THE BUY BUTTON BOOK / FIRST EDITION

THE BUY BUTTON / VOLUME ONE

AN INTERFACE
HISTORY

2021-2026

A control disappeared. A market learned what the interface had been promising. Five years later, the object returned with its history attached.

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Pages
56
Sources
40
Edition
First
Published
25 Jul 2026

THE OBJECT

A history told through the control that stopped working.

The Buy Button reconstructs January 28, 2021 from notices, hearing records, market-structure reports and the language users made when the interface changed beneath them.

It follows the event beyond the feed: into settlement, collateral, testimony, regulation, memory and, finally, Robinhood Chain. The independent onchain project appears only after the historical object has earned its meaning.

SELECTED PAGES

Book page about the promise made by an interface
THE INTERFACE PROMISE
Book page examining the public congressional record
THE PUBLIC RECORD
Book artwork about the buy button as cultural continuity
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Book page introducing the canonical Buy Button object
THE CANONICAL OBJECT
Book page documenting technical proof
PROOF, NOT POSTURE

CONTENTS

Five movements. One control.

  1. 01A Control DisappearsPages 05-14
  2. 02Clearing, Capital, ConsequencePages 15-30
  3. 03The Object Becomes LanguagePages 31-38
  4. 04The Button ReturnsPages 39-53
  5. 05Sources and Edition RecordPages 54-56

FIRST EDITION RECORD

The publication verifies itself.

Each PDF has a fixed SHA-256 digest. The deposit archive includes the manuscript, source register, publication metadata, citation file and rights ledger. No DOI or Bitcoin confirmation is claimed until either record exists.

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SOURCE METHOD

Primary record first.

The historical account is anchored to Robinhood's January 2021 notices, the SEC staff report, congressional testimony and committee records, the move to T+1 settlement, and official Robinhood Chain documentation.

Third-party archival images are not reproduced. The book uses project-created visual commentary and links every factual record it relies on.

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INDEPENDENCE / RIGHTS

An independent cultural-history publication.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Robinhood, GameStop, Reddit, the SEC, Congress or any cited organization. All reproduced visual assets are project-created or project-owned. Historical records are cited for criticism, commentary and analysis.

Corrections and rights inquiries: security@hoodbuybutton.com