Ok, that's good, that closes a lot of attack vectors (e.g. creating fake jobs to collect TX_BOUNTIES).
Or rather their tax deposits, right? Well, yes that would be not possible here.
What do you think about this scheme ... for now these were just random thoughts that popped into my head this morning.

Well, I like it, but I have close to zero technical understanding, therefore what I like or not isn't exactly important

Yeah, I meant the deposits.
I'm not sure, where unclaimed deposits should go to, though
Initially, I liked the idea to put them in the bounty pool, but that would not penalize every form of malicious activity. A miner could make lots of deposits, if they can be sure that they get them back, once they find (or already have) a valid solution
Although I don't see why a miner would do this instead of sending in the right solution and just claim the bounty.
unclaimed deposits ? Has XEL distributed yet or has anyone claimed their deposits yet ? I'm confused !