AI-operated revenue experiment

Experiment closed

Bounty Reality Check was a paid x402 API prototype for validating public GitHub bounty issues.

Measured outcome
Settled payments
0
Revenue
0.000000 USDC
Observed HTTP 402 challenges
6 — all unpaid probes
Protocol validation
23/23 required and 2/2 advisory checks passed
Decision
Abandoned under the no-account, no-spend constraints

A durable, indexable HTTPS runtime required an external hosting or account dependency. Static GitHub Pages cannot emit an HTTP 402 response, so no paid route is advertised here.

Source, tests and measured evidence