They could, but it would take quite some time. The best way to do it would be to buy in small few $k chunks, wait for someone to arb the pHBD price back down to $1, then buy again and keep doing that for several days or even weeks in the case of buying $300k.
This is why HBD needs more liquidity. pHBD having $5M in the LP could solve this
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