Anyone who played poker towards the End (April 15th) had to know the danger, withdrawals were sometimes taking months, checks were bouncing...the writing was on the wall. The fact that FTP didn't have the funds to pay everyone off when the government seized their domain name (as well as numerous payment processor seizures leading up to the shutdown costing them millions) does not make them a Ponzi scheme; it means they were operating on belief that money would continue to come in, just like many "legitmate" businesses. When a company goes bankrupt they line up and hope to get paid from what's left, unfortunately for those of us who lost money, Uncle Sam seized it.
If they truly feel this is a Ponzi scheme then why don't they take all the seized money, including the payment processor money, and pay us "victims" back with it?