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'Attack Of The Blob' (March 2021)
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Attack Of The Blob: Why The Gamestop Short Squeeze Was Not An Isolated Event
Has the financial industry become a virtual, game-like system? What is 'the blob', and why is it rampaging through the financial markets?!
In this episode, we compare the Reddit community 'Wall Street Bets'' campaign against the shorters of Gamestop with one of the biggest attacks ever to take place inside the video game Eve:Online. Does the fact that the financial markets are about as real as a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game make them vulnerable to virtual 'blob' attacks like those carried out in Eve? And perhaps most importantly, has the internet been teaching itself, via MMORPGs, how to conduct asymmetric attacks against much stronger foes?
