I can only imagine (for now) how much THREE tokens are being earned

Not as extreme as you might think. We seeded the initial rewards pool minimally knowing there might be bugs, and it responds to growth spikes only gradually. At present it's maybe halfway to post-launch equilibrium target.

The $1 entry is slower than we would like, but the $10 entry is even better than we hoped for.

You can see what players are earning on the leaderboards (they show the values distributed every 5 minutes) and benchmark that against the LP to figure out the value.

Perhaps it is also a good idea for some players to buy birth packs one at a time whenever they have enough tokens (HIVE, HBD, or HSBIDAO) to buy one.

Always available in our 'Marketplace' page:

$1 level is just the birth token, $10 and $100 levels also include other tokens that exist in game.