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January 24, 2018, 09:06:21 AM
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SysCoin DimeCoin .. what else is it ?  Roll Eyes

Even TrumpCoin is better than this shitCoin .

Why are peeps investing 90%-100% in one coin .

Take a bow grasshoppers .. take a bow.

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January 24, 2018, 09:40:56 AM
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).



Staking is no ponzi. When you stake you are rewarded by the fees payed for transactions.
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January 24, 2018, 09:43:26 AM
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).



Staking is no ponzi. When you stake you are rewarded by the fees payed for transactions.

LOL you are not rewarded by the fees. A coin can choose any random staking reward they want in the code. Some like BuzzCoin pay 160% per month compounded (100% per month if you only get one reward a month but as long as you get it every few days it will compound to 160%). It hasn't done too bad. I actually sold too early or would have made about 10 more BTC. Obviously, BuzzCoin is more of a Ponzi than bitconnect as it didn't really have the value of guaranteeing the investment amount when you lend (as long as it was allowed to continue without being a Ponzi - remember the interest and capital release was always less BCC than was lent so it was never operating as a Ponzi or inflating the amount of BCC in circulation like staking does, it was actually deflating the supply and allowing the coin to grow faster).
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January 24, 2018, 09:50:16 AM
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Its a Ponzi Scheme haha, If you don't lend any Bcc that's okay, now its valueless coin no one will buy
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January 24, 2018, 10:01:50 AM
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The world is so small...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2ttuaAk9VE&t=1s
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January 24, 2018, 10:07:42 AM
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).



Staking is no ponzi. When you stake you are rewarded by the fees payed for transactions.

LOL you are not rewarded by the fees. A coin can choose any random staking reward they want in the code. Some like BuzzCoin pay 160% per month compounded (100% per month if you only get one reward a month but as long as you get it every few days it will compound to 160%). It hasn't done too bad. I actually sold too early or would have made about 10 more BTC. Obviously, BuzzCoin is more of a Ponzi than bitconnect as it didn't really have the value of guaranteeing the investment amount when you lend (as long as it was allowed to continue without being a Ponzi - remember the interest and capital release was always less BCC than was lent so it was never operating as a ponzi).

Thing with Dash is that you always have control over your Coins and the rewards for staking are always the same. The developers cant arbitrarily decide to change the rewards without consensus from all the miners and stakers. Main point with ponzis is that you give your Coins over to someone else, and they hold your capital and just pay you the interest (or not). When the price tanks, you can do nothing because they hold your money (and usually never get your initial investment back)

A coin like BuzzCoin is not a full ponzi because you keep control over your money. Coins like that will tend to go to 0 over a long period of time unless there is a hardfork to change the rewards. As price goes down, you always have the option to sell your initial investment plus the interest you've accumulated from staking.
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January 24, 2018, 10:51:00 AM
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Man you should expose yourself publicly, with your real name and picture. I think there will be a lot of people who will gladly speak with you in private Wink You should introduce them your wonderful ideas Grin
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January 24, 2018, 10:51:24 AM
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).



Staking is no ponzi. When you stake you are rewarded by the fees payed for transactions.

LOL you are not rewarded by the fees. A coin can choose any random staking reward they want in the code. Some like BuzzCoin pay 160% per month compounded (100% per month if you only get one reward a month but as long as you get it every few days it will compound to 160%). It hasn't done too bad. I actually sold too early or would have made about 10 more BTC. Obviously, BuzzCoin is more of a Ponzi than bitconnect as it didn't really have the value of guaranteeing the investment amount when you lend (as long as it was allowed to continue without being a Ponzi - remember the interest and capital release was always less BCC than was lent so it was never operating as a ponzi).

Thing with Dash is that you always have control over your Coins and the rewards for staking are always the same. The developers cant arbitrarily decide to change the rewards without consensus from all the miners and stakers. Main point with ponzis is that you give your Coins over to someone else, and they hold your capital and just pay you the interest (or not). When the price tanks, you can do nothing because they hold your money (and usually never get your initial investment back)

A coin like BuzzCoin is not a full ponzi because you keep control over your money. Coins like that will tend to go to 0 over a long period of time unless there is a hardfork to change the rewards. As price goes down, you always have the option to sell your initial investment plus the interest you've accumulated from staking.

