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How do i know when the bounty campaign is scam??
Is the token i get is trash? A months ago since i get token and until now the token has no value..

Just wait for the value of tokens, its natural to be delayed the value of token. The possible happen to this is the token is not yet done for distribution or the campaign is not over.

see this thread, it will guide you to pick bounty, these is a list of good bounty manager so we can avoid scam project
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3085997.msg31824749#msg31824749

It's natural mate as long as the dev is still active I think that token is still in the dump stage or there is not yet whales that encounter that. Well, next time you need to check first their Ann thread and social media such as telegram or slacks if they are active especially the dev. You must also need to check first their whitepaper and website by that way you can see if they are really responsible with their works.

If you are going to a bounty, First do your own research about that ICO project. Read the white paper, Find their team and more  :) If hits a token in exchanges, Some tokens value are not shown in etherscan. You can find them on https://coinmarketcap.com

When there is a news that will pop the next day talking about the bounty that you want to join is now a scam. The funds that gathered for the ICO period was ran by them.

That makes sense why that token doesn't have any value today.

There are so many good bounty campaigns on this forum under the announcement.You can check and participate in them.Before joining to any campaign check their project details.If theirs any issue directly contact bounty managers using this forum or their telegram groups.If they don't answer to you don't participate it.Check their spreadsheets also.If good bounty managers involve it they definitely update their spreadsheets every day/week.Read other participants personal ideas about the bounty you like to participate.If more members on any bounty it may be a good one.But the coins you will get from it may low ammount.think it also.Don't join all the bounty programmes.Chose only if you have much time to work on it.Otherwise, you haven't to do a none of them. ;) Good luck

Not all, but if the bounty program is distributing coins/tokens in big numbers that's a red flag.

Nobody can know scam or not scam. Many tokens will not have value.

Token has a value when it come out but it need sometimes to be listed on the market list, but if you have a reputable bounty manager then you don't have nothing to worry.

in my opinion, we can not be sure if an ICO project is a scam, but we can reduce the possibility to get an ICO scam project by looking at its Bounty manager, look for Bounty manager who often handles a good ICO project and usually has a high price when in market, of course we also need to see more deeply about the project, I think it can give picture for us

I suggest for beginners who want to follow bounty campaig project, you must have social media like facebook, twitter, instagram. Bounty campaig is divided into several kinds, among others: social media, signature, blog / youtube, translator

Thank you for your info!

Thank you for this information, I think the choice of a good Manager is one of the most important factors in choosing ICO.

Yes lm a beginner hunter so km excited about lve read that many people are rich now by bitcoin. I want to be a part of it. This is the only way l know to meet my dreams come true. I'm so much happy that I can have a chance to give my family the best future to have a business  for a stable income for my kids future.

Get the most information you can is the best way to know if the bounty is not a scam. The bounty manager is important too. But to participate to bounty campaign need you to spent a lot of time. good luck.

In my opinion you can not tell if the bounty campaign is a scam or not,I think reading and researching about the bounty campaign helps you to determine a little bit.

Check their teams for transparency. If it's an anonymous project then do your research x2.

Thank you for this resource

this a nice thread resources. it would be helpful for us newbie here.

For my self basisbis who are bounty manager of the prohect because to stay their good image in community and avoiding red trust, those manager also have research before they have contract with the project

Bounty campaign will only be scammed if you are not paid for your work done. Now, with regards to token value its normal to be delayed as it is based on the supply and demand on that tokens. So if you are afraid to get scammed i suggest you do your research first on that bounty or project read their website, whitepaper, and do a little research outsude the box for a sure win.

Some good advice in this thread. Thanks!

You will never know if theres a scam in the bounty campain and if they will ditribute the tokens. So many people participatet on the envion ICO. The ICO ended more then two months ago. ANd nobody received the bounty tokens. They collected over hundredds of millions of dollars. So i dont know if they ever will distribute their bounty tokens, but i dont think so. What i want to tell is, even when the projects looks seriouse and the location is in switzerland, it can be that you been scammed.

Bounty is a quite risky project, and I personally do quite a lot of research before participating in a bounty. Just choose ICOs with huge organic communities and those ones who had been on the market for a while and have multiple successful projects. Nothing difficult, just a bit of research.

Before you jump on a bounty, please read and understand the project as well as the team members. You can get this as summary from the announcement or as volume from the white paper. In the bounty information, you will see clearly how long it will take, after bounty is completed, for the tokens to be distributed.

Look into the project and the team. See if you understand the whitepaper and if the team has a good history (on linkedin) This will help you evaluate

Before You Join in Bounty Campaign Better Do your Own Research About the Project, Check the Team or Any Partnership to Other Company if they have, Check Also the Partnership if Legit or Not. also don't forget to chech the background of bounty manager who conduct the bounty.

