I’ve been pondering about this question for while now, how can a newbie that wants to go into Bitcoin accumulation really avoid Ponzi schemes.
How? If you as a newbie wants to accumulate bitcoin..you’re supposed to DYOR and personally I don’t see any way you can fall for Ponzi scheme if you really want to accumulate bitcoin, the only way you’ll lose money as a newbie wanting to accumulate bitcoin is if you’re scammed. But if you want quick money then be ready to fall for Ponzi schemes.
We are only very lucky to be here and have the first-hand knowledge of what bitcoin really is, the right channel to buy it and how to securely hold it in our self-custody wallets. There are various scammers who pose as exchanges and shill their investment sites to unsuspecting people, and those people buy bitcoin through those sites thinking they invested and expecting returns but never knew they just enriched a scammer.
There are illiterate and yet unfortunate ones who got deceived by what they saw on social media or who got information from less informed people and ended up investing into shitcoins or investment sites instead of bitcoin.
In case you don't know, there are shitcoins that have name variations with bitcoin e.g MrBTC, BabyBTC, MiniBTC e.t.c, if you are naive, you can easily fall for those worthless shitcoins thinking you are investing into BTC.
Even while Researching as a total newbie, you can still land into the wrong information. Ignorance is a very deadly weapon against success.