucci of SkyBridge Capital — which possesses about $385M in Bitcoin — also trusts new events nearby GME were positive for the future of BTC, expressive Bloomberg that they are ‘more proof of concept that BTC is going to work.’

But not everybody was awe-struck, with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, who downplayed the event’s meaning on a new episode of Mad Money.

‘As entertaining as these moves are, this stuff is only a sideshow,’ supposed Cramer. At the end of the day, I don’t think a Reddit forum can bring the house down.’

‘They are picking underrated stocks, opening large short positions & running with them. That can reason crazy moves in a handful of stocks, but it is not sufficient to move the whole market. C’mon.’

The jaw dipping rise in GameStop saw offshoots & futures authorities at FTX list a tokenized form of GME futures for trading in contradiction of cryptocurrency-based collateral the previous night. FTX’s presence of GME comes at a time when stages like TD Ameritrade & Robinhood are putting limits on its trade.

Driven advanced by Afterhours & futures trading on smaller, non-traditional stages, the price of GME opened at $354.83 on Wednesday, on behalf of a 140% gain overnight.

Clark

Head of the technology.