[londons_explore]

I deliberately leave various types of cryptocurrency in 'private' areas of quite a lot of online services, including GitHub.

So far, nothing has been taken from GitHub.

(It's part of research for my side project serverthiefbait.com)

[rdbell]

Cool project. If I pay you $900 how much of that goes into cryptocurrency?

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?

[londons_explore]

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.

[sinbadpalomar]

Really like this project.