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18882701 No.18882701 [Reply] [Original]

Do Ponzi schemes ever work meaning keeping the money and walking away scot-free?

Or do all Ponzi scheme operators know they're eventually going to jail when returns dry up?

What if you lie and say you made bad investments or something?

>> No.18882726

>>18882701
Pretty sure Satoshi is still doing pretty good

>> No.18882903

>>18882701
probability of Richard heart in jail eoy?
I'd say its more or less guaranteed by q2 2021
currently amassing a huge stack in preparation for the stake-in-richard's-prison-pocket announcement

>> No.18883094

>>18882701
MMmm bitcoin works pretty good

>> No.18883223

>imagine thinking its bearish that bitcoin works like a ponzi scheme

>> No.18883276

Social Security is a ponzi and it's been going on for 85 years now

>> No.18883615

>>18883276
It worked so great that it’s being emulated across the world

>> No.18883699

>>18882701
You disappear somewhere without an extradition treaty. Alternatively just fake your death: I think of the quadringacx exit scam where the dude with the keys mysteriously died in India or some such

>> No.18884719

>>18883699
I think the OneCoin chick did the same.