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June 07, 2017, 12:07:22 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?

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June 07, 2017, 12:42:44 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?



Bitcoin is multi level marketing the same way gold is multi level marketing.

I don't give my friends or family investment advice. Best way to loose friends.

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June 07, 2017, 12:50:55 PM
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yeah, I gave good investment advice to friends and family after the 2013 bubble and nobody listened, now they probably resent me because I was right. On this bubble instead of advising them to invest their own money I tried giving away some of my interest bearing cryptocoins to friends and family and that also failed because it seems like MLM. This was pretty upsetting to me and now I don't offer any advice or free money. Fuck these losers, I told them straight up, never ask me for money ever again if you can't take my free money now. They don't trust me enough to download a wallet, well I won't give a shit if you are eating dogfood in twenty years, they are all dead to me now.
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June 07, 2017, 12:57:41 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?



Bitcoin is multi level marketing the same way gold is multi level marketing.

I don't give my friends or family investment advice. Best way to loose friends.

To know if Bitcoin is a multilevel marketing you should know what multi level marketing is.

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Multi-level marketing is a strategy that some direct sales companies use to encourage their existing distributors to recruit new distributors by paying the existing distributors a percentage of their recruits' sales; the recruits are known as a distributor's "downline."

Bitcoin is not controlled by any company, it is under an open market and it does not give a percentage to anyone who encourage people to buy bitcoin.  So Bitcoin is not a multi level marketing.
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June 07, 2017, 01:04:21 PM
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It's not about MLM at all. There is no refferal rewards for involving newcomers.
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June 07, 2017, 01:04:47 PM
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I think multi level marketing is not the right thing to call bitcoin. MLM is just a kind of system much different from bitcoin. If the system is implemented then bitcoin will lose many users. We all know that multi level marketing is very harmful to many people and only benefit to some people only.
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June 07, 2017, 01:07:37 PM
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Since this is a rant, I won't point out the dozens of ways Bitcoin is anything but MLM.

You know, you'll always get disappointed in the end if you have expectations from trying to help someone. But with friends and family, better to stay away from offering investment advice. Money is just something that'll always create issues somewhere down the line.

I've had mixed experiences talking to friends about Bitcoin, and other digital ideas previous to that. Now I just offer opinions when asked earnestly.

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June 07, 2017, 01:12:41 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?


Situations like this is what we face when trying to enlighten people about bitcoin as most of them just wants to invest at an amount, and the next week the price has sky rocket but the moment you tell them that's not how it works they either label you a novice or even a quack at that and its not their fault but the media that spread the news of increase faster than when there is a crash. So what I do now, is keep to myself and only advise those who are genuinely interested so I won't be labelled a s hammer who leads people to lose their hard earned money.
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June 07, 2017, 01:25:57 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?



Yes exactly Bitcoin may be divided into many categories but we can not assert that it is multi-level. It's possible that many Bitcoin participants have been scammed, but we can not say that it is multi-level
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June 07, 2017, 01:26:06 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.
Did they really need this in their lives?

with your logic everything in the world is an MLM system!
including Gold, Stocks, and every item that you can think of.
even when you go and buy a shirt it is an MLM based on your logic because someone (the seller) bought the shirt at 10% less and is now selling it to you for 10% more. did you need that shirt? you could have used your old shirt Wink

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June 07, 2017, 01:26:13 PM
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Same argument could have been made for gold or any other investment whatsoever. You have to look at the fundamentals, bitcoin is not some nonsense scam company.

In any case, I stay away from telling friends or family to buy bitcoin, that's a bad idea. Let them find it and decide by themselves.
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June 07, 2017, 01:27:05 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?



They can also buy it 10% less if they wait for a dip. And they don't need it in their lives. No one is forcing anyone to buy bitcoin. But it is a good investment though as experienced by those who got in early and enjoying x1000 profit.
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June 07, 2017, 01:34:53 PM
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yeah, I gave good investment advice to friends and family after the 2013 bubble and nobody listened, now they probably resent me because I was right. On this bubble instead of advising them to invest their own money I tried giving away some of my interest bearing cryptocoins to friends and family and that also failed because it seems like MLM. This was pretty upsetting to me and now I don't offer any advice or free money. Fuck these losers, I told them straight up, never ask me for money ever again if you can't take my free money now. They don't trust me enough to download a wallet, well I won't give a shit if you are eating dogfood in twenty years, they are all dead to me now.

