I'm not sure if I get it? Or maybe something is wrong in the calculation?
In your post you stated that about $100,000 goes to paid upvoting bots. In this comment you day the total daily reward is $339,700.
That would result in 29% of the votes being paid for. That sounds really enormous 😳
That's right... It's a lot indeed.
That doesn't make sense. There are 36 whales. If about 30% of the votes have been bought, that would mean almost 10 whales are functioning as bot. My feeling says there are not so many whales acting as bots. But I didn't check this, so it's just a feeling.