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Just want to add insight, why some people do airdrop, and what are the advantages of people who do airdrop?

I dont know much about airdrop. but according to my experienced friend. many uses, I just follow the steps my friend took. so i involve also for airdrop.

I'm following a bounty airdrop token project. I do not really know much, but I am studying this. this possibility is very interesting.

First use of an airdrop would be to introduce people to a project amongst many other uses.

Advantages- more publicity and tokens out there for trading.

Disadvantages- too many airdrops from a project that requires funds may find that no-one invests because why should there if there the prospect of getting free tokens is possible.

But usually the airdrop tokens only live within a few days, after everyone who gets the airdrop sells their coins, the price runs out and there is no trading volume after that, I think the goal is not so much to trade

The airdrop amount is usually not worth a lot but gets a lot of people scrambling to become part of the project.

This is the beauty of the model. It doesn't cost a lot but the gains in reputation are significant.

I think a lot of people want to receive some free money. I participated in a lot of airdrops and its an easy thing, the most times you just need 5 min or less. But a lot of airdrops are just shit out there. But I think there will be one GEM that is going to have a great future :D

Airdropping coins over doing ICOs is a very unique way of token distribution. The majority of control over the coins is held on by the participants of the airdrop and the owner/devs are limited to keeping up a small percentage of coins. Best part about this system is the even distribution of coins, which keeps it healthy over the longer run.
For obvious reasons, airdropping comes with its own set of disadvantages. The main one to be pointed out is the evaluation of the token on exchanges/markets. It gets hard to accurately price a token which was freely distributed.

What I mean is why the person who made the airdrop show is willing to throw away the money to share it with everyone. Is not that a self-defeating act?

I think it is mostly a marketing move, kind of like coupons. It makes people talk about it and get interested in the product. Also it increases the number of tokens circulating on the market, which can make it more visible.

Airdrop is simply a form of advertising to draw people towards a particular coin. Many people got lucky and earned big amounts through airdrops through minimal effort. Recent example is DeepOnion. Some airdrops are very generous(DeepOnion) too. You just need to be in the right place at the right time,

It really depends on the purpose of tokens in the project and the approach of the devs
ICO is good for getting initial funds to keep the project ongoing but the problem is the price is fix by the dev not the market, so most of the time it just overpriced and exaggerate the value of the tokens
Airdrop is good in terms of fair distribution to the people and devs is push to keep developing the project as if it has no project , ppl will just dump the coin

it's fair to say that this is marketing ploy, but is it a good idea to have ICO + airdrop for your project? is it doable?

Despite the bad press of airdrops with new altcoins, this is most recently because they are actually bounties given for simple activities - posting a Tweet or simply replying with addresses from newly-created coins. To me this is just a form of marketing and does harm the price and value.

But airdrops in the past were a way of trying to create fairer distributions. Some devs didn't like the ideas of premining or holding tokens in ICOs that forced people to buy them.

It's a efficient marketing strategy, and a very powerful one. There are too many ICOs and too many scams.

Successful examples you can see Byteball and Deeponion.

i would take a project with an airdrop over some scammy ICO any day!

It's a great way get coins distributed to the masses, as long as there in genuine distribution. It also avoids ICOs legality issues

Token developers call it "free airdrop" but everybody knows that they want you to use their signature in order to be able to receive the distribution, it is okay, but it is a different way to refer to a "bounty campaign", since you are getting paid by tokens for posting.
But once that everybody dumps their coins, the price is going to crash, and that happens with almost all the airdrop coins that are right now, like deeponion, it reached $5 each a few weeks ago, and now it is below $0,80 each.

They do the airdrops rounds every once in a while because they want more people to have their coins. The price usually goes back up after they dumped their coins.

People do some airdrop to gain some free money for easy steps/tasks. The advantages of people who do the airdrop is to gaining profit, some of them is filling up the requirements that is required for joining the airdrop.

It's an introduction for their product or project. Who don't want to have free money? But before you gets your stake on that airdrop. They required you to do some tasks. Maybe wear signature for weeks, tweet, or follow their page or slack sign up etc. For me, there's no difference between airdrops and bounties. Bounties are giving you tasks in able to get the stake and so as airdrops. I see some airdrops here. So far, i don't see an airdrops which is successful as deeponion. But it just dumped after.
Deeponion is a good project though. TOR system which you can't be trace. Total anonymity.

ICOs have been very popular. However, ICO is heavily developer favored program.
Let's say they produced 10000 coins and each worth $100, and sold 9500 coins to the public durin ICO and kept 500 coins for dev themselves.
The dev raises $900,000 initially, and left with $50,000 worth of coins for themselves.
Ideally, the dev continues the development of their coin or services to increase the value of their coins.
However, to raise more money, it is way much easier for them to run away, and start another ICO project, than continuing their development works.
This is the reason why ICOs are heavily developer favored, and very risky for the investors.

