I've not heard of anyone taking out a loan from Bitconnect. Have you? Is it Bitconnect taking the loan? How would they make money if their own bot is doing all the trading with all the loans on their own exchange? Things don't add up.

People can potentially get their capital back in a ponzi before it falls apart. Of course, as far as I hear, they won't get the same amount of bitcoin back. Just the USD equivalent. So when BTC moons (as it has already for many Bitconnect victims), you get less BTC back. And if BTC tanks, they'll probably be insolvent and not bother securing more BTC to pay back their "investors." That's all assuming the scheme doesn't collapse beforehand.

Promotion of the ponzi will only make it bigger, and increase the damage not only to the numbers of people involved but to the reputation of blockchain/smart money networks and tokens in the public eye. A successful ponzi can get quite big and go on for a long time if it keeps suckering in people with promises of easy money by magic. Just look at the Madoff scam.

Ask yourself, how is this sustainable?

Lending, trading bots, attempting to legitimize themselves by commissioning freelancers to write articles on the domain, it's all smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the ponzi scheme.

I explain in the post I made about promoting Bitconnect on Steem that promoting and attempting to profit from promoting a scam is participation in a scam.