Judging by hashrate and the other thread, you are in minority my dear noob/sockpuppet/naive/whatever you are
Why do you bother posting like a plague if only so few people are affected? If they are affected at all?
Nope sorry, if you read his op, all the wording points to a secure investment, constantly rising in value, even if he doesn't directly state "you cannot lose money".
Hmm so you started making assumptions that are not or only loosely based on the Devs initial post - and you blame the author for that? Odd.
It's a scheme made so he'll always profit no matter what and the risk (practically certainty, cause someone WILL lose everything at some point with a ponzi, only a matter of time. While with legit investments it's not certain at all) is masked.
First, the Dev does NOT profit no matter what. He can only "profit" if he is dishonest. Simply handing over BTC to the dev for some purpose (guaranteeing the minimum price) does NOT make this a scam. Only if the dev takes the money and runs away with it. Using that argument you should call every BTC exchange and even normal banks a "scam" - as they could in theory walk away with your money.
Second, if you had read the definition of "Ponzi" carefully you would know that Standardcoin is NOT a prime example for a Ponzi. STD does not pay a return stream from new investor funds. Furthermore, it is pretty transparent what happens behind the scenes. If at all STD is similar to a pyramid scheme or to an economic bubble, as defined in Wikipedia:
An economic bubble: A bubble is similar to a Ponzi scheme in that one participant gets paid by contributions from a subsequent participant (until inevitable collapse). A bubble involves ever-rising prices in an open market (for example stock, housing, or tulip bulbs) where prices rise because buyers bid more because prices are rising. Bubbles are often said to be based on the "greater fool" theory. As with the Ponzi scheme, the price exceeds the intrinsic value of the item, but unlike the Ponzi scheme, there is no single person misrepresenting the intrinsic value.
Obviously, some people call BTC a Ponzi - if you are one of them feel free to call STD a Ponzi as well.
At least someone who tries to post reasoned replies and not random troll gibberish. Unfortunately you are wrong.
You are right on this one point though: "the dev is not profiting no matter what, he has to run with the money at some point" (except if no new investors come and mining stops, or is very low, and ipoers decide to dump. Then he'll pay back ipo investors a fraction of their investment and will keep most of it. Which is a very likely scenario, btw). My fault with that last statement, wasn't 100% accurate, I rushed it. Fair is fair.
This is not changing the main problem anyway: he worded the thread to make you think you cannot lose money and that there will always be enough btc to buy back std at GER. The first part you can argue is only an assumption (sophism, cause it's very very clear) but the second part is plainly false, cause he'll be using new investors' money to pay either the miners or ipo investors dumping, or a mix. Or ipo money to pay the other two. Whoever dumps last will be losing money, mathematically.
So he is deceiving new investors to pour money into the ponzi, so he can keep it running, trying to mask what it is and keeping the option to run with the money open if the sum gets large enough.
Banks and btc are not ponzis (well maybe banks xD) cause, in the case of btc, NOBODY is guaranteeing he's going to buy back all your btc at initial investment cost.
This IS a Ponzi cause only one person is (deceivingly) misinterpreting intrinsic value, leading investors to believe this value will be always at least enough to recover initial investment, while that's not the case.