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Can someone please explain what an airdrop is? and how it works? thanks

You already becom a Jr. Member, but still don't know what is an airdrop? Hmm, anyway this link will help you to explain it https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1876879.0

I think, has a lot to discuss about this. and you do not know it after you go through rank jr ?
try to find a lot of reading on this forum about airdrop

The jist is that you sign up for a portion of a premine made by a dev and the community is supposed to lift that coin up by supporting it and creating something great out of nothing. It is an alternative to ICOs and it has

worked in the past for a few notable projects. The one I know the best is Decred I believe that was an airdrop and look at where it has came.

I wouldn't ask if i know. Sorry for bothering you guys to answer the question.  ;D Basically its a free coin. It usually happens before, during or after the ICO?

Airdrops are free coin you get from a dev without knowing if its going to be a success or failure.

Airdrop is free coins for you from project. Sometimes this free stake cost very expensive. I remember in ~2015 was airdrop Community coin and this stake cost 1BTC :D

They are free tokens given to you after little or no task. Some are good, some are worthless.

This was asked many times and you will always see the word airdrop tied with free coins. Simply because an airdrop is a distribution model that in oposition to an ICO where investors pay X value per token, those tokens are given for free.

It has no more or less value than an ICO imo, because I have seen very successful airdrops with actually more development than many paid projects.

An airdrop is supposed to be a community based distribution of crypto currencies,  usually meant to provide the early adopters, and community supporters with a Bitcoin alternative that is an honest and an open effort to build together with a community. Sometimes there is big innovation involved, more often then not, just clone coins.
   What airdrops are turning out to be as of today...
A nightmare, where tokens, and coins are instamined, where a huge chunk is reserved for the developers, meanwhile the community and it's closest supporters may get a chance to share in on the some of the action, usually unsuspectingly, and some knowingly, await for the final phase of what will turn out to be a scheme. The coin/token is pumped viciously,  causing artificial inflation, and then of course dumped for Bitcoin. Honest members of the community, a bunch of newbs, and a few greedy people are left holding the bag full of emptiness. All the promising features the roadmap covered, left unfulfilled, never to be mentioned again.
  The few on top of the pyramid will buy new lambos, rinse and repeat. This is the reason a major crackdown will come, because the greed. The more money involved, the more problems our crypto world faces. After Mt. Gox, many of us knew that it was only the beginning of the underhanded business that would take place within the community.
   Now, not all airdrops are dubious, with malevolent intentions, but just remember to practice your due diligence, and never give out your private key ever. Happy coin hunting to all!

Thanks for the informative post, but this made me curious, were there ever any successful airdrops? An airdrop that actually worked for both the developers and holders, any airdrop coin that went on to become a top altcoin?

Thanks, Thats very informative. But the common reason of doing an airdrop is to promote right? Or is it usually done when only few tokens were sold during ICO?  Is it done before, during or after an ICO?

Airdrop is a free coins distributed to the community for trial, or when that coin is soon to be dumped. They also use it to promote their coins.

Many airdrop projects are just free coins where the Dev is keeping the bulk of them to dump when it hit's the exchanges.  The coins they airdrop are very few.  Many of the addresses in the airdrop belongs to the Dev.  He is secretly dumping the coins and leaving the main wallet untouched so that there is no panic. 

Usually coin owners without too much advertsing budget creates coin give aways to create hype about their coin. It has a lot of advantage. It keep their coins circulating and promoting it at the same time.

An airdrop is an activity in which the dev will give you coins for free. All you need to do is to put your informations in their google form. And then that's it wait for the next announcement on their distribution.

I also would like to say, I have seen in a few airdrop dev asking for a private ethereum wallet, BE CAREFUL, don't give private key to anyone, they will steal all your coin.

Airdrop is free coin/token falling from sky and everyone loves it.

So you're saying project that usually do airdrops are the ones that really has no project value and just want to earn a quick profit. SO it means stay away from projects that usually do airdrops coz its most likely be just pump and dump by devs

I can say, with the airdrop it is also part of product marketing, which people who are interested in promoting it will get a reward for his business. But we do not have to worry about ico doing this way, just imagine how companies as big as samsung, apple, etc, pay to television to show their ads.

Some dev team want people try their token/ their coin on their platform so their give people their token/coin (this is what we called airdrop).

Airdrop means you get that coin with very low efforts and you got it free. Some airdrops require only your email and some require some data to distribute airdrop. The best airdrop nowadays is deeponion which giving airdrop to its active members every week and it create a decent income for their active members.

It's a hit or miss since there's not that many people that would purchase an airdrop coin if they know that the coin was initially given out for free.

https://candy.aelf.io/account/register?invitationCode=0S0EfRe42ZbV

Here are some Airdrops for Coins, nice reward, over 1000$ if you just register !!!

airdrop is where we can get coins for free. and the system we just have to fill the form available, and we just wait until the coins are distributed.

