some thoughts about the buy button, robinhood and nature of meme markets

read it before vlad takes it down

The missing like between $gme and crypto.

I went looking for the bullish BUY thesis. The data killed the easy version. I know most people don't read this, but if you are a trader you might want to read till the very end. TLDR; a 2021 object with a 2026 market, still under-distributed.

You came for the meme. Why are you still checking the chart? Our first essay, The Half-Lives of a Meme, opens Button Meme Research: a closer look at attention, belonging, and the psychology of holding. hoodbuybutton.com/meme-resea… View article

45 days later $5.88M volume 17,117 indexed BUY transactions 1,727 holder addresses 8.334% burnt 12.76 WETH paid to treasury

bagwork has been software for too long. so we designed two physical BUY buttons: BUY/0: pure ritual. BUY/1: one press, one bounded $BUY attempt. 350,000 modeled configs later, the meme entered hardware. proof of bagwork: hoodbuybutton.com/bagwork/ View article

Robinhood turned off the Buy button once. The work now is not to keep attention on the Button. It is to keep the Button on. I wrote the full thesis for why $BUY exists—what we’re building, what it is not, and why it matters. THE BUTTON STAYS ON ↓

the market may be waking up. the button never went back to sleep. press the button and dream.