• Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    The price goes up as you buy it.

    You could attempt to corner the market, but in doing so, you’re also going to be massively enriching the current holders.

    What point would taking the entire supply do - especially since you can easily just start another blockchain?

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      1 hour ago

      You buy enough to raise the price, announce that you’re buying it, schmucks try to get in on the wave, you dump while tweeting diamond hands.

      Repeat.

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      7 hours ago

      @mattyroses @HK65 starting another blcokchain is not as easy as copy the blockchain unless you convince the majority of people that your fork is better than the previous one

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        5 hours ago

        Sure, there’s a large network advantage.

        But here you’re talking about a hypothetical where, for some reason, a major government has bought up all blockchain tokens and won’t release them. So nobody’s on the original one anyways.