Airdrop is the way of developer to distribute free token by given  a fill up form that has a small task.

I found a new website collecting information about Crypto Coin Airdrops:   www.airdroptracker.co  it seems that is daily updated

An airdrop is when a project's team distributes free tokens or coins usually by asking people to join their community and refer people, they can take place with new projects or when a hardfork takes place.

Great tool for promotion from any startup. Founders using that tool everywhere just you didn't attention it. That evolution from cranes which was with BTC

Airdrop is an free distributed tokens on each project this type of strategy will attract so many participants and investors if the community is strong there are sometimes that the admin will make an another airdrop

airdrop is the same as giveaways, or share something for free, in this case the airdrop in question is to distribute the new coin for free, actually airdrop is one way of introducing a new coin

Airdrop is free coins for you from project.An airdrop is an activity in which the dev will give you coins for easy task . All you need to do is to put your informations in their google form. And then that's it wait for the next announcement on their distribution.

Actually I don't know either. I dont know whay is Airdrop.

airdrop; In order to promote and advertise developers' projects and campaigns, some Token or coins are distributed to users on the forum free of charge or for certain tasks. devs. In this way, they aim to both hear more and find support for themselves.

it seems that he just bought the account. who knows...

Airdrop is when a certain blockchain project distributes free tokens to the cryptocurrency society. There are few requirements to comply before you can receive the giveaway, some requires you to fill up a form, others need to post their project on social media accounts. The purpose of which is to create awareness about their ICO or token which give an edge to token appreciation, since people value a token they own higher than the token they do not own.

Becoming Junior Member doesn't mean you will have the basic knowledges . You have to face with that stuffs to know about it. Like there are some guys at Mining session don't know anything about Signature campaign (true story) or Bounties.

Airdrops are same as like giveaway.. Airdrop is a free token that is given you by doing nothing or some little task.. Just fill-up an airdrop form which is provided by them.. It is the way of developer to distribute free tokens.. Just you need to do is to put your information in their form. Its also like they use it to promote their ICO / coins. Some airdrops are good and some are valueless. For airdrop alert - https://airdropalert.com/

This is reward distributed to those who apply for it, I personally wouldn't recommend you participating, because now it has became just database for future spam and scam mails. So I think it just does not worth it.

Airdrop is the performance of certain minimum actions for a reward in the form of tokens or other currency. Currently it is not very important because there are a lot of scams.

it's when you enlist and receive free coins/tokens. That's just another way how the currency enters the circulation. Like with ICO it's being sold and with forks you need to hold certain base currency.

Everyone talks about what airdrop is but no one seems to know HOW TO DO an airdrop?

Does anyone know how to do an airdrop?!

has anyone here actually experienced a number of airdrops with actual value?

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There are a lot of methods are available to do airdrop. Now a  days most projects are following the method of registering into a Google application and telegram group joining. One simple method must be opening a discussion thread and asking people to reply to that with an addy. The main objective of airdrop must be, finding early or adapters. So, to find some adapters we can use the any method. One of the effective airdrop I have seen must be clam coin distribution.

really? that was a very lucky campaign, very notable indeed!
So going back, airdrop are rewards given to those who participate in a particular campaign. these rewards are in the form stakes/tokens in the hopes that it will be successful someday.

Airdrop is a kind of giveaway that is used as a means of promotion, participants are also usually. Required to perform certain tasks as a condition of obtaining a number of cruptocurrency tokens.
Airdrop requires that anyone who wants to participate must have the following:
1. Bitcointalk Account
2. Telegram account
3. Wave wallet or other ERC20 wallet
4. Facebook Account
5. Twitter account

I think that there are already a lot of people expressed their opinion about airdrop and why it is needed at all, but now it is very difficult to get a normal airdrop, so I do not often get airdrop

HMM.. have you tried searching for the definition or google or maybe just looking up about airdrops on this forum? ???

A​ ​crypto airdrop​ ​is​ ​when​ ​a​ ​blockchain project distribute​s ​free​ ​tokens or​ ​coins ​to​ ​the​ crypto ​community. If you've searched it you know

air drop is basically a marketing tool ICO's use to create more exposure for their project.

there usually all kind of terms to involve the airdroppers with the project

An airdrop is a means for a new developer or company to introduce their coin to the market. It is done through distributing little amount of coins to many people who enrolled in the airdrop program. By doing so, it gives more people idea about the project and the coin, plus it urges them to use it in transactions, which may help in increasing the value of the coin. It's basically free coin, but the amount is not that much since its purpose is introduction.

