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What happen to Many Bounty Campaigns Now? They are setting the "New Norms" in Paying Bounty Payments? "100th days after the ICO" or "EVEN QUARTERLY BASIS" there reason is to avoid dumping and stabilize the Coin/Token Price, and after 100th days pass another reason was blame "NETWORK CONGESTION"? is this acceptable I need your Strong but definitive Opinion?

most bounties require long term to wait for payment, this is just because most of the project needs to finish their ico before distributing tokens to bounty hunters. And also some project needs to finish their product before they distribute their tokens to investors and hunters due to the new SEC regulations. most product as an engine to make their tokens useful and valuable

In 2018, i only received one bounty payment so far and yeah. I think that to avoid and stabilize price is kinda okay but for your case
I think that is kinda fishy tho, but can't call it a scam because the ETH network actually congested recently.

However IMO, payment shud be made regardless if network is stuck and they can just proceed with higher fee

This is a very sad news. Bounty hunters are always waiting for rewards for their work and they are often fooled. Now wait more will be needed, why? for 100 days with a coin can be anything.

I think not all bounty program will pay that long. To avoid delay payment of bounty reward,  I prefer to chooce bounty program that manage by trusted bounty manager. But sometimes all processing payment control by their developer,  so to make better income from bounty only by join them as much as you can.

I also ask about this, I feel bounty always campaign to be the cause of dumping, investors who have a lot of bonuses when buying in private sale or pre sale. far more dangerous than bounty hunter, this is very sad news and I think all bounty will apply such rules (we'll wait)

I agree that this new fashion for delays in payments is very sad. But on the other hand, usually companies with a reward of $20 - $50 pay almost immediately. Well, where we have to receive $500 or more we are usually seeing delays. I'm a little used to it.

Feel bad but its the truth we need to face as a bounty hunter. ICO now are scared for a massive dump cause by some of us looks like killing the real price of the coin. Mind set of the hunter are very poor. Why dont sell around ico and dont set a bid under below. After all of support we did for the success of the project wnd after getting the payment we are turning to enemy. Dumping the tokent restricted but please be responsible. I cant blame any ICO in keeping their tokens for long before it distributed, they give if volume is on stable. More wall of trades,

Basically this is the reason of the scam ICO. We don't need to wait long before got paid, because bounty hunters deserve to reward earlier, without bounty hunters no spreading news of the project ICO.

Bounty long wait is normal as they need to prevent dumping and see that their payment system is ok before sending but most important is you get paid and just sell or hodl for longterm.

I also agree with your suggestion and will also suggest that you should be a little more patient as they will pay as long as they project is a good one and you trusted your research before you joined the campaign but if they do not pay after sometime, then the project is likely to be a scam. The reasons they gave might be genuine because there is congestion in the ETH blockchain and it is causing delay, just wait a bit more before you make a final conclusion.

The sharing of tokens from the bounty program is usually his older time, usually they waited the completion of the ICO and after the successful ICO then the Bounty manager calculates the token of each bounty program and usually manually so that the shake of the tokens takes a long time and maintain the price stability of the token so as not to drop drastically in the market

It is a lot of payment bounty program.maybe about 30-60 after ico end...we hope not scam project.waiting patiently and we next join other bounty program.that is risk of bounty hunter..not paid but not lose balance..

They need do that, because they know when distribute token to bounty hunter, almost of them want to sell immediately.

The bounty campaigns are suffering from the serious market crisis, but there are big abuses of which we are victims, we bounty hunters. In recent months more and more bounty campaigns extend the duration without increasing the budget, and for the payment of tokens you have to wait several months often without any valid reason. We hope the situation will change

Network was actually congested so I do understand that team wouldn't want to distribute massive amounts of token with high gas prices and tx times on ETH network..

Globatalent, the most recent project that makes me feel like you.
Globatalent bounty starts in January, ends in early July, and they have released a new notice that they will pay token on 31.10.2018.
Largest possible consequences that they will scam bounty.
So tired.

Late payments in bounty campaigns have become one of the biggest problems in the sector. There should be very clear rules on payment times, at most within 30-60 days after the end of the ICO they should pay, but even when it is written they never respect these times and this is an unsustainable situation

This is indeed not a very nice practice from the ICO's the use this method. The bad part is that you can never how long they will delay the payment. For this reason i prefer to join Bountyhive's campaigns, because they are paying the rewards fast almost all the time.

Recent days I have spotted that we are facing more and more problems with bounties, and they all will be extended on half year, or they will cancel the Bounty whatever.

