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Market downturn is probably one of the main reasons why ICO projects can't last long and joining their bounty program is useless and a time waster. Due to the fact that the market goes into nosedive, ICOs are forced to cash out some funds in order to survive. However, it is not enough which is why some of them decide to cancel their ICOs and return the funds of the investors. It means if you have promoted their ICO way back then as a bounty hunter, your time and effort was put to waste. You might be given tokens, but dormant and unusable.

Been there, done that. I have experienced a lot as a bounty hunter in which all of my hardwork (even some stakes are average to high, sometimes low) was put to waste because of their sudden cancellations, closure of their ICOs, and the worst part is that when we fall of those programs with fake team or so, they would run away with the investors' funds and our reputation would be affected due to promoting them on social media or so.

On top of that, most of their tokens are going downhill the day they started integrating themselves in centralised or decentralised exchanges. Even if they choose to lock it on a certain period of time, it's definitely no use because they're still affected by the dump in which everything is unregulated and uncontrolled.

The future of ICOs and bounty programs are at stake due to the market downturn, and it goes even deeper than that. It looks like it'll take years for us to see the bull run, or maybe no chance at all.

If you are participating in any ICOs or joining as bounty hunters, what do you think about this? Let me hear your opinion on this guys! Thank you. 

It's true that most projects had failed and some who succeed had slowed down on their development due to lack of funds. However, as we all know the bear market had started since the beginning of the year and the situation is getting worst. The best thing we can do now as a bounty hunter is just to keep joining and accumulate as much bounties as we can. If you can join good projects, just hold and wait for the market recovery. All will be worth it.

The current situation is very chaotic and confusing, being a bounty hunter is just the same as wasting time and this is a bounty hunter reason to stop. I am personally very disappointed, but I still work in the bounty and assume this work is a future savings, so if all the tokens I get later are valuable, then I will be lucky and if not then it is a risk that I must accept.

I think that bounty programs will exist, but they will change themselves a lot as much as the ICO. I think that soon only people can who make good content will be able to earn money on bounty

Already started to shift in that direction, more and more projects are asking for Written Artivles/Vlogs in their bounty programs

I guess the future of bounty programs wouldn't be the same as where right now and the past years because there would be a lot of people coming in.

I think any one who's participating in any bounty especially in this times, should have it at the back of their minds that there's a very probability it might turn out to be a waste of time and effort. This is because the longer this current market shrink lingers, the more it becomes impossible for ICOs to survive, and as such, even when you get paid, they're worthless.

Maybe all bounty hunters should just quit and wait till coming year or only join any bounty campaigns when market is in good shape sovthat ICO won't crash along the way ,truthfully bounty sucks big time ,this year 2018 alone as proven a lot ,to me it means even if A ICO was successful due to market shape then it may die if market is in bad shape? ICOs are getting more scary this days

I only disagree with this. Some of ICOs have been suspended, others have last longer, even continually extend.

Some projects fix the token price in fiat, only these project can continue in this situation. Personally, I have also wasted my time in bounties, even 20-30 weeks and received the useless tokens. I think bounty hunters are playing the lucky game.

For now I'm not going to lie, I am already desperate and confused what steps I have to do. A lot of projects that I or even you follow not know the direction where it will be going even the dev team such person who is also confused. Current market condition really make an impact very unusual. Maybe I'm a little more fortunate than you because of the bounty that I follow even though they do not reach softcap but they still want to pay the bounty hunter and they decide to stop ICO and the funds collected used for the implementation of their projects.

Market downfall has caused a stir at the moment, Its confusing everyday like how long to hodl our patience yes sometimes we feel very hard to wait for a long time. big whales have demolished the market and it needs to recover very soon. If the market remains same for few more months then bounties will give you $10 or $20 after few months. I mean if you invest or work for bounty programs.

Sad to say but I also have the same opinion, it's not profitable to do bounty hunting but from time to time we stumble good project that is very hard to ignore because they have all the ingredients to make a successful project, so it is really up to us if we want to give up or not or wait for the market to recover before we get involve to crypto currency again.

I now participate in bounty programs very rarely, because I don't see much point. Almost all tokens and coins fall in price dozens of times in the listing and a good reward, for example, $ 1000 turns into$ 100 for a couple of days. :'( And this is very little for 1-2 months of intense work on the project.  I changed the strategy-now i just study and observe the market. And don't spend a lot of time on some separate project.

2018 was the worst for bounty hunters and for me personally. Time is wasted, but there is no worthy gratitude. Participation in generosity becomes unprofitable. Finding a successful project is a big success, because it is very rare. At the moment I abandoned many projects because I was tired.

It demands on the project and the aim behind the project if a token provide certain service in the economy I think no matter the downward movement of the market it demands will still be high and since the volatility of the market allowe for demands and supply to determine the price such token will still be successful even in the face of a market cease.

Many projects in 2018 but many also failed or scam, but this is the twists and turns of bounty hunters. The impact of all this we know and turns out the market itself is also red. Thanking you is better, at least we can learn with this experience. Whatever you get from the bounty program, we are still grateful.

That is why the volatile crypto title should not be forgotten in order to always be careful of everything what the person should do. Once the ICO is fake, investors is not the only victim, also bounty hunters most specially the high ranks participants because is is unfair for them. The future of bounty programs will be the same as long as no clear and strict rules to eliminate the fakes ICO. Money is not rain that come and go away as easy as it can. Money is all about blood and efforts not easy to waste because it can save lives.

I think it will be more strict regarding bounty hunters and even ICOs. I just suggest to pick the best projects that is really doing what they are supposed to be doing rather than think about the current market situation. The real projects will most likely survive no matter what the current market situation is.

Projects related to the real sector also feel unimportant and most likely it will last until they start to make a profit or the market will not come to life.

I only think this can be solve if their are some bounty analysts who we will all have to have trust in them and they will do is to verify any project planning bounty program and projects can also go to them with all required details to have their project being recommend for bounty participants so we can all be free from scam project.

I also still work in bounty campaigns. And I also have quite a lot of experience in this business, both good and bad. So there are some useless tokens in my wallet. But I still think that now we need to wait a bit and soon our work will be like in former times.

I totally agree with you. I'd like to believe that some of the projects will be able to survive and their coins will go up in price. Most likely it will take several years. Even if the projects launch a good product, the price of their coins will not grow due to the bad market situation. We need new investments ...

I think this way, the market is still in the bear market. Project teams know this and they are postponing their ICO, waiting for the market to enter the next phase. They will still need a bounty hunter, and investors who believe in their project will still invest in them.

I am agree with you and it is unfortunate , it is sad to confess it but lets face with the truth , But i think it is still the best way to make money out of cryptocurrency rather than trading or mining in this bearish market , What are your suggestions then ? do you know any better way to make money out of cryptocurrency?

Yes, this drop will certainly affect the ICO and bounty programs. After the success of crypto in 2017 were joined by a lot of people and bounty was overflowing. Accordingly, this has led to a decrease in the quality of work and also to a decrease in remuneration. So I think that in 2019 there will be big changes and participation in the bounty will not be as easy as it is now.

I just had one bounty campaign where in the team had already decided to cancel the scheduled public tokensale and they will offer rebates to all of their contributors. They stated the clear reason for their decision and it's because of the downtrend in crypto market that had affect the progress of the project. It is truly sad on my part as a bounty hunter but it is understandable as well. As for me I am still thankful that even if I don't get paid with my effort and time spent doing the campaign, no harm done with me and I still I chose to be more optimistic than to stress myself because there are things and instances that we cannot control.

I fully agree with that. When we start participating in the bounty campaign, we need to know that there is always a possibility that the project will be a Scam or simply will not be able to collect softcap. Yes, bounty is a lottery. But I think that the end of the bounty has not yet come, and among the many useless campaigns you can find something important.

Yes, this is indeed the main problem of today's ICOs, who constantly extend the deadlines for their fees. Unfortunately, this will continue for a very long time, but maybe some projects will more understand how much money they need.

The constant fall of the market lower and lower is very disappointing. Participation in bounty projects has become a very unprofitable job for which you do not receive any reward or get deception. Patience ends-I want to throw everything.

You really think this is the best way? You do know that there are other ways to earn crypto currencies other than joining bounty programs, right? You won't be calling this the best way when you after spending months on  a project end up getting just few dollars.
Instead of spending your time on those, you can learn something and then sell your skills to earn bitcoins. It is more productive and efficient way and you will also be developing your skills.

