This goes back to a game theory, someone did a presentation a couple years ago at one of the conferences.  I think it was called brower theorem.  What happened is that the buyer gained no benefit. Consider this, you're playing the game of monopoly and the paper slips of money have value because the other players need it. If you have all the money, it's not as valuable because the other players can't use it. At some point, the value of what you hold loses value as a commodity. A bank could buy all the bitcoins available to destroy it, but then everyone could just use Bitcoin2, etc.  A similar situation happened on testnet, some a-hole started supermining all the testnet coins to sell them, so testnet was reset.    Truth in numbers goes both ways.