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What's stopping me creating a sponsored project and donating myself $5,000 to get a free $5,000?

• ulucs 7y ago
  Microsoft's lawyers?
• mushufasa 7y ago
  I'm guessing part of the waitlist requires an application where they gather info for fraud prevention. I'm sure you'll need to enter PII to send and receive payments -- MSFT doesn't strike me as a BTC operation. Money laundering is illegal :).
  • zawerf 7y ago
    What info can possibly prevent this fraud though? Even the real large projects could ask friends and family to donate 5k that they gift back later. It's so easy/undetectable to do it's just leaving free money on the table.
    • kkarakk 7y ago
      Well the IRS would have something to say about it for sure, i doubt github would hide the transactions from them...
  • PretzelPirate 7y ago
    Interestingly enough, Microsoft sponsored issues using GitCoin and paid out bounties in Dai.
• deleted 7y ago
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