It is a common thing to see most ICOs stating in their whitepaper that the monies of investors will be refunded to them in case the ICO is not able to reach its softcap. Sadly bounty hunters work for like eight weeks or even more and their efforts go waste. Do you agree they should also be compensated?
If the ICO project did not collect the expected amount of money, it will return the coin to investors, and there will be no money for bounty hunters. Imagine yourself in their place.