Now, let's talk about airdrops. Airdrops are investors favored, since they don't cost the investor anything for the most part.
Because the developers do not gain any money in the beginning, they are required to put effort on development, in order to increase the value of coin to earn money.

Instant community, maybe a more fair way of distributing as you don't need lot's of hash power.

I think airdrop costs nothing for people who receive it, and is the best advertisement of their project which will bring much reputation.
BTW, if you are interested in XAS, you can pay attention to the CCTmie coin airdrop.
CCTime will airdrop, you can get more information here: http://docs.asch.mobi/en/whitepaper/cctime.html
CCTime is developed based on Asch, referring to the ANN of Asch to get further details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2176697.msg21831492#msg21831492
The airdrop will reopen soon.

airdrop type of distribution gives incentive for dev to increase value of a token. I think it's more fair way than  typical ICOs...

I think the bottomline of all airdrops is just to gain easy money on both sides. But not good for real investors, because usually those projects are short-lived that you will be left hodling those coins and later on will have no more value in the market. So be careful in dealing with these free tokens/coins/assets.

Airdrop help people known about coin! More than other way! At this times! Many coi make ICO and bounty!

There is actually no risk to join airdrop as long as you dong share your peivate key.

What do you mean? And what happen with the price of deep onion?

Signature? What about ebtc, eneo, eltc airdrop do they have signatures? certainly not because they are purely airdrop

Yes, it seems that it is happening.

People like free coins and to sell them, I don't see any other reason why would someone take free coins.
Do you see any other reason?
I don't know why there are so many airdrops lately, promotion perhaps? To spread a word?

Airdrop can make the toke/coin widely spread and circulate. Dev will hold some tokens/coins for himself. When the token/coin reaches a good enough price, then he can sell out the remaining tokens/coins in his hand for money.

With airdrop method devs can expect effort from the participants, although they do not actually invest money but they can give their effort to make
the project successful. One good example is deeponion, being part of the airdrop is a privilege but you won't be getting that free coin without giving anything in return, we are paid with our support and with more support it would make the project successful. Usually it's a long journey but as long as the supporters are here to stay, there is a great potential of success.

LOL are you nut? the dev just take the possibility to get a lot of the shares and where from the money to pump the price of each token? I think the dev will dumping their shares to the market.
You can try to look at the previous airdrop token and that was very bad.

I do airdrop. It's simple, you get free money out of it and airdropped tokens get popularity amongst the community. They get big chunks of impressions in very short time and people actually engage into it to get that free token and then expect to sell them at very high prices which is their 100% profit in the future. That's easy money really but those who engage in multiple airdrops get benefited because you never which airdrop might just become obsolete. So things are little unpredictable here.

Like many people mentioned, it's partly for marketing purposes. But it's free, just take it  :P

for me i can see airdrop easy money.
based on my experience I just Sign in on the Airdrop site and i got free tokens/coins.
because of the Signing  bonus.
and I just do link referrals and i get the Tokens/coins that i deserve

there is almost no advantage, it's a lottery where you can lose your time or in rare cases get a few coins for free that do not cost anything))) and very very rarely you can get a few coins for your wallet that will cost several dollars))

its not true. Just so know , ive been joining some couple of airdrops in the past  and majority of those tokens that i recieved are now have a good value. but yes , i agree when  you say lottery because joining on them cannot really guarantee you that you will recieve your coins. Much better if you can join them as much as you can , in order to assure that you can always recieve something. Overall ,  i will always prefer to join an airdrop  when compared to bounties.

I think people who do airdrop is to promote his project. Moreover airdrop is in invent because as a way to simplify online marketing, try to make viralize their project through the user.

As one of the airdrop hunter for me why people join many airdrop is to earn money without doing more things because we can earn money through airdrop in simple way of sign up in their thread and follow their rules on how to be qualified to have reward for joining their airdrop.

The advantage of airdrop than bounty is you have the possibility to earn money for just doing a little task  just like joining telegram group and others.

They do airdrop to descrease advertising fee. If they advertise on TV, it costs about 1-2000$/min, but token they can created with no fee, and everyone join airdrop must do some tasks like post on social network, many people will know about airdrop. Anyway, Cybermiles is coming to held the airdrop, details here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3179247

i'm new in cryptocurrency, have no idea about "airdrop", any pro here mind to advise please? :-[

there are no advantages)) the air drop does not guarantee that your tokens will come to you, you can fill 20 air drops but get tokens from only two or three companies, and these tokens can not cost anything at all)))

which I know they are distributing airdrop for promoting their project. and draw people to look into their peroject. after that many people will discuss the aidrop so many people will look for the project. airdrop is like a step-by-step to reach their goals. so they make and provide airdrop. that's what i know

The thing you know is actually right on where airdrops is one of the ways on where a certain project do make exposure into the public by means on giving free tokens into those users who do signed up to them.This is one of the ways too that would really able to make awareness for possible investors considering on the people who do join up will give buzz into the public on such project.This is why most projects do make airdrops for the sake on having an exposure.It is effective most of the time but yet it would still vary on how good the project is for them to get potential investors.