Adapt to the reality of the market.
Spend less time bounty hunting or quit it all together.
Participate in the crypto market in more profitable and time worthy ways.

if you started the bounty hunter life anytime this year, you are late.
2017 was the golden age, if it took you a whole year later to get in, then you are already in a losing situation.
This is why the people who make the most money are active, innovative investors.
Not just people who follow trends and fomo.
And if you are one of those who actually quit your job to do bounty hunting, I hope you realize your mistake soon and get back to working.
Active investment is the way to go in a collapsing market, not hodling or trying to get free scraps.

I agree on your statement, but I think still bounty continue whatever happens to the market whether it will crash or not, bounty is meant in order to spread awareness to the community.

Got a lot of tokens on my wallet with no value at all and i am keeping it in the hope that one day it will became alive and give me some fortune but as i understand more about crypto and ICO i doubt it will be useful to me.

That's the principle or main characteristic of crypto, being decentralized, it have it's own pros and cons. I, personally still believe that crypto will bounce back and still believe on it's principle. Bounty hunting and crypto maybe gone but crypto will prosper and will be adapted by many in the future.

This ugly market trend does impact on Ico and the bounty. Many Ico is extended because the target is not achieved, as a result, bounty also experiences the same thing. Many bounties are extended, rewards are deducted, locked tokens, listing delays, etc. All that remains is hope that this bad season will end soon. Join ico, the risk is getting bigger, but join bounty is still worth following even though you have to be patient for many things.

My opinion is true. I am sad when I read your post. I experienced what you experienced. Sometimes I think about stopping being a bounty hunter and going to take a break until the price returns to normal and the market improves. Even though I tried to find a good project, but still I failed to receive payments caused by the problem you said earlier.

This will not always the scenario, the market goes up and down, I agree that bounty hunters is bad business now but ICO is here to stay and so do the bounty hunters once the market is up again, the business will be on boom again, we only need to get rid of these scams ICO.

As the bounty hunter, I personally feels so dropped facing this situation. I know many people feel this, feel sad and bad after working some months and then many bounty programs are extended 3 months with the similar token allocation. It's fully sad. But seeing from the ICO projects, they may also feel bad to allocate more rewards to the bounty because they also feel very difficult to gain the investor. That is why, we cannot do anything more.

We mostly loose our confidence in participating ICO cause mostly ICO's today never provide assurance of being paid after ICO finished. They fought hard in order to gain trust from investors but somehow isn't enough to start the project that they could decide to an extension of their selling period or they just stop their ICO and pay nothing to the participants.

The market is as it is and we as bounty hunters are part of it. This situation does not favor the start ups and many project launching
are rescheduled, delayed or postponed. The price of the new coins is crashing in most of the situation when they enter the exchanges.
But, we have to take this situation as business as usual as it is a normal market cycle and deal with it. Bounties will stay but the form
may change as ICOs  has to adopt to the market conditions and so do we as well.

I think this condition will not last forever. Many good projet that have good prospect and good product we can join. Its true market condition is not good and many ICOs not reach their target but there is ICOs can reach the target. I think bounty will keep exist because we helping to promote their ICOs and make more success

I believe that bounty programs are to a large extent an integral part of ico projects.
I can say both are not mutually exclusive.
So as far as ico projects exist, bounty will continue to exist.
Except otherwise it gets bannedby SEC.
Getting banned by sec won't still make bounty programs die, because I'm sure developers would find a way around it.

The bounty program is indeed one way to promote the ICO so that the projects that carry out the ICO are well known by all investors. And it also affects the success of the ICO. Indeed, ICO projects are now successful and some are not reaching the target. It all depends on investors. If investors are interested, it will certainly make ICO successful. I myself think the bounty program will always be there, because this bounty program is indeed mandatory to always be there if you want the project to be known by everyone.

There is time for crypto for up and down. the current phase is indeed being bad and it took a long time to recover. It's when this time may expand investments in ICO and enter in the bounty will be able to deliver results. When the bull run will indeed long term then this time will be a good preparation to await the increase comes.

I realize that the current conditions are not favorable for bounty hunters. I am sure that the market will recover soon. I also keep coins from the bounty. I believe it will be gold in the future.

Yes it can be an alternative rather than just to complain, with a market crashing, investing in an ICO or participating in a bounty program will make you ready to welcome a bull run that will probably happen in the next few months, which means it can coincide with ICO that ends.

The Bounty program is indeed very popular now and many people hope to make a lot of money. But now the crypto-coin market is in a very bad condition so this has an impact on the results of the Bounty token. The results of the Bounty are now very few and this is not commensurate with the work that we have completed 3 to 4 months. But I still hope this Bounty program has a good future.

It's really sad to see this current condition now in the crypto market because it can affect the future of ICO's and bounties of the project. If this will continue ahead, for sure there will be no more potential investors that will participate in the token sales and it will be the end of the bounty hunters to gain such profits for supporting their programs.

The price will rise in time, we can do nothing about it now. So may as well work on bounty since that's something we can do!

Bounty activities may soon disappear because the ICO market has become very bad due to fraud, and when no one is willing to invest in the ICO market, the bounty activity may disappear!

If you are looking for current income from taking part in bounty campaigns then the return is going to be very small indeed. If, however, you are doing this as an investment then if you can pick a solid project that has a good chance of growing when the market turns then store the bounty rewards for now and wait for things to improve.

Today, so many people do this and do absolutely not the right things, because you understand that this is a kind of strength test, because in the future you can expect a very big success.

Don't be pessimistic, friend, I've also experienced fraud with no tokens given after working hard for several months. and to this day no tokens have been launched on the market exchange. some of the reasons for those who do a scam are a team that runs away, it's natural because indeed when the market is down, they want to take advantage unilaterally. but I'm still sure the bounty will soon be a bull run again.

there are still many good bounties ;)

Bounty hunting and ICOs are not doing good in this current market condition but as a bounty hunter we got to persevere and make research for that legitimate project because anytime soon the market will recover. Work while everybody is asleep and reap the fruits of our labor soon enough.

This is the time to collect bounty coin and token sure we will get good profit . like last year how bounty hunter get profit.

maybe the future of the bounty will be less frequent and have rules that are a little difficult but it is used to repair the system so that no scams or errors occur.

Someone who already has more insight into the function of cryptocurrency so they will not discuss or worry about the ongoing price decline. Their focus is only long term because the future still leaves things that can be utilized by cryptocurrency, payment systems and places of investment is a function that will no doubt.

The future of the gifted program seems to be following the market, but all of these are things that all ICO enthusiasts must face. Indeed, many ICOs are able to provide success and this is a good thing for the future, this situation gives us a wider challenge. Hoping that in 2019 the bounty and ICO programs will be better than this year.

Most of the ICO bounty program are such a waste of time now adays, because all of them are scam, meaning if this kind of activity continues, the future of bounty program will no longer exist because of them, and bounty hunters  getting more disappointed and quit one by one.

The situation for bounty hunters is not only bad because of the long period of decline and stagnation of the cryptocurrency market. The situation became critical also due to the massive KYC checks after the end of the ICO.
  
For example, the Alfa-Enzo project has already finished its ICO for bounty hunters for a month and so far they were going to do KYC. What is the point? This we have nothing more to do with how to constantly monitor in Telegram what they can still think of in order not to pay the tokens earned by us.

The ICO W12 project finishes ICO in a few days and they write to Telegram that they need to go through the KYC check on their official website, while registering as for investors when buying new tokens. However, there is no link to our accounts, that is, it is not at all visible who of the bounty hunters is suitable for such registration. Just some kind of nonsense. ICO campaigns just began to mock us. Why do they do this, if not in order for any reason not to pay tokens?

Now the time is not good I want to tell you, because now the market is still people are beginning to leave cryptocurrency and many projects today simply can not raise the necessary funds.

I've been looking at the market today, I can see it's moving up again. I hope it can be the sign that the condition is getting better.
When it is, then the bounty program should also able to be better then several month back.

Yeah, many bounty hunters have the same problem, including me. We have spent our time to promote any projects, but sometimes (or we can call it "often") we didn't get any payment for that. I hope this thing will not happen again in the future.

This year, 99 percent of the bounty of the companies are either just bad, or initially fraudulent. I think that nothing will happen to bounty companies and ICO and in the future we will also observe them for at least another year.

ICO market is in the deep bottom now, we should admit this) And so is bounty campaigns market. Sad but true)
I think there won't be any good opportunities to earn a lot here while crypto market is digging to hell. All we have to do now - is wait for the next bull run. That's all we got.

