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by perl4ever 1654 days ago
How is it a Ponzi scheme? Or why do people call it that?

People use the term loosely to refer to a situation where money has been put into a system, and nothing productive has been done with it, such that taking your money out as soon as possible is probably prudent, before the market decides it's worth zero because the supply of greater fools is used up.