I will speak to someone next week who does this vulnerability testing professionally. Maybe he will tip me if he has a trick from work and manages to do anything :p
Is there any plans to increase the bounty awards?
They increase every day so long as the gold price does
Sorry, but what is XAU exactly?
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XAU&to=USD&view=10YXAG is silver
https://www.xe.com/iso4217.php#XIs there a particular reason why amounts are in Troy ounces of gold? I know the US is running a risk of default, but I do not see the dollar devaluing so much as to justify using Gold as a "stable" currency.
The forum is internationally based could be one point but mostly I think of Dollar as the pre nixon standard of being fixed to gold hence its always reasonable to offer gold long term especially to an international audience. If I have no liabilities in dollars then the gold could be preferable, dollars do depreciate over time and this topic is years old. Honestly everyone should keep a little gold, maybe I'm biased or maybe people forgot +10% interest rates, etc. I havent.