{"id":7549,"date":"2023-01-01T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T23:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2023-01-01T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T23:05:51","slug":"beergeek-boosted-sick-of-people-calling-everything-in-crypto-a-ponzi-scheme-some-crypto-projects-are-pump-and-dump-schemes-while-others-are-pyramid-schemes-others-are-just-middlemen-skimming-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2023\/01\/01\/beergeek-boosted-sick-of-people-calling-everything-in-crypto-a-ponzi-scheme-some-crypto-projects-are-pump-and-dump-schemes-while-others-are-pyramid-schemes-others-are-just-middlemen-skimming-off\/","title":{"rendered":"@beergeek boosted: Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><p>Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud. <\/p>\n<p>Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8211; Widdershins Smith (@juglugs) <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.juglugs.com\/@juglugs\/109615716836639788\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>January 1, 2023<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>source <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.juglugs.com\/@juglugs\/109615716836639788\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>https:\/\/mastodon.juglugs.com\/@juglugs\/109615716836639788<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry. &#8211; Widdershins Smith (@juglugs) January 1, 2023 source https:\/\/mastodon.juglugs.com\/@juglugs\/109615716836639788<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7550,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions\/7550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}