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Dogecoin is on a run, has escaped the yard, and is headed to the moon

Oh, super, Dogecoin is spiking. The joke currency, which as recently as January 27th was worth less than a cent, hit 47 cents this morning, according to Robinhood’s tracker. As I type this, the market cap is more than $51 billion. The currency is based on an au-courant-as-of-2013 meme of a Shiba Inu, and was… Read more

GameStop stock just jumped 100 percent, and WallStreetBets is ecstatic

GameStop is up… again, by a lot. Before market close on Wednesday, the video game retailer’s shares started to soar, and GME just closed at $91.71 — up nearly 104 percent for the day. It’s the highest the stock has been since it fell back down to Earth at the beginning of the month following… Read more

Reddit’s lead GameStop hypebeast is being sued for his role in the stock surge

“Roaring Kitty,” also known as u/DeepFuckingValue on Reddit and Keith Patrick Gill in real life, is now the target of a lawsuit (which you can view below) that claims he manipulated the market to increase GameStop’s stock price. The lawsuit claims that he created a “fake persona” of an investment newbie, while actually having several… Read more

Robinhood’s in better shape than it looks

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Never mind the House hearing, the company’s full steam ahead So here we are: about to have a hearing about GameStonk. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is going to have to explain himself tomorrow. What happens next for Robinhood? Perhaps you recall last month, when GameStop stock shot up… Read more

CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, Robinhood co-CEO Vlad Tenev, and Keith Gill (aka Roaring Kitty) are all on the witness list for an upcoming hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, according to a release from Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). The hearing, to be conducted virtually, will probe the recent volatility in shares of GameStop following… Read more

Go read this profile of the trader whose huge bet on GameStop moved the entire market

The markets are not okay. If you’ve paid any attention to internet chatter this week, you’ve probably seen the names RoaringKitty or DeepFuckingValue — the bullish trader behind the recent GameStop stock phenomenon who’s inspired millions of retail investors to get behind his bet, which has nearly bankrupted at least one hedge fund. Until recently,… Read more

WorkBoy: the peripheral that transformed the Game Boy into a PDA was found

Among the dozens of peripherals and accessories dedicated to Game Boy, WorkBoy is considered a lost treasure. The add-on (hardware and software) has never seen the light, but a 28 years after its announcement we have finally seen it in action thanks to the discovery of the journalist Liam Robertson. by Pasquale Fusco published 28… Read more