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How would this be a Ponzi scheme? Who are the leaf nodes ending up holding the bag?
Investors, mostly private - eg. SoftBank and all the other deep pockets funneling money into this - but also public, because lots of people are invested in Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google, who will be directly affected if the bubble bursts, and just everyone invested in the markets generally, as this bubble bursting would already probably be more broadly damaging than even the dot com bust was.

Personally, I do expect a big correction at some point, even if it never reaches the point of bubble bursting. But I have no idea when I expect it to happen, so this isn't, like, an investable thesis.

So unlike with a regular Ponzi scheme most of the money just is wasted?
Well Madoff funnelled it into lifestyle.

Technically you are correct. A ponzi is a single entity paying returns from new marks. It is a straight con.

But some systems can be ponzi-like in that they require more and more investment and people get rich by selling into that. Bitcoin is an example.

Not sure what you mean by "wasted"? Like a regular Ponzi scheme, there are many opportunities for the people at the top to extract value out into cash, while people who "got in" on the scheme later are left holding the bag when the bubble bursts.
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Not this specificay but this kinda thing. If I am getting billions like this, I wanna keep this gravy going. And it comes from shareholders ultimately.

It's just being spent though, no? Sounds more like a potential waste of money than a Ponzi scheme.