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.
MULTIPLY BTC ROLLS PLAYED
11,807
MULTIPLY BTC WINNINGS
-0.00041163BTC
This first is how much gambling I've done, and the second should make it clear why I've had to be more careful about it. Sometimes I get multiple losses in a row (10 or more) even when the odds of winning each are supposed to be over 30% each time, but that's another issue and there have been some times that I have had good wins, so that's not the focus of my complaint. But with well over 11,000 rolls in about a year and a half it's hard to claim I'm just "draining the faucet."
I will admit I've only bought a few lottery tickets, and that's because the chance of winning is basically none.
Finally, as for depositing real money, I prefer to keep real money in a bank for reasons of both accessibility and security.
MM