Ik kwam dit bericht op Reddit tegen over hoe Bitconnect het ponzi-scheme naar een hoger niveau heeft gebracht:
Let me tell you guys their secret. You might not like it but I think the creators are nothing but pure genius.
They state that they make money from using your investment for the trading bot and you get a piece of the profits. Whether this is true or not, this is NOT how Bitconnect makes their millions. First, they premined their own blockchain to hold a few million of their token. lets say they hold 5 million. 5 million worthless bitconnect tokens. Then when they open up the site and members are trying to lend, they are forced to buy bitconnect tokens since the bot ONLY accepts bitconnect tokens. They create demand for us to buy the coin. Now when you earn your daily interest, they pay you in USD, not bitcoin or bitconnect tokens. So when you are ready to cash out your usd, you have to BUY the bitconnect tokens AGAIN to cash out the usd thus adding more demand for the token. This makes the token able to be bought even if no new members come. Now here is the part that makes them genius. Whenever the value of the bitconnect token goes up just $1, they made $5 million. How? Remember they are holding 5 million tokens since the start so for every dollar it goes up, thats another $5 million in total value of their tokens. As long as they keep paying us that 1%, it will keep the coin value to go up. The best part is bitconnect tokens are being bought with fake usd that you earned as payment thus always creating buy power for bitconnect even if no new members join! The best part is they probably don't even touch it since they might actually be making profits from their trade bot but still this could keep on going and going AS LONG as they keep paying us. So why stop and run if every dollar bitconnect goes up they make millions? and what they pay us is probably like 2% of what they make . THIS is why there are 4 other bitconnects being created. People are starting to see what how bitconnect changed the ponzi game with the power of blockchain. Imagine this technolgy is so powerful and disruptive it could actually make such a simple ponizi scheme legitimate? I guess we will see.
Ja, maar als ze alles verkopen zakt die prijs in elkaar en wil niemand het meer.... Ik betwijfel dat het beter werkt dan normale ponzi schemes.
Hoe dan ook, komt er een eind aan, aangezien er op een gegeven moment geen geld meer in de wereld te vinden zijn om erin te stoppen. Er gaan dus hoe dan ook mensen heel veel geld verliezen wanneer het instort. De vraag is alleen... wanneer stort het in?
Regards,
Trump