/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>12699879
Because endless spammers were paid to spread low effort memes

>heheh FAT!!
>hehe MCDONALDS!!

using humor, a huge circle-jerk to influence others to jump on board, thinking they're part of this great community with organic meme creation.

It's all a very elaborate long-running scam that relies on the influence of dumbasses that will dissipate around 2020/2021 or so.

>>12699889

How did bitcoin become /g/'s favorite meme in 2011?

>>12699896
perfect example of "buy my bags"

It’s a complete scam? Told to come here for news on 4channel but useless. Tell me what I need to know now so I don’t have to read. Help in educating me.

>>12699966
It screams “I have so much fuck you money that I don’t give a shit what you anonymous losers living in mom’s basement have to say about it”

it started in 2017 when a bunch of anons joined together to buy ico bags (it was hard to buy them alone as you needed a lot of money) and then paid a discord group to create memes and shill here for the SIBOS 17 pnd.
that was the whole plan but then bagholders kept on shilling the shitcoin to try to pump it and unload their bags to the next sucker and eventually it catched on

>>12700054
>catched on
Chill out there.

>>12699879
It's called "the sunk cost fallacy".
see this: >>12700054