[jjranalli]

MTE rewards are designed to give partial ownership of the project to a contributor. So I'd say it's natural that such issues are opened by project owners.

But the bounty system you mention is interesting. This is already implementable in the current system (ie open an issue and commit to give $ to those who fix it), but you'd need to peek at the PR solving the issue and manually send $ to those who fixed it.

We can easily automate that.