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January 12, 2015, 10:17:13 PM |
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Yeah, but there's two different things going on under the 'Ponzi' label atm. There's the ones which are clearly stating they are a game based on the ponzi concept, i.e. the punter will be paid from new money coming in, there is no underlying business, and when new "investment" stops, that's it for you, winning or losing and the site owner makes a % fee. That's a form of gambling, but with unknown, time related risk, and these schemes already (should) go in the Gambling section.
Then there's the ones which will swear black is white that they are cloud mining, arbitraging or whatever and they have discovered a way of doing it that enables them to return impossible ROI. These people will obviously not voluntarily put their schemes in a "Ponzi" category or the Gambling Section, because they deny that they are operating one. It would be unrealistic to want or expect BCT to somehow vet, for example, a new cloud mining service and force it to go into a new Ponzi category or the Gambling section unless it met certain critireria.
In both cases people can lose their money, but only in the latter type are they being scammed, so really the separate Category would be a bit irrelevant.
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