ICO and Airdrop Community

If you want you can join the ICO and Airdrop community. I spend a fair amount of time a day to investigate the potential of each airdrop. That way I try to filter out the airdrops that have some real value. These valuable airdrops will be posted in the group together with some extra information about the project.

Feel free to join by using this link: https://t.me/joinchat/FTuL-Q4leB38XkixiCJTCA

What irks me a bit here is, that some things got mixed up in your post.

First, what do you mean by 'token has no value'? How do you define it? If you mean by 'no value' that it - at this time - has no trading value, then you need to ask yourself whether it's supposed to be already tradable or if you just have to wait. Is the project itself dead? There are projects that have tokens that aren't tradable for months after the ICO ended. And that is on purpose.

Second, what were your criteria for joining the bounty? They should be basically the same as investing in the project. In a sense, you do invest in it - at least your time.

The tips you've gotten so far in regard to joining campaigns with reputable Bounty Managers are good, but they don't absolve you from [arconym=Do your own research]DYOR[/acronym]. Even if you pick a reputable Bounty Manager, so what? That might only give you an additional security that you'll get your tokens, if they have value later on, who knows. Not all Bounty Managers get paid in tokens, they also get BTC, ETH and/or USD.

Bounty campaigns is not that easy as it seems.
Once you enter any bounty you must follow instruction of it.
Failure to comply to requirement can cause not recieving any token.

Correct me if I'm wrong,  I think I't can take upto 1 to 2 months maximum after the bounty program ends.

Just simply do task, and take it seriously. to avoid being withdrawed from the campaigns.

Bounty campaigns or airdrops are not trash.  They're designed to spread the words around, like advertising for products and offering free samples.  10-15 years Bitcoin didn't really have any values either but people were still mining, buying and owning them.  Look at Bitcoin's price today.  The point is, those coins with no value in your wallet could some day make you money.  Let say you have 20 of them, all it takes is just one to go up and you should be all set.

I've join on lot of bounty campaign and there are some coin or token is scam. You must prepare yourself with lot of knowledge and experience. Usually when i want to join bounty campaign, firstly i check the spreadsheet to know the bounty manager keep update the stakes every week or not. If bounty manager don't update the stakes for several weeks and don't answer the bounty hunter in thread or in the bounty group, you should join other bounty campaign. And if you was joined the bounty campaign you should leave it.

I think you need to be more careful .Also try to find more knowledge about the program in other for you to know wheather it is a scam or not.

if your worrying about scam best thing to do is change bounty every week especially in signature campaign, some managers are allowing that. this way chance of getting paid is higher

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If the ICO is a scam, then the bounty is a scam, too.
To find if the ICO is real, look at these factors:
1. Good White Paper
2. Professional team
3. Good social media (Facebook, Twitter, Telegram). It is the main point for bounty programs because you will need to work with social media.
4. Also, an ICO should have a real-life issue to tackle because in another case it won't be interesting to investors.

Just copy and paste,follow the rules and instructions,for joining bounty or any activity here on bitcointalk about cryptocurrency,:)

You need to review several aspects to participate in a bounty such as project profile, the team, and also your estimation in the future will the project be demanded by people. If the project you participated in their bounty is good, the token will have the value later. Some tokens value to be dumped after ICO, the value is very less even said no value at all. But perhaps later it will grow and have decent value. You need to learn history of bitcoin.

You'll never know until they run  :D No one knows seriously. If one of the team runs then it would be definitely a scam whether one only did it. It doesn't matter how good the technicals or the marketing, it's always the greed that makes it. This is a sad reality

Not all bounties that is not paid is scam, some of them just dont hit their marketcap and I think that is why they dont pay the bounty hunters. Besides in my own opinion they still need to pay those who promote them even they dont hit their target because people work for them deserve's to be paid for their job.

To participate in a good bounty, you must first analyze the project: idea, team, partners, amount of sold tokens on pre-ico/ico. If company give good results you can participate and get good rewards(depend on amount of participants)

GREAT info. Thanks for the list. :)

Before you start the bounty campaign first do a research about the ICO related to the bounty campaign. There some important facts you should research about.

1)Find ICO rating of the project (Use ICO rating sites ex- ICObench)
2)Do a research about the project team ( find the LinkedIn profile of the team and find  they are real people)
3)Read the whitepaper carefully

After did those 3 things If you satisfy about the project then you can start it. Most probably 95% of the projects are good if those 3 points are satisfied.

I do not think we know about the project what scam is. But it can be seen from the whitepaper and who the manager. The most important before the project first click on etherscan or in coinmarketcap

As a beginner, you need to read instructions on bounty to avoid dinner at the end.

Before you start a bounty campaign, please do a background check up about that project and project team. first search the ICO rating of the project using relevant ICO rating sites ( ex- ICO bench...etc) Then do a research about the team. Find their Linkedin profile and find out who they are, Is that people are real. If these points are satisfied you can start the bounty. It's a good way to find Scam project. Always do a research about the project before starting it...

