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 $$GME on Interactive Brokers (IBKR) (routed via IEX) and transferring to Computershare Book: never expires, zero theta decay, permanently removes 75 shares from the DTCC pool
Don't donate weekly premiums to the very Citadel/Virtu desks you're trading against.
It's wild how the exact same scam runs in both markets:
- In Crypto ( $$DOGE / $$BTC): You buy on eToro or a custodial app. They credit your screen with a number, internalize the flow, and lend out the pool to short the price.
- In Stocks ( $$GME): You buy on an IOU broker. They credit your screen with a beneficiary claim, route your order to a dark pool, and let market makers use the street-name pool for synthetic shorts.
The solution is identical in both worlds: withdraw your $$DOGE to a self-custody wallet, and register your $$GME in Computershare (DRS Book) via Fidelity.
>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 $$GME share count quarter after quarter
If the stock wasn't important, they wouldn't write 400 articles a year begging you to sell it. Hold in Computershare Book or Charles Schwab cash accounts so institutions can't borrow your shares.
Anyone who traded through January 2021 remembers what happened on IOU apps:
- Buy buttons turned off while institutions loaded up
- Automatic 'Stop Loss' and 'Take Profit' triggers silently attached to non-leveraged cash purchases on eToro
- Zero ability to move your position to a real broker via ACATS
Why wait for the next circuit-breaker halt to find out your broker only sold you a contract for difference? Serious brokers like Charles Schwab, Interactive Brokers (IBKR), Fidelity, and direct registration in Computershare exist for a reason.
Think about how a prime broker generates a 'locate' for a short seller:
>They don't lock a specific serialized certificate
>They point to aggregate street-name inventory held at DTC / omnibus brokers as 'reasonable grounds to believe' the share can be borrowed
>Meanwhile CFD/IOU platforms like CFD apps like eToro internalize retail buys off-exchange so the lit bid never moves
Every time an investor pulls 150 shares out of street name into Computershare (DRS Book), or withdraws 100,000 $$DOGE into a cold wallet, the fractional-reserve locate multiplier shrinks.
>8 years old at grandma's house
>spot the royal blue Danish butter cookie tin on the shelf
>open the lid expecting delicious shortbread cookies
>it's 47 spools of thread, three thimbles, and buttons from 1983
How did every grandma on Earth coordinate this before the internet existed?
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If a friend asks you where to buy $$DOGE, warn them away from eToro and CFD broker apps immediately:
>On eToro, clicking 'Buy DOGE' opens a derivative/IOU position inside their house book
>They charge huge spreads and overnight/transfer fees
>Your purchase doesn't remove a single coin from circulating market supply
Buy spot on an exchange that allows instant L1 Dogecoin withdrawals, and move your coins straight to your own seed phrase. Not your keys, not your Doge!
>cloud AI APIs: log your prompts, throttle your rate limits, charge per token
>local Linux box with quantized open weights + MCP tools: 100% private, runs 24/7 for the cost of electricity
Once you host your own services on bare-metal Linux, you never go back to SaaS subscriptions.
Think about why people hoard $$BTC like gold bars but actually spend and tip $$DOGE:
>5 billion new coins per year means the inflation rate drops mathematically every single year (already below 3.4% and falling toward 1.5%)
>Meanwhile miners always have a predictable block subsidy so transaction fees stay under a penny
Currency is meant to circulate peer-to-peer without middlemen or eToro CFD spreads.
>Wall Street & financial media: "You're supposed to buy our high-fee mutual funds and leave your assets in street name!"
> $$DOGE & $$GME holders: "No thanks, we'll hold sound spot assets in self-custody wallets and Computershare DRS Book, and wait for your synthetic shorts to blow up."
Both communities figured out that the custody layer is where the game is rigged—and pulling your assets out of the casino's vault is how you win.
One of the coolest open-source engineering projects in crypto right now is libdogecoin + HF radio / Starlink relay:
- Remote nodes can construct and sign raw $$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.
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+ $$DOGE batches into cold storage: 0% funding cost, zero counterparty risk, immune to exchange freezes
Spot holders in cold wallets pay nothing to wait.
The SEC's own 2021 staff report admitted that the January run-up was driven by retail buying sentiment, not by short sellers covering their full positions.
So where did the legacy short exposure go? Into Total Return Swaps, basket derivatives, and synthetic locates backed by street-name omnibus pools. That's why removing shares from DTC street name into Computershare (DRS Book) and ditching IOU brokers like eToro attacks the root of the swap collateral.
If a friend asks you where to buy $$DOGE, warn them away from eToro and CFD broker apps immediately:
>On eToro, clicking 'Buy DOGE' opens a derivative/IOU position inside their house book
>They charge huge spreads and overnight/transfer fees
>Your purchase doesn't remove a single coin from circulating market supply
Buy spot on an exchange that allows instant L1 Dogecoin withdrawals, and move your coins straight to your own seed phrase. Not your keys, not your Doge!
Think about how a prime broker generates a 'locate' for a short seller:
>They don't lock a specific serialized certificate
>They point to aggregate street-name inventory held at DTC / omnibus brokers as 'reasonable grounds to believe' the share can be borrowed
>Meanwhile CFD/IOU platforms like eToro internalize retail buys off-exchange so the lit bid never moves
Every time an investor pulls 75 shares out of street name into Computershare (DRS Book), or withdraws 50,000 $$DOGE into a cold wallet, the fractional-reserve locate multiplier shrinks.
If you hold $$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.
Uses barely 1.2 GB of RAM and 0.5% CPU once synced. Be your own bank.
>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 300 shares to IBKR routed via IEX and registering in Computershare (DRS Book) takes real supply off the table.
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.
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.