Don't Resent someone for just being so stubborn about something that they can't understand at all this is your family and friends after all you are talking about, I think you need to take it easy for a while I think they need time to really take it in all of what you are teaching them, all you need to do is be a millionaire yourself so that they would really think that they have miss a great opportunity, take it easy and just relax.
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June 07, 2017, 01:36:40 PM
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The main point of MLM is building network and get a percentage of their revenue

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June 07, 2017, 01:44:10 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?



Bitcoin is multi level marketing the same way gold is multi level marketing.

I don't give my friends or family investment advice. Best way to loose friends.

To know if Bitcoin is a multilevel marketing you should know what multi level marketing is.

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Multi-level marketing is a strategy that some direct sales companies use to encourage their existing distributors to recruit new distributors by paying the existing distributors a percentage of their recruits' sales; the recruits are known as a distributor's "downline."

Bitcoin is not controlled by any company, it is under an open market and it does not give a percentage to anyone who encourage people to buy bitcoin.  So Bitcoin is not a multi level marketing.

Don't make me post a definition of comprehending Wink

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June 07, 2017, 02:05:31 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?



How could bitcoin in itself be a MLM scheme? Bitcoin is a currency, not an organization where you will get paid for introducing people to it, but it's just that some of the MLM companies have Incorporated bitcoin or altcoins as a payment option. And then there are pyramid schemes.

I guess for most of us speculating bitcoin price is somewhat a tricky affair. People below the age of 20 and above 60 have invested on bitcoins, some of them have studied the bitcoin market thoroughly, gone through the charts, speculating events which might boost BTC price and others are just going with the market flow. It would not be possible to predict an accurate BTC price at any given point in time so in my opinion introducing friends or family to bitcoin is awesome, but let them decide if they want to buy or invest.
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June 07, 2017, 02:06:55 PM
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I am a novice in cryptocurrency field but from the little I know, Bitcoin is created by solving sophisticated maths problem. It hard to mine or better still It takes alot of hardwork to Mine. Can't be exhausted and It can last forever(I guess "last forever & can't be exhausted " are why it's choosen as currency)
These are what make Bitcoin valuable(rare stuff are valuable right?)  and valuable things are attractive to people. People buy and sell valuables as well as use them as currency.

Multi level marketing scheme can't do even  30% of what Bitcoin can do(what I listed above).
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June 07, 2017, 02:33:09 PM
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I would add that its a myth to think bitcoin is an MLM because people just focus in the increasing side if bitcoin without understanding the reasons for the increase and are not bothered about learning of what leads to it and the moment there is a crash, they won't even wet their appetite with knowledge they conclude that its what they hold true that eventually happened. But to me, if there is any MLM that have stayed this long and have a technology that backs it up, that have attracted the interest of government of countries or even committees are set up to make better, then that is when we can begin to compare bitcoin with MLM.
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June 07, 2017, 02:38:35 PM
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We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?



We tell our friends about it and they buy it at 10% more than you paid for it just because you have the in.

Did they really need this in their lives?



Bitcoin is multi level marketing the same way gold is multi level marketing.

I don't give my friends or family investment advice. Best way to loose friends.



I think this is not the right way for bitcoin. Bitcoin is really a coin, it's valuable, and it's absolutely reputable, it has its own company and is run by really talented people, its use brings many benefits to the community. It's really a product, a fortune, it's so strong that it's a gold pass, it's a real coin. Multi-level marketing is a completely false way of calling.
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June 07, 2017, 02:44:59 PM
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To know the difference between the two, you must know what multi level marketing is and know what bitcoin is. Bitcoin is more of like a stock investment because we are buying into the share of 21m mineable coins in existence and the value just keeps on appreciating due to trading. MLM is pure scam, people controlling an organization and recruiting people to buy in in hopes of greater returns. The last one who joins the pyramid ends up losing, the top of the chain would rake in all the profits. See, there is a big difference between the two.

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