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Great, so now there is a marketplace for IPs meaning that there are people solely making money buying and selling IPs pushing the price up irregardless of usage
by sschueller 5y ago
Great, so now there is a marketplace for IPs meaning that there are people solely making money buying and selling IPs pushing the price up irregardless of usage.
- eru 5y agoHuh? How does a marketplace push up prices?
- cat199 5y agothe marketplace becomes full of speculators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
- nybble41 5y agoSpeculation might make it harder to get fixed IPv4 addresses for hobby projects, but in the long run it means there are IPv4 addresses available on the market for situations that actually need them rather than having them all tied up in lower-value services or ones which could have been done just as well over IPv6.
- eru 5y agoJust allow speculators to short sell? In any case, a link to the so-called tulip mania doesn't answer my question, does it?
- drdec 5y agoThat appears to be the biggest reason BitCoin marketplaces exist
- eru 5y agoNot sure. Eg BitCoin futures were introduced in December 2017. A new marketplace for BitCoin. And promptly, we saw a nice price drop shortly after. Perhaps that was because those BitCoin futures allowed short sellers to take a position?
- intev 5y agoYea, and I really want this to happen. I want it to get expensive enough to the point where cloud providers realize they are literally throwing away money by participating in these markets rather than just adopting ipv6 and solving the challenges that come with it. That's how we move forward. They aren't going to do anything until theres $$s on the table.
- 0x0000000 5y agoI think you'll have trouble getting the necessary ARIN approvals if your goal is to speculate on the pricing of IPv4 addresses.