I guess no bounty hunters have interest to use NMX token to pay trading fees or they even don't use Nominex exchange. The news gives a more transparent information for them.
Correct, bounty hunter will usually simply turn the token into money and done with it. Although there is some of them are trader, but not all of them who will trade there after what happened to them. After all, after waiting so long to get 100% of their salary, who wouldn't sell it right away.
The allocation of funds given to the bounty is only 1% of the existing supply, it seems impossible if 1% that the bounty participant gets will make the price of the NMX token decrease in the market, I as one of the bounty participants is very disappointed with the decision of the team that will lock the token bounty for 1 years period of time and it is not a short period of time, it's better for now to forget the nominex project and hope that if the team realizes what they did to the bounty participants has given a bad image to their exchanger later, if only the team honestly said if bounty tokens will be locked for 1 year at the start of the project, of course I personally will never follow this project.
many crypto projects to locked their token bounty but not as long as the nominex project does and there is no guarantee that if the participant's prize is locked it will make the nominex token price even higher.