No, they decided they should pay taxes and can get tax write offs with donating the required tax of their country on capital gains from selling their crypto-assets ... for whatever multiple of money that they've extracted from later adopters, who will bear the losses once these global Ponzi-Pyramid scheme structures are made illegal by governments.
Edit: I want to add, these organizations being donated these crypto-assets, if they spend it are extracting money from the later adopters as well - and therefore are supporting and benefitting from these Ponzi-Pyramid schemes -- and of course they have to sell them (and are in full control of selling them, unlike a stock broker in a traditional Ponzi scheme) to actually benefit from these mostly mega-million dollar donations that on the surface only help to perpetuate and build people's unchecked excitement and greed.
Do you believe all crypto currencies will be outlawed by governments, or just the practice of initial coin offerings that are obvious Ponzi schemes? The reason I ask is that while it is possible to hold people responsible for illegal business practices, nothing will ever stop people from running software or trading assets, legal or otherwise.
ICOs are just a marketing tool to concentrate attention and perpetuate the hype machine - supporting the structure of an ICO doesn't make the structure of these crypto-assets not a Ponzi-Pyramid scheme.
Of course, people still murder other people even though it's illegal - however we put mechanisms as best we can to counteract what we feel isn't good for society, e.g. traditional Ponzi schemes ... which should have the incentivized structure of Bitcoin, Ethereum's Ether et al added to that same illegal status - if they even pass current laws, which there is some doubt to.
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 27.7 ms ] threadA bitcoin-billionaire decided to give away his fortune.
Edit: I want to add, these organizations being donated these crypto-assets, if they spend it are extracting money from the later adopters as well - and therefore are supporting and benefitting from these Ponzi-Pyramid schemes -- and of course they have to sell them (and are in full control of selling them, unlike a stock broker in a traditional Ponzi scheme) to actually benefit from these mostly mega-million dollar donations that on the surface only help to perpetuate and build people's unchecked excitement and greed.
Of course, people still murder other people even though it's illegal - however we put mechanisms as best we can to counteract what we feel isn't good for society, e.g. traditional Ponzi schemes ... which should have the incentivized structure of Bitcoin, Ethereum's Ether et al added to that same illegal status - if they even pass current laws, which there is some doubt to.