Nah nah. What you (and all the other comments miss), is if you were going to do that, you'd just reduce the sale of cards tremendously, while hoarding your own

Nah nah. What you (and all the other comments miss), is if you were going to do that, you'd just reduce the sale of cards tremendously, while hoarding your own production output to take over. You wouldn't cut out all sales and hoard all of them. See, if they just stopped selling them, people would ask questions. If, however, you just reduced the supply by like 80%, said it "was due to all those crypto miners hoarding them", and then proceeded to use that hoarded 80% to do a 50%+1 attack, you'd be able to -quietly- take over, and turn around and sell those coins to the still preserved market. applies tinfoil hat In fact, who is to say that isn't exactly what they're doing, and hence the existing shortage?