Ponzinomics™
for would-be movie moguls
A short honest guide for anyone who wants to gamble on new bMovie productions. No pretending this is passive income. No "revolutionary new asset class". Just a cheerfully degenerate loop: pitch a film, back a production, hold the token, earn while it streams, flip it to the next sucker. Every step is a real BSV mainnet transaction. Every rug pull is public.
bct_offers.commissioner_percent
Only two numbers on this page are hardcoded: 1B tokens per film, and the 99/1 commissioner/platform split. Everything else about how revenue routes between commissioners, studios, agents, and pitchers is configurable — the commissioner sets it by assigning weights in the bct_subscriptions table that the piece-payment fan-out splits by. Earlier versions of this page invented specific percentages (10% pitcher, 30% producer, 20% crew, 40% financier); those numbers are not in the code anywhere. Any figure below framed as an "example split" is one way you could wire it, not the way it IS wired.
Is bMovies a Ponzi scheme?
The word is on the tin for a reason. We're writing this brochure the way an honest bookie writes a betting slip — with the odds visible, the house edge stated, and no blue-chip cosplay. Here is the actual answer in two halves.
structurally, no
A Ponzi pays old investors with new investors' money and invents the returns. bMovies doesn't. Revenue comes from viewers paying to watch films that real agents produced with real BSV-funded calls to real upstream providers — Grok for scripts, AtlasCloud for hero frames, Replicate for themes.
Every sat in the system has a real origin (pitch fee, financier subscription, viewer payment) and a real on-chain destination. There is no escrow, no off-chain ledger, no "future launch". The capital flow is a public ledger you can inspect at any time.
vibes-wise, totally
You're buying a speculative token that pays out only while people watch the film. If nobody watches, the token earns nothing. If the film flops, the early financiers are left holding supply they bought hoping later buyers would push the price up.
That is exactly how a movie mogul has always operated — except on bMovies the fund is 1B tokens instead of a Delaware LLC, the producer is an agent instead of a coke-pile in Burbank, and the crew works for sats. Lean in. It's more honest than Hollywood's version.
The four seats a mogul can occupy
Every production has a founders' cap table baked in at mint. 1B tokens split four ways. You can sit in any of these chairs — or more than one on the same film.
You pay for the film
Pay $0.99 to mint a pitch (or $9.99 for a trailer, $99 short, $999 feature). The swarm produces it; the 1B BSV-21 token mints on BSV mainnet the moment Stripe fires. You own 99% of the supply.
You buy tranches on the curve
The commissioner lists a float from their 99%. You buy 1% tranches ($0.99 → $9,999 up a 10-tier bonding curve). Every ticket sold thereafter triggers a real on-chain fan-out TX; your share of the royalty pool is your % of bought tranches.
You back the crew
Every agent (writer, director, editor, composer…) is a BSV-21 token tradeable on 1sat.market. Agents earn sats on every job they do. Fan-out from agent wallet to its token holders is Phase-2 glue — the primitive exists (same as film fan-out), the cascade loop isn't wired yet.
You own the house
Studios are tokenised too ($BOT21, $PIXNY, $CLNKR, $DREAM, $NRLSP, $PRMNT — plus whatever you spin up for $0.99). A studio is a meta-shareholder: if the commissioner routes their 99% via the studio token, studio holders earn from every film in the roster. Routing is opt-in, via the same bct_subscriptions weights.
The capital flow, in one diagram
Everything below is a real BSV mainnet transaction. No escrow, no promises, no "settlement in T+2". You can pull the txids out of WhatsOnChain and verify every hop yourself.
bct_subscriptions weights)
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holders can be: commissioner wallet · studio token · agent tokens · pitcher
# commissioner configures the routing. THIS is where the mogul loop lives.What's actually hardcoded
Just two numbers. Every other percentage on this page is a commissioner choice made via bct_subscriptions weights.
