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The Cista pyramids are the fair and predictable pyramid scheme, where the money is redistributed among participants and not taken by the organiser in one sweep at the end.
Pyramid #1, Pyramid #2.

What is the Rooster Version?
The Rooster Version - better known as the Chicken Version - has a more forgiving algorithm than the first pyramids. Here I have added a buffer layer where money is kept idle instead of leaving the pyramid. What this means for you is that even if you "lose", you are guaranteed at least 67% of your money refunded (see below). The catch is that to score a "win" (your isk doubled), you have to wait for two layers to fill after your own.

How the pyramid works.
Each ticket costs 1 million isk. Each layer is roughly twice the size of the layer above it, starting with 10 tickets in the first layer.
There is no limit to number of tickets you buy.
Your win comes when two layers below yours have been filled. Your win will be 2 million isk per ticket.
Schematic of the working pyramid.

How the pyramid ends
The pyramid will close when no new tickets have been sold for 5 days, or when no layer has been filled for 10 days.
At the time of closing there will be players from 2-2½ layers that have bought tickets and not gotten a win yet, and these are the “losers”. All the money that came from tickets sold in the last two layers is pooled and returned, so that these win-less players will share their loss. The money returned will be at least 67%, and in theory could be over 80% of the cost of your tickets.
Schematic of the closing pyramid.

How does Cista2 make money on this?
I make the growth rate of layers slightly larger than doubling (10-20-45-100 etc). As more layers are added, this will provide the organiser a nice percentage profit along the way. I will take no percentage of the closing payout. In other words, I do not make money by ending this game, but by maintaining and repeating it succesfully.

Credentials
Earlier uncollateralised projects - 265 bn isk have been paid out.
Feel free to make a copy of the rules.

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10 tickets bought in layer one, hope I was first?

My favourite part is where your alts are at the top of the pyramid.

Buying into four layers, now that's just bullshit.

Sorry, Daisuke Aoki had sent money for those 75 tickets first. Your money has been returned.

We are now in layer 5 with 200 tickets available, layers 1 and 2 have been paid out.

We are thus entering layer 6 with 450 tickets for sale.

Rood. D-: . Why u do dis to me Daisuke

It's not a scam (or so I hope).

It would be one if Cista2 would break her own rules and take all the money and run or if she would put her alts on top even though other players somehow got wind of the scheme earlier and and sent her the money faster than her own alts. This is highly unlikely and so far no one claims that this has happened.

No! You cant have it!

Would like pledge 20b