Bitcoin itself is not a Ponzi, but when you start increasing a $0 value asset with unrealistic returns it becomes a Ponzi just like bitconnect.
There for the only way to maintain steady 1,000% growth year on year is to steadily grow the buysers at 1,000% YOY as well, when the number of new buyers stops climbing at that rate the older sellers can not exit at the expected high price and the ponzi scheme collapses.