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Iam new at bounty hunting, but I encountered an ICO which is they require us bounty hunters to do KYC? Is that possible? The worst thing is, they announce it after the bounty program. Is that right?  ??? ???

that's not a problem i think due to preventing for duplicate account for bounties, i was joined HOQU bounty and it also needs KYC for receiving bounty rewards

Everything is good until they ask for IDs, if you ask me drop their offer. Because who knows where your information may end up in future. It is hard for me to trust exchanges with my IDs or any other trustworthy company out there and yet why would I then trust some 3rd startup out there. It is bad, I've heard about this but thankfully until now I didn't had to give out my ID to recieve bounty reward.

Thank you for that information. But all I know is only contributors/ investors need KYC. Maybe I confused because all of my bounty programs, this ICO is the only one who requires KYC for token distribution.

Yeah I agree, because we are just bounty hunters, Iam not investor anyway. From the word KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER, I am not customer Iam just a bounty hunter. Thanks

If that is the use of KYC then there is no use!
Duplicate account detecting? i Can use mine, my wife identity and some of my relatives! And the thing they want to know will never exist!
KYC issue to bounty hunter is just same to investors, investors put money on the project and hunters are just working for it so why dont they issue KYC to us?
Well for me KYC is not a good thing to implement in crypto currency!

I think there is no problem with KYC and it's announcement even after the campaign. It only becomes a problem if you don't have any ID to submit for the KYC or if you are using multuple accounts in one bounty.  Some projects are requiring KYC to bounty hunter to avoid cheating in the campaign.

Well, i'm against these types of projects, every rule should be added before the launch of the bounty/ICO to make every bounty participant aware of the rules. It's also a good thing as some mates above have said, it helps preventing the scams and the use of multiple accounts in bounty threads.

Nope, that is not the only ICO who requires KYC both to its bounty hunters and investors, I haven't encountered a single one but be vigilant on giving out such pieces of information as some of the projects are created for the sole purpose of scamming that results to identity theft, OP I have a question? where is your country? cause they are subjected to implement that policy if your country enforces KYC to its investors from ICO's the rest are not.

This KYC issue is alarmingly disturbing. KYC means know your customer. Bounty hunters are not customers rather freelance marketing agents. Why would they require people who are promoting them to subscribe to their policy even if the country where this bounties hunters or Startup are from don't require this.

Even if people are using multiple accounts, how does this affect them? It's the same marketing n publicity they desire that they are getting.

KYC for Bounties is NONSENSE.

Unfortunately if some bounty requires to upload kyc ,better not participate in that bounty,it abnormal for me

In every post about KYC I saying do not let them your documents! ICO can be scam, can be not. If you are investor with big wallet, in my opinion then need KYC, but you are bounty promoter.

Why would they do that?
Are they trying to implement a new policy of "Know Your Bounty Hunter"? :D

Personally, I don't think it is right for them to ask for any personal information.
If ever I encounter one, I'll simply avoid.

Supposedly they have to announce all the rules that they want to impliment before the ICO is finish and whats there big reason why they need KYC for just a bounty hunter that helping them to promote there project. I think that managers dont want to pay to there bounty hunters.

The right manager should give information to bounty hunters that they offering a bounty with KYC, because not everyone could pass KYC. At least bounty hunters could pick which project that suit them and won't bothering wasting time to work on project they couldn't earned.

There are still plenty of bounty campaigns out there that doesn't require KYC so I suggest that you find it. I did KYC'd in a certain bounty before and I like it very much so I submitted the needed documents. Unfortunately, the moment that I tried to sign up the form is already closed and they are not accepting investors anymore. I felt like I was scammed because of it so I really hope I won't be a victim of things like this again.

I think this is half good and half bad thing. It is good cause it blocks people from doing multiple accounts and stealing other people's stakes. It is bad cause its very hard to believe some random ico to give your full identity even with selfie..

Absolutely, that was my point if they required KYC, it should be before the bounty program starts or before the ICO ends. It is ok to require KYC unless they will announce it in the first place so that every bounty hunters should aware about their rules.

I have always expressed my protest against KYC for hunters because they are not investors and can not take part in money laundering, which means that this fairy tale that was invented to verify the community will not be relevant. Now it's just that they are exchanging data for your candy wrappers. It's funny.

How does it block from using multiple accounts? Anyone can buy scans of documents and send for check. I don't understand why bounty hunting need to undergo KYC. That's stupid, they are not investors.

