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Code bounties are unethical. I will absolutely die on this hill. You benefit from everyone's work, yet only one (or a select few) maybe get paid (in this case a pitiful amount, considering the required expertise).

Almost universally, people attempting a bounty are in a dire financial situation. You’re just taking advantage of them.

[Zenbit_UX]

That’s a pretty strong stance.

I’m sitting at my desk doing 133t code challenges for free right now. The idea of optimizing something that both matters and could result in a payout of any amount sounds appealing given my context.

I think you underestimate the amount of people willing to do things for free or for the sake of knowledge itself.

And before you suggest that must mean I’m in a dire financial situation, I’m not.