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Re:$8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days) by adventured on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:58AM (#29025533)
> Assuming they could cash out and make $5bn, and if they did, who would the losers be?

Your losers scenario requires that SHIB declines materially after the buyers pick up the $5b of the crypto (such that the buyers inevitably end up losing money). You've built that assumption in and it's incorrect to automatically assume that, it's a central flaw in your premise.

There are not losers in every economic transaction in fact. The buyers may end up losing money.

Re:$8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days) by IncRnd on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:27AM (#29025852)
By definition these sorts of trades are a zero-sum game.
Re:$8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days) by robjan on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:40AM (#29025998)
Trades in a market are not zero-sum since the buyer still has something that can be sold for a non-zero amount
Re:$8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days) by djenendik on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:26AM (#29026501)
But isn't this just a question of how one truncates the expression for the sum?