[majewsky]

To avoid perverse incentives, you should also build in some reward for the developers/operators. As in: If the server gets hacked, the money goes to the whitehat. If the server does not get hacked for $TIMEFRAME, the money goes to the people responsible for its security.

[_red]

Also, there is a requirement for the hacker to actually publish the results of how they did it. Otherwise, you run the risk of the hacker just walking away with the funds or giving a bogus reason (after they've already spent the wallet).

Therefore, the wallets should be stored GPG encrypted in some published location. After the hacker has successfully penetrated and retrieved the file, they need to publish a "how I did it" document along with the hash of the GPG encrypted wallet.

Once devs have confirmed the vulnerabilities exist, they respond with the passphrase to decrypt the wallet.

[ipoopatwork]

Unless I'm missing the joke, this is a bug bounty with extra steps.

[comboy]

My idea was to not require any explanations, so that blackhat could grab that wallet too. It's just about being able to say "this server is $1k secure". I think it's fantastic that we have a technology to do that.

You still need some trust that private keys to given wallet are on the server, but apart from that, when you know there's $10,000 dollars on the server for anybody who can access it, it says something about how secure this machine is.

Plus you get instant notification when the server is compromised. Not every hacker is kind enough to let you know.

[ipoopatwork]

How would a blackhat grab the wallet if it's GPG encrypted and needs the passphrase from the dev?

[KiDD]

I like this idea!

[chronogram]

Seems perverse to me as well. Might be a better idea to just fund Matrix enough to be able to have at least someone full time on it. With $3 752 per month on Patreon right now I cannot imagine it's a lot after infrastructure costs and taxes. Certainly not enough to let Arathorn or someone go out of his way to get expensive security training.

[alexanderdmitri]

Seems like asking for trouble. Basically you're putting a thousand dollars cash in your house, then telling the world I have a thousand dollars cash in my house, if you find a way to break in and take it, it's yours, I won't make a fuss because you're doing me a favor by exposing a vulnerability.

Just please don't take the other valuables and ... oh yeah, please don't mess with any of my family members and maybe please let's try to keep it at no more than one hundred people trying at the same time b/c otherwise things might get out of hand.

[nielsole]

You only get the 1000 Euros if you didn't do any of the harmful things you mentioned. It is not"cash" in the house