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Hell yes :)

Bitcoin is similar to a pyramid scheme. Started mining early? You are rich! Started mining yesterday? you are screwed. And the more people get interest, the more fopping rich (i still think bitcoins have zero value), increasing value their mined coins will have.

Don't be so naive please.

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Do you realize what you just said applies to every successful investment? If you started investing in Apple early, you would be rich too. Does that make Apple a "pyramid scheme"? Or maybe, just maybe, it's just that riskier investments have bigger rewards?

Don't be so stubborn please.

If you think stock trading and bitcoin mining is the same, then i'm not the one that is stubborn.

I didn't say they were the same, I said they were both investments. You need to work on those straw men.

It's called diminishing marginal returns and it's a feature of many different economic and physical systems.

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