I'm a bit confused. Looking at the bounty thread, I think the payment will be in SSC and not USDT? But the BM received USDT and unilaterally trade it for aevo tokens [whatever that is] and lost significant value of the escrowed fund? What's the price of SSC right now? I assume they, the SSC token, have dropped very significantly and the BM can still "fulfill" their obligation to pay SSC to their participants?
But... the project itself is also questionable [though it's a bit moot, given they've rug pulled, so it's kinda proven that they're indeed just another trash project] because they send USDT instead of SSC, while the "contract" said the bounty participants will be paid with SSC. I am correct this far?
Yes. Through old messages in the FOX Campaigns group, he received USDT from the project team because the project's currency was facing liquidity issues, and the price of $SSC was very low at that time. So, the BM reached an agreement with the project team to pay the hunters in USDT. It is worth noting that they changed the old project links and everything to Shine Chain [
CMC] on Blockchain V2.
That crooked-but-fulfilled obligation aside, BM's decision to take their own decision to trade the fund is definitely warrant a big question of their competence, and I am supporting the flag just for this reason because they're clearly can't be trusted and people will be at risk of losing fund if they interact with them in any form.
Exactly, he should not have acted on his own with the participants' funds as they are certainly not responsible for his loss. Frankly, I do not believe this story, and I am convinced that he stole the money. He launched another airdrop and a new bounty campaign afterward, and if his intention was to compensate the participants, he would have paid them from the fees he received for promoting these new projects.