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Jan. 28, 2021 / first-person memory project

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The Button Witness Archive

Where were you when the buy button disappeared?

The market explanation involved clearing, collateral and volatility. The human version was simpler: people opened an app and one side of the trade was gone. We are collecting that version, one memory at a time.

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  2. Button witness002

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    Yesterday your platform had "a technical issue" when $GME took a dip.

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    Today you go one step further by disabling the [Buy] button for $GME altogether. Are there any honest and competent eTrading platforms out there? #WSB #gamestonk #GameStop @eToro @wsbmod

    Tʜᴏʀsᴛᴇɴ Kᴜʀᴢ @t_kurz ↗
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  3. Button witness003

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    NEW: The CEO of Webull tell us the decision to join Robinhood in restricting AMC and GameStop trades came from soaring costs to settle its users trades:

    "It wasn't our choice ... this has to do with settlement mechanics in the market."

    Zack Guzmán @zGuz ↗
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  6. Button witness006

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    Robinhood said they would allow people to buy limited shares of things like AMC (115) and GameStop (5). If you already own that amount, you wouldn’t be able to buy more. I own 96 in AMC, I can’t buy more. Others are reporting they can’t even buy 5 of GME.

    Cade Onder @Cade_Onder ↗
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  7. Button witness007

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    Robinhood just updated their "restrictions" and told me I cant buy AMC stock or options tomorrow because I have more than 10 shares. This is lunacy. Vlad better go to prison for robbing us like this.

    Joe Youngblood @YoungbloodJoe ↗
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  8. Button witness008

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    Robinhood won't let me buy or sell hardly any $GME so I decided to make money my own way. If I can't buy stocks, I'll crank out Sonic videos until I turn a profit on Twitter. 📈💎🚀🚀🚀

    Drift0r @Drift0r ↗
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