The amount of money this IPv4 space is valued at now - while astronomical in comparison to past pricing, sure - might as well be $0 when you compare it to the c

The amount of money this IPv4 space is valued at now - while astronomical in comparison to past pricing, sure - might as well be $0 when you compare it to the colossal expenses in both funds and manpower to update literally decades of now-critical infrastructure that treated this address space as sacred. Galaxy brain magnitude of difference here. This analysis strikes me as exactly the same type of MBA-rot that chases quarterly earning reports over long-term business health. This sale benefits, in real terms, zero people, while imposing costs on almost every single existing user (whether they realize it or not).