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		makomk on Feb 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin Ponzi scheme There have been a few Bitcoin sites like this, I think the original one was Bitcoin Gem. Most of them turned out to be scams (and I don't just mean that they were Ponzis).

runn1ng on Feb 8, 2014 [–]

Well, (1) they weren't so hilariously open about their scam nature, (2) they weren't so nicely done and so transparent.

On the other hand, this is going for just a few days, it might go south quickly.

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