6065 Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme?
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
I critique the labeling of Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme, emphasizing the need to understand the distinctions between legitimate assets and fraudulent schemes. I argue for Bitcoin’s role as an effective medium of exchange due to its limited supply and energy requirements, contrasting it with fiat currencies that are subject to political manipulation. I aslso dismantle common criticisms of Bitcoin, advocating for informed discourse around cryptocurrencies and their potential to promote financial independence.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. All right. All right. All right. How you doing, everybody? |
| 0:05.2 | Stefan von Mollinue from the house of Bitcoin maximalists and a fellow posted on X saying Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. |
| 0:21.1 | Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. Dun dun dun. |
| 0:25.3 | Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. |
| 0:27.3 | Well, that's pretty horrifying. |
| 0:28.5 | That sounds pretty terrible. |
| 0:30.5 | That sounds pretty awful. |
| 0:33.3 | And let us look at that. |
| 0:41.6 | So not everything that raises in value that you don't understand is a Ponzi scheme. |
| 0:45.6 | That's just really, really important to understand. |
| 0:52.4 | So some things are necessary for life, but not the purpose of life. |
| 0:55.1 | So if you're running a race, |
| 0:57.7 | it matters how fast you run, |
| 1:01.8 | but you can't run without being able to breathe oxygen, |
| 1:03.6 | I mean air as a whole, right? |
| 1:05.2 | The whole deal, right? |
| 1:10.0 | Now, you may say, well, the purpose of the running race is to run as fast as possible, but you can't |
| 1:12.3 | really do it without air. Try having a running race underwater. Try having a running race in an |
| 1:20.1 | airless vacuum. It won't work, right? People will just faint or die or whatever, right? |
| 1:25.6 | So there are things that are not in and of themselves valuable, |
| 1:32.3 | but through which value is achieved. |
| 1:36.9 | Another example, well, because to take the same example, |
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