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Strictly limited supply… check.

Tradable… check.

Has some inherent usefulness… check.

Price is rising rapidly… check.

IPv4 is going to live forever as a non-crypto coin!

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> Tradable… check.

I know you’re joking but it’s not tradable (by home users). I can’t just sell my IP address to someone else. ISPs.. maybe, but I can imagine they make more money continuously leasing them out than selling them for a one off payment.

Of course you can't sell property that you are renting. Right now mostly unused IPs are being sold off, but in a few years we might see companies optimizing their networks to free up addresses and sell them.

IPv4 NFTs will surely become a thing soon.

That might actually be another useful case for a NFT, /24 blocks can be traded in real time and when combined with the RPKI can be used as proof of ownership.

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