What's stopping me creating a sponsored project and donating myself $5,000 to ge...

mushufasa · on May 23, 2019

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 · on May 23, 2019

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 · on May 23, 2019

Well the IRS would have something to say about it for sure, i doubt github would hide the transactions from them...

PretzelPirate · on May 23, 2019

Interestingly enough, Microsoft sponsored issues using GitCoin and paid out bounties in Dai.

_v7gu · on May 23, 2019

Microsoft's lawyers?