Who the hell cares. If it's a pump and dump of fundamentally worthless stuff relying on bigger fools, it's all the same.

I care. You made a claim, were given a thoughtful explanation why your claim was wrong, and you don't care. Not cool.

I made no claim. I asked whats the difference and got a pedantic explanation of what a ponzi scheme technically is, like anyone whose been in one of these threads hasn't already heard that same pedantic explanation. Who cares? It really doesn't matter if its a ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme or some other scheme. What is transparently obvious is there is nothing there there and eventually the music stops and leaves the bigger fools holding the bag.

Fair enough. My bad.