As the USD price of Bitcoin increases, the rewards that popular Bitcoin faucets payout decreases accordingly. Sites that would pay 50-70 satoshi per claim last year are now paying between 15-20 satoshi per claim.
If the price of Bitcoin continues to climb to $50,000 USD, the value of 1 satoshi would conceivably be higher then these faucets could afford to pay out (per climb) compared to the ad income they generate.
Any thoughts on how will these faucets deal with payouts when 1 satoshi is worth too much?
It is simply a number that you can divide it.
For example 1 BTC = 1000 mBTC
So in the future when 1 satoshi will cost many dollars we will simply divide it. For example, 1 Satoshi = 1000 mSatoshi.
faucets started as a cool little idea to "give away" bitcoin and get more people involved. it was for free and a large amount not dust. there were faucets giving away 3 bitcoin at a point!!! now they are all used for money making both by their owners and the users!
and for years they do not pay you directly, they use a third party (like a bowl to gather the drops) and nothing is stopping them from paying their users 0.1 satoshi 0.00001 satoshi and so on which will solve the price issue and the users will have to accumulate 100,000 satoshi to be able to withdraw!
Indeed, the only problem imo is the high fees which will be a limited factor for the transactions..