Bounty program will continue to exist in the community as long as there will be new ICO.
bounty campaigns are needed to get the acknowledgement of many people to the project.
They need a worldwide marketing for their ICO to be successful.

So it is ... A lot of projects are simply forced to close their ICO, because they can not cope in such a market.  But there are still tokens that show positive growth despite the market situation!

Recently, even very promising projects cannot assemble Soft Cap, which, as you said, leaves participants in bounty campaigns without payment.
However, not everyone has the opportunity to join the bounty campaigns of projects that pay for participation in a stable cryptocurrency. Places there have long been occupied and it is impossible to get there.
I do not despair and continue to participate in the bounty campaigns and put tokens in the piggy bank. Who knows, maybe after the growth of the crypto market, I can earn on them.

With the increasing number of people who know about the crypto currency, of course, in my opinion, bounty campaigns will continue to exist and may be even more in the future, because they certainly need a cheap and easy means of promotion to increase the number of communities. Bounty programs will continue to exist and develop over time

The fact is that according to the statistics of the Bounty company give the best results for advertising all new projects. In addition, it is the company that signs the link visits that surpasses all other types of bounty companies, which in the best way gives good results for the development of the ico company.

Personally I continue to do bounty campaings but I drastically reduced the numbers of campaign I participate, spending more time reading infor about projects before join in order to try not to waste my time with unsuccessful projects..

I honestly admit that i am disappointed of what was the bounty programs happen recently, very long time of job and long extension. But besides of all this not good happen i do still continue to work with it, maybe in the next few months my coin will pump in the right and perfect time. And if not i will wait until it comes, patience can be a big help in time like this.

This is indeed very necessary to be considered, given the duration of the project is not short, it is very important for us to study it first, with a view to ensuring that your project is a project that is actually good, and potentially have a high price at the moment of the distribution later.

You are right and very correct too, the bear has made the whole crypto turn to scam project as bounty hunters are now working with no reward or splash reward , and some even used their scam method to scam investors too and many ICO have to close market and return the funds to investors, I think this is a big lesson to every crypto enthusiast that bear and bull and really the back bone of market as bull make it turn fine last year so bear this year makes it worse.

Very nice post and I would like to hope that it will be so. But what can a bounty program do if today cryptocurrency loses value as a whole? I think that initially there should be something improving the market.

What is left to do? I only participate in subscription bounty campaigns, I communicate on the forum in any case, and the bounty campaign is a great addition for communication.
If nothing will be paid, then a catastrophe will not occur. My main income is trading on stock exchanges.

Bounty programs no more depends merely on affiliates.
They have other promoting method like interviews and vlogs.

Bounty will always be existing, just that they evolve in methods

Yes, you are right that the situation in the cryptocurrency market is very bad for the ico market. Work in the bounty companies really becomes in a certain way a waste of time. But all this, for me personally, does not mean that it is necessary to give up participation in bounty programs or to think that the market will not return to its normal state for a long time. I will say more, none of us knows what will happen tomorrow, not like in a year. But one thing is for sure to say, if it comes to deciding cryptocurrency by 2020, then after that hardly anyone can manipulate the market, which means we will not be able to see a big increase. If this is so, then now there are still 2 years left to make the most money and make up big players will miss this opportunity? I think not miss! Based on this, I believe that the market has every chance to go up in the near future and show new heights, well, and with it participation in the bounty will be successful. But of course I would like to make bounty programs more reliable in terms of payments.

Some sort of advertising is needed for the projects and bounties are the most cheapest and efficient
way for promoting a coin. ICOs should be regulated and the whole market to be more transparent and
self-regulated if possible. I am sure that there will be a change in this regard but bounties are here to stay,
eventually with some modification in their structure.

2019 will certainly bring a lot of change in the bounty hunter market.
Certainly there will be fewer bountie campaigns as the ico market is slowly dying.
But as long as there are still bounties, i will attend.

The situation of the market have had great effect on ICO and bounty campaign,a lot if ICO failed as a result of the present dip we are having,most bounty hunters have wasted their effort and time just because ICO fail,but I think ICO will continue to exist though there may be drop in rewards.Not all ICO will fail irrespective of the dip,some will surely succeed. Participation in bounty campaign cannot be 100% a waste after all.

I am pessimistic that the bounty mission will disappear in the future, and ICO will not succeed unless ICO is regulated. The bounty mission is based on the ICO project, and if the ICO project disappears, the bounty mission will disappear.

ICO's don't need for the market to make a large rise to be relevant again. All it will require is that the markets stops falling. The same way that IPO's tend to dry up when stock markets are in a bear market so has ICO's. It is the simple fact that people don't invest when they think their investment will be worth less a few months in the future. This is not something completely new and it always eventually ends. In fact many projects are sitting waiting for the market conditions to change and when it finally does we may see more ICO's happening than we have ever seen before.

Right now I'm too much concern about the future of bounty because there's no assurance that it will become success again like before. But I always tell to my self to keep believing and keep waiting for the good time in bounty program. And being optimistic can help us to keep participating in bounty and believe to it.

It only depends on the market trend. If the market is green and every ICO is collecting its hard cap, the bounty programmes are also very successful. If the market is falling and no ICO is reaching its soft cap, bounties are not paid or prolonged.

I believe that despite the difficult situation in the market, you can still earn by taking part in ICO and bounty campaigns. To do this, you need to carefully analyze the projects in which you participate and adhere to the strategy of diversification. If you are told that the bounty campaign and ICO will die soon, don't believe it.

it's a situation that no one can predict, but it's a very annoying situation and I've experienced it a number of times, wasting a lot of time on bounty but ending with ICO cancellation that makes tokens useless, there are even some annoying scams, but, what can be done by a bounty hunter, they must accept all the consequences that occur

If i were a part of those who joined into unsuccessful ico ,well what i have to do is move on and find another one that might become successful in future,because we know that this downfall is not permanently happening and may end in sooner.so what we need to do is bare with the market and just continue supporting if the projects are legit,but not those scammers

I agree with you, not all ICO can survive or have unsuccessful bounty programs because hunters don't have trust on them.

The fall in the prices of cryptos had a drastic effect on bounty hunters due to the fact that many ICOs are not reaching SOFT CAP while HARD CAP had become unrealistic personally I had to concentrate on bounty signature while hodling the token earned and wait for the market to turns bullish as I am very optimistic things can't continue like this ( falling price) hopefully the expected turn around will be next year.

Agree, this is also my biggest concern. Maybe we have no chance anymore. ICO's glory will stay in 2017, and in the future it will probably never reach the height of 2017. Another possibility is that ICO will even die.

I'm sure in the future we will see solutions that is affecting ICOs and bounties ,it will come to a stage that bounty participants will stop participating in any bounties ,infact ICO would just die off ,softcap and hardcap has become the easiest way out for an ICO to make excuses

While the projects are conducting a bounty campaign, I will participate in them. It's necessary to do something for me. Although I'm ready for the fact that not all will reach the end. But seriously, good projects still provide bounty and I think that next year they will not go anywhere.

A good time will arrive but that may not be for the coins/toekn you're holding. I mean to say nothing is assured one here in this crypto environment. Be prepared for facing anything. Bounty programs may exist for ever but how transparent it will be working for both devs and participant is the biggest question right now in front of all of us.

Lot of people are making many good suggestions to bring changes into bounty programs but I'm not seeing anyone giving value to those suggestions. When we will be having a regulated environment for the bounty programs then that will be less scams to happen. We only need to bring changes to this environment, if we keep waiting for that changes to happen on its own then that good time may not arrive for ever.

Very cool if you know how to do it, maybe it will turn out to tell us something, how can it really learn? I think that today, unfortunately, it’s more like a casino than a technical analysis job.

At the moment things are looking bleak but I want to start getting into doing more bounties, regardless of the current situation. I am kind of thinking even if I get 10 or 20 good projects in the year and they take off and the tokens I hold have some value, it might be worth doing them in the long run. This year has been really awful but as we are now hitting a bottom generally in the market, how worse can things get right now? I think if we all persevere, something good might come out of all this darkness and we might all enter the light of holding big nice crypto bags once again. I was losing hope but then I thought I might just try again and see if I can do something again with bounties and maybe my enthusiasm for them will come back.

There is nothing to be worried about, this is just a bad season for bounty hunters because as we know the bear market has lasted a lot longer than expected and the only thing that you can do is to deal with and accept it because no matter how much you do not like it, it is not going to disappear and things are not going to get better, so for the time being it is better to do something else to try to earn money in the market of cryptocurrencies.

