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What is Airdrop and how it works?

Hello ICO Enthusiast,

To put it simply, an airdrop is what you could call a give-away of coins/tokens in exchange for a small effort. When a certain project or company in the cryptocurrency space wants to create buzz or hype around their product they launch an airdrop. This means that if you store your coins in a certain wallet or hold a certain coin you will get another coin/token deposited in your wallet for free. An example of this is that in 2017 holders of Ethereum got a certain amount of OmiseGo for free in a promotional effort for OmiseGo.

However we advise you to watch out with certain Airdrops, they are also methods for scammers to gain access to your data. Always check if these are actual airdrops on the official website of that company. Be careful when providing these companies with your personal details and never give information to these companies concerning your private keys.

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Airdrop is free coin instantly. We can earn 200$ every week through the True airdrop. Because there are some airdrops now they only get the identity and details or gmails just to hack it. So now I am not an airdrop hunter because airdrop now is not like before.

Airdrop is marketing plan. it's free or lower fees.

Air drop is a marketing plan but I think not much is gain in airdrop and sometimes if you are un lucky you dont receive anything

Airdrops are free cryptocurrency. Most are built on the Ethereum platform and function as tokens. To receive them you just need an ERC20 wallet like My Ether Wallet.

Then you can start your hunt for

AIRDROPS THAT MAYBE DON'T SUCK

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OoNKjUxXkp-g0Etn5XZdD8lD3FiUngY8GfDNNoAWGPc

Like this one.

https://gonetwork.co/airdrop

Winners of ETHWaterloo - the world's largest Ethereum hackathon. I bet you didn't know about that.

Check out the Google spreadsheet for an active, ongoing list of other airdrops that maybe don't suck. I update it daily.

The answers below are partially correct.




The "Airdrop" is a coin/token distribution method, where you (the investor) has to to do one of the following things:
(1) Own the currency that is the target of a hard for, e.g., Bitcoin Cash was airdropped to all owners of Bitcoin near the end of 2017, OR
(2) Sign up for a new cryptocurrency's notification distribution model, e.g., the new crypto currency is giving away free coins as part of their initial coin offering

The latter is more risky than the hard fork approach, for the investor. If a new cryptocurrency needs to give their coins away for free (and is not involved in a hard fork attempt) their business model for the coin/token must be very, very weak. If they had a better business model people would want to participate in their ICO.

Participating in Airdrops is gambling on something that currently has zero value and has a very possibility of becoming worth something in the future. Think of it as a free lottery ticket for a lottery that has a mediocre payout.

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This is a flat out lie. No one is making $200/week from airdrop distributions of new tokens. These tokens aren't even worth anything at the start. And if they are, you need another independent exchange to support the new token for you to ever exchange it for another currency.

BabyBoss is working for a token issuer that's about to conduct their ICO, and he/she isn't even participating in an airdrop...they're receiving income for services rendered!

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

Do you guys no about any airdrops?

To the above, I will add that the members of the community who were given the coin can help the coin to exit the exchange. Usually on the exchange, the listing is bought for money, but exchanges often hold a survey, where the community chooses which coin they want to see on the exchange.

Check out my daily-updated list of airdrops here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OoNKjUxXkp-g0Etn5XZdD8lD3FiUngY8GfDNNoAWGPc

It's easy to read and use.

Airdrop is one of the best way to earn funds.
Only to do is to fill the form and follow the given task
Task can read in every form so you never confious

I kept searching for an airdrops previously in twitter then finally I was invited to join one telegram channel which posting airdrop summary links and saved my time. Hope it will help. Here is the link https://t.me/airdropsadmin

airdrop is awarding them to existing  holders of a particular blockchain and this is a procedure of distributing tokens. and its such as a bitcoin or ethereum  and there are two ways ceators distribute their tokens  the first is the selecting random wallets and lastly publishing the event in airdrop lists.and last i think this is the best way to earned.

Airdrops mean some ICO projects are offering their tokens for small tasks. Join their telegram group, Retweet etc. If you did that tasks correctly you will receive their tokens in your wallet. You need ERC20 (Myetherwallet, Metmask) and NEP-5 (Neotracker, Neon Wallet) tokens supported wallet to get their tokens. Most projects are Ethereum based projects. You can use ERC20 tokens supported wallet for it. In these days most airdrop campaigns are the scam. Don't give your private keys to anywhere.

