[Sebb767]

> Literally the only way you can profit with real estate is if people keep buying in at higher prices. It's the perfect instantiation of a pyramid scheme.

Except, of course, if you live in it, rent it out or use it as businesses asset. Good luck doing that with crypto.

> Literally the only way you can profit with stocks is if people keep buying in at higher prices. It's the perfect instantiation of a pyramid scheme.

Except, of course, that you as a shareholder can influence the direction of the company and earn dividends. Good luck doing that with crypto.

[bluepnume]

What does that have to do with the original point?

- Real estate has real-world use cases

- Stocks have real-world use cases

- Bitcoin has real-world use cases

It's meaningless to describe any of these as pyramid schemes because "to profit you must be able to sell at a higher price to someone else". That's true of buying or selling anything.

[bitxbitxbitcoin]

Actually you can rent out crypto (to short sellers).

[aaaaaaaaata]

Or by staking for loans, other transactions.

[lanstin]

A nice example of how the winners in the gold rush aren’t the suckers but the people selling stuff to the suckers.