Всем привет.
Прошу у сообщества совета.
Мы - сервис распознания капчи 2captcha.com. У нас работают тысячи работников, которые зарабатывают по немногу, по $1 - $3 в день
У нас всегда была проблема как платить работникам в Индию\Венесуэллу\Филиппины  маленькие платежи и не использовать при этом тысячу разных платёжных систем.
В какой-то момент биткоин стал нашим спасением - его можно обменять в любой стране и комиссия за платёж была очень низкой.
У нас очень много платежей, вот, к примеру, наш кошелёк для выплат, который мы используем в последнее время, что бы Вы могли оценить количество транзакций
https://blockchain.info/ru/address/1R6a9QqegrVZdRcvcWxa4E978kwiErMB2
Обычно мы платили 25-30 сатош за 1 байт информации. Но что бы наши платежи проходили нужно сейчас  платить ~ $3 за одну выплату на 1 кошелёк. При учёте что большая часть наших выплат это платежи на $1, то такая комиссия абсолютно неоправданна для нас. И мы снова столкнулись с проблемой, что не можем выплачивать
работникам маленькие платежи.
Сейчас мы подключаем прямые переводы  внутри coins.ph \ coinbase \ uphold, дабы сократить размер комиссии при переводе денег работнику, но и это особо не спасёт нас. Если работник получит $1  на свой аккаунт в coinbase он не сможет его нигде потратить, т.к. комиссия за перевод куда-либо будет больше 1$ доллара за исключением платежей внутри coinbase.
 
Прошу посоветовать на какую криптовалюту нам перейти где можно было бы свободно отправлять микротранзакции (от $0,5) и при этом она имела достаточную распространённость, как и Bitcoin.
 
Изначально мы хотели добавить Etherium, но криптокотята всё испортили и теперь и там большая комиссия. На BitcoinCash переходить мы не хотим, т.к. эта крипта ничем не лучше Биткоина, комиссия в ней низка только из-за того что её почти никто не использует на рынке (а разница 1MB в блоке или 8MB всего 8 раз. Если случится чудо и BCH станет популярно - у него будут такие же проблемы как и у биткоина)
Пожалуйста, дайте нам совет

We are 2Captcha.com - an online CAPTCHA-bypassing service that relies on human data entry to solve captchas and now we are asking for an advice from the Bitcoin community.

Our staff are people from all over the world, mostly from Asia and South America. They doesn't earn too much and usually make withdraw their earnings with small amounts like $1 - $3. So we were always looking for a method to make such small payments without interaction with lots of payment gateways.

At one point Bitcon was the solution due to it's worldwide availability and low fees. We make lots of payments, for example you can take a loot our last wallet used for these payments: https://blockchain.info/address/1R6a9QqegrVZdRcvcWxa4E978kwiErMB2

Normally we pay 25-30 satoshis per byte and it's enough. But since  December 7 we have to pay about $2.5 per payment to one wallet. And it's a huge and unreasonable fee for $1 - $3 payments.
So now we faced again the problem with payments to our staff - we can't make small payments to our staff.

Now we are going to use direct payments on Coinbase, Uphold and Coins.ph to decrease fees, but that's just a temporary solution.
And now the problem is that a worker who received his $1 can't spend them because he should pay a fee that is higher than his $1 (excluding payments within Coinbase, Uphold or Coins.ph).

We ask you to suggest a cryptocurrency which will be useful for our case, which will allow to make micropayments from $0.5 and that is popular enough like Bitcoin.

Initially we wanted to use Etherium, but cryptokitties screwed it up and fees are too high there now.
We don't want to use BitcoinCash because it's doesn't look better than Bitcoin and fees are low only due it's unpopularity. Difference in block size is just 8 times (1MB vs 8MB). So if someday it will become popular it will have the same problems as Bitcoin.

Please give us a friendly steer on that case.
Thanks!

Hi there,

We are 2Captcha.com and asking for an advice from the bitcoin community. As an online CAPTCHA-bypass service that relies on human data entry to solve the captchas for the end user, some of our problematic (not in a bad sense) data entry staff are people from India, Venezuela, the Philippines and like countries. They are not permanent employees and they don’t make a lot of money, but the company’s policy is regular payouts regardless of the amount earned, and of course we used Bitcoin: easy to cash out, universally accepted, and very reasonable fees.

Up until last Thursday even 30 sat/byte was fee enough for the transaction to be eventually relayed, and unfortunately this is not the case anymore for us legal penny-flooders, as now we’re looking at $2.5’s worth in fees per confirmed transaction (and I suspect we will see it climb higher still before very long). It’s all very well, but in the context of my post it spells the end of Bitcoin as a payment system for us.

So how do we deliver micropayments to their recipients these days? An obvious answer is to eliminate the fees by transferring the money in-platform with a reputable service, and payments inside Coinbase, Coins.ph, and Uphold are our [temporary] solution, but it’s less than convenient or fair for our associates, whose earnings are effectively fee-locked inside the platform until a minimum feasible withdraw amount is reached.

Ethereum was looking good, but then along came the kitties, and cute as they are, it got ugly fast on the block. BitcoinCash? It still prioritizes transactions by fee, which means that if it fizzles, why bother in the first place, but if it sizzles hot enough, a block size limit of 8M is still after all a limit. An artificial restriction.

So, in the context of this post, which cryptocurrency of today you would say looks like the optimal choice as the micropayment instrument of tomorrow? Something that makes sending and receiving payments as low as $0.50 not only possible but economically feasible, and remains so long-term.