Did anyone receive any payment, or should I ask would anyone ever receive a payout?
It looks like "NextPonzi" was a scam and he also ran AutoPonzi. I had a suspicion NextPonzi was a scammer, because he had a new account with negative trust. I can't understand how people could trust that. Warning: don't trust new accounts! They are easy to create anonymously, so scammers can pretend to be honest.
The new account is not an issue, if u start a ponzi you will get negative trust " by default" , so people opens new accounts because they know they're going to get negative trust, and the negative trust dosen't mean so much (because they got it for starting a ponzi, not for scamming investors of that ponzi).
What was imho a red flag was the choice of opening a second thread, after the many compliants (mine included) on the other thread.
After a pair of weeks of " ponzi-mania" I concluded that ponzies could be not a scam " per se" , but ponzi's owners are at most incompetent scammers who will run away with your money without remorse about the astonishing fees they could make with a working service, because they think they can just start a new ponzi tomorrow.
I think that " ponzie game mania" is doomed to die in another week, because they all turn out to be a scam.
If you still want to throw your money to a ponzi I started a joke ponzi here , and it involves cats
It is a joke, but i'm putting in my reputation and i'm for sure not going to scam anyone for a single satoshi, feel free to play if you want