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It says nothing about "asian people". Verbatim quote, in full:

> The contest is open to individuals or teams of individuals who are legal residents or citizens of the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, New Zealand, or Australia.




Interestingly if you follow through to the full T&C's [1], they add exclusions:

> ...not located in the following jurisdictions: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and the following areas of Ukraine: Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea.

Showing that the only explicit exclusions are aimed at the usual gang of comprehensively sanctioned states.

[1] https://www.memorysafety.org/rav1d-bounty-official-rules/

Still doesn't explain why the rest of the world isn't in the inclusions list. Maybe they don't want to deal with a language barrier by sticking to the Anglosphere... plus EU?


Maybe because the laws for giving away money are complicated? There’s tax and reporting burden


Nationality, not ethnicity.

Turks are Asian. Russians are Asian. Indians are Asian. Etc.

They were probably just wondering why it's limited to Five Eyes + EU.


It'll likely be to do with financial responsibility due to where the funding comes from. They have an obligation to check that they are not sending funds to a terrorist group to solve code bounties, etc.


Then it should def be banned in america as the biggest terrorist nation on the planet




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