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Well, let's also not ignore the immense greed involved and its power to overcome run-of-the-mill common sense. Doesn't take much to spot the bullshit in: "Risk
by ethanbond 4y ago
Well, let's also not ignore the immense greed involved and its power to overcome run-of-the-mill common sense.
Doesn't take much to spot the bullshit in: "Risk-free 7% APY in a time when every single noteworthy financial institution is offering less than 0.5%!"
- duskwuff 4y agoOnly 7%? At the height of the bubble, there were a number of major crypto schemes offering interest rates of 20% or more. Sometimes even much more; some of the shadier "investments" offered >100% APY. Unsurprisingly, most of those schemes have since collapsed.
- eddsh1994 4y agoIt’s easy to give 100% APR in a token you’ve created, it’s very hard to keep the market value increasing at a similar rate to offset coin price dropping. Initial hype will support you for a few months but it’s all tears in the end :) I’m still sort of sad the focus hasn’t been on decent remittance systems, the true useful tool of crypto IMO.
- duskwuff 4y agoOr even simpler: if you put barriers in the way of users cashing out their "earnings", you can keep a naked pyramid scheme running for quite a while. Some schemes have done this by making it difficult for users to cash out their earnings, e.g. by enforcing a lockup period, or requiring users to sell their tokens to another new investor, or even by simply declaring that withdrawals are a feature "under development". One notable example of such a scheme was OneCoin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin), which wasn't even based on a blockchain.