US Government Will Pay Cryptocurrency Rewards to Whistleblowers and White Hackers – Bits Media

In the United States launched a program to encourage anonymous whistleblowers and "white hackers". People, reporting terrorists, or have shown vulnerability in the IT systems of the state, will be able to receive a reward in cryptocurrencies.

To this end, the Rewards for Justice platform has been launched in the United States., what in Translation to Russian means "rewards for justice". The platform allows you to leave anonymous messages and receive a reward. At the same time, cryptocurrency transfers were one of the ways to pay such awards.

The platform was promoted as part of the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas. Interesting, that the maximum incentive is set in $10 million. This amount can be obtained, reporting dangerous terrorists, their accomplices and extremists. Also, US authorities are interesting about hackers, sponsored by foreign states.

As noted by the former director of the US National Center for Counterintelligence and Security, Wieliam Evanin (William Evanina), The initiative was one of the first, within which the country's authorities use cryptocurrencies.

"Think, Cryptocurrencies - this is an asset, which we will use for other types of awards. They can become an incentive for transmitting information to us, which in another case would never have been handed over to us ", - said one of the conference participants.

In the cryptocurrency industry, the movement of “white hackers” becomes increasingly popular - people, which, if vulnerability is detected, do not use it for personal purposes, and report the project developers. for instance, In September last year, the White Hacker prevented
Theft 25 000 ETH from the LEN Finance smart contract.

Recent hack
The Defi Poly Network project, The largest decentralized finance in the industry, It also turned out to be the hand of the "White Hacker". The hacker returned all the assets dedicated to him, And he called the hacking a means to attract attention.