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		idlewords on May 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Limits to Blockchain Scalability Yeah, and imagine further that people were bidding up the price of IP addresses in a speculative frenzy instead of actually using them.

spaceman_2020 on May 23, 2021 [–]

People did bid up the price of domain names at least in a speculative frenzy instead of actually using them

imtringued on May 23, 2021 | [–]

New TLDs are a money grab as well. You're hoping that big companies like google buy your domains just to make sure nobody else has them.

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