I don't understand the negativity. 

We're giving the top 100 casters $5 in USDC every day. No other conditions or gotchas. Just a small thank you for contributing something valuable. 

We also tried to make the algorithm more friendly to smaller accounts (by normalizing followers).

(He has claimed he muted me, yet...)

I didn't read this as negative -- read it as lamenting how crypto has distorted users' perceptions of how wealth is generated and distributed to creators within a network

If you're primed to receive vast sums of money for engaging in mania, it's harder to anchor against modest "dividends" in stables

Uniswap also got dragged when they acquired Genie and airdropped USDC to users rather than UNI or another token

Being naturally cynical is intellectually lazy.

Yeah, that could have been omitted

But people are naturally cynical after Blast et al

Where is the ad hominem? The internalized monologue of the user in Point 1?