People promoting their own investments to push up the price!?!?! Gasp! Everything you describe happens in the equity market as well. It's simple speculation, n

People promoting their own investments to push up the price!?!?! Gasp! Everything you describe happens in the equity market as well. It's simple speculation, not a Ponzi or Pyramid Scheme. Also I'm not going to go into the details of each, but: Ponzi Scheme != Pyramid Scheme != Speculation