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re: Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme—the Internet’s favorite currency will collapse.
Posted on 4/18/13 at 10:52 am to LSURussian
Posted on 4/18/13 at 10:52 am to LSURussian
quote:
Gizmo's playbook:
1. Ask for an explanation
2. Ignore explanation
3. Ignore more explanations
4. Make silly comparison of a cash/profit generating enterprise to bitcoin
5. Ignore he was wrong with his silly comparison
6. Declare victory and takes his ball home
After step 1, the replies were:
"It's a ponzi because I say it is."
"I already explained how it's a ponzi."
"Read the OP article."
Step 2 is moot because there was no coherent explanation in the first place.
Step 3 is moot because there was no coherent explanation after repeated requests for one.
Step 4 falls right in line with how you described the bitcoin operation.
Step 5 is moot because I've never been proven wrong.
Step 6 is moot because I'm not out for victory.... All I want to know is how bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, and I have yet to hear any rational, logical, realistic set of evidence, facts, circumstances, explanation, or the like, tending to show that it is a ponzi.
once again, early adopters profiting =/= ponzi
Posted on 4/18/13 at 10:56 am to gizmoflak
Since there has been no ponzi theory articulated in this now 12-page thread, I'll make my own assumption:
- Nakamoto invented an open source crypto currency.
- He and his buddies mined 200k bitcoins using a pentium I at a cost of $35.67 in electricity bills.
- They patiently waited until April 2013 when each bitcoin was worth well over 100 USD
- Then, they sold their 200,000 BTC on the open market for millions of dollars.
Sounds like a ponzi scheme, huh?
- Nakamoto invented an open source crypto currency.
- He and his buddies mined 200k bitcoins using a pentium I at a cost of $35.67 in electricity bills.
- They patiently waited until April 2013 when each bitcoin was worth well over 100 USD
- Then, they sold their 200,000 BTC on the open market for millions of dollars.
Sounds like a ponzi scheme, huh?
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