about $90-$150 initially, but usually within a few weeks the balance will be upped to $400 or so.
I have had troubles with people using the service as a way to get money off stolen credit cards, so the low initial deposit is a way to avoid that.
There is also a lot of per-customer randomness to prevent bad guys writing logic to detect which wallets are provided by my services. That's why they don't all have a fixed balance.
> Seems like you could achieve the same result if you just let your customers buy their own coins and provide an address for you to watch?
Yes - there are other services that do that for free already. This is more of an all-in-one setup for those who want to set-and-forget.
So far, nothing has been taken from GitHub.
(It's part of research for my side project serverthiefbait.com)