Main Action
Bounty-Issuers
Activate your Paypal Buyer Protection (if payed within last 180 days) , see #1586 (comment)
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
Criminal Liability
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 [CRITICAL] Bountysource is Insolvent, do not use! #1586 (comment) 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
People
https://github.com/orgs/bountysource/people
@rappo @Cervator
On the main videos on website:
@FrancescoBorzi
Company
Bountysource Inc.
Parent Company
Regulators
dfpi, USA
Possibly:
https://dfpi.ca.gov/
Possible Complaint
French Financial Authorities
(received via email)
I suggest that you contact the French Financial
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
$139, 2023-05-19
$1100, 2023-03
$150, 2023-04-29
$190, 2023-05-31
Further Issues
Special Case:
@FrancescoBorzi is complaining about Bountysource here:
Today, he has a role within bountysource (see videos) :
https://bountysource.com/
But bountysource still abuses/embezzles the escrowed funds.
Main Action
Bounty-Issuers
Activate your Paypal Buyer Protection (if payed within last 180 days), see #1586 (comment)
Bounty-Workers
Criminal Liability
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
Important to realize
delays payments for monthshas stopped paying out cash-outs (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
People
https://github.com/orgs/bountysource/people
@rappo@CervatorOn the main videos on website:
@FrancescoBorzi
Company
Bountysource Inc.
548 Market Street #40189, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401
Parent Company
Regulators
dfpi, USA
Possibly:
https://dfpi.ca.gov/
Possible Complaint
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
Further Issues
Special Case:
@FrancescoBorzi is complaining about Bountysource here:
Today, he has a role within bountysource (see videos) :
https://bountysource.com/
But bountysource still abuses/embezzles the escrowed funds.