“Mad Money” financial expert Jim Cramer not too long ago instructed that younger persons are driving the worth of Dogecoin in latest days.
Cramer stated younger persons are downloading the Robinhood app, which permits them to purchase and commerce cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin and Ethereum.
- “I believe people who find themselves on Robinhood are shopping for Dogecoin,” he said. “For a half-hour on Saturday night time, Robinhood crashed Dogecoin. I believe younger buyers are shopping for, sometimes, Ethereum. They’re shopping for Ethereum very closely. They’re already in numerous the Nasdaq shares.”
Robinhood and Dogecoin
Certainly, the Robinhood app legit crashed when individuals started shopping for and promoting their Dogecoin inventory Saturday night time after Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” And this isn’t the primary time it’s crashed due to Doge. Again on Could 4, the app crashed due to an enormous Dogecoin spike, as I wrote for the Deseret News.
There was some hypothesis that Robinhood is a Dogecoin “whale,” which means that it holds an enormous funding within the app and dictates the market, as I defined for the Deseret Information. However Robinhood has denied the accusation.
Why stock-trading apps are harmful
Investor Warren Buffett stated in early Could that stock-trading apps like Robinhood are just like playing, giving individuals a casino-like expertise, based on CNBC.
Buffett stated the Robinhood app has “grow to be a really important a part of the on line casino facet, the on line casino group of individuals, that has joined into the inventory market within the final yr or yr and a half.”
However Buffett stated apps like Robinhood aren’t dangerous. It’s simply not the one option to generate profits.
- “There’s nothing unlawful about it, there’s nothing immoral however I don’t suppose you’d construct a society round individuals doing it,” stated Buffett.
- “The diploma to which a really wealthy society can reward individuals who now know tips on how to take benefit primarily of the playing instincts of not solely the American public however the worldwide public, it’s not probably the most admirable a part of the accomplishment,” stated Buffett.
