Quote from: coolcoinz on February 27, 2021, 04:47:30 PM

Firstly, please fix your quotations. You're doing your best to make your posts look smart and can't even place proper code tags.

Secondly, you're in denial. When you first read about Bitcoin it looked like a scam to you, so you tried hard to prove it is a scam, while it was growing and becoming more popular, but then you thought to yourself: it's too late to change my mind now, I'll keep going, it can't be real. Now you're stuck in this awkward situation where famous people are investing in Bitcoin and you're that grumpy guy in the corner who refuses to join the party or leave and find other entertainment. Instead, you're standing there alone, mumbling: you're all stupid, you'll all lose, I'm the only one who sees through it all.

Thirdly, who is scamming here? It's a free market where people are free to buy and sell at any point. Ask people who bought a month ago and sold this week if they feel scammed. Ask people who bought a year ago if they feel scammed, ask people who bought 3 years ago if they feel scammed... I could go on.

You, guys surely love to abuse logic in your arguments.

Firstly: you bring a new statement into the argument, then you fall in love with Ad Hominem. While you were right about me using the tags incorrectly, pointing this out does nothing for the argument, just buckle it up. If you wanted to make a good argument, you could have explained, how does halving NOT guarantee the pyramidal distribution of the coins. Or if it does, how it is not the same or at least very similar to a pyramid scheme.

Secondly: You just make an accusation. Based on my argument only, you have no information about whether I am in denial or not. You just abuse that your kind here outnumbers me and you focus to put a label on me: "in a denial". Instead, you could have shown me, how much of BTCs are really used or how else did the people who are happy with BTC get their REAL bucks out of it? Please note, I am taking off of the premises, that the majority of BTCs price is "produced" by moving coins around between one´s own wallets and using USDT, not real USD when "pricing" it. Do you understand what I claim? I claim, that people are fooled into the scheme with their real money. BTC itself is pumped and dumped all time. And communities like this do their share in pumping.

Thirdly: That is a philosophical question and is based on a backward knowledge. There was another assumpion about me, by someone else here, that was similar. He assumed, I must have suffered with bad decisions and now I am just salty. Let me ask this: if you were offered to join into a pyramid scheme early on and you were guaranteed to make money out of it with no risk, would you do it? Your backward look at the price of BTC asks the same question. Would you be OK with, if I was right, BTC was a scheme and you just turned out to make money out of it? If your answer is "YES", then I am okay with that and we can call it a day. If your answer is "NO", then we can take a deeper look into the statements, how we can prove that BTCs price is here: https://coin360.com/coin/tether-usdt

And then we can see how we prove, that "institutional investors" DO NOT buy Tether to buy BTC. USDT is just printed, because more of it is needed to keep the transactions between one and himself going.