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Correlate Bitcoin prices with anything

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As a ponzi scheme built on hype, http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin is all you need.

"Ponzi scheme" has a very specific definition (early investors paid by late investors rather than from profit). While Bitcoin may certainly be in a bubble, a sharp rise in price does not qualify it as a ponzi any more than tulip bulbs or AAPL shares.

I think what he means is that early adopters are disproportionally rewarded if additional people use the currency, since mining gets exponentially harder.
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