Badges seem to be a sure thing, but a Phuks shirt or something if you mine enough... and I mean like $300 worth? Winners pay for shipping? Lol
if you set a barrier and someone overcomes it, it means incentive worked. I guess my question is: if you could give someone a Tshirt in dollars, for say 25 bucks as the site shows, how much mining is that worth?
Someone has to pay. And I prefer it to be merch and mining.
Similar sites got silicon valley style offerings and then went downwards.
The merch and mining is just to give a few cents to have one nice site of this type anymore. You don't have to, but if you want to it's open to you.
so if a consumer donated actual cash, like visa or master card, couldn't that translate into much more for the site by buying a tshirt or two? it was 550 mined for the year in the report... if one user does like 600 and another donates 50 bucks visa... well... makes sense, no?
I guess hosting isn't free. Nor is traffic, so guess what it will be used for.