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RE: I don't understand the claims of "Steem is a Pyramid Scheme"
I don't agree with your idea of how adding value to Bitcoin works. You say that someone buying in with $100 would add $100 to the market cap but that's clearly wrong - it defines the value of all Bitcoin at the price they paid, at least temporarily. That could raise the market cap or it could lower it. If they bought a full Bitcoin for $100 the price just got cut to 1/10 what it was!
Think of it this way: if I buy in for a certain amount, someone else must have sold out for that same amount. The money isn't only moving into the system, and the system only grows if the seller sold for more than they bought for.
How does that work for coin mined every 10 minutes with each block? I can definitely see your point on how it affects coins already in circulation though. Currency exchanges definitely add a level of complexity that makes it much harder to grasp, especially for those of us without economics degrees (I now have on my todo list to look for online economics courses 😁)