I already discovered this a few months ago. But to my opinion it's kind of useless to report it any better. First because no one will solve it. Secondly because it seems there is not such a thing as ethical behavior on Steemit. And thirdly because I thought it would be difficult to benefit. As it is almost impossible to scale this up big time.
Also having 50 accounts means you need 50 phone numbers. I wonder who has so many?
@crypto-econom1st;
I hope it doesn't scale big as you say...
I have discovered approximately 100 accounts, produced almost the same day.
I will check the earnings and share the results.
FD.
I honestly didn't do the very precise math on your numbers. But they look more or less the same as what I would calculate. I think a well programmed bot would be able to earn the full amount of SP in 1 week. But then it would need at least 70 posts where it is the 1st to upvote. And the amount of SP from the bot can't be too high. I don't know what would be to high. But probably already as of 75SP or 150 SP.
I hope this is a simple/short explanation for why I think it is not really scalable.
I think earlier someone discovered a user also having 50+ accounts. Only upvoting his main account. If you do that with 100 accounts it will also give you a small earning, like $125 real fiat money per week. If you live in Africa that could be a double income.