🔍 I Reviewed 23 Crypto Bounty Programs — Here Are the Red Flags Nobody Talks About TL;DR: Most bounty program guides teach you how to submit PRs. None of them teach you how to spot the programs that will never pay you. After wasting weeks on dead-end bounties, I built a checklist. Here it is — with real names, real numbers, and zero sugarcoating. I Wasted Weeks on Bounties That Never Paid Let me save you some time. Three months ago, I went all-in on crypto bounty programs. The pitch is seductive: find open issues, submit a pull request, get paid in tokens. Simple, right? I thought so too. I found repos with flashy bounty labels, reasonable-sounding maintainers, and reward amounts that made my eyes light up. I submitted PRs. I waited. And then... nothing. No merge. No review. No payment. Just a closed PR and a lesson I had to learn the hard way. After that experience, I went deeper. I didn't just chase bounties — I started auditing them.…