Simple.
You fill in forms / do steps provided on the airdrop site / post
Enter your ETH Address never use an ETH Address from an exchange if not your tokens will be lost forever, not really some exchanges will help you retrieve you those tokens but take a long time but some don't even bother so use an address from MEW / Metamask / Hardware wallet / any address you have private key access to.

Oh well  your level is already full member but not able to know whats the meaning of airdrop ? It's a free money as simple as that . A new ICO will give free money if you follow them on twitter , like on facebook and in other social media . It depends on the ICO on how they want to give a giveaways or should I say Airdrop ! .

airdrop is free for everyone to join. You will benefit from this because the developer has given a coin or token to each airdrop you will be sharing because you earn a coin in airdrop if you always join and you should always have your fill up

Airdrop may serve the objective , you have mentioned but airdrop may lead to huge dump of a coin after it will be hitting exchange. Otherwise it will be a good method to have a  community. But when you will be providing some guy in for free of cost then obviously it may lose its significance.

So, a airdrop must be based on some action and it should not be easily available to everyone. Many a person has done something earlier, then we can give him some free coins so that bitcoin will not get into all random people.

But now, almost all airdrop must really got failed and it is better before.  It is too effortless to get money from airdrop but there has too many supply that's why you'd get only cents when you get it now but it has a chance to be bigger if the value and demand must high.

I didn't experience airdrop now because i think it is wasting the time to save some link of the campaign  :'(

The link doesn't work.

Airdrop is a free coin from a dev that will give after you finish signing up a platform.

But I do believe, more people will not consider this as a  problem. They just want their coins to be distributed to many people as possible so they give some simple tasks after that they will give to them without any proper checking too. I agree this kind of distribution will lead to heavy dump when that coin will be hitting exchange but almost all the coins are having pump and dump phases. So, there will be no significant differences if you go for airdrop without proper reasons or checking to whom you are going to give your coins for free of cost.

Here you can find some good Airdrops for free!

https://www.freecoins24.com   check it out.

Airdrop is an easy way to get profit, usually airdrops these days are giving you tasks for you to do it and after finishing those tasks, they will give you the free tokens. And some of the airdrops are just letting you fill out the google forms.

Airdrop is when a project gives out their coin or token for free to a particular number of applicants. Some airdrops even tell you to do some little tasks and while some you just need to join their social media pages. Airdrop is an interesting way of making money in the crypto world

It's interesting because you can earn money in airdrop easily but always remember that not all airdrop will pay or will have value in the future because some of the airdrops i join has not paid me or their token has no value at all. I think this a opportunity for those new here in crypto that wants to earn a few tokens but remember not all aidrops are true.

An Airdrop is a free giveaway of coin, which sometimes require little task, some the reasons some project do airdrop is that they find their strength lies on community so they use that to increase the community members.

The simple answer: it’s literally just free coins just waiting for you.

The method behind the madness, though, is a decision regarding marketing strategy. As a way to spread awareness to the relevant audience of potential investors and eventual enthusiasts, coin teams will, from time-to-time, do airdrops.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO GET STARTED TO RECIEVE AIRDROPS?

An Ethereum Wallet: not one that is on an exchange.
It has to be a personal address that is ERC20 compatible because most of the tokens that are airdropped are ERC20 tokens, which are or were originally Ethereum-based ICOs. I suggest using  MyEtherWallet to get started immediately

The Ethereum Wallet Must be ACTIVE. By active, I mean that you have to show at least some human use of it.
Lots of airdrops have checks in place to make sure that you aren’t just randomly generating a bunch of addresses and signing them all up to unfairly obtain more coins. This means that if your wallet doesn’t show activity, it might not receive the airdrop. Sometimes, coins will be explicit in what they look for, including some type of balance in the account.

A Telegram Account : I’m sure there are amazing reasons why Telegram is the chatting tool of choice for many of these ICOs. The coins want to boost the audience count.

Usually, these airdrop coins will also require you to sign up for their Telegram accounts. Until you receive the coin in your Ethereum wallet, do not leave the Telegram accounts or you risk disqualification for the airdrop.

A Twitter Account : Similar to the reasons behind the Telegram account, many of the airdrop coins will also require you to follow them on Twitter. Some of them will even ask you to retweet some tweet.

An email address. sometimes airdrops will ask for your email, too. If you don’t feel comfortable with giving them your real email, just create a spam one. Remember the password, though; some of them actually ask you to confirm your email.
Obtaining and Withdrawing Tokens


Usually, it takes about 1–2 months after the end of the airdrop before you receive your tokens. This is primarily due to the fact that many airdrops occur before or during token sales, in conjunction to spread awareness. And tokens are not distributable until the end of a token sale anyway (I’ll write a separate piece on Token Sales, or ICOs).

To check your wallet info and see if the token has appeared in your wallet yet, just go to Etherscan. Type in your ETH address into the search box.