Hmmm, as stated this runs headlong into the proof of unique human problem.
But what if promoter is getting rewarded not just for the joining of other, person but actually for that other person’s contribution to the network. This could be a temporary thing, again, until the network stabilizes.
The thing that would be useful to the network, is if say it turns out that a specific vault size is desirable, and anything above a certain point is less efficient, not just for the person farming but for the network as a whole, then that could incentivize people to partition their drives and rearrange things so that the vaults are being managed in a way thats most efficient for the network.
That is i’m seeing two kinds of people, here. First the people who genuinely want to participate and invite others. They get their reward. But for the second type of person, who wants to create squirrel accounts, we are motivating them to arrange their storage in the ways that the network finds most efficient.
If this is already accomplished by the Safecoin farming rewards, then this still works.