I brought it to their attention when I saw this thread so - yes - the thread has been a positive influence in getting some action. I'm unsure what was done about it prior to this but there certainly has been action on it since. BQT have been quite forthcoming with information to me so I am confident that it will soon be resolved. None of the BQT team that I spoke to is familiar with bitcointalk so they left that task to a professional bounty manager that had been recommended to them.

From reading the Gunbot thread it appears the Gunbot bounty was payable in May 2018 ? which was run by atriz and is only just getting sorted now.(September 2018)

It appears their issues were very similar.

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