Proof of Stake pays extra coins and so did Bitconnect
Proof of Stake creates the extra coins it pays people. It doesn't promise that those coins are worth anything. If the price of the tokens goes to zero, Proof of Stake keeps working.
BitConnect promised to repay tokens worth a particular dollar amount. If the price of the tokens goes to zero, BitConnect doesn't have enough tokens to meet its liabilities. It becomes insolvent.
Understand the difference?
before you try to argue it's a Ponzi if it is only sustainable if more people buy it due to the possibly dubious marketing, what about BTC and how most people only buy and HODL because they think it's going to pay them good interest too even though it generates no wealth either but Bitconnect actually generated profits with the lending which they used to increase the price
What about BTC? If the price of BitConnect tokens went to zero, BitConnect (the company) would have been insolvent as it couldn't afford to repay its loans. They were holding assets in BCC tokens and liabilities in USD. That's a recipe for disaster.
If the price of BTC goes to zero it doesn't matter - there's not BTC (the company), so there are no loans or any other liabilities. BTC isn't debt based.
Understand the difference?
dooglus, you quoted the wrong person. You should've quoted the venerable AGM76.Proof of Stake pays extra coins and so did Bitconnect
Proof of Stake creates the extra coins it pays people. It doesn't promise that those coins are worth anything. If the price of the tokens goes to zero, Proof of Stake keeps working.
BitConnect promised to repay tokens worth a particular dollar amount. If the price of the tokens goes to zero, BitConnect doesn't have enough tokens to meet its liabilities. It becomes insolvent.
Understand the difference?
before you try to argue it's a Ponzi if it is only sustainable if more people buy it due to the possibly dubious marketing, what about BTC and how most people only buy and HODL because they think it's going to pay them good interest too even though it generates no wealth either but Bitconnect actually generated profits with the lending which they used to increase the price
What about BTC? If the price of BitConnect tokens went to zero, BitConnect (the company) would have been insolvent as it couldn't afford to repay its loans. They were holding assets in BCC tokens and liabilities in USD. That's a recipe for disaster.
If the price of BTC goes to zero it doesn't matter - there's not BTC (the company), so there are no loans or any other liabilities. BTC isn't debt based.
Understand the difference?
The price can't really go to zero (even the lowest value coins are worth at least a fraction of a satoshi), it would just need a ridiculous amount of coins to pay the interest if the value was close to zero and there wouldn't be enough buyers for the coin if the growth slowed without reducing the interest rates so people wouldn't have been able to sell their interest into BTC after a while if they didn't manage it correctly (this is assuming an unlimited amount of coins but bitconnect actually had a limited reserve which they never needed to use but they could have done a fork of the coin - also other lending platforms use ERC20 tokens which could probably generate coins at will in the smart contract etc).
I don't think Bitconnect promised that there would be enough buyers for people to cash out the interest but they would obviously try to avoid this situation. This is not what actually happened, anyway, as they cancelled the lending. The difference between staking is that people can withdraw at any time but the lending kept most of the coins out of circulation for months so it didn't really need as much buying power to keep the price up.
BitconnectX is meant to be an exchange but we have to see what they do first, if anything, but they supposedly raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the ICO.They are down for maintenance now :
https://twitter.com/bitconnectx/status/972087964078624768 (not sure what this would be as they don't have an exchange yet, I don't think
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Now that BCCX is in the black, there's no longer a need for them to make the platform live. Simply jump to a dog-and-pony show exclusively for the principals where they'll make it rain [100 dollar bills] on those attending, ending with Carlos Matos singing his greatest fit.