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SLV is experiencing extreme volatility, caught in a tug-of-war between strong dip-buying following significant price pullbacks and community discussions on potential government price floors for critical minerals, alleged market manipulation, and physical supply concerns.

Ripple is the catchall name for the cryptocurrency platform, the transactional protocol for which is actually XRP, in the same fashion as Ethereum is the name for the platform that facilitates trades in Ether. Like other cryptocurrencies, Ripple is built atop the idea of a distributed ledger network which requires various parties to participate in validating transactions, rather than any singular centralized authority. That facilitates transactions all over the world, and transfer fees are far cheaper than the likes of bitcoin. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, XRP transfers are effectively immediate, requiring no typical confirmation time.  Ripple was originally founded by a single company, Ripple Labs, and continues to be backed by it, rather than the larger network of developers that continue bitcoin’s development. It also doesn’t have a fluctuating amount of its currency in existence. Where bitcoin has a continually growing pool with an eventual maximum, and Ethereum theoretically has no limit, Ripple was created with all of its 100 billion XRP tokens right out of the gate. That number is maintained with no mining and most of the tokens are owned and held by Ripple Labs itself — around 60 billion at the latest count.  Even at the recently reduced value of around half a dollar per XRP, that means Ripple Labs is currently sitting on around $20 billion worth of the cryptocurrency (note: Ripple’s price crashed hard recently, and may be worth far less than $60 billion by time you read this). It holds 55 billion XRP in an escrow account, which allows it to sell up to a billion per month if it so chooses in order to fund new projects and acquisitions. Selling such an amount would likely have a drastic effect on the cryptocurrency’s value, and isn’t something Ripple Labs plans to do anytime soon.  In actuality, Ripple Labs is looking to leverage the technology behind XRP to allow for faster banking transactions around the world. While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on the idea of separating financial transactions from the financial organizations of traditional currencies, Ripple is almost the opposite in every sense.  XRP by Ripple price can be found on this page alongside the market capitalization and additional stats.

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XRP is experiencing significant downside pressure, triggering widespread community frustration and fears of further drops amidst broader crypto market weakness. However, active discussions also highlight optimistic perspectives viewing the current dip as a prime accumulation opportunity, driven by expectations for future regulatory clarity from the CLARITY Act and Ripple's ongoing utility developments.

Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, created in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. It enables peer-to-peer electronic cash transactions without intermediaries like banks or governments, operating on a blockchain secured by Proof of Work mining and the SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm.   With a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins and programmatic halvings every four years that reduce miner rewards, Bitcoin is designed as a deflationary digital asset often called "digital gold." Its value stems from solving the double-spending problem without trusted intermediaries, creating the first truly scarce digital asset with censorship resistance and permissionless access that no government, corporation, or individual can control.  Bitcoin operates as a decentralized peer-to-peer network where transactions are recorded on a public ledger called the blockchain, distributed across thousands of computers globally. Transactions are grouped into blocks added approximately every 10 minutes through mining, where specialized computers compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles.   Bitcoin has achieved mainstream adoption through multiple vectors. The January 2024 SEC approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs opened Bitcoin investment to traditional finance participants, and corporations like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) are using Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset to protect against currency debasement, offering MSTR holders amplified exposure to Bitcoin.   The Bitcoin ecosystem continues to evolve with innovations like Ordinals, which emerged in January 2023 to enable NFT-like functionality directly on Bitcoin, and BRC-20 tokens, an experimental standard for creating fungible tokens using Ordinal inscriptions. BTCFi (Bitcoin Finance) represents emerging financial applications extending beyond Bitcoin's traditional role, with protocols like Babylon allowing Bitcoin holders to stake BTC to secure Proof of Stake chains.

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Bitcoin is experiencing a sharp decline, fueling intense community debate around perceived institutional selling, MicroStrategy's leveraged exposure, and a circulating "Epstein coin" narrative, as bears anticipate further capitulation while some bulls are actively "buying the dip" amidst the volatility.

