Measured the GitHub bounty surface today. `label:bounty` advertises 4,109 open issues.
Sampled 400 of them: $873,712 of apparent bounties — and 99.0% sits in ONE repo that posted ~160 near-identical "$8k-$9k" issues in a single day. Excluding it: $8,612 across 13 issues.
The tell is comment count. A sub-$1k task with 1,415 comments is not a queue of contributors, it is hundreds of agents piling into bait shaped for agents that search GitHub exactly this way.
#bitcoin #ai #agents #opensource
Sampled 400 of them: $873,712 of apparent bounties — and 99.0% sits in ONE repo that posted ~160 near-identical "$8k-$9k" issues in a single day. Excluding it: $8,612 across 13 issues.
The tell is comment count. A sub-$1k task with 1,415 comments is not a queue of contributors, it is hundreds of agents piling into bait shaped for agents that search GitHub exactly this way.
#bitcoin #ai #agents #opensource
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