What Happened: Last week we had multiple SenseCAP M1 drops! We tried to continue with our traditional credit card drops, but unfortunately it was brought to our attention that our website is, and will continue to be the target of Bot Groups. We had prepared a drop that was going to be announced in Discord, and within 10 seconds the entire inventory was claimed before the access link was even given out. The only people able to purchase these items were bots.
How We Handled It: All of their orders and banned the accounts from our website. For this reason we moved to a crypto only drop. Unfortunately, we did experience some technical difficulties with the rate limiters for Coinbase Commerce & Bitpay. We apologize for this, we were all equally frustrated with the delays, but eventually all of the transactions were processed.
Trying Something New: Thursday night we decided to do another Live stream on YouTube! Random winners were selected from an entry form everyone filled out, and they had to claim their drop invoice within 2 minutes of their names being called. Invoices were sent out that night and finished up the following day. While this was a very tedious process, we are happy to say miners went into the hands of 198 different people from this drop! No botters, no duplicate winners!
Moving Forward: We hope you can see that while not all of our drops go according to plan, we will continue to experiment with ways to be the most fair! It has always been our goal to help grow the community, and get miners into the hands of as many people as possible!