[CRITICAL] Bountysource is Insolvent, do not use!

# Main Action

## Bounty-Issuers

Activate your Paypal Buyer Protection **(if payed within last 180 days)**, see https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1586#issuecomment-1703675937
* you get your money back
* paypal will possibly suspend bountysource, thus new bounties cannot be filed.

## Bounty-Workers

* Ask the bounty-issuer to get a paypal refund and send you the money directly
* Example: https://github.com/deepnest-io/Deepnest/issues/21#issuecomment-1735956945

## Criminal Liability

- https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1593
- https://twitter.com/abebeos/status/1701925706526085243
- https://twitter.com/abebeos/status/1702619612704088073

## Summary.

one can safely assume that bountysource/Blockchain Group embezzles the escrowed bounty funds (e.g. using the money somewhere else, like investing/loosing-it in crypto etc.).

Action is necessary in order to avoid loss of funds.

## Your Possible Actions

- stop posting new bounties
- **ask for a paypal-refund if it is still time** (see https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1586#issuecomment-1703675937)
- notify other people about this issue
- contact the authorities (see below)
- Act based on **Criminal Liability** (bountysource continued to receive payments despite stopping payouts since months)
- make some 'drama' on public media

## Important to realize

* A cashout should take 1 minute after a bounty-issuer confirms the request.
* Bountysource ~delays payments for months~ has stopped paying out cash-outs (since months)
* **Bountysource has stopped replying to support requests (since months)**

This is an abuse of the escrow, essentially an embezzlement.

There are thousands of $ in open bounties (e.g. from IBM), this is really becoming strange here.

## Bountysource People

### CEO

* https://www.theblockchain-group.com/investor/leadership-governance/
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/xlatil/?originalSubdomain=fr

### People
https://github.com/orgs/bountysource/people

~@rappo~
~@Cervator~

On the main videos on website:

@FrancescoBorzi

## Company

Bountysource Inc.
548 Market Street #40189, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401

### Parent Company

- https://www.theblockchain-group.com/investor/leadership-governance/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=ALTBG

## Regulators

## dfpi, USA
Possibly:

https://dfpi.ca.gov/

### Possible Complaint

* https://dfpi.ca.gov/file-a-complaint/
* Escrow Agents/ Escrow Laws
* (though bountysource claims that it's not an escrow service, the services provided are of an escrow nature)

## French Financial Authorities

(received via email)

I suggest that you contact the French Financial
Authorities through their official "whistle blowing" portal:

https://www.amf-france.org/en/forms-and-declarations/whistleblowing
https://www.amf-france.org/fr/formulaires-et-declarations/lanceur-dalerte-0

and report that The Blockchain Group cannot pay their financial obligations.

That's the regulatory body for The Blockchain Group.

## Unpaid

- me, $1000 - 2023-05-11
- $4000, 2023-03
- https://app.bountysource.com/issues/117480476-onednn-enablement-and-8-bit-gemm-support-for-s390x
- $139, 2023-05-19
- #1591
- $1100, 2023-03
- https://app.bountysource.com/issues/116848892-next-659-next-js-13-is-broken-for-custom-server-with-multiple-zones
- https://app.bountysource.com/issues/117458567-black-stripes-in-denoised-image
- $150, 2023-04-29
- https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1590#issuecomment-1632999178
- $190, 2023-05-31
- https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1591#issuecomment-1637665926

### Further Issues

- #1139
- #1146
- #1531
- #1539
- #1540
- #1553
- https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1562#issuecomment-1055484735

### Special Case:

@FrancescoBorzi is complaining about Bountysource here:

- https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1539#issuecomment-869027714

Today, he has a role within bountysource (see videos) :

https://bountysource.com/

But bountysource still abuses/embezzles the escrowed funds.