BTC is not, itself, a security. However, there are people creating and buying and selling items packaged as securities in which the underlying business is BTC-based. They trade on what are purported to be "stock exchanges." Some of these are outright Ponzi scams.
Similarly, BTC is not, itself, a Ponzi scam. However, Ponzi scams exist in which the underlying currency is BTC.
If nothing else, some of these highly questionable products look like some kind of commodities future.