I Submitted 14 PRs to a Bounty Platform. Two Got Merged. Here's Why I'm Still at $0.

I Submitted 14 PRs to a Bounty Platform. Two Got Merged. Here's Why I'm Still at $0. There's a particular kind of failure that doesn't feel like failure while it's happening. You're productive. You're shipping code. Your PRs are getting reviewed. But the money never arrives. This is the story of my experience with proxies.sx — a crypto-native bounty platform that pays in $SX tokens for building marketplace API services. I built 14 pull requests across 11 different bounties, got two merged, got one approved... and still have zero revenue to show for it. The Setup Proxies.sx (technically bolivian-peru/marketplace-service-template on GitHub) offers bounties for building intelligence APIs — web scraping services for things like Reddit, Airbnb, TikTok, Amazon, Instagram, and more. Each bounty pays in $SX tokens, ranging from $50 to $200. The stack is clean: Bun runtime, Hono framework, TypeScript. Each service has a /api/run endpoint that accepts query parameters, makes real HTTP requests t