What other opportunities for earning can be if not bounty and investment? If you are talking about mining, then it is also not profitable today, if you open the bulletin board, there is a lot of information about it

People are earning from bounties for some time already, like from signature campaigns that last even longer, looks like all that is coming to an end, but that should be a reason for each of us to find something more safe where we can work and earn cryptocoins from. I have some investments, and I would like to have them more, but we should work on that more than we work on bounties. Investments in some pos coins, that will bring earning, in some shares, or what ever that can bring some profit monthly or yearly.

So you think that investment today is a real transition in order to start the process of earning? Now all my tokens have turned into a penny, they just do not cost anything. I wonder what happens with your deposit?

I think that bounty companies will exist for a very long time, at least they will be all the time, as long as there are ICO projects.

just think positively, this bear market will come to an end sooner or later.
so just diligently promote the project and collect all the reward i'm sure it will paid off.
HodL your reward from bounty and wait for bull run.

As long as there are investors still wanna earn money by investing in ICO projects then ICO projects will exist all the time and bounty campaign will exist as well although quality of bounty campaigns at the moment are very terrible because bounty campaign is a part in marketing plan of ICO projects :).

If i may say OP, nothing is at stake here. As a matter of fact, bounty will still remain relevant for years again, because such service will still be needed. There might not be much of ICOs, but the STOs might be common and yet bounty hunters will be needed. Then the transformation im the crypto space through regulations, will lessen the struggle of bounty hunters, instead of promoting projects and not get paid.

I think that now this topic is dying. Very many scams ICO, respectively bounty, too, scams. Therefore, I think that you will soon have nothing to catch.

i personally think that this is over or almost over, it was a phenomena , to make good money from posting in some internet forum. Lets face it, it was a easy way to make a quick buck, if nothing drastic happens , the bounty hunting is as good as dead.

We need to pull me together and just silently do. Increase the volume and strength as possible. If you learn to make a profit in such conditions for yourself, then in good times you will feel even better. I think the past of finance to this area should be a genuine interest.

I think the main reason for the downturn in the ICO market is the lack of effective legal regulation, which has led to many scams in the ICO market. Investors suffered losses and bankruptcy, and as the scam increased, the hunter’s income became very unstable.

I really agree with your opinion, friend  8)
now there are a lot of ICOs that end in a scam so some projects just waste your valuable time by working on a campaign on a scam project.

yeah, that's why now we have to choose a good ico project.
indeed we will find it difficult to distinguish good projects and project scam. but i am still sure if we are now on a good porject, so our time will not be wasted.

bounty programs will probably go down with icos. at least that is how it looks to me. first people lose interest in icos and then the interest in the bounty campaigns, as soon as you can earn anything by them anyway.

Various projects owe a lot of coins to bounty hunters and there is no guarantee that they will receive them. Also, some projects have reduced the pool to hunters.

At that time there are a lot of scam ICO projects. But I think the potential project still exist but cannot grow due to the bad cryptocurrency market. I worked for bounty project for the last 6 months, and now the reward is nothing. It wastes my time so much.

The lack of regulation in the ICO market has led to a decline in investor confidence. The fall in prices has further aggravated the situation. Projects transfer or cancel ICOs. The reward payments in most bounty programs depend on the success of the ICO. Perhaps under certain conditions, like regulation and market recovery, projects will again begin to carry out ICO. Investor confidence in the ICO will be restored. In this case, bounty programs may have a future.

ICO's would really feel the huge impact of this massive price drop.
Specially if their soft cap and hard cap is base on Fiat not in Crypto like BTC or ETH,
It would really be hard to reach and some of them could fail in reaching it.

This decline in the market is also affecting bounty campaigns a lot. Unfortunately, the number of scam projects increases when the market falls. In addition, many ICOs be canceled for cannot find enough resources. And with the cancellation of these ICOs, bounty hunters can't get any token and they're wasting their time. In this case, many bounty hunters, starting the think bad about the crypto market and not joining the bounties anymore. But I still continue to participate the bounty campaigns. I just reduced my bounty count. And I keep waiting because I use my bounty tokens as a long-term investment. Because I believe that the rise in the market will begin again.

And today, ICO, despite the fact that most people say that ICO is dying today, in fact, they just do not understand that today everything depends on low prices in the market. As soon as the trend changes, the number of projects will only increase.

At the beginning of the year I predicted that bounties wwould end by the end of 2018 and I was right. The only thing I couldn't predicted is that market has dropped too much and bounties for last 4 months weren't profitable. I expected that I could gain a profit till the end of year, but it is not so unfortunately

what you say is true. the last benefit is four months ago, and now it's enough to make me a dilemma because of the price freefall. whether next year could be better? I hope I still can.

Really a pity that the bounty campaigns are dying. At the moment it seems hardly possible to earn something through bounties. There will certainly be a few bounty campaigns in 2019, but the earnings will be around zero.

Fair points raised... Let's look at it from another perspective. The simply truth is, you can't win them all. The will surely be a lot of bad than good in this industry but overall the goods should outweigh the bads. I have made some decent income as a bounty hunter until recently when the market took a terrible turn. This phase will pass and things will get back to normal. To succeed in the industry as hunter, you must be able to do a lot of research on a project before undertaking their bounties. You shouldn't just join a bounty because you feel it's going to be good. Take some time to learn about the project as well as their team, product and possibly offline presence. If everything checks properly, you can then check the bounty allocation and participants, if it is fair, then you can jump in. Also, try to pick out bounties from reliable bounty sources and bounties overseen by reputable bounty managers. This way, you will reduce the chances of working for a project that will most likely fail. The bounty sector isn't going anywhere any time soon. Keep doing what you can and I guarantee you, you will hit it hard in at least one project. Good luck....

I do not know what will happen in the future with ICO and bounty companies, but I think that in the coming year there will be no major changes in this area.
I also believe that now you do not need to spend a lot of time on the bounty company, because it is a stupid waste of your time, with the current situation in the market, this type of earnings does not bring money.

Not all ICOs are fake and now I think your personality is back. To get a good ICO, of course, you have to do research from various aspects. But if it still doesn't work, that means you still haven't been lucky. I realized that maybe all this time the project I was following could succeed because of luck. But without hard work, I thought I would not be able to get a good project.

As a bounty hunter its hard to choose what bounty program I will join because not all bounty program are success. Not only you are disappointed even me because some of campaign or program not yet listed or some are failed so as of now I not have any income from bounty program but I will not stop on participating bounty program.

Now any action in the bounty really seems a waste of time. I personally believe in the sphere itself and in the projects that I enter into, now we need to become more selective and then it will not be a waste of time.

What has happened to bounty programs is that you have to be very serious and ready for a project before launching a bounty program. The level of understanding of everyone in this community has grown and so both managers, hunters, and investors are much more intelligent to pick out faulty projects. It is a better way to guarantee the future of bounties.

It is only a matter of time will be able to show that the result of ICO and the bounty at this time will increase. This year being a bad time indeed for good crypto that bounty and ICO are down far enough from the value that many people want. but many people who have been willing to join in this regard and must be willing to wait for a rise in the market.

If I continue to think positively about the future of ICO. Now maybe a lot of ICOs fail because the price of Bitcoin has also declined. But if later the price of Bitcoin goes up again and all Altcoins also increase, of course, ICO will also be better. In 2018 I participated in several ICOs and all succeeded, only when the stock market entered the falling price.

Of course it influences ICO from crypto market conditions. As you say if Bitcoin and Altcoin experience an increase, of course it will affect the ICO section. Indeed, in 2018 there are ICOs that have experienced success or not. I also like you participating in ICO a lot but we can't deny that crypto prices all fall instantly.

I think the future is sad, and the quality of future bounty missions will be lower and lower. When the government begins to appear its own cryptocurrency, perhaps the bounty mission will end. I am not optimistic about the future bounty mission.

The future of the bounty campaign seems to still be there but I am sure that there will be few who can be successful and surely the allocation for bounty campaigns is not as much as last year.

If I were you, I would not make such harsh statements, because no one knows exactly how these projects will behave under other circumstances. The number of scammers has decreased, in view of which you can safely do the selection of favorite projects.

Terror is getting worse for bounty hunters. People work a lot and get very little reward for that. The bounty hunter needs a lot of effort and luck during this time.

I very much agree with some of your points. I am disappointed and anxious about the bounty plan. I think the bull market is no longer possible after the market loses more purchasing power. As ICO market fraud increases, hunters will find it harder to make a profit.

