Agreed with most replies..
It reminds me of a pyramid or ponzi scheme
mod.
Take the old classic Water-Filter Pyramid scheme scam..
The higher up the pyramid of users the more money they make.. which eventually fails.
The guys on the bottom will be unable to break even.
I have Google searched Bitcoin ponzi scheme before and seen compelling arguments.
You all should do this too.. it was interesting regardless of what you think of it all.
Get educated
Google search Ponzi scheme & Pyramid Scheme testimonials too while you are it.
Historically we have seen exploitation of mining with Super Computers where a guy got fired.
He was caught mining Doge coins on a university computer if i recall correctly.
Bitcoin ? ASICS.
Litecoin ? AKA: Scrypt ALGO ..ASICS
All used extensively privately before the public gets their hands on them.
Too many examples on that shit.. such as Coindesk asking what they should do with all the Doge coins they mined with their ASICS they were using secretly while admitting they had already dumped a shitload.
THEN many of us realized why they were such hardcore SHILLS always posting tons of Doge News stories.
Sort of like Ethereum.. they were abnormally obsessed since 2014 over posting ETH stories.
CPU mined coins ?
Well they just rented servers or used Botnets.
See why ICO's got popular ?
First thing is the dev's who made the 6,500 ANN topics here wanted reclaim their advantage they were losing to outsiders.
Skipping the whole mining coins on launch was perfect.
And as long as they can make sure to pump their coin up the public will go along with anything..
Because it makes them profit speculating / gambling on scammy shitty ICO shit tokens.
And as a perk it enables the dev's to stream line and fast track the whole making coins game.
Cloning made easier.. for "Fun & Profit" as a well known coin cloner said in his Cloning tutorial.
As the Doge dev sad too.. he said the coin was launched as a joke.
Who is laughing ?
Simple check the pyramid.. top guys have "Fun" and the lower guys suffer.
Don't forget about delays etc when a pump happens too on exchanges.
Historically as Bitcoin went up in price there would be "Network / Wallet issues" on exchanges like Cryptsy.
I don't think you all really want to admit to yourself how big of a facade this shit really is.
It really is rotten to the core.. top to bottom.
All of it "fueled" by rampant greed.
Exactly like the housing bubble world recession that hit years ago that raped us to this day with inflation and left us teetering on the brink of another bigger recession many analysts suggest.
Their band-aid solution to "derivatives" the Stock market equivalent of an Altcoin was to use Quantitative-Easing to fix the problem.
In other words the cut the supply off money in an attempt to make it ok..
But that does not make a hollow shallow worthless tech stock any better of an investment.
A band-aid fix at best.
Lessons learned ? US govt Bail-out's.
But no one is going to bail you guys out when you sink Investards.
You will be left to drown like rats.