That's wrong. People always attribute Post-ico dumping to bounty participants. But that's very wrong. Even ICOs without any bounty program dumped without mercy. The token value would dump with or without bounty and most bounty participants are investors too who would want nothing more than to profit off their holdings.

Yeah i also promoted two icos that are delaying the bounty reward tokens, one of them is delaying due to token swap, i think bounty participants have the right to be awarded the reward as soon as possible, it should not be delayed.

Any campaign who delays payment too much does not have a good team. The problem is not about dumping, It is the fear behind the dumping. Most times when the market is in a dip, some team members fear to go on the exchange and therefore stretch their campaign further. I think most of them delay because of fear.

Simple, find a better bounty with weekly payment or monthly payment. You know you don't have to stick with something shady like bounty from ICO since most ICO not really bright at all.

First, be choosy when participating in a bounty. Check how they treat hunters first. If the overall attitude is that hunters are workers, rather than supporting the project, then avoid it. They will never treat you with respect.

And about bounty hunters dumping: Not every one does that, but it's not a bad thing all together.
If the dump starts, the trading starts. Money, even crypto, has to be active to gain value. If there is nothing to trade, it's not interesting.
Besides, it is a perfect opportunity for traders to pick up some cheap coin, so I don't get the complaining.
If the project is solid, it will regain it's value and holders will get value.

luckily i have not experienced anything like that yet, but i still do not like that. if you have done your job, you should also be paid. so i think it is fair, everything else is unfair.

I participated in the bounty from Velix.ID.

They have already held the 2nd stage of the bounty, but they do not want to pay the earned tokens

Unfortunately, this takes a place so often. Bounty rewards are going to have a little interest for bounty hunters. The price are not dumped with them. But after 100 days, the coin can just die.

Yes this is annoying and sucks! I hate this. Because till i get my token, it falls like 3 -->1.

Almost all ICOs are extending bounty duration recently without increasing bounty pool, most bounties that have started as early as February a good example is TV two which finished bounty July 24th and still have to wait till August 24th before distribution... I hope these people start honouring their terms and keeping to their words according to their bounty campaign timeline

It is a common problem recently, I was participating in one particular bounty, which called a Morpheus Network, and they are still not giving me my reward instead they just complaining, few months already.

Yes, this is becoming very common. There was an ICO that said, before bounty hunters can get their tokens, gas fee has to reduce first. To my amazement, since the ICO ended, they are still paying bounty hunters.

that does not sound good. with such a behavior they can also ruin the name of an ico or project in the aftermath. i hope the ico operators see that such behavior is unacceptable.

Well i agree if to avoid dumping and makes the price far from ico price. But after date of payment passed and still got not paid. There is something wrong that project possibly scam project. The only thing we can do is to follow news by joining telegram group and official websitw of project.

I believe that not all ICO companies will delay payments so much. Those who will indicate this in the context of joining the ICO generosity campaign can simply be ignored. There are a lot of ICO campaigns now, and they need advertising. If few people join them because of this, they will quickly change their conditions.
If these are SEC requirements, then they apply only to the territory of the United States. It is not worth registering an ICO there.

I have seen this type of behaviour also coming from a number of ICO, possibly the worst to date has been HDAC who have still not paid their bounties 8 months after the campaign ended. Part of the dealy came with them launching their mainnet but since then they have just made excuse after excuse to delay the payments it is very poor but there is nothing we can really do.

Well, that's right. I also experienced many obstacles in bounty payments that I follow. if what you mentioned earlier is the reason, the likelihood in my opinion is that when the fund raising price is not in accordance with the current state of the price. so they are buying time to wait for the price to return to normal.

it's really true what you say, a lot of too long waiting for us to get rewards from our bounty, but some are not so long and then pay, my conclusion core in this crypto business we are required to be patient in various decisions, especially in terms of choosing a project which we want to follow, the solution is if we want to quickly reward, look for a project that is not too long for its ico period, look for one month at most two months

Probably, that's why many did not abandon the main job and did not go to work in the bounty. Naturally, there are problems here and this one is one that is not so great in comparison with the others. Yes, there is a need for a conveyor, and after payments still have to wait for the listing, well, or not, at best)

No, of course it's not acceptable, it's as if you do a job for 1 or 2 months and when you go to get paid you are asked to wait 3 months, that's absurd, more than the time it took you to get paid? those campaigns and ICOs should be denounced, they won't be scams but they are close enough, and when they release the capable payment and the token has no value, leaving you with another currency unused in the wallet.

that's the reason that we often meet. this all depends on the bounty project team, what if they plan well and responsible then they will give the gift on time. we as a bounty participant can only help promote the project to be popular and besides that we can only wait for the gift that is promised. so stay patient waiting.