That was very true, I, as a participant, also had difficulty getting profits from the bounty. With the crypto market which has experienced a very drastic decline in recent times, bounty participants have also experienced a decline in income.

The problem of the bounty programmes is that the project are unable to reach their funding goals and hunters are suffering from this because they do not get their payments for 3-4 months of hard work.

2018 is really bad not just for the community but for the bounty association also.
Markets fall and ICO gone scam in many ways. but there are so many reasons to stay and keep holding on the ICO.
THere will be more project to come and will give more profit to many people.
We just need to wait further more.

bounty programs still remains the same,only the rewards will only gets smaller and smaller. bounty programs are vital in promoting ICOs since they are the ones promoting it. The only thing thats downturn in this program is that when the listing is on bounty hunters dump all of theor coins at a cheap price resulting to shitcoins in the end

i think bounty will stay even tho this bear market but you`re concern are real. Projects now are delaying or even canceling their ico due to lack of funds and leads to those who supported their bounty ending up with nothing. i believe we will be see a bull run @ 2020 or later

Actually, this is very simple if the price of Bitcoin shows a positive trend and starts to increase. I am sure all projects will succeed. The price of new coins in all exchanges also decreases but if market prices such as Bitcoin and Ethereum go up, the price of all on the Exchange will definitely grow.

If the project was able to collect soft cap in such a market, you know what will happen to it when the bullish phase comes and everything will fly up. Such a project will show X10 as a minimum, which is the Grail for bounty hunters.

It is very important now to find such projects. in such a market a soft cap is collected by 1 from 10. and as a rule, we will know this when the project is already completing a bounty campaign

Thanks to god my bounty is ending this month. It was a signature running for 7 months, can't believe! They didn't finish private sale yet!
I lost opportunities to gain money during this year

It is a very serious situation and period we have found ourselves in, A lot of persons had anticipated we would have a repeat of last year's event in crypto which. For bounty hunters, we have come to terms with the harsh realities and hope to make the best out of it. Crypto will never be down forever. Onku the projects that are able to survive now will pull through when the bull market returns

Well, that is the most safest way to be in the cryptocurrency space for bounty hunters. Trading your coins or selling it in a very low price is not good and we've just dumped the price of the token that we've had.

I totally agree to what you said because I also experienced that as a bounty hunter for almost 1 year now! It is really a waste of time to join the bounty in many ICO projects due to market downfall since 2018 started. Even though you research a lot about the project, it wont guarantee that you participated in a good one. Lesson learned for all bounty hunters.

So right that market condition is affecting ICO/bounty programs presently ,my opinion is why can't dev stop ICO till market make a come back ? Why go ahead with the bounties? If market condition is what affects them that much they should just stop launching ICOs for now at least .

Now there is practically no profit from participation in the company of bounty, it has become almost a hobby. If this continues in the future, many will abandon participation in them.

That is, it turns out that you say that in 2018 will be the last year when ICO hunter projects so that they can really promote projects? I just do not quite understand what to do now to earn? It turns out there is only investment and trading?

Most of the projects now are having a hard time getting enough funds in their ICO's. And also the price of eth is a big blow to ICO's and many of them haven't reach the soft cap yet even they already have raised thousands of eth. They should have ask their investor to make an investment in fiat as it will not be affected by the crypto market slump.

Yes, the current down trend of the market affected the level of ICOs investment but some ICOs which the team seems to be smart are now accepting stable coins instead ETH or BTC  and I also see the stable coins as the perfect solution instead of ICO owner asking their investors to make investment in fiat as you said.

In general, the correct opinion, or at least invest in the USDT, because this project today is a stable project. It seems to me that today it really makes sense to conduct ICO with the collection of USDT tokens because these tokens today do not fall in price.

I think what you are saying might have some elements of truth but not all true, the future of cryptocurrency is not really at stake but very bright because of the intrinsic benefits associated with blockchain technology, so let us be hopeful and think of the way forward ,not to lose faith in the crypto world.

reward programs will continue to exist. do not doubt it and continue to participate in all this

Well, there is risk involved with the work being done by bounty hunters, but then its the crypto world, even the investors are facing alot of risk. So its better to loose payment of work then to loose the original investment. And i believe once the market gets stable which it is now, then the bounty hunters would be rewarded accordingly.

I see no prospects in all this. it seems to me that they will be replaced by something completely different which will be much more effective

You are right, the situation with participation in the bounty campaigns and the earnings in them is really frustrating, but all this is due to the general market situation. Now there are very few projects carried out by ICO, respectively, end  the choice of bounty campaigns is small. I very much hope that the market will recover as soon as possible and the situation with bounty campaigns will also improve.

The market hits all companies,  both pre-ICO and post.

Bounties are no exceptions, also less people follow the market, so less people take part in bounties.

Things are really not going on as expected, you work for several weeks and you don't really get your reward and the outcome of your work. But i think that should not deter you, as hunters in the lean season it will be good if you get enough tokens as possible for the future.

The point is not that there is a decline in the market, but a decline in confidence, as now people can invest in ICO. In addition, those ICOS that are held now, if they collect even a third of the amount from the hard cap in Bitcoins or Ethereum, then in half a year, when the cryptocurrencies grow, they will be able to afford more.

The future of bounty programs directly depends on whether the bull run is coming soon or not. If it happens, then the projects will again be able to collect money because people will again start investing in the crypto market with a new power, if this does not happen, a rather sad scenario awaits us.

I also agree that there is a direct relationship between the market trend and the ICOs and consequently the bounties.
When the market is down as it is now, the difficulty of capturing projects deepens and the bounties won do not compensate.
When the market returns to being bullish, the ICOs will be more profitable and consequently the bounties will be worth more.
I do not think that bounties will end in the medium term.

Every promotion and social programs depends of the market situation. Now we have bearish market. I didn't receive my bounty rewards starting from July. This means a very bad situation.

It's quite unfortunate how things turned out in this space, it's been a long time coming. With this market investors won't be enthusiastic to invest even when the market recovers. Bounty is a thing of the past.

I think in this kind of situation that many projects are not succeed I think we as a bounty hunter we need to be more hard work because in the end all our hard work will be worth it. Just hodl when you know the project is good and stay believe to in crypto because everything will be alright again.

I see that as a risk. Last year, Ico and bounty were very profitable, but not this year. Many of Ico's postponements were even cancelled so they affected the bounty which was suddenly stopped or extended. For me, join bounty is a side job that is still very fun, even though the results are currently not much, I think we just have to be patient. If you can't, then leave it, simple right?

That is true that the future of bounty programs would also depends on the market , because the  development of token and promotion of it will refer the equivalent value of bitcoin ,ethereum ,ripple and other known altcoins in the market ,which are for exchange value for the new tokens in the trading sites,so bounty futures are good ,of the market is also good in standing.

Bounties not to be ended but it is possible that it will be lessen if market become regulated. The control in numbers is better rather than to have a lot that its seems to be useless and no project created. The continuous spread of scam projects will affect the entire market and aren't good at all that is why it is very important to filter them( all ICO).

It is very tough now a days to get a decent bounty program. However, if you are lucky enough. Some of them are like lottery. Though bounty managers should prohibit and banned some fake accounts most especially those in social media and contents. Most of them are bots and copy paste master.

years ago may indeed produce results pretty much bounty. However at this time finally finding the result of bounty is difficult. the coin is not worth such a decent fall of prices when entered into the market becomes a constraint to get results in this time. the future of the bounty necessarily difficult to ascertained because crypto also does not always give good results and lose confidence will this be something that a reasonable case.

To say that it will never happen is stupid. As for the bounty, I want to remind you that the most profitable airdrops and bounty were just during the consolidation of Bitcoin and the suspension of growth.

Well, in this case, for the time being, we should think about having opportunities for other earnings and I also advise you to do this, but the most important thing is for us to understand exactly what we need to do.

With the market is recovering again, i think doing some bounty program is back on it's feet.
I mean it will worth it again to join and do the bounty program

I know what you feel, because we experience something similar. but this is a risk that we must accept when the market is experiencing a growth crisis.
so this depends on you being able to do something that can bring profit, because here is not only a bounty that we can do

At the expense of hard work, it is great for you. I have to do a lot of work. Videos, articles and more. I am even embarrassed if my work is not accepted for any stupid reason. It’s hard now for the market and the hunters.

This program is arguably the heart of my life in the world of crypto. where I made it as a source of income. the expectation for it's always growing and profitable.

