as I said 90% would be blocked other than that its hard to prove it is a sock puppet
If you use micropayments then you just make each user pay a nominal fee for a ticket. If they are thread/site abusive then tickets can be revoked. This could be done on a thread by thread basis or the entire site. If tickets get revoked they have to pay for a new ticket which now makes creating sockpuppets irrational. Trolling is easily solved with micropayments but I guess no one considered anything I had to say in my post.
There should be no reason to rely on ads when we have our own currencies we can work with. Sure in the beginning ad revenue might be needed, but once the site gets popular enough it can pay for itself in transaction + ticket fees.
Thread authors should be able to charge fees to allow people to click their locked threads. This should allow thread authors to both moderate and also make a slight profit if they make a thread which a lot of people want to track and post in (such as when a new coin is being launched). Simply give the thread author a cut of the ticket sale revenue, then give a portion of that revenue to the posters in the thread who get modded up (karma system?), and give the rest to the site.
As these coins gain more value the ticket fee system will generate hundreds of dollars day. Hundreds of dollars a day is more than enough for the site. Everyone can get paid for anything, whether good posts getting tipped, popular thread authors charging tickets access to site exclusive information, everything. Every click should make people in the community some money, some small micropayment per click site. You can do stuff like have a karma system combined with micropayments so that people who make shitposts pay a fee for every post they make which keeps getting higher until their karma becomes excellent. Of course with tipping it could be that they could have bad karma and make a few brilliant posts that month and be able to pay for all the shit posts.