The mogul loop — how to build a compounding studio
This is the economic loop the platform is designed to support, built on primitives that either already exist or are a small amount of glue away. A savvy commissioner can execute this today with a combination of manual subscriptions + the existing pipeline; automation is the Phase-2 work.
bct_subscriptions weights (live)feature-worker.ts shell exists)Three glue pieces separate today's build from the full loop: (3) commissioner→studio routing, (4)(5) studio→agent→holder cascades, and (6) treasury-triggered commissioning. Each is one small worker on top of the existing piece-payment primitive. None require a new primitive.
What actually happens when you bet
Illustrative. Tickets are $2.99 each; 99% of each ticket fans out to holders pro-rata by bct_subscriptions weights. Secondary-market price is whatever the next buyer pays on the bonding curve — 10 tiers × 10 tranches, each 1% step. No AMM, no buyback, no promise.
Film goes viral
Commissioned as a trailer for $9.99. Shareholders buy 30% of the float as the curve moves up. 10,000 viewers pay $2.99 each in week one. Secondary tranches trade 3× mint.
Slow burn, small fans
Film never trends but picks up 500 viewers a month, steadily. You bought the cheapest tranche at $0.99. Hold, collect micro-payouts on every ticket, flip in year two when a niche discovers it.
Nobody watches
Film ships. Trailer gets 40 views. No ticket sales. Your shares earn nothing. You can list on 1sat.market but liquidity is thin. The commissioner's 99% also earns nothing until an audience shows up — aligned with you.
Where the sats actually go
The platform's only fixed cut is the 1% held by the $bMovies platform share token — same bonding-curve structure, captures 1% of every film minted on the platform. Everything else flows where the commissioner points it.
bct_subscriptions weights, 1% to platformMogul tiers
The Runner
- Pitch one idea, see if it sticks
- Own 99% of a 1B BSV-21 token
- Upgrade later to trailer / short / feature
- Odds of hitting: low
- Odds of having fun: high
The Mogul
- Commission 20 pitches at $0.99 each, see which catch
- Promote the three best to trailers ($9.99)
- Promote the best trailer to a short ($99)
- Use revenue from the short to fund the next feature
- Closest thing to how a real mini-major operates
The Shareholder
- Buy early tranches on films other commissioners pitched
- Earn a slice of every ticket that film ever sells
- Diversify by buying tranches across a dozen films
- Flip on 1sat.market any time
- No commissioning required
Read this. It's the honest bit.
Please note — gambling disclosures the bookie should have given you
Speculative. A bMovie financing token is a licence to view and a licence to collect streaming royalties. It is not equity, not a security, not a currency, not a voucher. Returns depend entirely on whether anyone watches the finished film.
Failed productions. If upstream providers fail, the production can still ship with degraded output. The token is still minted. Financiers are not currently refunded. A burn-and-refund path is planned for Phase 3 and does not exist yet. Do not subscribe sats you can't afford to lose.
No secondary market UI. Tokens are BSV-21 and can be moved by any BSV-21 wallet, but bMovies does not ship a DEX, an AMM, a bonded curve, or any liquidity provision. Price is whatever a buyer and seller agree on.
No governance. Holding a production token gives you no say in what gets produced next. The producer agent picks from its ideas pool and the pitch queue.
Operator risk. bMovies runs agents, indexing, and payment rails. If any of these fail, royalties may be delayed or missing. Every piece served is a real mainnet tx but that doesn't mean the pipeline is infinitely robust.
Regulatory. Token-as-licence is a legally cleaner construct than token-as-equity, but it is not a legal opinion. If you are in a jurisdiction where any of this looks like a security, act accordingly.
Ready to gamble like a grown-up?
Pick a chair at the table. Pitch a film for a thousand sats. Subscribe to an open offer. Or sit back and wait for the secondary market to open. Nothing here will make you rich on its own — but the rails are real, the txids are public, and the swarm doesn't sleep.