"We would like to say thank you to @ShenNoether for finding the flaw, and the bounty will be paid in SDC at the SDC price before the flaw was revealed to the public. This is the reason we set up the bounty program in the first place, to improve shadow's privacy, usability, etc."
Nice to see Team ShadowCash is doing the right thing and rewarding Shen for his incredibly valuable, fortuitous insight.
Of the bug bounty is a pittance compared to the actual value of what Shen discovered, but I see it more as an honorarium than an economically competitive motivation.
If Shen wanted to go black hat, he could have made a lot more than the trivial, borderline insulting ~5 BTC being proffered.
I agree. The bounty did its job, it's supposed to be trivial. If someone wants to analyze code for a living there are companies that pay well for that, but unlike a bug bounty you don't get to do it on your own terms.
Now let's address the outrageous behavior recently exhibited by a segment of the SDC community...
What community? The people here have nothing in common other than holding a currency. It's like the USD or EUR community... say what? I'm just a monkey with some coins. The devs paid their bounty, now I assume they're busy fixing code.