True. Thats why many newbies keep signing up all airdrop They see because many people hype it that they earn $200 + a week A big lie as if all ico distributes their airdrop  tokens in just a week to earn that much

Thats sounds sooooooooooooooo shady. Whole this ICO stuff which then build another scam layers on top of it should ended long time ago. Even google banned crypto adds because of ICO's ongoing scams :/.
Just stop, use crypto, dont mess with layers of bad things on top of it.

I just want to telling you that you were not supposed to used Russian Language here, it's belong only on Local Thread, you should use English only.

Airdrops are basically free money and can be delivered through forks, ICOs, etc. A well-known examples of an airdrop is when Bitcoin Cash gave current Bitcoin holders an equivalent amount of Bitcoin Cash. If you want more information, you might find this link helpful:

Bit.ly/2qdKJjh

Cheers!

Airdrop is another way to earn $$ for free just be careful. Airdrops can be used as a means of rewarding loyal customers with free cryptocurrency tokens. This serves as an incentive that can assure continued patronage on such platforms. This type of airdrop mirrors the voucher and discount giveaways of non-[Suspicious link removed]panies in the mainstream commercial world.

Airdrop is just a method to promote the cryptocurrency among the community. It is easy to do and ask only some simple task to report. But most of the airdrops are fake or scams. I also earn some significant amount of money from just simple airdrop. Use separate email address and wallet for airdrop. Never ever send password, private key through the Airdrop forms. There some telegram and twitter channel, that they post new airdrop. join with them and earn some thing.

airdrop is a good step to earn $$

Airdrops can be great, but if one says they require your private key or personal information of any sorts in order to distribute it, it is probably a scam. If anything ever feels fishy, best to just leave it alone.

It depends to how is the point of view. If airdrop term is viewed from developer, it is the marketing way to introduce their tokens to public or community. If airdrop term is viewed from recipients, it is a giveaway they receive from developers just by signing in to their website or register or just fill the google form with some data such as bct username or email and certainly with your wallet address.

Airdrops are free tokens earned by performing some orders given to you. It usually has less value and you have little chances of earning the tokens

Muy buen articulo

Airdrops are mainly used as marketing strategy. Mostly there are not really profitable, you just get coins worth a few cents and have to give out your personal details or do some marketing for them. But there are also exceptions.

The last one I participated in was my best one, it was from DeepOnion and they "freely" distributed their coins over 40 rounds. Another example would be Nano, they distributed their coins also freely over a capcha-based faucet.
(Both airdrops are already over)

There is a good article about them on the community forum of DeepOnion.
https://deeponion.org/community/threads/article-comparing-two-successful-non-ico-coins-nano-deeponion-what-to-expect-next.36029/

I am a newbie and I am interested in airdrops. I've read that this is a good way to earn bitcoins. I think airdrops is like a free taste of a currency that you may want to try. It will be a win win situation for both investor and distributor if the tokens will be successful. I think this is a good chance to earn and understand things for a begginer like me. This thread is really helpful.

airdrop is a kind of give away in the use of promotion means to get free coins

Free money for all crypto user, it's all free we just need to do some task with our social media and you will get paid with their tokens. So easily, it's like you work for their tokens and they paid you with their tokens well symbiotic mutualism(CMIIW) i can said.

Airdrop is in essence reward you get in form of token(s) or coin(s) for promoting a campaign or project by simply filling forms and doing minimal task such as inputting email addresses, ethereum wallet addresses, twitter follow etc but these days airdrops are becoming more like bounties because you do various tasks first before being paid.

Airdrop is a free coin provided free of charge by following bounty and completing tasks assigned

Airdrop is a give away coins or rather say free coins for everyone that requires a less effort job. Example requirements is joining and following their twitter/facebook/telagram.

For example I can tell you about our airdrop community - promobuzz.org - we are working with eth (also btc), we are developing, so number of our airdrops are betwenn 2 and 5 comp for month

Usually the new coins/tokens offer a free distribution as marketing initiatives. They collect your personal information and could resell in future or could launch new marketing campaigns targeted on your email or social accounts.

Execution of tasks for a minimum period of time! For example, to subscribe to social. network and fill out the form for charging you tokens on the wallet. But now there is very little generosity in this program.