And please make sure that you learn how to read token metrics of ICOs. That will give you enough clue about bounty is real or not. But of course, too many campaigns sound real. You need to experience them as well.

The first step is going on a full reseach but reading some white paper of some bounties also helps to know if it's a scam or not.

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It is very difficult for understanding to scam project. Becuase scammers are very clever. If you want to find a scam project so you have to study about that project very well. You have to read their ANN thread and Whitepaper carefully. And also you have to watch their team member, social activity. I think if you do those so you will be able to find out a scam project.

You can participate in AmaZix bounty projects. It's very good companies: GlobalReit, MobileBridge Momentum, RankingBall, XYO Network, and others which you can check on amazix.com site.

IF for a month the token hasn't been enlisted on an exchange, just read the whitepaper and find out when on the roadmap will they be enlisting, or just contact the team through telegram or other medium for explanation on where and when enlisting. Maybe it is not a scam coin but just that the time is not due to be enlisted.

In finding good coins or tokens, We are always doing it with luck but If u want a higher chance of choosing bounties go on respective bounty managers like sylon, token suite and wapinter.

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A bounty is a scam after they have collected enough cash, the developers decides not to enlist the coin on exchange or even continue with developing either the product or service the funds were meant for. NOn will give answer your question on telegram or email. Then you know the bounty is  a scam.

I recommend you to join in bounty campaign that is manage by known bounty managers. Yahoo and sylon  are the bounty managers  that are managing good campaigns.

There is no way to know it before closing any projects ICO. After end that projects ICO you know is that scam or not.

There are good bounties, which are led by developers themselves, and not by well-known managers. Read carefully the white paper, as many ICO do not have a ready product.

I'm having a hard time in picking/distinguishing a good bounty campaign.The truth is I have already joined 2 bounties that are scam and it's hard to determine whether it's legit or scam.

It is very difficult to distinguish which one is a scam but I think getting good information about the team members and understanding the content of their Whitepaper will be a good source of information for a good judgement.

Thank you for your list of good manager bounty. Before i do some scam bounty because not have read this list.

This is good advice. Thanks.

most people have difficult for understanding to scam project.just find deeper before you start, see three facebook twitter followers and activity.find more about team members and their experience. mostly see how they are going to execute their development of the project and is it possible.that way it will help to identify a scam

Research on every new project about their project team, project vision. Determine that project vision can be able to reach.

yes friend. now most of projects are scam and we have to keep more attention before doing bounty.

I agree with you. Managers will only manage their respected bounties. But after stake distribution most of the coins will go down. So we have to find good projects ourselves as you stated above.

Also a newbie. I look for solid dates, team, spreadsheet and transparency. Also look for engaged admins on Telegram etc. I also have found bounties listening to ICO or blockchain based podcasts.

Welcome to join bitcointalk world, for beginners who want to join bounty campaig program, can directly search in marketplace => bounties (altcoin)

keep your tokens .sometimes you're tokens must be very valuable. its list on coin market cap.

Normally token has no value at first. But it will be soon updated and will have a value

Can give advice on how to effectively participate in a larger number of bounty? :)

Solids dates are difficult to find now, because most of ICOs today have a tendency to be prolonged due to some reasons (such as not reaching a softcap, for example), and their bounty campaigns are being prolonged as well. So you need to learn to wait patiently first of all, haha.

So you are planning to participate in social media campaigns, such as Facebook and Twitter, right? The best I can suggest is a google docs spreadsheet, where you can easily make notes about all the campaigns you participate in. Then you can also create separate spreadsheets for each campaign to form your weekly reports there and link these spreadsheets to your main document. That's how I do it.

You can also use some special task managers that would notify you when you need to retweet or post something, such as Trello or any other of this kind. Here is the list of them, choose something handy for you: https://www.bettertechtips.com/internet/online-task-manager/

As long as they keep us updated its all good

Bounty programs are one of the good ways to earn cryptocurrency. Before starting a supporting to a bounty program you must do your own research about the  project according to below facts,

* Project concept and technology reachability
* Team and their previous experiences
*  Partners and advisors
*  Bounty handling team.
* Softcap and Hardcap( most of the bounty didn't pay if they could not achieve the soft cap. Softcap and hardcap must be reasonable) .

Guarium(ico.guarium.com  ,https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3293429.0   ) is good upcoming ICO project and it has good bounty project. please visit if you are interesting.(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3359820.0 - bounty thread)

If you are planning to go full time with doing bounties, then this post is actually really really helpful for beginners that are eager to make money doing bounties. This step by step and specific tutorial is the best for starters. But if you are just here to try bounties, then you might consider just pickung up some helpful pieces out of these.