Total nonsense Jimothy,I think I was very clear. If pb fails, were all going to be talking about it out here, if that day comes its not going to be did it fail or did it not, if you didnt get your payment , it failed , High hopes for ever getting any more payments. Funny how you think I dont understand things. How many people in the past many ponzi's got a soft landing? did they have hope? hope that they going to get their 200 bucks back in that chain letter the neighbor talked them into. I was offered unfair deal by puppet , that why I didn't accept his deal, can't hire two lawyers to figure bitcoin mining profitabliity and how much of to blame on PB.
All of them? Seriously, it happens all the time. Very rarely does the operator just run away; it's almost always some calamity followed by a slow, painful death where the true believers continue to hold out hope against all odds. Take a look in the AMC/VMC threads right now for an example of a company that's held people's money for a year and a half and returned nothing. It wasn't under this summer that people stopped expecting the glorious future, and there are still people defending the operation despite the fact the operator is being taken to court by the Missouri securities commission and took what was left of the operation and hasn't been heard of for months.
"Failed" is more subjective than you might realize.