When my first time heard  somethings about airdrop, I ask what is airdrop and that rime I look for the answer and I notice that airdrop is a free coins here in the altcoin world, giving the opportunity to earn money to any one here without doing something.

the advantage of these people is that they have a lot of free time and they do not know how to dispose of this time, because the air drop is a waste of time and there is practically no sense in this kind of activity

with the help of an air drop, you can get a lot of tokens, which in time can bring a good income, but once you do not earn anything, only after some time, if the token will be traded on the exchange and growth in price you can get a fake

an air drop is an opportunity to get tokens and earn on it after a while, but it is important to understand that most air drops will not bring you anything, even tokens will not come to your account

yes it is , airdrop is a giveaway a free giveaway that you can join in order for you to earn a token or an altcoin after completting a several task such as filling up the form and doing retweets or share/repost if its in fb or other social media. Most airdrops do gives you a coin ( maybe few exeptions because of scam and failed projects)  but probably there is always a 90 over 100 percent chance that you will recieved something in your purse as long as you privided a correct eth address.

The reliability of airdrop is very low. a lot of airdrop scam is coming out. but we have no loss. we can enter easily.

Many people are doing airdrop because they are able to earn money in simple singing up in the airdrop website, because airdrop is giving their coins for doing a little task of every participant, sometime you just need to join their telegram and make some research about their project and live some positive comment to their project if you are satisfy to them. so many people doing airdrop in that things.

 

And to many people abusing it to that's why airdrop has been splendid, but I cannot trust this kind of coin since mostly the main reason why this kind of coin drop is for scam. They want their coin to get spread so that they can gather more communities and buy orders so that if volume will up dev will dump and leave their coins to be dead and this will be a sorry times for people who get fooled.

I think airdrop and bounty is so good. Like, it's very effect. Airdrop is not very hard to do, and have policy ref. That very simple to do, the present is too small if you don't have ref.

Totally agree with you, earlier when the airdrops were in Google forms was much easier and could earn more money. It is very difficult to work without prompts as the company drew its attention on the referral program. Sometimes even 5-10$ for a airdrop is a very good earnings. I abandoned such activities, and completely passed on the bounty, where I'm about 7 companies at the same time.

all airdrops is legit?? can someone tell me if all airdrops are legit or scamm.. i want to join airdrop becouse easy to follow the instruction and then about  bounties campaign how we know that bounty are not scamm?? someone explain to me thanks a lot

if you participate in an air drop, then you have the opportunity to get a first-rate token for free, and it is possible that this token will become expensive after a while, but if you are lucky, if not, then you will fill the air drop and get nothing for it

there is a chance that the token that you received with the help of an air drop will grow in price or at the start of sales it will be expensive, in that case you can not badly earn money, but the chances that this will happen are very small

my friends participate in the air drop, but they do not earn much money, tokens come very rarely, and most of them are worthless, one of the friends earned 40 dollars and all)))

I think maybe like this most people choose airdrop because it is faster in getting profit and the project is shorter

thats correct bro its easy and fast to join the airdrop .. i love airdrops like you told its easy and fast to join :D all you need is join and wait for it to give you coins :D

avoid airdrop as much as possible, because many banned cases are caused by airdrop that is not clear the project

for me it's just the change of the tactic for advertisement, spend a various money to the ppl to advertise ur coin, why dont just take the money put into the coin, they give out some coin to public, then people whom had the coin will subscribe regarding the coin, indirectly public will help spread around about the coin, the cost is similar.

Although I do not do airdrops but I know that they are also very good ways to make profit as long as you join good and reasonable projects because some of them give reasonable rewards and they are growing well in the crypto market.

Airdrop is just like a Giveaway for success of ICO
That easy way to earn coin with easy simple
But too much airdrop coin too cheap

Though I do not really do airdrop but there are people who do it and earn reasonable profit from it. Though the rate of scam might be high but if you take you take your time to do a very good research of the available airdrops, you will find potential ones to invest in.

On most cases or if we do talk generally airdrops isnt a good way to make profit most of the time unless if you do hit the right project then you might get some amounts but wont really be that big since we do know airdrops do only give a small amount of tokens to the public on each user.

Its always been part of the marketing strategy to increase projects existence and awareness and yes this is the easy way to earn tokens but most of the time these airdrops do only give out a full load of shit tokens.

Airdrop is an attempt to form a new community in building trust in a coin. The community is given the trust to hold the token to hold. However, currently this method is less effective because token holders cannot hold and they sell instantly. this causes the token to decline in price.

People who doesn't know about bounty campaign is do airdrop, I think so. I think there no advantage of people doing airdrop just because the amount of airdrop is not much. It never like bounty job.