Airdrop is a means used by new ICO to start a campaign and get prospect, those that participate in the airdrop might end up investing in the project.
Airdrop is not only for campaign it is a great marketing strategy.

AirDrop is one of the two most effective methods for getting free tokens. Project developers give free coins to everyone, and in return are asked to register on their resource. AirDrop works on the word of mouth principle, when a person who received tokens for simple actions will recommend to their friends to do the same, and so on.

Airdrop is a easy way to earn free crypto. Some new cryptocurrencies giving free tokens for people as a part of their promoting campaign. Basically you need to sign up their website or fill some form and do some easy tasks like following their twitter or join to their telegram channel. If you have some luck you can earn good money but some crypto experts saying these days 90% of airdrops are scams so try to earn with airdrops if you don't have money to invest or if you don't like to take risk.

Thank you for that detailed explanation, as I was confused about that myself. :)

Airdrops can be defined as the process whereby a cryptocurrency enterprise distributes cryptocurrency tokens to the wallets of some users free of charge

airdrop is a dev way of distributing tokens for free, the way airdrop works just list and complete the task and be carefull in sending the indentity because a lot of airdrop scam could have your wallet and your gmail is cracked.

There is an extensive article on the subject on bitcoinchaser.com: https://bitcoinchaser.com/?s=airdrop

Airdrop is a free distribution of coins. You fill out an application, sometimes you need accounts in social networks (follow in Twitter, subscribe in Facebook), subscribe to a telegram group, etc. Each Airdrop has its own rules.

The best airdrop in which I participated was BTW (Bitcoin White). 1500 coins, which at one time cost 0.9 cents! But I participated in hundreds of Airdrops, and profit from each more than $ 1 is already good, since most airdrop do not even pay coins.

Thank you very much! Scammers are getting more and more elaborate, though. Is there a more systematic way to detect when an airdrop is a scam?

great way to earn token/coin freely

You will earn a small number of tokens by completing some small task. Most of the task will be joining in the telegram, follow on facebook, twitter, retweet etc.. The airdrop is used for marketing purpose.

For latest airdrop websites you can check https://coin-updates.com
Basic details about airdrop https://coin-updates.com/help

Telegram channel: https://t.me/updatescoin

Thanks!

Lots of understanding airdrop. Airdrop is like an entrepreneur who wants to launch a token through a website so that their tokens are known to the public as well as among the investors of many telegrams. Airdrop is hard to understand but easy to follow .. but not many who have followed but do not come token that will be given .. For example I have every airdrop I follow there based on telegram facebook instagram youtube we have to follow. also based on KYC. Some are free there is also a paid to get tokens .. The difficult is a token-based purchase. If you do not have the hard money to get it ... :'( :'(

AIrdrop is a form of reward to community that will participate in a certain task. Ofcourse the main objective of this is to market and promote one product or service to social media, blog, Vlog or any other form to easily get attention of the public. Instead of paying or hiring marketing companies the best way and cheapest is to Airdrop.

Airdrop​ ​is​ ​when​ ​a​ ​blockchain project distribute​s ​free​ ​tokens or​ ​coins ​to​ ​the​ ​community. Usually there are some ​requirements which u have to do to get tokens/coins , like : '' u should have tokens/coin from the relevant blockchain stored​ ​in​ ​your​ ​wallet.'' ; ''Promote community on social networks(twiter,fb...etc).'' ; ''Be acitve member of cummunity'' ... etc . Each airdrop have different requirements and plan of distribution , that depend of developers and admins , they are one who set it up. If u were wonder why is this happening the answer is that the project creates awareness about their token/coin. It brings people to the project that otherwise would not have owned or heard about it. It could lead to token price appreciation, since people value a token they own higher then a token they don't own. Point is to spread community and make awareness about token/coin , to trade with him and increase it's value. Airdrops are very good thing that could enhance your portfolio and which is also good thing u dont need all day for them , they are pretty easy. If u want to find some airdrops search here on bct forum there are many topics where u can find it , and even official threads in which is all descripted , or u can search all across the netwrok .I'm pretty sure u will find a good project , but be careful bcs there are lot of scams now , make some good research before u step in . I'm currently in active one ''PRiVCY coin'' and it's really good , fair distribution , good idea , great community . I would certainly recommend it to you and hope to helped you at least a little :D .