Robinhood Markets, Inc is a financial services platform, which engages in the provision of retail brokerage and offers trading in U.S. listed stocks and Exchange Traded Funds, related options, and cryptocurrency trading, as well as cash management, which includes debit cards services. The company was founded by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt in 2013 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

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Robinhood is experiencing a sharp sell-off, largely influenced by Bitcoin's recent decline and broader market weakness, sparking intense community debate on whether the stock is an "undervalued" buying opportunity or faces further drops due to its crypto exposure and perceived market manipulation ahead of earnings.

Alphabet, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in software, health care, transportation, and other technologies. It operates through the following segments: Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets. The Google Services segment includes products and services, such as ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Google Maps, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. The Google Cloud segment refers to infrastructure and platform services, collaboration tools, and other services for enterprise customers. The Other Bets segment relates to the sale of healthcare-related services and internet services. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on October 2, 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

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Alphabet is trending after its earnings report detailed strong growth in Google Cloud and YouTube, alongside a significantly higher capital expenditure forecast for 2026 to fuel its AI ambitions. The community is actively debating whether this aggressive investment in AI infrastructure signals a long-term win for Google or if the market will punish the increased spending, similar to recent reactions to other tech earnings.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. engages in the provision of semiconductor businesses. It operates through the following segments: Data Center, Client, Gaming, and Embedded. The Data Center segment includes server-class CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, DPUs, FPGAs, SmartNICs, and Adaptive SoC products. The Client segment refers to the computing platforms, which are a collection of technologies that are designed to work together to provide a more complete computing solution. The Gaming segment is a fundamental component across many products and can be found in APU, GPU, SoC or a combination of a discrete GPU with another product working in tandem. The Embedded segment focuses on the embedded CPUs, GPUs, APUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoC products. The company was founded by W. J. Sanders III on May 1, 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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AMD is trending following a post-earnings sell-off despite strong underlying performance, as conservative guidance clashes with CEO Lisa Su's bullish AI outlook. This has ignited a fierce debate among investors, with many buying the dip, including ARK Invest, while others anticipate further market correction.

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Alphabet is trending after reporting strong Q4 earnings driven by Google Cloud's robust growth, but the market is actively debating its substantial projected capital expenditure for 2026, which fueled volatile after-hours trading as investors weigh AI leadership against spending plans.

Snap, Inc. operates as a technology company, which engages in the provision of a visual messaging application that was created to help people communicate through short videos and images. The company was founded by Frank Reginald Brown IV, Evan Thomas Spiegel, and Robert C. Murphy in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

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Snap Inc. is trending after reporting better-than-expected Q4 earnings, positive net income, and announcing a $500 million stock repurchase program, sparking a polarized debate among investors. Bulls view the return to profitability and share buyback as a strong bullish signal from recent lows, while skeptics point to ongoing concerns about stock-based compensation, user growth in key markets, and conservative Q1 guidance.

Solana is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption by providing a fast, secure, and low-cost environment for decentralized applications. It distinguishes itself by scaling globally without the use of complex sharding or multiple layers, instead maintaining a single, unified ledger to avoid liquidity fragmentation. This architecture allows it to process thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality, often at a cost of less than a penny per transaction.  The network operates on a unique hybrid model that combines Proof of Stake with an innovation called Proof of History, which functions as a decentralized clock to timestamp transactions. This system reduces the need for constant node communication, allowing the Sealevel engine to run non-conflicting smart contracts in parallel across multiple CPU cores. Further efficiency is gained through the Gulf Stream protocol, which reduces confirmation times by forwarding transactions to validators before the current block is finished.  Founded in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana is now supported by the Switzerland-based Solana Foundation and significant institutional investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital. The platform’s native token, SOL, serves as the primary currency for paying transaction fees, participating in network governance, and securing the system through staking.   Solana has also seen significant institutional adoption ranging from spot Solana ETFs to major partnerships including Visa's 2025 launch of USDC settlement on the network and the tokenization of public equity by firms like Galaxy Digital.