The problem is (or hopefully was) the bear market we were in. Nearly every released coin was dumped very hard, most of them arent even worth half the ICO price.

Eg. Savedroid even stated that they wont release the coin into a bear market and want to wait for better market conditions

I think it is a deliberate action to delay the payment to avoid dumping and stabilized the price of the coin when listed in an exchange.
I participated in a bounty campaign that ended in may and yet to be paid and funny enough the coin had already been listed in an exchange  month a go payment of bounties was scheduled for 31/07.

It looks true but sometimes the developer needs to avoid the bearish market trend and to distribute the bounty payment when the market gets down a lot looks a terrible idea. It's just like the team was trying to kill the price of its coin.

Feel for u its the new norm and sadly most manager even the one who insist this kind of norm cause they think its the best for the project

Been to many bounties already and became numb to those kinds of results in the end. So after a long work done, I now only put my faith on the teams promises. What ever we say to them and do, they have the final decision either they pay us or delay it, or even don't pay at all in the worst case scenario.

well this happened to me as well currently, it's almost a year I've been waiting to get paid for the bounty campaign and they just said as same as your opinion which is make sense for me actually, but to be honest sometimes it challenged my patient.

Not all companies pay so long. We can not do anything about this. Either we agree to such conditions, or we are looking for work elsewhere.

In the present scenario this is how it is. The choice is ours, whether to take on bounty campaigns or not, and to wait patiently for our expected payments.

This is really okay to me. with the volume of hunters that going to dump their bounty.
the investors are the first to suffer. the price breakdown.
and i guess its better to wait for the project to distribute your tokens. even its delayed.
its really good for you though.

The practice of delaying bounty hunters reward is becoming rampant. I feel it is not right, if you really want to avoid dumping then the project shouldn't bother to do bounty. And shouldn't offer presale bonus, because pre-sale investors dump too.
Bounty hunters help a project acquire funds and they repay us by delaying our reward or hide the spreadsheet and pay penny. This is uncalled for.

I've been experiencing this for a long time. You need a little much patient. All bouties will be paid after the token sale. They are busy computing some stakes and token listing on exchanges.

Right now, the bounty hunter is a threat to the price stability of ICOs. It's sad to know that. It seems that the bounty campaign is getting harder and harder, but the reward is getting less and less. It's lucky because I have job in real life. I don't depend too much on bounty rewards.

I don’t see anything wrong with this! Promising to pay coins 100 days after the bounty, the company firstly comes to be honest than those who promise to pay in 30 days, and pays through 100. Secondly, the team wants to protect the course of its token from the influence of bounty hunters and other holders of tokens.

Most times we have to wait for ICO to end before getting paid  and maybe too they could be settling some stakes issues but honestly its can be very annoying to wait that long and also sometimes it could be a scam but lets wait and hope

Most of us can not do anything, because they take the initiative.
They do not hire us to do, we make bounty because we take the initiative, we want to earn rewards from them.
So they have the right to decide how long to pay.
The pay period becomes longer because one main reason is that almost bounty hunters will sell their token after receipt. This affects a lot to investors (those who join their ico).
My opinion.

Something strange is going on with all bounties, I read more and more bounty hunters complaining about not being payed or not payed correctly, changing terms after ICO, bounty managers need to escrow funds for bounty otherwise all bounties can get away with not paying after job is done.

So the network was too congested to be able to distribute the bounty. Sounds like a great coin, dump and get out asap.

I have no problem with bounties being paid in X number of days since I am not looking to immediately sell the coin/token. They set the rule and if you do not like it, then do not participate. I can also understand the network congestion as another reason for delay. Why spend $1 in distribution when you can spend $0.1 on a normal day.

maybe they are delaying distributing rewards due to internal problems,
if you can't wait, yes you should leave and forget, but if you can still be patient, just enjoy the waiting period.

Many of the ICOs are prolonging their launch, so its nothing strange that bounty is coming late also. Problem is that some of them are not hitting soft cap but not giving money back to investors, with some lameass excuses, we are gonna run few more rounds of ico etc...

I believe it is due to the poor condition and situation of the market. Also I have observed releasing bounty tokens earlier or later has nothing to do with price dumping. The market is generally unfavourable.

Most projects pay to bounty hunters for 2-3 weeks after the completion of the ICO, but there are also projects that begin to have listing problems on most planned exchanges and payments to bounty campaign participants.

Bounty however is not longer lucrative the way it used to be like before due to the bearish market and it is better bounty hunters start looking for alternative ways to raise money.

