1/6 I would like to post a thread to talk about what is #Ponzi.🧵
Ponzi is named after Charles Ponzi. He is a lair, who creat a fraud named international mail coupons,while actually he lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.
2/6 Therefore, Ponzi uses tricks to leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity. So unless you think Fraud is a neutral word, don't say Ponzi is a neutral word and don't say no Ponzi no blockchain.
3/6 It is true that some projects need some subsidies in the early stage, that is subsidies not Ponzi. What is Ponzi? It is a game using the money of new investors as the return of old investors, high profit traps to maintain the illusion of a sustainable business.
4/6 Amazon and Uber achieve cold boost using equity financing money, while the Crypto projects use tokens to reward participants and contributors. Unlike Ponzi, those projects will be value precipitation finally. The gap of Ponzi will be bigger and bigger, until hard to fill in.
5/6 In fact, there are obviously such projects on the market, with fancy face value, but in fact the nature is a Ponzi. Compared with the above valuable companies relying on subsidizing early users to achieve cold boost, there is a fundamental difference.
6/6 Stop saying No Ponzi No blockchain. You should read the most basic finance 101 Corporate Finance. People with basic financial knowledge will not believe in Ponzi just as people who have studied thermodynamics will not believe in the existence of perpetual motion machines.
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3/6 诚然有些项目在早期冷启动的时候需要一些补贴,那就叫补贴好了,而不是Ponzi。Ponzi是什么?The Fruad that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.
是用新投资人的本金作为老投资人的回报,用高利润的陷阱诱导用户接盘的游戏。
1/ In the past a few days, some founders of our portfolio projects have called me to talk about the views on the market and some suggestions for the project development.
Here are some of the common thing that I would like to share:First, according to the data review of several cycle of bull and bear market, the projects with better returns usually experienced the baptism of the bear market and persist until the bull market comes.
But unfortunately, countless projects fell in the darkness before the dawn, either because the founder himself gave up, or because the project burnt out all the money. Therefore, the most important thing now for the project founders is, leaving enough expenses for dark times.
1/ To summarize my thoughts on the recent #LUNA event:
I had a chat with them in 2018 in the private round when I was in charge of investment at OKex. I met Do Kwon and Daniel three times. At that time, Terra team didn't want to develop a stablecoin project, but offline payment.
I was not optimistic at the beginning and passed this project. But someone in our investment team liked it so much that OKex decided to invest. It turned out that the project was one of OKex's highest ROE project ever.
2/ For those of us who have been in the industry for a long time, we may not be interested in this kind of thing at first. Its ecology is like flying with the left foot on the right foot. Everyone with basic physical common sense knows that it cannot fly, right?