Quote from: GreenStox on March 21, 2015, 07:28:06 PM

Quote from: Hfleer on March 21, 2015, 06:03:31 PM

Quote from: GreenStox on March 21, 2015, 06:01:02 PM

Quote from: Hfleer on March 21, 2015, 05:52:08 PM

The amount of investment is irrelevant to the chance of that person running away. I'd say for many things a higher investment makes it even unliklier that a person vanishes, because the amount of money he can gain from the investments is enough to make a living. A site that accepts microinvestments will most likely be only a hobby.

That is nonsense, you dont look from their perspective you look for your pespecitve. A street hustler can steal the same way 1$ like Bernie Madoff stole millions of $.

The question remains which hurts the most losing 0.001BTC or losing 100BTC.

Also dont underestimate the scammers around bitcoin. Even if he can make a fulltime income with it, he can still run away with it if there is no way of detecting his identity.

Also running a microinvestment site can be profitable aswell if enough people invest in you, and even if it turns out as a scam, the individuals lost much less / capita , than if it were a closed investment with 10 people investing 100BTC, the /capita loss would be big.

Yeah but how many micro investments sites do have a valid business modell as bitmixer.io has?

And the point still stands that 100 BTC for one person might be equal to 0.1 BTC or something of another person.

Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense.

Also you fail to understand the point, its not about rich people investing vs poor people investing, its about everyone who invests, first should check its risk tolerance. A rich guy should also invest 0.1 BTC on its first investment just to see how it turns out, no sane guy just throws money wildly, you see no billionaire do that, they are precise and careful.

If you think that gambling 100 BTC is the same than carefully planned investment with risk analysis, then your are very wrong.

That is just plain stupud. Investing a small amount first to see how it does is the reason that most ponzis get so successful. They do indeed give a payout on the small investments and bail with the big ones.

Intelligent investors will never invest in such shit in the first place and will invest in things with real businessplan and a proven trackrecord.