Not only has this issue already been addressed in significant detail, there are a number of people working on improving the system to stop SB issues in future. As it stands, Gridcoin is actively developed by volunteer developers - they freely donate their time to work on the project. If any devs are currently being paid for the contribution, other than reimbursement for advertising costs, I am not aware of it.

As you are aware, Rob has recently proposed a vote that will see all developers compensated at the rate of USD$30/h going forward. Funds are to be distributed from the central Foundation Wallet, which currently holds around 32 million GRC.

If passed, the first paid development period will run from August 1 this year to January 31 2018. As you may expect, this will result in higher quality work and more time committed from the dev team. The primary driving force behind this is that only hours with tangible results can be billed.

Sit tight for a while, or help with solving the problem. The next six months of paid development that are likely to ensue are going to transform several fronts of the GRC community - code updates, stability and readability, website improvement, and a potential partial re-branding to make the GRC signature images stand out are all in the works.

If anyone, for any reason, wants to be involved in the process (or even just sit back and read the developer chat) they can do so freely using these links:

• Gridcoin Developer Slack - includes general channels for troubleshooting, as well as dev and branding discussions.

• Gridcoin IRC - join that channel, then register with NickServ using the instructions at the top of the page so you can join #Gridcoin. This is required to stop someone else stealing your nickname and the associated GRC.

• Gridcoin Steemit - You are here already! =)

• Gridcoin Homepage - The actively maintained and developed homepage of GRC globally.

• Gridcoin Subreddit - Anything GRC related. The devs read the comments posted here, and will in all likelihood directly address any questions you pose.

• Gridcoin Forum and Main Thread - The ongoing megathread where you are most likely to find the original GRC developer Rob weighing in.