LYN ALDEN,  NOV 1, 2021 @Swanbitcoin - One of the concerns I’ve seen aimed at Bitcoin is the claim that it’s a Ponzi scheme. The argument suggests that because the Bitcoin network is contin­u­ally reliant on new people buying in, that eventu­ally it will collapse in price as new buyers are exhausted. So, this article takes a serious look at the concern by comparing and contrasting Bitcoin to systems that have Ponzi-like charac­ter­is­tics, to see if the claim holds up. The short version is that Bitcoin does not meet the defin­i­tion of a Ponzi scheme in either narrow or broad scope, but let’s dive in to see why that’s the case.

LYN ALDEN - Originally published: November 2021 I've been asked a number of times for an update for my views on Ethereum since my January 2021 article on the topic, which received over a quarter million reads. In that prior article, I described Ethereum, explained areas where I was bullish, but also expressed my fundamental concerns with it. The overall …