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Culture
4 movements, tribes, eras, and events that shaped financial markets and the public understanding of finance.
- EraHistorical
r/WallStreetBets and the GameStop Short Squeeze
2020 – 2021
Between roughly January 14 and February 2, 2021, retail investors coordinated on the Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets (WSB) bought shares of GameStop — a struggling videogame retailer trading around $20 at the start of the month — in sufficient volume to trigger what became one of…
- Movement
Bitcoin Maximalists
2014 – present
Bitcoin Maximalism is a philosophical and cultural movement holding that Bitcoin is the only legitimate cryptocurrency — the only one that solves the problems cryptocurrency was meant to solve, and the only one worth holding, building on, or taking seriously. Every other…
- Tribe
XRP Army
2014 – present
The XRP Army is one of the most vocal, organized, and durable retail communities in cryptocurrency — a tribe of XRP holders so aggressive on social media that it has been variously called "the most hated crypto community," "a cult," and "the reason I muted XRP keywords on…
- MovementHistorical
Occupy Wall Street
2011 – 2012
Occupy Wall Street was a leaderless, decentralized protest movement that began with the physical occupation of Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan on September 17, 2011, and rapidly spread to hundreds of cities worldwide. Emerging three years after the 2008 financial crisis,…