How can we interpret this? Are they trying to prolong the Ponzi scheme?

I'm not saying that's the case, but it reminds me of Ponzi schemes where everything goes very well at first, and when it starts to unravel, it doesn't happen overnight. There are simply more people requesting withdrawals and far fewer people depositing. So, at first, what they do is process some withdrawals to try to keep up the appearance that the system is working.

Could we be witnessing something like that?

Welcome to Ligue 1 football pool thread. This is new addition to my pool of football pools   So let us see how familiar you guys are with the French league.

Main sponsor:
Our sponsor here is whale.io Make an account there so you are available for weekly rewards for best round.
1. 1500$ paid to the escrow address in BTC at the end of the pool. Sponsorhip has been negotiated via icopress so he is the one that will provide the funds.
2. 50$ free bet for each week yellow cap winner


How this pool works
For prediction, we will use Superbru page and we will have complementary discussion topic here on the forum for participants only. Superbru has been around for years and they are very good at providing custom pools for all kinds of sports. The idea of the game is to predict correct scores from all the games which gives you max points (3). If you get outcome correct but not the score there is still some points awarded (1-1.5). The winner is the person with most points at the end of the season.


Buy in
This is a paid pool and buy in is set to 0.25 mBTC, just over 30$ at this moment. This seems like a very fair price for a whole year of prediction fun + nice prizes boosted by our sponsor. All the collected money will be used for prizes.

Rewards:
Will be written when we have the final number of participants and will probably be shown as % since we don't know how much BTC we will get from sponsor. Amount is locked in $ and BTC price varies as you all know

Remarks:
*There is no sharing of the prizes, Superbru has implemented tie-breakers and I will use their final table as basis to pay out rewards


Escrow and payment address
I am escrow for the funds on below mentioned address. In order to participate in the Ligue 1 pool please pay 0.25 mBTC to below address and send me a tx via pm so I know who sent the money. Be sure to include your whale.io and Superbru usernames in the same PM. Thank you.

whale.io Ligue 1 Football Prediction Pool Escrow address:
bc1q7lszgq4varrlma44xk0lv4078sy6amcahyqhln


note: this is temporary escrow addy for this pool. If you play my La Liga and Serie A pools you will notice it is the same one. I am currently on vacation without access to that wallet so can't provide dedicated one before I get back home. This probably makes it even better since you can now pay for all 3 pools in tx. I will move the money on dedicated escrow addy when we start the pool so I don't mix funds from different sponsors but that is just a technicality which will save us something on tx fees in the end.

L'incertitude géopolitique pousse généralement les investisseurs à fuir les actifs à risque. Et le btc n'est pas encore vraiment considéré comme une valeur refuge.