This should not scare you that the coins will not be paid at all . Thus, developers spend more time on their product, development, launch . Just know that after the payment to the hunters-the price falls very much, it becomes much lower than  ICO

There are many situations and decisions made by developers. But the most important thing, they should notice about all terms in the start of campaign! I was completing bounty for REMECoin (repayme) for 20 weeks) and at in the end of bounty, they have extend it for 24 weeks more))) Its almost 1 year ICO campaign ...

there is some bounty which is too long in paying the bounty hunter, of course, that made the bounty hunters disappointed. personally, I don't know what the cause is it,  but as a bounty hunter, we certainly want it if the payment is smooth. I hope in the future more bounties will be better.

       You should need to understand that after bounty campaign , the manager will become busy of computing for equal distribution of tokens and it needs maybe one month before the stakes tally and equivalent tokens release, and other reason is maybe even after the campaign they hardly  reach the hard cap or even the soft cap .

It’s a matter of agreement. There would be surely be agreement before campaign started and if you are comfortable with those conditions you proceed

If you are waiting for too long to get paid then probably you won't receive it anymore we call it as scam.But legit projects will distribute the tokens as soon as the ICO end probably in two weeks so you need to be picky with your campaigns next time.We can't do anything to get the current payment you just need to move on and find better bounties in the future.

I also noticed this. This is done by the developers to ensure that their coins are somehow able to enter the market at a normal price (usually it does not help). So lately, before joining the bounty, I'm asking when there will be payments to make sure that you do not have to wait half a year to get coins that are worthless.

I know there are some project need to finish their ico before distributing tokens to bounty hunters. But if I have to wait too long, I will throw it away and find another bounty to do. Nothing to guarantee that such projects are scam or not.

Look for 'legit' projects with good team and reliable campaign manager. A good campaign manager will inform you when the tokens will be distributed and will communicate if there is a delay.

Somehow I get the feeling that teams that don't pay after the ICO are scamming the participants. What is stopping them from paying when all the money are already with them? The ICo funds are already to the team so if they have created the tokens namely on eth, then send it already. The team can't stop the participants from dumping. If they will dump, they will dump.

Yes and this is absolutely true. I also experienced some incidents regarding the bounty payments. Most of the cases they issue tokens for bounty hunters after finishing the ICO and it will take some time. Some bounty managers are purposely dragging the distribution for the reason of market establishment. Anyway this is not a good sign for bounty hunters.

I just read a post that the EQUI project team decided to pay the bounty hunter much less than it should. Here is an excerpt from the message:

"Even though we have no contractual relationship, as a gesture of goodwill we will still be paying out 2% of the amount raised in the previous ICO to bounty members."

Here are links to the first and second campaign.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2888537
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4235545
It clearly shows that they have to pay 2% of the total token supply.

When I wrote about this in one telegram crypto group, I saw the indifference of some members of the community. It's very sad, to live by the principle"it's not my business, I'll pass by".

This is the reality that a bounty hunter must take. Work now pay later. You need to wait until the end of token sales plus a bit more.

So, just continue doing tasks, after that its harvest time. You are just a farmer waiting for the harvest period to come.

The bounty campaigns are going through a very bad period. The main reason is the serious crisis in the industry which is causing many ICOs to fail and as a result the bounty hunters do not receive anything after much work. The other reason is the bad habits that are spreading in several bounty campaigns, delays in payments of tokens of several months often without any valid reason

I also do not like the new rules for paying bounties. Thus it will be possible to receive remuneration only 1-2 times a year and wait as long as the tokens will grow.

It is better if they pay us one month after the ICO but if not it is also good condidering that a lot of work to be done and it could not be very easy to handle ICO , so just be patience and wait for your payments , the most important is , they will be able to pay us and its not a scam .

I think some of the projects are still afriad to launch because of the present market situation but I believe some of them will start entering the market soon.

I faced many times this problem. But the worst thing is when ICO is getting extended for the 6 months or more after posting for the same period) And this announcements comes usually on the last day of the current terms of ICO

With the current market conditions, the bounty distribution takes much more longer time than what we have seen in previously. It is better if you can wait until you receive them. If the project is not a scam then surely you will be paid.

