I got quite torn and confused. Some people claimed that they've got their payment, while some screaming scam. Interested by this, I tried to look into their telegram to see more, and I found that this also being talked about on their channel. I didn't dive and try to crosscheck all of the points you erect, but I did three that catch me the most from reading your post. Namely the dsastock issue, your unpaid bounty, and the bounty distribution.

According to their telegram, dsastock was not their employee, but a mere imposter, the real dsastock themself were a bounty hunter that's  possibly doesn't even know that his name being used. Thinking further about this, it's not a secret that the team can just faking this news, pretending that dsastock was not their employee while they actually are. Yet, I can't rid the fact that the team member that's assigned to bounty, as you said by your self is Ville. I don't think that people who followed ETHLEND bounty program and very interested to receive their payment would miss this info. Depart from this, why would he asked dsastock on the first place instead of ville? To me, it didn't make sense.

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Third, which make me favored them better than your side, is your claim that some people asked for payment on august-september, while the distribution clearly started on January. The campaigns ended on December. So, it's quite impossible for a bounty distribution to be held on August. Which lead me to believe that either the one requested the payment is a scammer and fud spreader, or a true bounty hunter but one of the type that never reads carefully about rules, or posts, or anything else, which we can conclude as a spammers. Now, I don't think we can hold a spammer's words as a good evidence.

And by the way, I can't see the screenshotted conversation you talked about.