Old situation: blackhats sticks around for weeks or even months, exfiltrate data, blackmail, install crypto miners, etc.
With crypto honeypot: blackhats take the crypto and leaves.
With rigged crypto honeypots that are actually not redeemable:
>on the hacker forums:
>Guy A: "I tried to take the bitcoins from Corp A's honeypot wallet, but they broadcasted a high fee transaction and beat me to it."
>Guy B: "Funny, same thing happened to me last week with Corp B's wallet."
>Guy A: "Guess it's back to the old blackmail method then."