Today we tried to perform the weekly bounties payments, but due to the jammed network (you may know about some kitties around..) it was impossible to distribute the payments without wasting A LOT of gas (one single transaction = $68).
We decided to delay the payments until the network can grant a reasonable.
I think everyone in the course has put the situation together. I'm not worried, wait until the ethereum network is restored. Just more information about of development.