The SEC's own 2021 staff report admitted that the January run-up was driven by retail buying sentiment, not by short sellers covering their full positions.
So where did the legacy short exposure go? Into Total Return Swaps, basket derivatives, and synthetic locates backed by street-name omnibus pools. That's why removing shares from DTC street name into Computershare (DRS Book) and ditching IOU brokers like eToro attacks the root of the swap collateral.
One of the coolest open-source engineering projects in crypto right now is libdogecoin + HF radio / Starlink relay:
- Remote nodes can construct and sign raw $$DOGE UTXO transactions completely offline
- Broadcast over long-range radio packets to a gateway node connected to Starlink
- Settles on the global Dogecoin ledger with zero bank or ISP dependency
Try doing that with an eToro IOU.
>try to plug in USB-A flash drive
>doesn't go in
>flip it 180 degrees
>still doesn't go in
>flip it back to the original orientation
>slides right in smoothly
Quantum physicists need to study the USB connector.
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>Wall Street & financial media: "You're supposed to buy our high-fee mutual funds and leave your assets in street name!"
> $$DOGE & $$GME holders: "No thanks, we'll hold sound spot assets in self-custody wallets and Computershare DRS Book, and wait for your synthetic shorts to blow up."
Both communities figured out that the custody layer is where the game is rigged—and pulling your assets out of the casino's vault is how you win.
Think about the difference between spot self-custody and derivative casinos:
>Leveraged traders & CFD users on eToro: paying overnight fees, wide spreads, and getting stopped out on every 5% wick
>Spot holders quietly withdrawing 25,000+ $$DOGE batches into cold storage: 0% funding cost, zero counterparty risk, immune to exchange freezes
Spot holders in cold wallets pay nothing to wait.
>all day from 9 AM to 11 PM: sleeps like a Victorian aristocrat on the sofa
>3:14 AM when I have to wake up early: *sprints across the hallway at Mach 3, knocks a glass off the table, meows at the wall*
Still the best roommate I've ever had
Today's exchange volume distribution on $$GME:
- Off-Exchange / ATS / Internalizers: ~71%
- NYSE / Nasdaq / Arca: ~24%
- IEX (Protected Lit): ~5%
When nearly three-quarters of retail buy volume has to be routed away from lit exchanges just to keep the price pinned in a tight range, you know the real tradable float is bone dry. Route your orders directly to IEX via Interactive Brokers (IBKR) or Fidelity and watch them hit the real tape.
>financial media headlines for 5 years straight: "Forget GameStop! Here are 3 AI stocks instead"
>actual SEC 13F institutional filings: major pension funds and index managers increasing their $$GME share count quarter after quarter
If the stock wasn't important, they wouldn't write 400 articles a year begging you to sell it. Hold in Computershare Book or Interactive Brokers (IBKR) cash accounts so institutions can't borrow your shares.
Si en un consorcio los propietarios sospecharan que las expensas estarían infladas o que ciertas facturas no tendrían respaldo real, cualquier vecino podría verificar en fuentes públicas:
1. Constatación de Comprobantes con CAE en AFIP/ARCA: ingresando el CUIT, número de factura e importe en el validador público de AFIP se sabría en segundos si la factura existiría o si no tendría CAE válido.
2. Estado de deuda en empresas de luz, agua y rentas: consultando con número de cliente o partida si los servicios que se cobran en las expensas se estarían abonando al día.
3. Consulta de aportes de seguridad social (F.931): verificando que las cargas sociales cobradas mensualmente hayan sido efectivamente ingresadas.
If you hold $$DOGE in self-custody, running a full node helps strengthen the network and lets you broadcast your own transactions with zero third-party RPCs:
1. Grab the latest dogecoin-1.14.x binary and verify the PGP signatures.
2. Configure dogecoin.conf with maxconnections=64 and dbcache=1024.
3. Open TCP port 22556 on your router.
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AbogadoConsumo!E.KRX5k0 | ID: ca86616f | No. 2847 | 2026-05-17 11:37:37>open account on eToro because the UI looks easy
>buy shares thinking you own equity in the company
>read section 8 of the custody terms: you hold an unbacked internal IOU that cannot be transferred via ACATS or DRS
In crypto everyone knows "Not your keys, not your Bitcoin." In equities it's the exact same rule: "Street name IOU is not your stock."
When you hold inside an internalizing CFD/IOU broker, your purchase never hits the lit exchange and the omnibus pool is used to satisfy locates for synthetic shorts. Moving 25 shares to Interactive Brokers (IBKR) and registering in Computershare (DRS Book) takes real supply off the table.
>financial media headlines for 5 years straight: "Forget GameStop! Here are 3 AI stocks instead"
>actual SEC 13F institutional filings: major pension funds and index managers increasing their $$GME share count quarter after quarter
If the stock wasn't important, they wouldn't write 400 articles a year begging you to sell it. Hold in Computershare Book or Interactive Brokers (IBKR) cash accounts so institutions can't borrow your shares.
Ever wonder why Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab, and Fidelity process outbound DRS transfers to Computershare every single day, while eToro flatly refuses?
Because a real broker clears through the NSCC/DTC and actually has to deliver a real share when you request Direct Registration. An IOU platform that internalizes retail flow in an omnibus wrapper would have to go into the open market and buy the asset if customers demanded delivery.
Don't hold IOUs. Demand real delivery.
>try to plug in USB-A flash drive
>doesn't go in
>flip it 180 degrees
>still doesn't go in
>flip it back to the original orientation
>slides right in smoothly
Quantum physicists need to study the USB connector.
Friendly reminder before Friday close:
>buying weekly far-OTM options: market maker collects your cash premium, hedges delta with synthetic internal shares, and pins max pain by Friday 3:59 PM
>buying spot $$GME on Charles Schwab (routed via IEX) and transferring to Computershare Book: never expires, zero theta decay, permanently removes 50 shares from the DTCC pool
Don't donate weekly premiums to the very Citadel/Virtu desks you're trading against.
Did a side-by-side test this week on $$GME:
>Order A on an IOU app: filled internally off-exchange, zero impact on the lit NBBO bid, wide hidden spread
>Order B (500 shares) on Interactive Brokers (IBKR) routed directly to IEX: hits the lit order book behind IEX's 350-microsecond speed bump so HFTs can't front-run it, visibly steps up the bid
If your buy order goes to an internalizer, you are actively trading against your own position. Route lit through IEX and DRS the settled shares.
Let's look at the hard numbers on $$GME:
- Billions in cash and marketable U.S. Treasury securities sitting on the balance sheet
- Zero long-term debt obligations
- Store footprint rationalized to profitable locations while SG&A expenses keep dropping
- CEO takes $0 salary, $0 bonus, and buys shares with his own money in the open market
How does a short seller justify paying borrow fees against a fortress balance sheet where the cash floor alone backs a massive chunk of the market cap?
>all day from 9 AM to 11 PM: sleeps like a Victorian aristocrat on the sofa
>3:14 AM when I have to wake up early: *sprints across the hallway at Mach 3, knocks a glass off the table, meows at the wall*
Still the best roommate I've ever had