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Solana is trending amidst a broader crypto market de-risking event, with its price experiencing a significant pullback despite strong on-chain activity and ecosystem growth hitting new records. The community is sharply divided between panic selling and viewing this as a prime accumulation opportunity, especially with ongoing discussions about regulatory clarity for the sector.

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AGQ is trending as the community reacts to a historic, sharp decline in silver, widely attributed to alleged market manipulation by large financial institutions, fueling discussions around a potential aggressive rebound and a significant disconnect between physical and paper silver markets.

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Shares of American Shared Hospital Services (AMS) traded 4% lower on Friday morning after the company <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/04/3055860/0/en/American-Shared-Hospital-Services-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Strong-Full-Year-2024-Financial-Results.html">reported</a> fourth-quarter earnings below estimates.American Shared Hospital Services provides stereotactic radiosurgery equipment and advanced radiation therapy cancer treatment services through its leasing or direct patient care services segments.The company reported fourth quarter (Q4) revenue of $9.07 million, marking an increase of 59.2% year-on-year (YoY) and beating an analyst estimate of $7.70 million, according to FinChat data.Loss per common share came in at $0.20 for the quarter, as compared to earnings per common share of $0.06 reported in the corresponding period of 2023, and lower than an analyst estimate of $0.01 earnings per share.The company ended 2024 with $11.28 million in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, as compared to $13.81 million as of the end of 2023.On Friday, American Shared Hospital Services’ CEO Gary Delanois said that the company is “rapidly evolving” from its traditional leasing model to a direct provider of radiation therapy treatment services to cancer patients.“This transition aligns with our long-term strategy of revenue growth through increased patient volumes rather than equipment utilization. With an expanded business model, increased patient volumes, and operational enhancements, we are positioned for sustainable long-term growth,” he said in a statement.The CEO added that the company continues implementing strategic initiatives to improve efficiency and maximize profitability.On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around AMS jumped from ‘neutral’ to ‘extremely bullish’ (100/100) territory while message volume surged from ‘extremely low’ to ‘extremely high’ levels over the past 24 hours.<figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:648/148;" src="https://news.stocktwits-cdn.com/Screenshot_2025_04_04_at_10_52_35_AM_png_67d352783b.webp" alt="AMS's Sentiment Meter and Message Volume as of 10:50 a.m. ET on April 4, 2025 | Source: Stocktwits" width="648" height="148"><figcaption>AMS's Sentiment Meter and Message Volume as of 10:50 a.m. ET on April 4, 2025 | Source: Stocktwits</figcaption></figure><a href="https://stocktwits.com/symbol/AMS">AMS stock</a> is down over 9% this year and by over 3% over the past 12 months.Also See: <a href="https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/amgen-uplizna-receives-fda-approval-as-treatment-for-immune-mediated-disorder/chfa708Rb72">Amgen Stock Edges Higher After Uplizna Becomes First FDA-Approved Treatment For Immune-Mediated Disorder – Retail Gets More Bullish</a>For updates and corrections, email newsroom[at]stocktwits[dot]com.

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American Shared Hospital Services Stock Drops On Disappointing Q4 Earnings – But Retail Sentiment Soars

Company CEO Gary Delanois said that the company is “rapidly evolving” from its traditional leasing model to a direct provider of radiation therapy treatment services to cancer patients.

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American Shared Hospital Services engages in leasing radiosurgery and radiation therapy equipment to healthcare providers. Its equipment includes Gamma Knife, PBRT, and IGRT. It operates through the Leasing and Retail segments. The Leasing segment focuses on the provision of radiation therapy through medical equipment leasing. The Retail segment delivers direct patient services. The company was founded by Ernest A. Bates in 1977 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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