So, like i promised, i tried letting some video's play in the background again... This time for >1,5 hours... I ended up getting about 10.000 cashtoshi's. Much more than the first time, so it does indeed seem like there is no direct correlation between the number of videos, the time spent and the payout.
Thanks for really taking the time to go test things out. the feedback is so helpful!
Why don't you use dynamic fees? I can only assume you're running a node to handle payouts? doesn't bch have the 'estimatsmartfee' json-rpc call? If you don't have a node running, i'd probably go for a 2 input, 2 output tx => ~400 bytes = 400 cashtoshi fee (at 1 cashtoshi/byte).
We're using a third-party provider for now. We do plan to switch to our own nodes eventually.
Fun fact: did you know the BCH "owners" at one time tried to implement a forced tax of >10% on their miners, promising to exclude miners that didn't pay the tax? I wouldn't overpay on fees, especially not for BCH
Thats absolutely terrible but not surprising knowing the people behind it. I like BCH and I think it has a place along with BTC. Roger Ver is a bad omen on the project which makes BTC users distrust it.