It strikes me as quite a sad way to make money - far better to Power up Hive and at least help people out with upvotes and earn curation, albeit a lesser return, rather than being an irritation to so many who play the game by running a bot network.
If you're going to invest at least play the damn game!
What a crap use of decent coding skills, honestly.
Hopefully those who are selling will find something more useful/ constructive/ harmonious to do with that money, and their skills.
Isn't keeping people investing all part of an 'effective business plan'? In a way that's the game I enjoy playing more than the actual game - trying to level up for as cheaply as possible and be an economic winner.
I wonder where they prices will level out at - they are coming down quite fast!