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> need a new term than ponzi scheme "Fraud" works for me. All nascent markets are wildcat melees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcatter https://en.wikiped
by specialist 5y ago
> need a new term than ponzi scheme
"Fraud" works for me.
All nascent markets are wildcat melees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcatter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcatter
Useful markets are eventually regulated. To save the market from itself, to calm down the townsfolk brandishing pitchforks and torches, to assert central control over a proven grift.
Time will tell if all these crypto kittens prove useful for more than fraud.
- vmception 5y agoIt doesn’t work for me because it has a legal meaning applied retroactively Your proposal of using it would at best case simply dilute that word until it was no longer useful, and worst case open its users up to libel due to being a legal term