When I asked that question what I was told is that crypto takes the adverages of trades across several different platforms. When you buy and sell it will be very different from the price.
If you buy from Coinbase you should be privileged as the eutheruem iotx is much more in demand and has a Much smaller float then the regular native IOTx.
This will soon be $1+ for anyone that had Coinbase IOTx
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