This is my concern too, dev blame bounty hunter for dumping but they gave presale bonus up to 100%, bounty reward allocatio is around 2-5% of total coin/token, its not enough to making price dumping for so long, bonus at the sale is the main actor of price dumping in my opinion

I'm sorry that's the way it is. I was caught on it and when payment was delayed then it turned out that I did not pay

some developers may be delaying payments related to the bounty they do because seeing at this time all altcoin prices are being bearish. it's good that we can be more patient in the face of what is happening now, because everything will soon improve with time. maybe the developers are thinking about their profits and losses, because many of the ICO organizers, referring to prices on Ethereum and now, Ethereum is experiencing a very deep price decline, so indirectly, makes developers suffer losses even before their tokens listing in market exchange

In most cases this is not at all a problem to wait for payments - the main thing is that the project continues to exist and develop. I'm waiting for tokens from the FLOGmall project, which I can not sell by the terms of the campaign bounty until the end of October, and although no tokens have been received yet, I'm not worried because the project is really steep and its tokens will be valuable even after a while  8)

I think this is just project's team is trying to protect the price of those coins. in these bear markets bounty hunters can be make considerable affect to price of coins. I believe waiting is better than selling coins on dip.

Maybe there are obstacles experienced by the developer, but these constraints cannot be delivered publicly, only the developer can know. The principle in business is that there are important things that must be kept secret, so that the developer gives us another reason. But in my opinion this is normal, it doesn't need to be disputed.

It's really weird. Although I did never participate in any bounty before my current one. However, I think it's because of avoiding the early dump and make a coin stable.

Yes we should becareful in chosing bounty campaign, read and understand about the rules of the bounty before joining. Choose bounty campaign with trusted manager will avoid you from bounty scam. I think wait for one or two months is not problem as long as they paid you.

The entire bounty situation is a bit of a joke now.  The ICO's will have nothing but bots promoting them soon as normal social media users need to eat.  The bounties make all these rules and want us to follow 1800 steps then bs us around and wonder why the campaign posting quality sucks.  You can pretty much write off that project right there as they have no clue about how business works. 

The most annoying thing is when they require something after bounty is finished (like KYC, or sending an email etc, filling a form etc..).
I follow many project and I don't have time to look at every telegram channel!

Never do bounty for any ICO offering more than 30% presale bonus, IMHO...that can't end well  ;D

Never mind. This happens in many people and it is only when you choose the wrong project. I think that this is a very common problem

That is the risk we get as a gifted hunter when the problem for ICO project payments. We can blame a bad campaign manager here, in my opinion. The campaign manager should immediately be able to stop his campaign activities if there is something strange about the ICO project

I think such long payouts are bad, but what can we do? Unfortunately, we can only obey the new rules

The major problem that bounty hunters have with doing thes bounty campaigns is that a host of them have to wait for some long time to get paid. Some persons have complained about not being paid, even after six months, and it is just sad. I know I would be speaking for a lot if I say that these rewards should be given to bounty hunters immediately they are done with their tasks.

I have a good expirience with bountyhive platform.They choose thair projects wisely,80% of ICO´s ending successful and payment is very fast,even at this market situation.
There are also some good bounty managers at this forum,they research those projects first before starting bounty.During bounty they do services for hunters,guiding them through and helping.Thats for me more important.
And like someone said before,don´t trust ICO´s that are giving more then 30% presale bonus

If talking on now, bountyhive also had problem same like other campaign. the payment also not yet distributed on some of bounty in the bountyhive even though it's long over. doesn't matter bountyhive, bountyplatform, bountyportal or individual management such bounty manager on bitcointalk, the payment depending from the team of ico project if they decide to distribute for later, then all bounty manager only can waiting like bounty hunter.

We have to consider that generally ICO projects take a lot of time to be completed, especially now that the market has been dropping like crazy and that the investors have to think their movements way more than before.

It's part of the strategy the investors first when the token listed in the exchanges. Some projects required there tokens to be locked for six months along with the investors and bounty tokens. Network congestion also one of the reason why payment gets delayed and its not practical to distribute the bounty tokens when gas price is high. I think we should be patient and respect the company strategy.

Controlled release of tokens to bounty hunters is beneficial to all as it helps stabilize the price of the coins. Lympio is an example of a project that did this effectively

Any measure so extreme I think should be confronted by the community, there are better ways to avoid dumps and are less ridiculous than having your pay held for x months, that's quite unfair because bounty hunters are investors too, spending hours of every day to help spread the word about the project.

If the market is bullish, I believe the time for the project to distribute their tokens will be significantly less, since there will already be enough investors will to purchase tokens on exchanges and there will be no one will like to dump their holds

it's sad, but it's a fact. now most of the payments come with a huge delay, and with this we can not do anything about it.

I think it is still better if the bounty page specify the date of distribution,  what is bad is procastinations we see all around today

It's really a big problem in the crypto world. Payments are usually delivered to bounty hunters on the fluctuated market. The prices of the tokens have fallen sharply until now. My efforts to go down the drain.

Some bounties postponing the payment as they are waiting for listings and do not want to distribute
the tokens prior to it. The market situation also has impact on these delays, everything slowed down.

