I agree that - sadly - sponsoring 300+ children probably just isn't sustainable in our current condition.
If our buffer runs out and we decrease then we decrease, but I dont think we should go down without trying, for the sake of the kids.
And we haven't brought out our most important person yet: God. Remember God is the true answer to lifes problems and he wants us to put our burdens on him.
I think we should organize a fast for this problem (when two or more are gathered in his name - miracles happen).
A BiblePay fast for a recovery of our stability for the continuance of our orphan base.
Regarding the proposal, I am not convinced yet that more miners would not help us grow. Broad adoption is obviously better, and broad adoption for free is obviously better than an airdrop. We are paying 1 million BBP right now through Jaap for almost the same effect we might have every day for free with the broad user base.
The only thing so far I dont like about the proposal is what West mentioned about 'double dipping'. I never did like that possibility. We could offer the ability to create a spork that contains a string of blacklisted team numbers (and I mean in no way any disrespect to the teams, this is precisely to prevent double dipping). Any team that is alerted on the forum of paying in another crypto for the same work could be added to the key (IE blacklisted) and that would prevent double dipping, except where other coins like BiblePay do not require a team. Another words: users who are part of a blacklisted team are not compensated in bbp.