# CredSperiment: Week 1 Payouts

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/credsperiment-week-1-payouts/227>\
**Category:** The CredSperiment\
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/credsperiment-week-1-payouts/227 "2019-09-24T21:42:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![decentralion](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/decentralion/32/7_2.png) [@decentralion](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/decentralion)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/credsperiment-week-1-payouts/227/11 "2019-10-04T23:50:20Z")

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> [@burrrata](#):
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> - If I just want mana, do I need to do anything?

Nope. According to [this notebook](https://observablehq.com/@decentralion/sourcecred-credsperiment-week-2), at time of writing you have 3,081¤.

> [@burrrata](#):
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> - Currently there’s 2 ways to get mana: donate or contribute. My contribution has resulted in a $15.8 total payout for week 1. Does this result in the same level of mana as someone who donated $15.8 to SourceCred?

Yes, possibly modulo transaction fees (e.g. if you donate $10, and we get $9, I’m not sure if it should be 10¤ or 9¤).

It’s much cleaner to say that @Protocol Labs (the big sponsor of the CredSperiment) is offering to buy mana at a rate of $1 = 100¤. This makes it more natural to think of mana as a digital currency, replace the project arbitrarily setting a mana price with a market, and have Protocol Labs support the project by offering to be a consistent buyer of mana.

However, we should study the legal and regulatory implications of conceiving of mana in this way. I intend to write a thread elsewhere exploring this in depth.

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