Margin is now 20% of what the advertiser pays, the same basis as InstantAdPay's
platform share, rather than a mark-up on the reserve. Members already understand
that number, so it needs no second explanation.
The reserve was covering the drips and nothing else. Every drip is its own
transaction and the faucet pays the gas: measured at 0.0060 POL across recent
payouts, 0.60 per hundred completions. Small, but it was coming quietly out of
house money and it is exactly the shape of thing that becomes a shortfall on a
busy chain. Gas is now bought by the advertiser at a 0.01 allowance, and drips
plus gas carry a 10% buffer on top (Marty: happy to hold more back than the
arithmetic demands). The house float doubles to 50.
outstanding() reserves on the same basis it sold on, so the solvency check
cannot drift away from what was actually promised.
0.30/completion -> 30 drips + 1 gas + 10% = 34.1 reserved, 8.525 margin,
advertiser pays 42.625 POL, about $4.34 for 100 verified 45-second visits.
20 tests.
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First increment of paid missions. No advertiser can buy one yet; this is the
layer that has to be right before anyone can, because the faucet is a single
wallet holding house float and every advertiser's unspent reserve at once.
THE SOLVENCY RULE, in paid.canSell: faucet balance must cover the house float
plus every outstanding reserve before a sale is accepted. Break it and you have
sold delivery you cannot pay for, and a hunter finds a code only to watch the
drip fail. Checked before the sale, never after.
Three consequences of Marty's decision that paid missions sit ON TOP of the
daily cap rather than inside it:
- a paid completion is excluded from paidToday, so it cannot eat house budget
- each live paid mission the hunter has not done raises their allowance by one
- a paid mission pays exactly what the advertiser set, with no random draw, so
the reserve taken at purchase is exact and can never come up short
Advertisers set the hunter payout themselves, floored at 0.30, and may pay more
to be completed sooner. Company margin rides on top as a percentage.
Existing missions are untouched: nothing carries the paid flag, so house
behaviour is byte for byte what it was. 18 new tests, 79 across the suite.
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