I am probably not following you correctly but did you really mean that it's a Ponzi if you don't have control of the money and they don't pay it back? Bitconnect gave everyone their investments back (at the 15 day average value) and the value only went down because many sold them at the same time. The same would happen with any coin if a lot was dumped in one day. Like I said before, bitcoin has almost double the supply so should be half the value of bitconnect, all other things being equal. So a valuation of a few hundred dollars for bitconnect wasn't excessive. Everyone who spread the misinformation are more to blame for the current value than the investors of the coin. The site is still up and running, so the coin should increase again once they figure out what to do next.

Remember the BitconnectX ICO sells out every day almost immediately and takes in $13million worth of funds each time (although they value BCC at $150 since bitconnect closed the lending). How are so many people investing in it still if everyone thinks it's a scam??? All the people saying it's a scam are probably in the minority.
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Just count the posts on this forum and you will see who is in the minority Wink
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Just count the posts on this forum and you will see who is in the minority Wink

It's all because bitconnect made a lot of noise. But because of this he did not become a strong coin. This rapid decline indicates a weak ability to resist negative news on the market! Now I see that there are practically no sales volumes and the price has fallen to $ 14.4 ... Sad finish though I would not be surprised if the price rises again to 100+ dollars. True, the team will have to work hard and again to dial conferences where people will shout "BITCONNECT"! Grin

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January 24, 2018, 11:32:34 AM
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).



DASH is a different story than crappy BCC look at its markets to learn more about the different , many dash investors waiting for 10k $ not like the way here waiting for 10 cents

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January 24, 2018, 11:45:17 AM
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Anyone seen this @bccponzi twitter guy (if you think I have a lot of free time, then he is on another level talking about scams and ponzis haha):


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January 24, 2018, 12:05:32 PM
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I wonder how many people made a lot of money on this and how many actually lost money
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January 24, 2018, 01:35:34 PM
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I wonder how many people made a lot of money on this and how many actually lost money

There must be a lot of people had dumped thier BCC, those traders who took advantage of its pump and have bought BCC at exchanges must have made a lot of money.  I was thinking of buying when I saw the price keeps going up and I thought $200 is just too much this time, this pump must come down so I waited but it didn't drop instead go up to almost $400.

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Hi. Here answers questions support bitconnect?
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January 24, 2018, 03:46:50 PM
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).

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1. a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.

It's possible that someone may conduct a ponzi scheme using Dash or Bitcoin or US dollar (and in fact there have been many such schemes) but these currencies by themselves are not ponzi schemes and don't promise unrealistic exponential returns.

Bitconnect however was propped up entirely by its lending "business", which was a textbook ponzi.

Now try to stay on topic, which is Bitconnect.
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).

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1. a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.

It's possible that someone may conduct a ponzi scheme using Dash or Bitcoin or US dollar (and in fact there have been many such schemes) but these currencies by themselves are not ponzi schemes and don't promise unrealistic exponential returns.

Bitconnect however was propped up entirely by its lending "business", which was a textbook ponzi.

Now try to stay on topic, which is Bitconnect.


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January 24, 2018, 04:40:17 PM
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People only criticise the governments and the banks for raising the warning over the cryptos and then when it crashes I hear only - scammers, Ponzi , fraudsters etc..

Guys, once and for all, we don't live in jungle and Bitconnnect did not corrupt half of the police . We have financial criminality police and FBI and all we the financial police and checks we have now is way more than back in 1980s or even 1990s. We have load of orgs monitoring many of the activities accross the cryptomarket. Don't you really that the authorities would have done something about masternodes and lending activities bynow ? I don't think really we can tag Bitconnect as ponzy no matter how many people will write that. It's just the market remember - INVEST ONLY IF YOU ARE READY TO LOOSE ALL . How many times you heard this on the radion , on the news about BTC and altcoins, . How many times you read that? Well this is the moment to experience it and learn once again the lesson - diversify , be careful and prepared for crash. Nothing stops BTC to be branded globally as ponzy and suddenly everything is over. Even the dollar can be dumped nowadays . Just don't put all your eggs in one basket , that's all i can say, after do what you want.
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).



