Shrinkflation is real, even in crypto

It’s real, and we hate it.

There’s a crypto faucet I use daily that pays exactly the same amount of rewards now as when they started using it two years ago.


‘Check in’ pays the same amount of coins, watching PTC ads pays the same, etc.


Except, the check in feature used to be every 30 minutes. It’s now every forty minutes.


Also, you level up by adding experience points, and you earn experience points with every task. Except, it used to be 10 points per task. Now it’s 4.


Nodle is the same thing. This is an app I’m kinda growing fond of, it pays NODL (on Polkadot) to share Bluetooth to connect nodes.


The value of NODL has gone up since I started using, but using the app for the exact same amount of hours pays a lot less.


This applies to anything and everything.


McDonald’s burgers are either more expensive than a year ago, or if they’re the same price, they’re smaller.


YouTube pays roughly the same amount as a couple of years ago, but the bar to reach monetisation status is being raised constantly.


It goes on.


And it sucks, doesn’t it.

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