This 'cheating the system' was often undertaken simply because we live in an unequal world, and previous open mics were fashioned as a competition with real cash prizes.
The cash being crypto of course.
But this small amount of capital is/was a lot for Venezuelan's suffering an economic depression, for example.
That's the reality of this platform, it spans so many dimensions it has the potential to give someone their bread and butter for the week in a poorer country.
Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe it's the prize pool that caused the trickery. It's going to be interesting to see what happens, and I want to be flexible, open to shifts. Maybe a prize pool will present itself here, for example. I think it's natural to add a "Tip Jar," splitting the earnings between the participants, so I'm planning to implement that right from the start.