Financial Times: Bitcoin is a Pyramid Scheme
A controversial article on Financial Times calls Bitcoin a pyramid scheme. One of the leading financial media outlets just called Bitcoin a grand pyramid scheme. It doesn’t come as a surprise as it’s common among mainstream media outlets to sensationalize news to gain more readership. Bitcoin is an ideal topic to do just that. The increasing Bitcoin price in the recent days has pushed the popular cryptocurrency into the limelight. As the cryptocurrency’s price crosses $1000, Financial Times has assigned a new value — $0. The author, in a conflicting, self-contradictory piece compares the....
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Dan McCrum was only mostly wrong in his factual assertions about Bitcoin recently. It was a bit sad to see someone demonstrate such little actual understanding, but deliver such an offensive opinion about Bitcoin. To his credit, McCrum did interview at least one mining pool operator for his article, but nevertheless managed to even get that person consider the idea that Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme. This idea has been debunked for so many years that it's irrelevant. But here we are: Bobby Lee, head of BTCC, the largest bitcoin exchange in China, argues its use for everyday transactions....
People’s Daily, the most popular newspaper in circulation in China, has recently published a story about a virtual currency pyramid scheme, named EGD. The pyramid scheme involved over 500.000 members, and 1.09 billion Chinese yuan ($1.5 billion). EGD even had a clone named Wanfubi, with over 120.000 registered members, and 1.2 billion yuan ($173 million) involved. At the end of the operation, 77 suspects were arrested, and $121 million were frozen. The pyramid scheme was first discovered by the Xuzhou Department of Public Security (DPS) back in March, 2016. The scheme was launched back in....
Chinese authorities in Rong County recently said they have prosecuted eight individuals accused of being the masterminds behind the Magic Data Chain (MDC) pyramid scheme. The pyramid is thought to have handled transactions with a total value of over $147 million.
Virtual Currency Pyramid Scheme
Authorities in China’s Rong County, Zigong City, recently prosecuted eight people accused of orchestrating the MDC virtual currency pyramid scheme, a local report has said. According to the report, the prosecution of the case was handled by the Rong County People’s....
For the past year, Kenyans have been lured with the promise of making money quickly through a pyramid scheme started by convicted Russian fraudster, Sergey Mavrodi, reports the Daily Nation, a Kenyan news site. Mavrodi is reported to have designed a major pyramid scheme in Russia before its end came in 1997, which is believed to have conned an estimated $100 million out of its members. He was later sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 2007 for defrauding 10,000 investors of around $4.3 million. This is the same man who set up MMM Global giving promises to Kenyans interested in....
The fallout from an alleged pyramid scheme in Vietnam that used digital money transfers has seen bitcoin come under the crosshairs of governmental authorities who have – once again – warned everyday Vietnamese citizens against using the cryptocurrency. This, despite the perpetrators running the website linked to the alleged pyramid scheme, not having actually used bitcoin in their illegal enterprise that is said to have netted over $100,000, according to a report on Bloomberg BNA. Regional publication Giadinh reveals the means through which a pyramid scheme works by exploiting the interest....