Only pikers are trading mzei. $50 investments each. $1k total traded today means just pikers with not much money and even fewer ideas.
A savvy Brooklyn artist made $89 by selling audio of his own flatulence as an NFT. Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote a song mocking NFTs, and was promptly offered $1 million for it as an NFT. Toronto’s Krista Kim created a digital house that just sold as an NFT for $500,000.
Aside from the recent NFT trend, investors have inexplicably bid up the prices of bankrupt companies such as Hertz Rent-a-Car and J.C. Penney. Kirk Ruddy, a former bankruptcy claims trader, told the Los Angeles Times last June that the phenomenon is likely due to investors buying stocks purely because they recognize the company name and like the low price. “If you look at the markets in general, people don’t know where to put their money. They are like, ‘Hey, I’m going to try that $.001 stock,’” he said.