If you use deposit/lottey tickets/gamblling to avoid limitations sure you will be in the same situation soon.
It's much better if you increase your balance to $50 (it doesn't matter where this amount come from: gambling/referral commisions/freee claim winnings/lottery/deposits/interests all si good) ant THEN redeem reward bonuses, just because with $50 in your balance the only factor involved is btc value.
With $50 balance and some "strategy" you can earn AT LEAST 1.600sat per day or even more (a lot more, excluding your referral commissions, points is the point...) with 16 claims per day, in my case i can get 3.000/6.000sat per day just by my claims plus the referrals points gained by their claims, I think this is the best way to use freebtc.
I did the math with 16 claims days and you have 1 boosted 1000% for week,
1) am I right?100 Points roll, x16= 1600 - 1200= 400daily profit
1000% boost cost 3200 so 3200/400= 8days to load it
on the 8th day you will get 16 rolls, with 10x and with the actual payout is like
2) 16*0.00000017 BTC*10= around 3000 satoshi
Now if you only deposit you need to deposit around 60$ that is around 1.500.000 satoshi.
1) Yes you are, but I've used that number (16claims per day) just as example, in fact I can do more than 16 but it depends on personal attitudes/needs... I have my smartphone 24/24 with me and claiming is a really fast thing (no captcha) so I can do a lot of claims, people like student or if their job "needs no distractions" can sure make less claim.
Anyway, the +1.000% booster is THE WORST! If you redeem one of them you get minimum prize plus 1.000%, at this time is 50sat+500st=
550sat and 3.200points used. If you redeem +500% you get more than half of the +1.000%: 50sat+250sat=
300sat and 1.600points used. Basically the less percentage you get the more satoshi you gain spending less points, that's because the minimum prize amount is always added to that percentage, 550sat with 3.200points is LESS THAN DOUBLE if you get 300sat for 1.600points, this means that you gain more activating 2 +500% booster instead 1 +1.000% (and it's more affordable if you cannot accumulate a lot of points, like with ref). The only reason to activate a +1.000% is that you really have a lot of points to spend, in that case there is no need to use lower boosters.
2) NO! The minimum prize is not 17sat but 50sat atm, if you have less than 50sat it means you have limitations so you are also unable to redeem boosters. In the example I've said AT LEAST 1.600sat per day with no ref, let's do the math with 16claims per day:
1st day: 1.200points to redeem +100points booster= 16*100points=1.600points (this just for the 1st day)
2nd day: 1.200points to redeem +100points booster AND 320points to redeem +100%sat booster= 16*100points=1.600points (you have the same amount every day so you will able to do the same) PLUS 50sat+100%=100sat per claim, 16*100sat=1.600sat.
This is just claiming by yourself, with no referrals and also without counting extra points lime week-end promo, or 2points for each claim and +2points extra when lottery is disabled, plus you spend 320points for the %booster and gain 400points so sometimes you will be able to redeem bigger % booster (like +200% 1time in 15days or even 14/13).