Staking is no ponzi. When you stake you are rewarded by the fees payed for transactions.

LOL you are not rewarded by the fees. A coin can choose any random staking reward they want in the code. Some like BuzzCoin pay 160% per month compounded (100% per month if you only get one reward a month but as long as you get it every few days it will compound to 160%). It hasn't done too bad. I actually sold too early or would have made about 10 more BTC. Obviously, BuzzCoin is more of a Ponzi than bitconnect as it didn't really have the value of guaranteeing the investment amount when you lend (as long as it was allowed to continue without being a Ponzi - remember the interest and capital release was always less BCC than was lent so it was never operating as a ponzi).

Thing with Dash is that you always have control over your Coins and the rewards for staking are always the same. The developers cant arbitrarily decide to change the rewards without consensus from all the miners and stakers. Main point with ponzis is that you give your Coins over to someone else, and they hold your capital and just pay you the interest (or not). When the price tanks, you can do nothing because they hold your money (and usually never get your initial investment back)

A coin like BuzzCoin is not a full ponzi because you keep control over your money. Coins like that will tend to go to 0 over a long period of time unless there is a hardfork to change the rewards. As price goes down, you always have the option to sell your initial investment plus the interest you've accumulated from staking.

I am probably not following you correctly but did you really mean that it's a Ponzi if you don't have control of the money and they don't pay it back? Bitconnect gave everyone their investments back (at the 15 day average value) and the value only went down because many sold them at the same time. The same would happen with any coin if a lot was dumped in one day. Like I said before, bitcoin has almost double the supply so should be half the value of bitconnect, all other things being equal. So a valuation of a few hundred dollars for bitconnect wasn't excessive. Everyone who spread the misinformation are more to blame for the current value than the investors of the coin. The site is still up and running, so the coin should increase again once they figure out what to do next.

Remember the BitconnectX ICO sells out every day almost immediately and takes in $13million worth of funds each time (although they value BCC at $150 since bitconnect closed the lending). How are so many people investing in it still if everyone thinks it's a scam??? All the people saying it's a scam are probably in the minority.

I don't think you are following anything people are saying in this thread.

Bitconnect was built as a lending platform, classic ponzi. Why don't you take some time, research how ponzi schemes work, and go through some of the scams that have happened on these forums throughout the years?

Still believing text on the screen? That bitconnectx ico is a black hole and a scam.



Here, why don't you check out how a REAL ico is done with legit people https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2353775

Actually had talked to Ronny Boesling years ago through skype when his exchange was just starting out, before he partnered up with the bitshares asset exchange.
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January 24, 2018, 07:29:37 PM
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It's funny...coins like DASH are allowed to go up in price and not be called a Ponzi (masternodes sure helped DASH - the promise of free coins forever for holding enough of them and not selling- sounds a bit like lending doesn't it? It basically works exactly the same way - PoS mining/staking isn't much different either except the yearly interest they give you is a fixed percentage instead of variable although the more often you stake, the more it compounds and higher staking amounts tend to pay more often)

DASH was even moaning about Bitconnect to coinmarketcap's Twitter (calling it a Ponzi, no less) when it was rivalling it's billion dollar marketcap and overtaking them. The same day coinmarketcap revised the circulating supply of Bitconnect and it fell from around 6th place to 16th (I can't actually remember the positions but something along those lines).



Staking is no ponzi. When you stake you are rewarded by the fees payed for transactions.

LOL you are not rewarded by the fees. A coin can choose any random staking reward they want in the code. Some like BuzzCoin pay 160% per month compounded (100% per month if you only get one reward a month but as long as you get it every few days it will compound to 160%). It hasn't done too bad. I actually sold too early or would have made about 10 more BTC. Obviously, BuzzCoin is more of a Ponzi than bitconnect as it didn't really have the value of guaranteeing the investment amount when you lend (as long as it was allowed to continue without being a Ponzi - remember the interest and capital release was always less BCC than was lent so it was never operating as a ponzi).