Truth,but well organized bounty platforms and experienced bounty managers are choosing promissing ICO´s.That way your chances are rising to get rewarded at all

I think by now they should have realised that it is not only bounty hunter that are responsible for price dump in the market, now that they only give their investors while holding that of bounty participants,  the price is still dumping.  So I don't now know what their excuse for withholding bounty reward till when they feel like releasing it.

most of the bounty for this time is indeed quite often did the delay in payment. many of the factors that make this happen to like since there is indeed a problem in the system and much more. Moreover, for many of which currently distribute to investors in advance so they don't occur fall of value. but when it has no clear news then forget it.

I think all bounty managers should have a binding agreement with the dev and state clearly how and when to pay the bounty hunters.

For their own benefit they have to be protective of their token, and i believe if you own a product you would probably do the same. If the wait is worth it then wait so long as it will come at the end of the day.

We can not complain about that, because the bounty hunter is just one of the people doing some of their jobs to get a token reward, in addition they have already stipulated that they all follow their rules.

ICOs executives are afraid that bounty hunters will lower the price of coins on the exchanges, probably why they take so long to make payments. But very often it happens that while the coins will come to the wallets of bounty hunters on the exchanges prices have already fallen very low.

They are just suffering bounty hunters...because most times the proportion of token set aside for campaigns are in no way able to dump the tokens. They know they can turn hunters left and right because there are too many hunters right now.

they are just prepare payment for bounty hunter paid after investor, because if bounty hunter get their pament the most bounty hunter dumping market that coin, that's why this is alternate way for developer.

I think that's a mistake they are making because not every bounty hunters dump tokens and the ones dumping are no reliable for the token price drop. If your project is good and have great support, it will hardly dump below ICO price when it hit the market.

Well that's because they feel there are many bounty hunters available and they can just make changes with people still jumping in not minding the payment system or payment delay. I think it is really not wring because most times these bounty managers will end up being the ones to dump the token.

I don't see anything wrong with that. I think developers have good reasons not to distribute tokens ahead of time. In any case, any project has its own telegram channel, where you can ask about it directly from the developers of a particular project.

This is very unfair, could you please mention the bounty campaigns name which one is making people waiting for more than 100 days! They are dishonest people, if you fear about dumping then h=why you bring bounty campaigns? Why do you fear about only 2% sold of sold tokens? They should be punished, with the help of the bounty hunters they made success and now they are tarrying!? You may tell them to accuse a negative thread, warn them or tell every hunter to spread bad things about that project.

This is also true, they don't want their token get dumped very hard by bounty hunter but in other case if they don't pay the reward for bounty hunter and then will be many people who spreading the FUD because frustration, maybe we won't do something like this but it is precisely someone else who will do that.
both can't to blamed.

It's not good....in 2018 i just only received 4 or 5 bounty payments while i joined more than 70. It will just decrease bounty participants and investors also. This will need to be fixed as soon as possible...because waiting for 100 days after bounty finished or for 6 months is too much. This is happening because, project team need time to collect all money from ico.

Tokens are creating this problem. Many were just there hoping their token will be sold yet not a legit ICO. But there are still few that are good and legit.

I think that these innovations will not greatly worsen the life of bounty hunters, as sometimes you have to wait for three months to get the earned tokens.

It was normal for the bounty campaigns to delay the payment since the market is unstable and they want to place their coins at the market in a good time and the best time is when the market prices are pumping, in order for their coins to pump so hard.

I feel right. so many of these projects have already been completed but payments for participants have not been given and if asked will be thrown to the others. after that they will not answer it. What happened?? Is this all managers or managers who cheat?

Participating projects pay the tokens they pay after the price goes down. What makes me angry is that people get paid in advance and I get paid later. So when I can sell tokens that are no longer valid. These are pump-dump projects and disappear

I experience that situation, I joining bounty campaign for 8 weeks and after the bounty campaign I`m waiting for my payment until 4 to 5 months and until now I don`t receive any rewards from them, but instead of getting worried I spend my time in joining other project while I`m waiting for my payment.

Unfortunately it seems to be more than normal at the moment, to wait a long time.
Really a shame how ico operators deal with their supporters.

This will be a good idea in order to prevent the coin or token price to be on the dumping mode. I can say this, because I have seen that most of the ico that is holding the bounty campaign, at the end of token listing, its price go so much dump.

It was just guile from the development team and just say that they don't want to pay for bounty hunters.
Too disappointed for that and I'm also experiencing the same things you feel.

