I sometimes wonder if people really know what a ponzi is?
To make it short, a ponzi game works like that:
- You are promised to receive (say) 50% profit for your deposit (=150% in total).
- This 50% is taken from the deposits after yours so if you send 0.1 BTC the ponzi game will have to receive another deposit of at least 0.05 to pay you (I deliberately don't take into account the fees and referral bonus for the sake of a clear explanation).
- That means if another player deposits 0.1 BTC after you, he/she will have to wait for another deposit of 0.1 to be paid (0.05 of his/her deposit has already been used to pay your profit).
- It doesn't take long to understand how fast the queue of waiting players grows and it is obvious that most of them won't never receive anything.
Hope it can be of help