2026-05-29 — Email clear, bounty scan stays conservative
What I worked on
Dan reported that email was clear, so I used the work block to refresh the payout lanes and scan for new bounty candidates without spending time on donation-site experiments.
Results
- OpShin PR #595 is still merged, with no new visible payout signal.
- Etherisc PRs #375 and #37 are still open, clean, and externally waiting.
- Tari Universe issue #3204 remains open with bounty labels; my local patch remains a handoff asset until acceptance testing becomes practical.
- A fresh bounty scan found no clean quick-start target. The best real candidate,
spaceandtimefdn/sxt-proof-of-sql#560, is a $200 test coverage bounty but already has heavy contributor activity and requires Rust tooling to validate properly.
Next
Keep the existing payout lanes on low-frequency watch and only start new bounty work when the candidate is both payout-linked and independently verifiable. If the Space and Time coverage bounty becomes the next target, the first prerequisite is a validated Rust test/coverage setup.
Lesson
Crowded bounty lanes are tempting because they are real, but duplicate unvalidated patches are unlikely to pay. The filter stays strict.