I think this is due to how much bounty hunters affect the rate of the coin that goes public. In addition, they sell their tokens on decentralized exchanges at a very attractive price for investors. This greatly affects sales through a smart contract. But I do not understand why delay payments if the coin is already traded on the exchange? They just don't appreciate those who made them successful.

Try to join the campaigns managed by trustworthy admins. At least pay attention at their forum rank. An account with a high rank is very expensive, so it is wise to manage good campaigns in order to keep the positive trust.

The only reason i can think of is simply that, to SCAM people.

When payments are delayed, these companies have more opportunity for people to forget about the bounties, have more opportunity to DUMP the value of these coins, and even have more opportunity to run away without ever actually paying people.

I don't like such delay and I joined a lot of projects that even after two months after bounty end didn't pay, these projects are not scams and I believe they will pay. We should remember bounty is a voluntary activity not fixed by law or a written contract, only by promises and all that can we do is to believe and wait

There is not a single reason for delay of bounty rewards…
Sometimes bounty is finished but main sale is not finished & they want to distribute bounty reward after main sale.
Some time they distribute bounty reward after token listing to avoid dumping by bounty hunters.
And the last reason can be a low potential project or trying to peoples scam.

Wow! 100 days? I have not heard of this yet, it's terrible. As if this solves the dump problem, they are funny.

Yes, it is serious problem for the bounty hunters. sometime after the coming of that coin on the market we have to wait a couple of months. sometimes at that time the coin is worthless.

From my little experience I can say that I have found very few tokens which have been distributed at right time and most importantly in a shortwhile. Otherwise, most of the campaign creat problem with bounty payment. I think this problem is needed to be reduced by making some strong rules regarding bounty payments.

Some of these ICO teams are not being sincere with bounty hunters who actually helped with the ico promotion. And in one way or the other they have contributed positively to the success of the project so therefore I don't think bounty participants have to wait this long to receive bounty rewards.

It depends on bounty managers as some good and trusted managers escrow their bounty coins for distribution and they distribute coins as mentioned in their bounty thread and some companies deliver their coins after completion of their ICO's. I am in bounties from long and get 40% coins at right time and many coins are still in waiting list.

This is sad, since most of the bounty of campaigns (projects) prolong and delay payments, and if they pay, then this award turns out to be very small. Everything depends on the market situation, I hope that it will improve and, accordingly, the situation with payments in bounty campaigns will improve.

My best signature bounty so far:  CHT, only did it for 4 days, worth $1200 now

My worst signature bounty so far: ESS, 120 days, worth $330 now

Not all, some ICO pay the participants in lessa than a month some are better at within 7 days.
There are different ICO and different payments.
The problem now is much bigger than that. there are so many ICO who dont pay the participants as they are SCAMS.
Some ICO are legit though the project didn't push through because of lack of investors.

It's not a problem. The problem is that they do not PAY at all! Not in 100 days, not in a year! Now I do not see the point of wasting time on the campaign bounty.

100 days in current ICOs' realitys isn't something special, some investors wait even longer than half a year or even more, so bounty hunters should be ready to wait longer than investors. And I think it is a normal practice to move token distribution because of market conditions, if they list their token when market falls down their token will trade below ICO price and won't grow when market conditions improve because potential investors will forget about them and will invest in new projects, these stories already happen with such hype ICOs like Refereum, Bee, Dadi, Insight network, so I think waiting for the better market conditions is a good decision.

They have just trust issues on the bounty participants because there is no real money invested on bounty campaigns just only time and effort on doing some task that are not really hard to do. They are just aware that the real investors getting a profit on the investment they've trust. Can't even blame all those bounty participants because they also did their part. But please for those bounty participants who receive bounty rewards be sensitive whether you will dump those tokens you've got without real money involved.

in my opinion, one of the factors is the delay in bounty payments due to unstable market conditions. because if a token is paid with an unstable market condition, the bounty participants will immediately sell the token. so the token price on the market is very cheap on the market.

If you want to put blame, its usually presale buyers with 40% or bigger bonuses dumping on release, than bounty hunters with their measly 1-2% of overall
coins generated

In my previous post, CHT gave whopping 10% to bounty hunters, while ESS gave 0.4% (we expected 1.2%)

Result: CHT is 120% above ICO price, ESS is down 80% and more...karma? Or word of mouth? Who'd know  ;D

correct. I agree with you. one reason for delay in bounty payments to avoid and stabilize the price of tokens on the market. but if the reason for the ETH network is stuck, I don't agree. because the condition of the network is very stable at this time. so it's not an excuse if the bounty payment is delayed because the ETH network factor is stuck.