That's not fair. If I was you, I wouldn't give my personal informations to a company which starts his business by hiding important terms like this one. A KYC scam can be easily done and can be really dangerous for your personal life.

Ya, some bounty campaign required bounty hunter submit their KYC, I think is ok for me if the project is successful raised fund, some free airdrop also need pass KYC to receive free tokens, so it's up to you , if you don't want KYC, then you can't receive reward

Yes its not problem for you but for people who want to keep their anonymous then thats the big problem.
Actually the project has right to change the rule, but i think it will be more fair if they announce in the first page of bounty thread so all bounty participants aware about this requirement.

Making anonymous people promoting ICOs and are expecting to be got paid in cryptocurrency pass KYS is such a sweet irony ;D To enter almost any bounty all we are asked is just BCT/TW/Fb accounts. Why should we submit KYC to boot to receive tokens at the end?

I really appreciate those projects, which require KYC, because it`s breat, isn`t it? People,who can pass KYC,will get more rewards, because of such guys,who don`t want to public their private information. And the second thing - if Project requires KYC, 99% that it`s not a scam project, leastwise i haven`t met ones.
So KYC in ICO-bounty industry now is the best way to ensure safety.

I really dont like that KYC becomes mandatory condition for participating in Bounties. But on other hand - KYC allows to identify cheaters and multibots owners.

... until you get scammed by the last 1%  ;)

I really don't understand how people can feel happy to share their personal ID with unknown people on an anonymous forum.

It is a new requirement for some ICO because of the recent law that states that having bounty campaigns or airdrops can be seen as a security issues. That is why more and more icos are trying to do KYC for even bounty participants. Some ico announced later is because the landscape is changing very rapidly with the changing law on crypto markets.

Yes this is the requirement of some ico project to provide a KYC all you need is to pass this requirement to received your airdrop/bounty reward but the problem with this KYC you easily submit your personal indentity but in other hand this good to avoid some bot or multiply account.

For my opinion KYC program should not be in bounty, because KYC created for big whales with big wallets.

That would be bloomzed bounty campaign? thats sucks most of the participants doesnt have passports and drivers license who would they pay those people ? its morelikely a scam and we should report these people to the moderators so they will be punished to their wrong doings.I dont really believed if they stated that in the first place there will be no people who will join their campaign.

I think you should follow the rules that have been provided. I think KYC is very effective for the safety of your coins from theft of coins. if you do not use KYC I think a lot of that will cheat to steal it. if you follow their project, surely you have too bey the rules.

NO,its not necessary for the bounty hunters,the SEC doesnt include u.s citizens from joining these bounty hunting,SEC has prohibited these U.S citizens from joining any ICOs,that is why these ICO investors needs to undergo KYC verification so that these ICOs wont have any problem with the SEC's regulations,your bounty campaign surely dont want you to get paid that is why they will conduct KYC for the bounty hunters.

I understand that some bounty managers use KYC to avoid multiple registration, maybe there are less cheaters in the campaign.
BUT, honesty implicates to inform at the beginning of the campaign that KYC is used.

but usually the project will not pay if not fill out the form provided for KYC. how to respond to it?
because it has followed and do hard work there

Yes, that's the problem. And as some people will follow the KYC, we can't do anything. A good option when this is required after the campain would be to halve rewards of people refusing KYC. That would be much more fair than now.

Anyway everyone shouldn't accept the KYC, this would block this process which is useless and cannot be required for bounties. When a company giveway you some sodas cans on the street, does they ask you your id card ? No. This is the same here.

For people saying it protects against multi account, I would say, if I'm a smart guy with multiples accounts, I would just do two different compaigns at the same time to avoid this. So KYC isn't a solution.

To everyone : just remember what we can do with KYC documents. The first example of what can be done in cryptocurrencies is registering on exchanges and selling coins. What will you do if the police knock at your door about a money laundering situation where you are involved because someone stole your identity ? It would take you years to prove you've been a victim of identity theft.

KYC- hate it! KFC- love it!

Not really. But yeah some ICOs are there who ask bounty hunters to provide KYC details. I think it is not really necessary but may be they are trying to prevent same person applying from multiple accounts.

What is the reason if I participate in signature only?
There are a lot of good signature campaigns in the forum. Why d'you think somebody wants to 'invest' own time in same (sig.) campaign twice?

