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bwockchain is not a technology of the future, buttcoin is a scam.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I'd say Bitcoin is a negative-sum game.

In order for one person to win, thousands of people have to lose. If that was all it was, Bitcoin would be merely a zero-sum game. However, Bitcoin mining also uses up valuable resources like electricity and processing power, so there's still a loss.

Calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme isn't wrong, though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

looks pretty ponzi to me, mods comments made things even worse ^_-

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Right, their comment basically is "A Ponzi scheme is when a company does it, but Bitcoin isn't a company, so when Bitcoin does it it isn't a Ponzi scheme!"

Ok, but they never denied they were doing it...