They give you the dollar amount back....which IS ACTUALLY LESS than the BCC amount so that's why I'm saying it isn't a Ponzi at the moment. It's like you give a company a bitcoin and they give you less, how can that be a Ponzi? When you lend, the BCC generates it's own 8% a month profit too for bitconnect and you give that growth up too. That is what is paying the affiliates. While the price is going up they are not losing any money paying back any investors. They should be keeping a strong reserve of profits to try and keep the price stable but eventually the coin will probably crash but that doesn't mean the people lending need to lose out as they are supposed to have no risk.