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 did not perceive this as negative. It's true that real $5 may seem very little compared to imaginary $1,000,000, and it's also true that many of us in this space have been trained to expect the later.

However, I find what you're doing is great, for two reasons:

1. Money does not grow on trees. If someone thinks their 200 character banger is worth $10k/month, they can try publishing in the NYT, or find a sponsor, it shouldn't be hard.

2. The model is scalable, and could work without any change with $500/day/user if someone thinks it's worth funding/sponsoring it.