Keep rewards worth the same in dollars as the coin moves
Store the reward in USD, convert at claim time, and clamp the movement so a price spike cannot empty the faucet in an afternoon.
Tagged “economy”
5 entries
An internal credit economy with an admin-set rate
Earn in integer credits, convert to coin only at withdrawal, and keep the rate in settings. Repricing the whole site becomes one field.
Fuel-gated accrual: make the miner need feeding
Production runs only while fuel lasts, and fuel comes from doing the thing you actually want done. Turns idle earning into a loop.
Idle mining accrual with a capacity cap
Earn while away, but only up to a ceiling — computed on read from a timestamp, so there is no cron and no per-user tick.
A weighted reward table you can actually afford
Pick a prize by weight, and compute the expected cost per claim before you launch instead of discovering it from your wallet balance.