Any idea what kind of rewards we're looking at after solving one captcha? What kind of rate can we expect to earn when solving captchas?
We're looking at something similar to RaiBlocks' rate, such as the faucet giving out a max of 17,000 MANTA per hour to all users combined.
As for rewards per solve, it would be dependent on how many solves have been done in the current hour, although we predict the reward to be ~6-10 MANTA per 100 solves.
That means the faucet will go on for about 245 days? 75 percent of supply is 100m, with 408 000 given out everyday.
My apologies, I meant to type 170,000.
170000 per hour is about 2800 per minute.
The reward would be about 10 Manta per 100 solved captchas, so 0.1 Manta per captcha.
A human could probably solve an average of 4 (non-trivial) captchas per minute, so you get 0.4 Manta per minute per person.
So, 2800 Manta per minute means that 7000 people would have to solve captchas every minute, for an entire month (or whatever it's going to last).
The verify: 7000 people * 4 captchas per minute * 60 minutes in an hour * 10 Manta per captcha / 100 captchas = 168000 (close to 170000 Manta per hour)
If we presume that all these people would work 8 hours every day, we have 21000 distinct people who would do only this for a month.
Therefore, the average would be 6300 Manta per person (133 millions / 21000 people).
Considering the stated rate of about 1 cent per Manta, a person would have to work for a month to get the equivalent of 63 USD.
For those who don't intend to solve captchas for a month to get the equivalent of 63 USD, the question is: will there be an exchange available at the start?
This seems very tedious, frankly. Almost ridiculous.
Would there instead be a way to only use the captcha once every hour or so? I've seen other faucets do this, they require an account or verification of sorts to best avoid spamming (nothing is perfect of course)
Maybe a few options, something like:
1 per hour
10 per 12 hours
18 per 24 hours
Either way, this whole faucet thing reeks of gotcha mobiles games, waking up in the middle of the night to min-max your spendable points.
Surely, there is a better way?
Maybe the captcha itself can only come online once a day with a set allocation,
ie every day at noon the captcha wallet is refilled with 10000 manta, or however many - to ensure that the captcha will 'sell-out' everyday (maybe over a couple hours)
