I agree with grnbrg, I see it as a high risk high reward thing - just like BTC generally.
No, this offering is NOT high risk and high reward "just like Bitcoin". This is high risk and high reward just like an internet scam. Bitcoin is high risk and high reward on an entirely different level and in an entirely different way. The inability to make that difference marks you as one of those to stfu and lurk moar.
Admitting for a second you're not being willfully stupid, ie a sock shilling this nonsense (which is rather the more likely explanation), the above confusion is exactly what stupid people do and scammers encourage them to do: mix up very unlike things.
@Lab_Rat has offered to pay me to answer questions... There goes my credibility. (For the record, I've risked around $5k (dollars) with LRM. Not a lot, but not an insignificant amount, either.)
I've watched him work the BFL forums since October last year
It's good to know that's the function of
that scam's forums: brewing the next generation of you people.
And more generally, a notice to all the scumbags circling BTC : I don't care that you're poor, I don't care if you're desperate, I don't care if you're 'Ndrangheta or the Gambinos or the Bonanos or the Russians or whoever the fuck else. Pack it and move. This is your only warning, and quite frankly I have no ideea why warnings are even necessary. Bitcoin is not for idiots. That means you.