I am not sure what message you were trying to convey, but this sentence definitely describes a scam . Otherwise known as a money grab or fraud, specifically a variant of the Matrix type of Pyramid Fraud Scheme, committed by conning people to buy something worthless (a ticket in the old days- a crypto coin with the Bitstone, Gemcoin,GPUcoin, and Coinstand models) which they can use to get cheap products (Silver Bar- Gold .pngs- etc) or even a chance at getting a cheap product while the operation's actual goal is to sell tickets and skim as much as possible from the pot (dump coins in the Crypto model) while keeping people buying in with the minimum outlay on enticements that you can get away with. Generally larger payouts at the beginning, and then decreasing until there are none. There is also no method by which their discount can be be accounted for. Even with no skim, the only possible way that a discount can be given on the next round is to take a little money from all the ticket buyers and buy another bar of silver, which is then sold at a 10% loss as per the Bitstone business model. This is obviously a debt spiral, and it can only be sustained by adding new "investors". This is precisely what a Matrix Pyramid fraud scheme is. It is a Ponzi, but the tiny payouts to entice more suckers to buy in are done with something like a Silver Bar (Or miner or cell phone- etc), instead of many tiny payouts to each individual as per the GAW Ponzi fraud operation. I would like to see the Bitstone Team address this issue, especially since I pointed this out to them ~6 months ago the first time Dr. Keith Harville tried to launch ScamBones, err, I mean BitStone, and he said they would change things and make sure everything is legal and all, and I don't see any evidence that he changed anything at all since then. Maybe the best thing to do would be let Keith do his thing and get this baby going good, so he can get what the Gemcoin people are enjoying for doing pretty much the same thing.