Update on this. We stopped paying out for debates and have pivoted to a fact-checking bot for Twitter -- you can activate the bot using #factcheck @dimosfactcheck
Why did we stop the paid debates? Simple...no one was interested. Seriously. We could barely get anyone to participate when we were paying out $50 in BTC
Im much happier working on something that feels real...the paid debates were the wrong angle
Your project idea is really good of paying users for debate. But I think you missed marketing part of it. Anyone can start thread and say I will pay you to debate it doesn't mean everyone will start joining them.
Users check the platform and your site doesn't even give much information for first. Users have to register on platform to access your site. You need to have to do marketing and gain some attention so people will join you else they are already earning by joining signature campaigns.