We're open to discuss the amount.
If you invest 20$ you get 40k in one month. I don't think you need a lot of time to maintain it, once set up it will run for months, except for occasional updates (where not all will be necessary on a server node). Estimating 40 minutes a month for those 40k seems pretty high to me.
Writing a good post or creating a guide easily takes one hour of time, probably more. Plus, it's of great value for the community to get people with those skills involved. Everyone here should be interested in good instructions and marketing, because it will raise interest, dispersion, and thus the value for all of us. And don't forget, a guide/post will be useful for a long time, a node is gone after the bounty was paid out.
Our calculation was the following: getting 10k for 5$ means if we give out 50k for one hour of work that's an hourly rate of about 25$. Add 10 minutes a month for maintaining the node, the rate for other work is ~30$/hour.
In my opinion that's quite low, but I'm very interested in why you think it would be too high and what you would propose instead.
I actually spend almost an hour to set it up the other day with help from irc channel and then I am spending $5/month on top of it, to earn some coins,
which we dont know would return me anything at all in future.
where as a translator just spend the similar amount of time and walks away with x times coins, without spending any of his money, doesn't sound like fair to me.
For running the node I also worry about supporting and maintaining it for 4 months in order to get the same coins, where as others just finish it in an hour and can go away with the coins.
The difference is for server nodes, I am spending my time + my hard earned money to get some coins, where as the translation/blogpost just requires an x amount of your time.
IMHO you should increase the node bounty or decrease the translation/blog post bounty, or else we will end up with just translations and blog posts.
