If the team of the new project does not want to pay the participants of bounty campaigns for any reason, it has every opportunity to do so, because this activity is still not regulated in any way. That is, they can promise anything, including payments in BTC, ETH, USDT, and eventually run away with the collected funds without paying. Bounty hunters are constantly taking risks, because there is no way to be sure that we will be paid for our work. The risk increases especially if we are promised payouts a few months after the end of the bounty.