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.

it’s literally just free coins just waiting for you. haha

Here you can get your first token with an airdrop. is super easy and no scam. and the token is already traded. sign up for the Zilliqa-Airdrop and get a total of 150 ZIL worth $15! read my signature  ;) good luck with 150 token for free

I find more Airdrop-Bounty like than real Airdrop at the moment where Devs try to foster a community
More and more Airdrop require people to be active on Discord and/or Bitcointalk.

That's what I know about it
 - "First of all, let’s focus on the airdrop cryptocurrency meaning. What does airdrop mean? Maybe you’re a newbie in the crypto world. And it’s better to know what you’re dealing with… So, a crypto airdrop, coin airdrop or cryptocurrency airdrop, is a limited time event created by coin projects to promote their crypto-currencies. How? By distributing tokens or coins to early adopters, for free. In other terms, projects airdrop coin. While there aren’t many requirements to get free airdrop coins 2018, you may have to work a little (create a post, like a page etc.). Or even to share some personal information (share your Facebook profile or give access to your contact list). Also you may need to be active in the crypto-community. Indeed, some crypto-airdrops are restricted and noobs can’t get in… In addition, you may require some coins from a specified blockchain in your wallet. Most likely for bitcoin airdrop or ethereum drop, because they’re the most popular out there. But a free coin airdrop can be done on any blockchain. However, ethereum is dominating the cryptocurrency giveaway industry, with their ERC20 and ERC223 tokens. And that’s very convenient, to have all your airdrop coins in the same wallet! Here are all the listed ethereum airdrops. And this brings me to the best part: You can receive free coins anytime, without even knowing about it! Indeed, some platforms give away tokens to people holding some of their coins, just like that. Therefore, I’d recommend you to hold a little bit of the most popular coins in your portfolio. And enjoy as many freebies as possible! Also, don’t worry too much about the requirements now. Because I’m not only offering an airdrop tracker, with a list of airdrops. But I’ll also explain how to get free tokens for all upcoming airdrops!"

Yes. Very good !!!
Today there is still a nice airdrop where there are 150 tokens. the link to the airdrop is in my signature... and this airdrop is also worth something. you can see it on the picture

http://fs1.directupload.net/images/180706/8rjhxg52.jpg

Airdrop is a free token given by the participants who follow it by completing the task. Examples follow twitter, liked facebook page, joined telegram group. And you must have wallet to receive the token

Airdrop means running free token / electronic money into a user's wallet. This is a fairly new concept in the electronic money world. A lot of people have made hundreds of dollars from electronic airdrop episodes. So exactly, what is airdrop?

In the electronic money space, airdrop is the registration of accounts and referrals others register the account of the unpaid coin to receive the token free.

Basically, an airdrop is given when a development team, a company or a community allocates the tokens to the user for free.

Airdrop is often used for ICO, with the aim of promoting the brand as well as stimulating excitement for the project.

Some airdrops were launched unexpectedly, but others were well planned and communicated.

Airdrops are well prepared before launch, often playing a part in a comprehensive marketing strategy to resonate.

On the other hand, airdrops launched unexpectedly can boost community and achieve the same goal, but it's a gamble and tends to make a splash only if it comes from one coin. pre-established encryption.

AirDrop is a way of distributing the coins for much wider audience. ICO's are usually targeted by whales and as a result they buy huge bags , while those without capital would be left behind. While airdrops are being misused these days , where every coin you see is proving a small airdrop for joining telegram, discord and other things. These coins wont even be worth a thing in long run and they are only done to increase their base number.
Also there are airdrops like Nano (Captcha Faucet) and DeepOnion (Bounty, Signature and other ways) which really serve the purpose of airdrops. So hope to see more coins with such a distribution. DeepOnion is still continuing its airdrops through its new platform VoteCentral. Do check it out if interested :)

When join in airdrop and give my ERC20 wallet address they sent the tokens to this address right and I need to add the token in wallet before right?

What will happen, if the token is not added in the wallet?

why always airdrop. airdrop is also a lot of scam. and.....please be careful with your private key!!!!  get 100 token from the new Nauticus exchange. sign up and then you have 100 token in the dashbord.link is in my sig. this is super easy for the beginning

I am a newbie and it is very hard for me to find good airdrop. Participating airdrop for 1 month, I do not have any money.

