Like with all the commodities with increasingly scarce supply and high demand, the time has come for #IPv4 addresses to also become a speculative asset wrapped into a financial instrument.
Not the kind of thing that you'd buy to run your little server, but the kind of thing to hoard on and use as the aluminum foil to wrap and back your corporate bonds.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/2122251/multinational-isp-offers-206m-in-secured-notes-backed-by-ipv4-addresses#
Fabio Manganiello /
npub13u…dpvgs
2024-05-04 23:03:57
Author Public Key
npub13uunvh7djw9ep54nswkuxlneyee7ehcpc7e53t68krykrdeg6j4qrdpvgsPublished at
2024-05-04 23:03:57Event JSON
{
"id": "6c2868eabca1033baf5524be1b9302f479b7668a50e9522012798d7fc3043d29",
"pubkey": "8f39365fcd938b90d2b383adc37e792673ecdf01c7b348af47b0c961b728d4aa",
"created_at": 1714863837,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"ipv4"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://manganiello.social/objects/0336d2d7-67a6-4322-a971-4acc729dc1a2",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "Like with all the commodities with increasingly scarce supply and high demand, the time has come for #IPv4 addresses to also become a speculative asset wrapped into a financial instrument.\n\nNot the kind of thing that you'd buy to run your little server, but the kind of thing to hoard on and use as the aluminum foil to wrap and back your corporate bonds.\n\nhttps://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/2122251/multinational-isp-offers-206m-in-secured-notes-backed-by-ipv4-addresses#",
"sig": "0e68f161fb884234044fdbfe1c84999c6ae92c9f9a9bfc6e10ea4ee7bdb13c9ab25646d1f2d5292930935232fcc654accc8de698e4e4234a88d0b11a1cb8c91f"
}