Quote from: TheQuin on May 26, 2018, 02:32:25 PM

Quote from: Meow1968 on May 26, 2018, 02:23:18 PM

Negative: The lowest reward is down AGAIN. Now it's not even 1/20 of the second lowest but one or two satoshis LESS than 1/20. This is getting ridiculous. We can't take advantage of BTC being down to try to reach that magic number of 30,000. I remember the reduction (originally from 1/10) was supposedly to frustrate bots - hasn't that been solved yet? And in any case, why make things more difficult and inconvenient for the honest players?

This morning, for example:

***0 - 9885 0.00000011 BTC*** (not .00000013)
9886 - 9985 0.00000265 BTC
9986 - 9993 0.00002654 BTC
9994 - 9997 0.00026543 BTC
9998 - 9999 0.00265428 BTC
10000 0.02654284 BTC

MM

The rewards are only reduced for accounts that don't do at least a little gambling, buying lottery tickets or deposit to keep a higher balance.
The bots pay for captcha solves and when we reduced the reward for those accounts last time those botnets stopped briefly and weren't buying captchas. So the sites that sell captcha solves reduced their prices so the botnets were profitable again. This latest reduction really is the only thing we can do. It is targetted at accounts that really do nothing or very little other than draining the faucet. It is a gradual reduction by a very small % per day.

Whatever move you do, those botnets will keep adapting and finding ways to drain the faucet. I think the only thing you can do is lower the base reward even more for such accounts so that it isn't profitable anymore.