Why do you think that every business model with free tokens (airdrop) is weak? It's just one of many ways to advertise your project. Yes, most people will just come for free tokens, but they will spread a word about the project and maybe some investor will hear about it.

Airdrop means distributing some coin to the community or supporters although most of them are not worthy enough. However, till now, I have got best output from DeepOnion airdrop. It was like FREE MONEY for 40 Weeks at a row. Currently, it has also VoteCentral airdrop. You may give a try here- www.deeponion.org/votecentral

Newly-emerging projects often give tokens or coins at the beginning of their existence free of charge, for example, watching on Twitter, Telegram, and so on. Expertly, these offers are called Airdrop. Most often tokens or coins are given for watching a group on a Telegram or watching on Twitter. The new project needs promo at the beginning, and social networks are both doing so. For their promotion, you can get a reward in the form of an airdrop.

What is airdrop?

AirDrop is a free distribution of tokens to anyone who wants to register. Registration is carried out in the "leading" social networks.

Why is the project free to give out tokens?

This is the fastest and most effective way to quickly declare yourself. Since the investor, first of all, pay attention to the social confirmation of the project. Airdrop - solves this problem, mass popularization in a short time

Airdrop is a marketing strategy often used by new projects or players to get attention, online traffic scores, so that they can attract more investors, Airdops are usually used for promotion of the project but sometimes it is also used for listing on exchanges or to support some other projects within the same ecosystem to expand the customer base or mass adoption.

now there are a lot of airdrop, i want to go crazy because of them, too many scams, many people will not know what is the real project

What kind of craziness you are thinking about them? you are crazy of beating them because you've been a victim of dozens of these scam airdrops?

Knowing the real project is quite hard if you just keep on joining random airdrops and this is why many are crying at the end if the airdrop they joined became scam.

I can see some airdrop links are questionable. Have you personally verified those?

This Airdrop is marketing strategy, but those have ERC20 compliant wallet can grab this free airdrop. Now this (below link) exchange doing airdrop campaign without much registration and rules.

 https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/tradeio-announces-upcoming-massive-airdrop-campaign-to-trade-token-tio-holders

You can use different strategies to pass airdrop, but it is best to perform everything, well if you have free time . If time is limited, of course you need to weed out the excess .

There are not a few projects that send emails that people have specified a private key to confirm airdrop, but it is not necessary to do so . A new man gives a private key because he's not familiar with the tricks of scammers

when you add a token to MEW you are really just telling it to look to see if your eth address holds those tokens. MEW only show the major tokens by default, so you have to tell it to display the smaller ones sometimes by manually adding them. use etherscan as a source of truth

I love airdrops, because this is really a fair model of coin distribution, the only thing I do not like about it is to be in the right place at the right time, well, that's how the crypto world works. There are many great Airdroped projects, but you can't take part in all.

Since i came into the crypto currency business, there are numerous airdrops i have filled forms but there is nothing much i have earned. At fist, i was used to getting some amount for a living but not getting nowadays.

What is AirDrop? As a free tokens form to the user, the AirDrops are very popular. You just click on a link, then do some simple operation, there is already a token amount of money on your wallet. Then, you wait for this token on the floor, increase the price and sell out will earn a pretty good.

listen very simple right? Anything, however, has its downside. There are several sophisticated forms of fraud through the AirDrop that if you are new, you lack the experience, or you too trust the project, you will lose a lot.

Aidrop are a way of giving tokens to people for little tasks, like liking social media pages and joining groups. It is also a way of making projects more popular, but lately most airdrops just give small tokens.

airdrop is marketing campaign. they give you free crypto in exchange for their requirements like following their twitter, joining discord channels and the like.

read this intro article https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-airdrop-and-how-does-it-differ-from-an-ico

How long have you been doing airdrop ? Did you get a lot of money for that ?

Airdrops are free coins/tokens in exchange of simple tasks like following their twitter, telegram, reddit and facebook.

Airdrops are just a marketing method for cryptocurrency merchants, because those who can participate in airdrops must have a certain understanding of the cryptocurrency market, and airdrops can attract these people to pay attention to products!

its a process to receive free coins or in other words you can say its a give away process by companies. its a part of marketing that get registered with our sites or do a little effort and get your rewards instantly.