It's 2021 all over again as shares of video retailer GameStop soared Thursday after influential retail trader Keith Gill, better known under his RoaringKitty or DeepFuckingValue aliases, provided an update on his massive bet on the embattled stock.The action rippled through the digital asset market, too. Solana-based meme token GME, which was inspired by GameStop but has no affiliation with the company, surged more than 80% over the past 24 hours, CoinGecko data shows, despite the.
Gill, who rose to fame during the GameStop short squeeze in the pandemic years, sparked a frenzy for memecoins last month when he returned to social media after three years of silence. Since then, the GME token is up over 3,000% since mid-May and surpassed the $120 million market capitalization.in a variety of blockchain and digital asset businesses and significant holdings of digital assets, including bitcoin.