The dogs working at DOGE haven't the idea on what are they looking at and are lying to cover it. I wouldn't count on them exposing anything but their asses.
I think your best bet is to organize it "secret santa" style in an open format where people won't necessarily suspect that everyone but them is a paid actor.
There must have been studies on this. Putting money into the mix is a bad idea IMO.
I don't think paying in crypto increases trust for the regular Joe, maybe Alice and Bob will be more likely to join. This would select a very narrow crowd and skew your results massively.
Wouldn't removing all cookies and local storage force the dialog back?
Also, if the site needs consent to collect data, hiding the dialog with adblocker is preferable to clicking anything, no?