> Can we make a piece of software that automatically pays for discovered bugs with some form of cryptocurrency?
In the general case, no, not without having AGI. There are a subset of bugs that computers can verify (i.e. for a compiler, it might be asserted that "any input that causes a crash is a bug"), but the majority of bugs will require a human-like intelligence to read them and reason about them to determine that "yes, this is a bug".
Given you have to involve a human in the loop to actually fix it, it seems like automating a bounty for it is fixing a problem that doesn't really exist.
There's also vanishingly few projects that want to pay for literally any bug. The majority only want to pay for critical bugs or security vulnerabilities, both of which are purely human judgements.
In the general case, no, not without having AGI. There are a subset of bugs that computers can verify (i.e. for a compiler, it might be asserted that "any input that causes a crash is a bug"), but the majority of bugs will require a human-like intelligence to read them and reason about them to determine that "yes, this is a bug".
Given you have to involve a human in the loop to actually fix it, it seems like automating a bounty for it is fixing a problem that doesn't really exist.
There's also vanishingly few projects that want to pay for literally any bug. The majority only want to pay for critical bugs or security vulnerabilities, both of which are purely human judgements.