Thing with Dash is that you always have control over your Coins and the rewards for staking are always the same. The developers cant arbitrarily decide to change the rewards without consensus from all the miners and stakers. Main point with ponzis is that you give your Coins over to someone else, and they hold your capital and just pay you the interest (or not). When the price tanks, you can do nothing because they hold your money (and usually never get your initial investment back)

A coin like BuzzCoin is not a full ponzi because you keep control over your money. Coins like that will tend to go to 0 over a long period of time unless there is a hardfork to change the rewards. As price goes down, you always have the option to sell your initial investment plus the interest you've accumulated from staking.

I am probably not following you correctly but did you really mean that it's a Ponzi if you don't have control of the money and they don't pay it back? Bitconnect gave everyone their investments back (at the 15 day average value) and the value only went down because many sold them at the same time. The same would happen with any coin if a lot was dumped in one day. Like I said before, bitcoin has almost double the supply so should be half the value of bitconnect, all other things being equal. So a valuation of a few hundred dollars for bitconnect wasn't excessive. Everyone who spread the misinformation are more to blame for the current value than the investors of the coin. The site is still up and running, so the coin should increase again once they figure out what to do next.

Remember the BitconnectX ICO sells out every day almost immediately and takes in $13million worth of funds each time (although they value BCC at $150 since bitconnect closed the lending). How are so many people investing in it still if everyone thinks it's a scam??? All the people saying it's a scam are probably in the minority.

I don't think you are following anything people are saying in this thread.

Bitconnect was built as a lending platform, classic ponzi. Why don't you take some time, research how ponzi schemes work, and go through some of the scams that have happened on these forums throughout the years?

Still believing text on the screen? That bitconnectx ico is a black hole and a scam.



Here, why don't you check out how a REAL ico is done with legit people https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2353775

Actually had talked to Ronny Boesling years ago through skype when his exchange was just starting out, before he partnered up with the bitshares asset exchange.


I had a look at the ICO. You are saying these people are more legit than people in the Far East for what reasons?

I noticed some very non-legit marketing methods. Firstly, you must know that the value of the any token (unless somehow linked to the profitability of the business) has no relation to how well a company does. The main factor in the price is the starting price in the ICO (simply because investors prefer not to sell at a loss). Now you understand that, do you not think offering a FIFTY PERCENT (50%) discount for early investors is a bit of a red flag? They will be encouraged by this 50% potential gain in the price. There are no promises, but bitconnect didn't promise anything either for most loan amounts. The lending had the desired effect, though, and the coin increased enough that bitconnect could share the gains in this way without ever being a Ponzi scheme.


Now that you understand that your tokens are not linked to the profitability of the company in any real way, you should also understand if the coin appreciates in value not everyone can win. Try getting everyone to cash out at the value they want. It will never happen in the markets. It's a zero sum game as it is not backed by any company profits (remember, bitconnect's lending generated profits for the company and also its users - just at a lower rate of profit than if users simply held the coin instead). Are you sure this ICO is not a Ponzi? It can't be a security, remember, like normal stocks (or they lose the USA market). Their claims that they will bring cryptos to a billion people from a measly 5 million is a bit overblown too.



Look at how their legal team tries to wriggle out of saying it could be classed as a security and thus not authorised in the USA (granted there have been no court cases to date so that could mean no ICO token is a security, but the SEC doesn't stop warning people about it - TokenPay had to refund Americans half way through their ICO):
"However, the Platform is designed in a manner that would fail if SCR tokens are simply held with the intention of reselling at an appreciated value. To clarify, the Platform is an interactive mediadriven platform. SCR tokens are held and used to interact on the Platform. No other tokens or currency may be used therefore, and non-use of the Platform will drive down the market price of the Tokens. Thus, if the general public’s primary objective is to hold an SCR token for investment (I focus on SCR tokens, because SP may not be traded on the secondary market), then the entire Platform will lose value due to non-use. This will render the Tokens worthless. Thus, any primary intent in holding the Tokens solely for investment purposes makes no sense."

I hope you are not invested in it to make money (or hope that most other 'investors' aren't trying to make money), going by the above.

At least bitconnect's model had no problems with price appreciation!
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