Different ICOs finding different reasons to postpone the bounty payment as they are afraid bounty hunters dump their coins and it could potentially hurt the coin and the investors.
I think that bounty budgets of 1% cannot hurt the coin even if they are dumped.
That is a short term event and the price will rise again after the dump if there is demand for it.

I agree and eth is too cheap right now, other than that the main reason is that investors have invested with eth and the decision to postpone is part of a strategy to protect investors.
almost all ico will be completed in December.

Well,i think most of them believe that bounty hunters are the ones that dump tokens, but they failed to realise that the percentage allocated to bounty hunters is not enough to dump the coin, which is way too small.

And as you can see in case of CHT, maybe most generous to bounty hunters ICO ever,
there was no dump at all

https://bloxy.info/token_holders/0x799d214d7143b766cdd4979cd0280939288ba931

Because this is scam bounties.
They sold tokens with high bonus on presale and their price already 10x dump before then they send tokens to bounty hunters.
More i think projects send their tokens how solded to himself and dump price once going exchange

Not only that most of the investor are now sleeping mood due to market down that's why ICO project can't reach their hardcap successfully. So most of the project wants to delay to pay bounty payment & getting listed on exchanges as well.

probably quite reasonable when the distribution for the bounty hunter soon enough because it avoids large price drop from the bounty hunter who sells their coins and this is certainly detrimental to investors. but when many of the reasons start not go then this will already be an indication that this is a scam. forget it and find another bounty. because if it will pay will certainly go straight in the wallet unexpectedly.

I think we bounty hunters needs to fight for ourselves, no one is protecting our rights in the industry and it shouldn't be like this because we are one of the stakeholders. A situation where bounty managers or project team act anyhow after the project promotion by bounty hunters does not speak well for the industry.

I think in the nearest future bounties will die as a source of income. So no need to fight, better to find another job. ICO adviser for example :)

This fact annoys me. I don't understand why you cannot pay the money immediately as soon as bounty and all the posts will be written. It will be convenient for everyone. Or even every week, it's easier, better and more convenient

This is because managers need to calculate everything and check whether the work is really done. If it is done, they all calculate and then send the money. This is a complex process and hard work, so we will have to get used to such procedures

Normally, it will take 2-3 months to pay after the current bounty is over. This is obviously a matter of patience, and many projects may end up being unable to pay. This is the most unfortunate.

Not all ico use that hash rule did one bounty not too long they paid both investors and bounty participants at the same time just that the token is yet to be listed until now.

It is good if they write about it in conditions at once, and not at the end of the bounty, as some campaigns like to do.

About too long to wait before get paid, we cant do anything because for payment from the team, im not agree wait so long because sometimes we want to utilize the results of our labor, also we have needs. Only patience the key because after ICO end developers focus to develop the project

Yes if you find the right one, but hard to find it

yeah now a days many bounty campaign takes time to paid the bounty hunters and its not good for us, but sad to say we can't do anything about that, all we need is be patience, actually a have 6 signiture bounties not yet paid.

There are quite a few that are doing that in the mistaken belief that the market will rebound. Quite a few bounty managers that used to pay on time no longer do and are  ruining their reputation. I get regular email from one about new bounties that I don't even bother opening. Other bounty managers have become pedantic morons and will disqualify you for the slightest reason meanwhile they allow their bounties to fill up with worthless bots. I generally now avoid bounties done by "bounty managers" as they tend to be very poorly run and I now recommend to my clients that they run their bounties in-house.

Many a times, we have had to wit for so long a time to receive bounty rewards. That has been really frustrating for a lot of us bounty hunters. Sometimes, som of us even have to wait as long as four to six months, and if you ask me, I think that is totally unfair to us bounty hunters. I think bounty rewards should be distributed as soon as possible, and not delayed/

Unfortunately, this is a very uncomfortable situation for bounty hunters. Waiting half a year to pay for the work done is too long. But this is an increasingly common practice used by ICO. Even campaign managers are delayed for a very long time with counting steaks for campaign participants.

Wow, I think you will get great things later when you receive payment from signature bounties. Its look like a saving, but need a little patience. We can't blame this situation right now to the project itself why they choose this option. Bounty participants help their promotion to make it more broadly, sometime bounty participants like "enemy" for investor in other side, so team hold the distribution to make stable.

Exactly, it really weird. I have to work at a row without having a regular payment. Also, a huge delay after completing bounty which is just not acceptable. I am participating on a bounty, profish. It already has listed on the exchange. Don't know how long it will be.

At first I was worried about it, too, but now I'm at peace. Indeed, until the coin comes to the wallet, it can already lose in price several times. But still, there are still bounty, in which coins come to the wallet immediately.