I really want to believe in it, but today it seems not quite the fact that today it can be generally with this approach, because today the bounty continue to deceive people, it is really tired. Therefore, we believe and hope.

Whole markets are crashing and you are thinking about the future of bounty programs.

If markets recover bounties too.

I think these project developers/managers are just after ico sales and don't really care much about how the tokens fare at exchanges. Once they collect their money 4 sales, bounty hunters are now left at their own mercy.

Such a deplorable situation with bounty is of course primarily due to the depressed market
I think that there will be more quality and efficient projects in the rise in prices for cryptocurrency, the rewards will increase accordingly
and that the nature of the means for the advancement of projects will also change, the greater the direction to blogging is video blogs

Bounty can still be earned, especially vlog and content campaigns. But there are too many people participating in these translations, making it really difficult to make money from bounty

Actually ia m not that concrn, i am not afraid, and i dont care about the future.
If bounty will be goine therefore i am more concern about the ICO.
there will be no ICO in the futere who will have the stars nor success! period!

You can avoid the majority of these issues by choosing your campaigns carefully based on how much future potential the project can have not just whether its paying the most rewards or has the largest social media presence or biggest hardcap as these factors don't necessarily guarantee success especially in todays rapidly changing market place

Of course, these are really addictive things, but today you also need to understand that many people do not believe that the cryptocurrency market is collapsing, today it does not look like that, because today it makes sense not to talk about it at all. We already see what is actually happening.

I don’t really know if it’s right for anyone to blame you just because you unknowingly promoted a bounty you thought was legit and at last it turned out to be something else, they don’t really have to blame you for that, cause you yourself won’t be getting paid as well. Well, I think you should be careful and know what kind of bounty you’re promoting, don’t just jump in so you don’t get yourself in trouble.

You're right, actually it's a simple thing. If we decide to join and support a project, we must be prepared with all the risks. So do the best analysis possible, accept the risks that might occur, and do it according to ability and willingness.

for people who are able and willing to take certain risks they will be calm in choosing a project. but without those who do not have good analytical skills, all of them must also be prepared to face the risks they have chosen.

Even in a falling market was not enough projects that could collect the necessary sum and pay the fee!

Bounty is directly dependent on the ability of projects to raise funds.

This ability decreases with each month in 2018, and therefore our payments.

I doubt that even in the event of a reversal, we will see the same potential of ICOs as it was at the beginning of the year.

Sometimes when hunting bounty at start we may presume that the bounty was good, but in the end its not. It is a gamble also when selecting good bounty campaign. All we have to do is continue doing bounty campaigns even when we still experience negativity.

As a bounty hunter certainly has a lot of fun and sadness. And they worked hard to get tokens, even the time to get this token took 2 to 3 months. And for the future, my prize is very good because the future market prices will also continue to grow.

You have summed up the current states of bounty hunting and it's really not good, this is not really the best time to join bounty hunting I'm just so lucky to find TenXcoin it is already in exchange and doing great, this is the best thing that you can do find a bounty hunting that is already in exchange so you will not have to worry about the price.

That's right when conditions like this ICO project are very easy to collapse so even if they pay you. their tokens mean nothing. Price conditions really greatly affect the whole crypto. when prices start to be positive I'm sure the bounty and the like will be popular again. yeah and this discussion is not too urgent I think

I am also very concerned about the bounty hunters as i myself is a bounty hunter. And that is true, alot of ICOs have cancelled out, and the remaining are not getting listed on the exchanges, it looks as if the tokens and money have dried up real bad. But i think that the market will recover but not in good time.

Bounty programs are worst hit by the downtrend of the market .Most of the ICO are closed resulting in the harm to the bounty hunters as they are deprived of their rewards .This is a  really sorry state of affairs as there are hunters whose livelihood was going on the bounty hunting they are in deep trouble now have to search for another employment.I wish may the prices of the coins may rise again and the bounty hunting  fructify.

bounty campaign also get negative impact from cryptocurrenct market situation.moreover market crashing for several months , it makes investors and dev team affraid to bring their projects to market.

There are too much useless ICO's there, and if those ICO's will going to lose all of their funds, they will going to be kicked out of the market and the market will going to recover, the fact that there will be much more promising project, I am not saying ICO's but Venture capital-related projects that will going to be much more regulated.

Market decline has an impact on all ICO projects. And to avoid potential such as failed projects and fraud projects we must be more careful in determining ICO projects. I personally prefer projects with sales that have achieved Soft Cap. And if I look at the future of Bounty I think it's very good.

yes,basically all prizes have their own risks, but we as bounty hunters can at least avoid those risks by analyzing the projects we want to follow correctly. the rest if the market conditions are not good, it's already a risk if many projects stop because the funds are not met and sometimes there are also those that end in a scam.

The problem is not from the devs but its from the investors because they see that the crypto market is still dumping . that is also the reason on why many ico's have cancelled or postponned but the scamming of other ico's is a different story anymore . but dont worry guys , the future of bounty will not always be gloomy . think of it as a volatile , where it flows based on the status of the cryptos

we should also be aware that bounty programs are also vulnerable with bots, cheaters and hackers. There are also lots of scam bounties that people should be aware of. I am not positive with bounty program future, but in time, there will be a good system that will verify legit bounty hunters.

The bounty program will continue as long as the demand level is still there and is still good. Basically, this program contains symbiosis of mutualism or a mutually beneficial relationship between one another. The bounty program has reasons that are strong enough for the community to stay in crypto. By joining a bounty, they can get jobs and income.

Yes, it's true. For now there are a lot of frauds that occur in the Bounty campaign, so there is no justice if it continues to be continued, I personally hope that there will be new regulations that can reduce fraud in the Bounty campaign.

Actually, it does seem effort put into ICO in 2018 had gone t waste,.if ICO is not raising enough fund, the bounty hunter are the worst hit. Your token that you will get (if at all you get it) will be worthless and there will be no way to convert it to coin you can use!

Bounties are not paying much nowadays because of the prolong bear market which has affected the success of most ICOs making most of the projects holding the payment to bounty rewards. It will take the participation of numerous bounties in order to get a huge amount of profit because there are a lot of bounty hunters now.

I agree with you, gift programs are very vulnerable to cases such as fraud, many of them do this for personal gain. but if in the future there will be a good system to reduce negative factors this will certainly be a good future for bounty hunters too.

More quality projects will appear in the future as all of those useless projects disappear but when the market begins to show that it is near to begin its recovery we will also see the scammers coming back to the market to try to sell their useless projects to the investors and at that time people will make the same mistakes again and they will keep losing money.

It is necessary to restructure this sphere and its complete change. A lot of scams and the lack of payments among many projects. Bounty hunters can't work in this environment.

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Not only from investors who are required to have an ICO analysis, they come because bounty hunters spread ICO campaigns with attractive offers that indirectly suggest or influence investors.
So the bounty hunter is also required to become a researcher about the ICO they are campaigning for. As time goes on, more and more bounty hunters are participating in as many campaigns as possible regardless of the background of the project beforehand.

There are many bounty hunters participating in the bounty campaign without looking into the project. And of course many people advertise fraudulent ICOs and make the market worse, they should learn carefully which projects are good to participate in.

With all due respect, your words sound nearly like capitulation.  Remember.  The conversations are monitored.  Algorithms measure the sentiment in our words for those who need to know.

Capitulation, by the way, is the money mens' desire.  When they feel their campaigns to destroy sentiment and blackwash crypto in general are working very well, then the next bull market will commence - after they see signs the crypto space is gutted again.

Until the masses catch on to the con that is our current money system and start moving fiat into crypto, we will be here on BTT bemoaning the sagging of these markets when logic says they should be soaring.

Nearly all of us here on BTT know the fiat era is close to the mathematical end of it's usable lifespan.  There will be changes one way or another.  When those changes occur, the controllers would preferred to have snuffed out the spark to own crypto beforehand, so when the 'crisis' occurs (lifesavings and retirement funds going poof into thin air all over the place) they can roll our their versions of electronic monies as 'safe' alternatives to non-sanctioned products.

Stop measuring your bounty spoils and investments using a dying fiat fractional reserve currency as a measuring stick and you will start sleeping a lot better at night.

Spread the word about crypto.  That is step number one to realizing all of our dreams.  Step 2. Start visualizing (daydreaming) a future that incorporates cryptos and unlocks the power of human beings' imaginations.  Awareness and vision.  Good luck everyone.

