To reply to your edit-addon re: slot machine - You walk into a casino to hopefully know you're getting played (a specific context), however Ponzi and Pyramid schemes are subtle - and people you trust or don't trust will influence or manipulate you into "playing" the game [100% of the time so far people promoting it that I've talked to outright deny any function as Pyramid-Ponzi scheme], and you run into them the more the hype-shallow marketing-level "positive" information hits mainstream media, and you get more people (army of HODLers; Pyramid scheme) trying to sell you with shallow and/or purposeful misinformation/information. That's very different than going to a physical place, to a casino, and playing a slot machine. I'm surprised you don't see that difference yourself?

>however Ponzi and Pyramid schemes are subtle - and people you trust or don't trust will influence or manipulate you into "playing" the game [100% of the time so far people promoting it that I've talked to outright deny any function as Pyramid-Ponzi scheme]

but OP's comment is about schemes that are embeded into the currency itself

>I don't like it being designed with Ponzi and Pyramid scheme structures embedded.

presumably as some sort of smart contract. in which case every participant should know (or can find out) that it's a ponzi/pyramind scheme.

>and you run into them the more the hype-shallow marketing-level "positive" information hits mainstream media, and you get more people (army of HODLers; Pyramid scheme) trying to sell you with shallow and/or purposeful misinformation/information. That's very different than going to a physical place, to a casino, and playing a slot machine. I'm surprised you don't see that difference yourself?

that's a fair point. "traditional" gambling don't incentivize people to market for them.

If they don't have a fixed value (and perhaps requirement that they aren't private) then they're decentralized Ponzi-Pyramid schemes with a promise and tie-in into technology - which doesn't nullify the negative scheme structures.

Uneducated people or educated people taking advantage of uneducated people's money. Edit: Undereducated/uneducated

the same sadly could be said for much more mundane and socially acceptable things, like paying the tithe at a money-hungry religion that's trying to sell uneducated/oblivious people some instant peace of mind.

So we should just throw out all of the protections implemented by stock market from lessons learned there - as a means to protect society? I really don't understand why financial regulators have turned a blind eye to the obvious nature for the structures of Bitcoin etc. They're decentralized Ponzi-Pyramid schemes, with a promise and tie-in into technology - which doesn't nullify the negative scheme structure.