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Re: [ANN][BCC] Bitconnect Coin - Decentralized Cryptocurrency
by
suchmoon
on 21/01/2018, 00:08:25 UTC
Again, the lending wasn't a Ponzi

It was a ponzi. They advertised unrealistic return rates and last bagholders didn't get their money back. Your mental gymnastics can't change that fact.

Again another nutty one. So if you're holding bitcoin and all the whales dump it doesn't it make it the same thing? There is nothing that's going to keep the price of bitcoin up if everyone sells it at the same time.

Nobody is promising me crazy returns for holding Bitcoin. Your false equivalence is false.

Bitconnect didn't dump any coins! I showed that on the coinmarketcap graph. Very small volumes on the exchanges around the time of the dump. They probably did the opposite and bought it back cheap. How could they have been dumping a coin that has 100% yearly inflation and rises from 16 cents (I think the lowest) to close to $500 in a year and is freely traded on lots of exchanges??

You obviously don't understand that the lending system made them less likely to dump any coins (as it would stop the lending being profitable for them - to say the lending was a Ponzi when it was profitable is ludicrous) but nevermind. Bitcoin is obviously more of a Ponzi.

Obviously you're a persistent shill. All ponzis are "profitable" until they're not.

No, they didn't need bitcoin to go up. The only thing they needed was their coin value to increase more than the interest they paid (over any time period they chose), or it would start costing them more in BCC than was lent to them and this would in time eat into their reserves (they were profitable so obviously never even had to use their BCC reserves and could easily have carried on). They hopefully also had bitcoin reserves from the ICO but the lending was profitable so didn't really need it once they'd used the ICO funds for development and marketing etc.

Which is a completely unsustainable "business model" and pretty much a classic ponzi scheme. Introducing some token (BCC) into the scheme doesn't change anything. It doesn't matter if it's BCC or a share in Madoff's mutual fund, the promised returns were fake, fueled by new victims bringing in more cash.