I think that bounty campaigns will not exist in the form in which they were originally. In the future, the projects will connect rating agencies and will be the purchase of advertising on promoted sites.

I also think that social bounty will soon end. They will buy ads from companies or websites in the future, I see the current social network bounty very many participants but not effective

Your post is very pessimistic and I can't blame you for this, because that is what is happening right now, but we have seen successful ICO that is already successful in the market, although few there is still hope for ICO, maybe this year there will be big changes in ICO.

Bounty are experiencing a new phase becoming a. They need to understand how they should develop and in what direction they should grow. Personally, I think the best option for them is to switch to the airdrops system.

For bounty hunters, there may not be any good opportunities like 2017. In 2017, most of the bounty participants did not realize that there are so many scams in the bounty, many people think that the tokens will be as good as the ICO team promoted. It turns out that in 2018 these scammers are smashing us together, they have absconded and took the investor’s money for various reasons, the same for the bounty participants, a huge deception because few people eventually get paid and more are 0 paid. ICO opportunity may not be there again, let us take a look at STO.

In my opinion, ICO projects will soon have to be modified. Their current structure poorly protects against fraud. Most likely, they are transformed into the STO and will be equated to digital securities.

It's too early to tell, what's going to happen this year in ICO and bounty hunting, but something should be done about this, let's see how will things go if the market goes well again, the main thing is, we should only invest on good project and catch those scam ICO.

I think the bounty hunting work is come to an end unfortunately. I am making my life with bounty hunting since 2015. I made good ammount of money with bounties but the rewards keep going low because of the participation. Specially twitter and facebook bounties having great ammount of  participants thats why the rewards goes down. Also we can't trust the ICO projects anymore, it is not guarantee that we will be paid. So i did quit the bounty hunting in 2019 sadly..

Everything has changed in cryptocurrencies space during the past year it will be a long journey a very long one at that before things stabilize. Bounty campaign was most hit, it's recovery is almost impossible.

You are right
The nosedives in prices amongst other has caused a little downtrend and bounty programs are not entirely paying

People are quitting bounties daily just as people quit crypto currency
But I think bounty program will continue to exist as long as crypto currency is alive

We can't totally exclude bounty from cryptocurrency and as a result of this, bounties will continue to exist so far cryptocurrencies are in existence. The only thing is that presently bounties doesn't pay like before

it's very true what you have said but it's indeed at risk that we become a bounty hunter, who is in fact getting a lot of income or not at all but we should not be pessimistic and we must patiently wait for market to grow again

I am disappointed because many of bounties I participated turned out to be scam/failed but I can say its not the project fault actually in the current bearish market its very hard for ICOs to attract the investors even investors are also afraid to invest in bearish market. Conditions are not favourable for ICOs and On the contrary when our all the efforts goes in vain that discourage us whether to continue the bounty work or not. But I am continuing my work in hope of sooner or later market will recover and that time my efforts will pay off.

i still think there will be a better chance for bounty hunters to get tokens when the market can recover in the future. because of the market is too much terrible, many ICOs have too postpone their project and some ICOs have already scammed investors money that is why investors are loosing trust in ICOs.

When the market will recover its value, we would see another wave of promising bounty programmes and ICO projects. We just need to be patient and to wait. But there are still some great bounties left, you just need to look better.

Well, in my opinion, the future of bounty depends on how the market goes in 2019, if the downturn continues then bounty hunting would be profitable at all. Last year, bounty hunters had very difficult times, many of them would leave bounty hunting in future.

half of the bounty hunters have already left this market. I notice that many people stop doing this. but for those who still believe in cryptocurrencies - this is a great opportunity

The simple model of the bounty market is - ico lives - bounty lives, ico is dead - bounty is dead. We are at around dead position right now since July.

We have to understand that we are at a bearish market which can last for year and this results to all the issues that you
mentioned in the thread. Now the ICOs and hunters in a surviving mode but better times will come again for all
when the market turns into bullish.

Bounty is now developing in the direction of improving the quality and provision of services not from private bounty hunters, and the so-called teams that show much better results.

No rating agencies and promoted sites will replace the existing system of promotion of ICO projects with the participation of bounty hunters. This type of advertising project ICO most effective. Of course, everything changes and the activity of the ICO is no exception. Perhaps something will change in the system of remuneration of persons engaged in the promotion of this type of activity. However, rating campaigns will not want to receive payment for their labor in new tokens, especially in large volumes. Therefore, ICO teams will need bounty hunters.

Just thinking maybe in the future of bounty feels like doing a real-life job, you should pass some process to be eligible for joining bounty and amount of participant are limited. Of course, you will be rewarded with a high amount of money (but still in tokens)...

IMO

investors ICO and also the bounty hunter should be able to be patient on the conditions that exist today. prices continue to fall forcing to inevitably must hold for better results than selling at very cheap prices at this time. and what has been said that all of this has become strong and just the risk in running it could get rewarding results.

I feel the same. But I'm sure the market will eventually recover.  We just don't know when.
From my end, if a bounty does not pay, I ask directly the bounty manager or project team. If they don't pay up, I'll just move on to the next project.
That's just the way it is in an unregulated space that we are in.

The bounty hunter is not a real job. It is actually the same as the investment. The difference is that the investment you pay is money, and the bounty campaign is the time you pay. If we can measure how much time is worth, then you will find that the time value of your participation in the bounty far exceeds your return.

That's right, but the fact is that there are promising projects that are fully capable of developing in spite of a falling market, albeit with difficulty, but capable!

I agree with you that since the second half of 2018, the bounty has almost been in a state of "waiting for death".
There are still a lot of bounty, but most of these rewards are not satisfactory. If you participate in 10 bounty, then only 2-3 items may be paid, and the worst is The token you get is simply not worth the money.

and many are deceived, we have done work but have not paid anything yet, so we must be vigilant, often careful in participating in any project. indeed there are many who produce so that those who are lucky get good results. Reward programs can still be profitable and can stay alive, many of them take part in this program and some also participate in other prizes, if you succeed you are great.

I also do not see much point in participating in most bounty programs. But however, there are programs in which me just need to take part, as this will bring me a big profit.

As a hunter, I am not worried about the price of crypto, but I am tired of the ICO market and bounty activities, because too many fraudsters not only make investors lose money, but also make hunters unable to obtain stable income.

actually I am very afraid of the current situation, there are so many projects that end with SCAM, fraud and other crimes, even some successful projects are very difficult to enter the exchanger and when they enter the exchanger the price is a dump. and again the bounty hunter is blamed.

Looking at which projects will be joined, there are not a few of them, and some of them are or will be of value, it takes time!

Yeah bounty compaigns turned into wasting of time(payments are small, campaigns take 5-6 months or even more, after ICO token trades in exchanges x0,1 by ICO price). I continue to take part in signature to improve my english writing skills and with hopes that I got some bonuses in kind of tokens.

That's painful but seems to be the truth. I hoped that only 1-2% (at most 3%) of the projects, which I took part in as a bounty hunter, will "stay afloat". But the strong downfall of 2018 made things worse, that's why I'm afraid we won't see the fruits of our work. Let's wait to find out

My advice is to be patience before joining or investing in any project , and have acquire reasonable knowledge about crypto before putting there money.

Everything that you wrote is true, but still you should not consider everything as one, there are projects that can benefit society and profit for investors!

Yet the forum still the best way to promote the project because other than social media sites bitcointalk.org is the place for cryptocurrency promotions ..sooner the bounty will rise again and all the services from signature to blog and all the needs of the team will be on hiring for all of us again

What i observe that bounty will have to forget a specific social sites throgh which they can effectively promote their product. I think its time for niche market to come into existence instead of generalized term. By this they can reach their target investor quite effectively

The ICO is actually in decline. Since bounty is directly dependent on the ICO, bounty is also at risk of extinction.

In future the bounty program will pay very less or even not pay you as much you want because of increase demand of the altcoins all over the world. Maybe the bounty program will stop because of no need for the any promotion. So, this is the time to work for bounty and earn free coin.

I think the bounty chasing work is arrived at an end lamentably. I am making my existence with abundance chasing since 2015. I profited with bounties yet the prizes prop up low in view of the investment. Exceptionally twitter and facebook bounties having incredible amount of members that is the reason the prizes goes down.

I am of the same opinion that the decline in prices has a major impact on the development of the ICO. With market prices continuing to fall, many ICO fails and many cheats. Of course, this is a problem that cannot be taken lightly. We must be careful when making choices. And by 2019, hopefully, there will be a lot of changes and market prices soar again.

