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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.

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Yea, 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.

I think you'll have trouble getting the necessary ARIN approvals if your goal is to speculate on the pricing of IPv4 addresses.

Huh? How does a marketplace push up prices?

the marketplace becomes full of speculators

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Speculation 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.

Just allow speculators to short sell?

In any case, a link to the so-called tulip mania doesn't answer my question, does it?

That appears to be the biggest reason BitCoin marketplaces exist

Not 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?

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