I want to understand this: Other than the simple business consideration of keeping your customer base small and thus manageable, what difference would it make to take, say, 1.2 BTC from whale_of_a_bettor plus 0.02 BTC from me, and gamble 1.22 BTC with proceeds split appropriately?
1) The less customers I get, the more manageable my workflow is
See text here set in bold. But surely that is not a consideration when adding a few more existing customerseven
one more existing customer with whom you were corresponding daily,
with whom youd said you were falling in love, who could well be expected to do you some courteous favours of a similar nature along the way. Note: Im not saying that such things would
obligate you, but rather, that they would tend to much overwhelm the marginal workflow considerations for adding one more customer. Thus, there must be another reason.
2) If a deposit is larger, I tend to be much more conservative and aim for a lower ROI, which leads to a much lower loss rate
3) I can make expotentially more money with much less work
Same could be done combining customers funds.
Hopefully that makes it clear. If you really, really want to do it, then with theymos's permission, I'll gamble with small amounts for maybe a window of 48 hours, and livestream the thing while blurring out the script. I'm not a generous person; I didn't just randomly give you 0.01 BTC for free. I gave it to you because I made money off your money, and was rewarding you for it.
I didnt suggest that you did!
What I asked was whether you marked me as rich, and then made your own investment to impress me with huge ROI on a small amountso as to then support pushing me to invest 120x as much in one shot.
I was thrilled when you sent me back approximately twice the money I had sent you. I would not have even imagined asking you such a question, beforewell, frankly, before the other Dave thing upthread. Thats the first time I caught you in a lie between you and me. In the taxonomy of liesI take that personally. Not that lies to other people are morally any better. Rather, it marks me personally as your potential mark.