Undomesticated on Nostr: I think it's time we take a careful look at the Ponzi scheme analogy. Because if ...
I think it's time we take a careful look at the Ponzi scheme analogy. Because if we're being honest, Bitcoin adoption has many of the same features. This begs to question, why is it, exactly, that Ponzi schemes tend to fail, and why wouldn't that same failure apply to Bitcoin. I think the psychology ponzi schemes are a more meaningful signal to the nature of money than we currently accept to be true.
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