pretty remarkable to see Coinbase making the argument that crypto is not like stocks, it's like baseball cards, American Girl dolls, or Beanie Babies

it's the future of finance! except when the SEC comes knocking, then it's just a harmless little toy, your honor

#crypto #cryptocurrency #coinbase

@molly0xfff Would it be legal to do a pyramid scheme / ponzi scheme, if I tell everyone that that's what I'm doing and I say it's actually gambling?

@nicemicro @molly0xfff

The #crypto in-plain-sight Kansas city shuffle.

It's an out-in-the-open (OITO) scam where the people you sell it to know it's an OITO scam, but these people expect to sell it themselves OITO to others, and those others plan to.......

Everyone relies on the recursive loop, but even infinite loops eventually fail.

OIW, it's not a #Ponzi scam, until the very last step, but it's OITO so even then there's deniability.

"I thought it would work, and so did everybody else."