people love calling bitcoin a ponzi but never stop to ask what a ponzi actually is. a ponzi needs a central operator, fake promises, and a steady stream of new suckers to pay off the old ones. bitcoin has none of that no central figure, no guaranteed returns, no secret payouts. it’s just open-source code, a public ledger, and a network that doesn’t care if you join or not. yeah, early adopters made money. that’s how tech adoption works. but people confuse scams around bitcoin with bitcoin itself bitconnect, onecoin, rug pulls all using the language of crypto to con people. add in media hype, financial elites calling it a scam, and everyday people burned by their own FOMO, and suddenly the whole thing gets painted as a fraud. but bitcoin doesn’t collapse when new buyers stop showing up. it keeps running. no marketing, no promises, no payouts. just blocks, every 10 minutes, whether you like it or not. the real reason people cry ponzi? it challenges the system they trust and don’t understand. bitcoin doesn’t sell you dreams. it lets you opt out of theirs.