Amazing work @aggroed!
As a fellow steem promoter, thank you for such great visibility to both steemit and utopian :)
As a utopian supervisor, I definitely confirm to your words; yes the payments are real, and we are more than happy to award great open source contributions.
Utopian has given out thousands already, so open source devs/contributors/guys... you're all more than welcome to join and contribute!
PS: self-upvoted for visibility