Sometimes bounty programs require KYC and it is ok. So don't afraid of this - it is just security option

Sounds like a scam bounty,they are doing this because they dont want to give the tokens from most of the bounty hunters who are worked hard just to promote the ICO,you can just report these people to the moderators so they would take some action about this,bounty hunters should be rewarded properly because they are the key to the ICO's success.

Maybe you just misunderstood their instructions or whatever it is because usually KYC is only required to the ICO participants which are the buyers and investors during the ICO. I haven't heard anything like that before, so maybe I was also wrong but I've been in 3 bounty campaign where their ICOs required it to participate and claim the tokens but not to the bounty hunters.

I am not in favor of that. Because the essence of anonymity of cryptocurrency is useless. And I get why they should mandate us to have KYC process. I just do not agree but we have no choice. Government requires that to pass legal requirements.

More and more projects support KYC I think it's not quite good and why should I provide my data and documents . Very sad for this fact . In the future I hope this will cancel

You should report these bounty managers,that is not requried as per the SEC regulations U.S arent eligible and prohibited to joing ICOs but not bounty hunting,i dont think these bounty managers should be rewarded because they want to take bounty hunter's stakes for themselves,if the bounty rules didnt tell that from the start,they should be given a red trust.

its possible. i seeing quite much bounty at the end doing KYC checks . but its not problem enough if you didnt cross their rules .
they want avoid spam account and i just respect for it . if their project looks promising i will do KYC.

Absolutely right. And I think it's so strange to check bountists with KYC procedure.  We don't give our money so we are NOT investors. We just have a present from ICO. Nobody check somebody before give him a present.

I hate then a bounty campaign forces bounty members to get through KYC after the end of a campaign. I don't understand why the heck bounty participants should do KYC at all! They aren't investors, I don't think that any campaign should report to SEC or another regulator about bounty at all. In my opinion it's unacceptable.

I lost a bounty because I didn't want to do KYC (Gladius). The bounty manager should point that out beforehand so that people can decide whether to join or not. The project may not be scam but they are scamming people for sure. 

Yes I agree 100%. Bounty hunters are not investors. Also they never point this out beforehand that KYC is needed for bounty. They always seem to remember this right before distribution and that is unacceptable.

It is okay as long as they update the bounty hunters themselves. It is not fair if they will just announce it in telegram and other social media.
If it is a signature campaign then it better be a pm to the users.

All of these are just protocol so that they will be legitimate in one country. It is better than them running away right?
After the KYC they are forced to pay and can run anymore.

I think it is also a good way to see those who uses alts. Gladius did it and it went well. Many are banned and not paid thanks to the KYC verification.

These are scammers,they should announce it before anyone has joined their bounty campaigns,this is a shady business of these bounty managers and they should be reported to the moderators,so they will have their red trusts.This way these manager could take most of the bounty allocations a greedy corrupted will always find their way to take advantage.

On the one hand good , but on the other hand where is the anonymity . Since the main rule of cryptocurrency is anonymity , and this violates the idea of cryptocurrencies

Actually its depend on bounty campaign rules. I think KYC should need to avoid fake participation. So that Its depend on campaign. KYC submission is not so hard you just gone through with few documents. So I think its should be well to go through with KYC

If all bounty program required KYC so this is will be take many of my times because i joined alot of social media bounty. This is will not efective and not efisien for my job. So KYC procedure should be not need  for bounty program and should be only for investor.

I think it's a natural goal they just want to be safe. Nothing is hard to fill out KYC forms It's just that they know our personal data including where we live. I've repeatedly done filling out KYC forms look complicated but it's their rule for token distribution bounty. 

They should have tell their bounty participants at the beginning of the campaign that they need KYC because at that point we can decide to join or not. It is unfair if they only tell us when the campaign is over.

Do not submit your KYC documents unless you totally trust them. Many may use or sell your information (include your government ID, photo...)

I got no problem doing KYC if it's a solid company the bounty is for. As long as they announce that they require KYC at the start of the bounty so that bounty hunters have a choice whether to do it or not. It's annoying when they pop it out at the end of the bounty once the work is done.

But I wouldn't be doing KYC for bounties unless I have done my research into the company. To many scammers out there.

Which I did before the campaign ended always asking about KYC for bounty hunter,,
 Because usually for KYC instead of bounty managers who take care of it but Dev is in control of KYC. This means that bounty managers only follow the rules only and we are required to obey.