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the value of an account to the seller does not matter. It could be worth 1 btc for example but the owner only values it at .75 btc, they obviously won't sell it for the lower amount, conversely if someone wrote to value their account for 1 btc but the market would only support a value of .5 btc then the account would either not sell or would sell for less then what the owner values it at.
My point is that the value of an account of ultimately determined by the market. People can give a value to their account if they want however any rational decision will be based off of market prices.
While its certainly true that you cant create a working asking price based on your personal feeling of a price. If my selling point is not met however I am not selling at all and thus increase the price of other accounts on the market because I lower the available supply while the demand stays the same.
@salty- I'd be interested in seeing your calculations and no I don't mind reading your walls of text.
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BTW, good job holding back on the insults! You're making progress, it seems.
No reason to start the bickering from your side now.
Who says that no default trust accounts have never been sold?
I can tell you for sure that
this account was on default trust when it was sold; I got it removed once it tried to participate in a scam. I can also say with a good amount of certainty that it was purchased for roughly 2.5 btc and probably was able to scam for roughly zero.
Apparently I did not think this through in my thought experiment. Maybe because I would consider the sale in that manner a scam already. I dont see it as enabling someone to scam, but a scam in itself. It would be deceiving towards those that put trust into me as the holder of the account. A sale without proper precautions would be to misuse the trust.
I find it fascinating thought that buying an account for the purpose of scamming does not seem to ROI.