You are absolutely right, alas, it is not realistic to make money on bounty campaigns. Unfortunately, the hope for STO also did not justify itself, the DESICO project team once again proved the story of the bounty hunters' deception that no one needs the services of ordinary people anymore and large advertising agencies will soon take their place.

A bearish trend is undoubtedly negative for ICO projects. Participation in bounty companies becomes unpromising each time prices in a crypto market fall. It remains to be expected bullish sentiment.

today is quite difficult to choose the right bounty campaign because you don't know what project will show good result. as an option you cn choose as many bounties as you can.

maybe you are one of the investors who have considerable confidence and in investing in crypto currencies that belief is very much needed

This year when the market goes down, the investment participants or bounty hunters, ICO etc. have been greatly affected. So when you are a bounty hunter or an investor, you must check carefully before investing in ICOs. Because if you participate in the ICO scam or do not have great potential, not attracting investment in the future, it will take a lot of time and effort. Think carefully before joining any ICO

as investors we must have confidence because we have to be sure of our choices. and I personally feel that in the future the Bounty and ICO programs will be better because the shortcomings of the system being used will be improved in the future so that only good projects will come out.

ICOs are very closely related to the market. If the market continues to decline like now, investors will gradually leave and not consider it a good investment place anymore. So it also makes the bounty fail because those ICOs do not achieve softcap

Yes, now it is difficult with this. But still, some projects show results and collect softcap. There are also many scammers. The situation in the market has left its mark. Also, investor confidence is not the same .. I still hope for the best.

This is something that I think as well, with the market as it is you will be lucky to get a few dollars for months of effort, so it is better to dedicate your time to something else especially since I do not really think that bounty campaigns are ever going to be as profitable as before since there is so much competition and since the market of icos does not seem like it will recover soon.

Bounty campaigns will exist as long as advertising is needed for the development of the community and attracting new customers, I think for bounty hunters there is still a chance to make a profit, only in this market it will take longer.

In fact, the state of the market will significantly influence the further development and prospects of ICO and bounty. Personally, I am convinced that in many ways the ICO began to fall due to the general problems of the crypto market. But over time, the situation must necessarily recover, you just need to be patient.

I definitely want to bring the bounty programs to the correction. Also, when we look at the current number of participants, it really seems very difficult to win something. Something must be done immediately.

The situation is highly pathetic but I think most bounty participants now always prepare for the worst and the probability of them not getting paid if the project does not reach softcap, am a victim of many like that but I still strongly believe that something good will come out of bounty hunting for me

Everyone has already made sure that the situation with bounty and ICO projects has become terrible. This is the fault of the falling market. I still have hope that bounty and ICO will return when the situation in the market recovers. But so far I still do not give up and continue to participate in some projects. It's better than sitting around.

use your time well even though knowing the current situation is not good, keep trying your best so that you get good things too.

the future of the gift program would be better, if the market had recovered and returned, those who participated in various Bounty programs would get the results of their hard work. indeed there are some who are sad, have participated in the project but in the end did not get results, but don't give up and keep up the spirit. there are still many people who get results from various gift programs.

That's what I do now, just like you do. I still participate in the bounty program no matter what the crypto market is. Because this is all I can do now. And one thing I hope for is the same as you. When the market recovers, are the results of the bounty in accordance with what we do when the market recovers.

At the moment I think we will have to focus on the quality of the bounty. Need to carefully assess a project before joining their ICO, and implement high tasks like creating quality content instead of low task (like, share on social media).

I don't know much about the others but it's true as you say, the average ico has decreased after the release in the market.
or even worse after promoting ico for a long time there is no payment at all.
the chance can be said that only 20% of the many campaigns that I follow, even then it hasn't included a dump when entering the market.

You are very correct in this respect, but the fact is that if you take the time to do meticulous research before delving into any bounties, you might be very lucky in the end and get something substantial.

The future of bounty programs looks very bright, we might not be feeling it now but it is there, the development strides are exponential and many of these projects launching their manners usually launch a bounty campaign to help create awareness about them.

I think that bounty companies will continue as long as the hunters themselves are not completely disappointed in them. ICO will be for a long time and projects will always need cheap advertising!

Maybe something new will happen for everyone here and seeing new hope will emerge that will surprise many people later.

as long as there are still many projects running ico, I'm sure bounty campaign will always be there. but my question is whether the bounty will be profitable in the future. too many people join and the minimum allocation of funds for the bounty makes the reward of the participants a little and that is not comparable with the long duration.as long as there are still many projects running ico, I'm sure bounty campaign will always be there. but my question is whether the bounty will be profitable in the future. too many people join and the minimum allocation of funds for the bounty makes the reward of the participants a little and that is not comparable with the long duration.

I was bounty hunter and in my own experienced now bounty is the waste of time. Even i working many projects those are cancelled token sell and scam. I Don't blame to ico project development because in the bearing market there are no one interested to invest project legitimacy and potential it dosen't matter because everyone one worried about market condition.               

Yes, a difficult situation, I do not even know what to do with such earnings. But I do not want to leave the market either, since there is still hope for a bright future and for a turn of the market, which will improve the situation with the bounty. Either that in turn will be transformed and will be more stable to the market!

You seem to imply that all bounties are connected to ICIs, you seem to forget that some bounties are for already trading tokens and self funded projects as well.

with crypto that continues to fall, this is a direct impact on the outcome of an ICO also bounty. many are starting not to believe and interested again for both an easy way to get crypto. If in some time in the future there are no convincing changes in ICO and bounty then I'm sure it won't last long. There shall be no ICO could arise if conditions continued to deteriorate.

I just believe that life in itself is a risk, due to the current situation of the crypto market now, so anyone that is going to be involve in bounty programs now should be fully aware that it may pay and it may not pay because many people do not want to invest in cryptocurrency this time around. ICOs and Bounty programs will be more interesting again when the general market is back to a stable position.

So much is at stakes in the market condition, investors and enthusiasm will vanish if they keep seeing, a market is dipping and ICO keep extending the campaign, and we will see less project coming out, this should not go on for a long time or we will continue to suffer.

the most important thing is that we read the rules before entering the bounty campaign, so we know what we have to do. for example calculation of stake, allocation of funds, until the distribution process and launching into the market exchange. that is enough for bounty hunters to follow the bounty, and you need to know, the ico tokens will depend on crypto market situations.

I think joining into a bounty campaign right now is just like, making a long term investment. For every bounty reward that we got from bounty program, we kept them until the day the coins will blow up high, that is the kind of investment for the bounty participant.

Market will recover and bounties will follow. I cannot wait to see the next bull run and finally get great profits from every bounty programme. The market will change soon and we need to be prepared to reserve our places in upcoming bounties.

to be honest, I'm tired but I still strongly believe that crypto will improve again and have a higher price and if that happens then the bounty and ICO program will also improve again so that until now I am still trying to survive and continue working so that when that happened then I already had lots of coins

Work on bounties that have a good project and future prospect now and hodl whatever token earned as a long term investment because the market isn't friendly now meanwhile the market wouldn't continue with bears dominating definitely a time will come for the bulls to regain dominance of the market.

It's true, starting in 2018 to get profit from the bounty it started to be difficult, I got a lot of scams from the ICO project. and coins that can't sell or  cheaply. I consider this condition is time to save. I think nothing will be in vain, when the time comes, the market will recover.

of course, the market is very influential on ICO and bounty, all of which are interrelated because when the market falls the ICO coin price becomes cheap, it will be difficult for developers to be able to fulfill the project funds needed and when the ICO fails, there are no reward for bounty hunters.
therefore we must be patient until the market recovers because at that time ICO and prizes will increase in quality

Bounty can recover to the level of the end of 2017 only if the market situation repeats and a wild hype begins, I think it will not be soon, so participating in bounty campaigns is now a big risk for bountyhunters and many of them have stopped participating, as there are no noticeable results.

Even so far I still don't find ICOs that really have tokens of the appropriate value as promised, participate in and invest as far as I do a little loss, only a few are appropriate. So with the fall of the market, it will make things worse, beforehand I participated in the bounty program , but until now I still don't even receive tokens, whereas ICO has long since ended. I don't know about the future of the bounty, maybe it will continue with greater risk and I don't assume if the bounty programs will end.

As a result of this condition, I now prefer to choose projects that are carried by trusted BMs, and coin had been listing. because I have participated in several bounty projects but few have paid.  I think bounty participants are increasing, so I think we can no longer just rely on Bounty careers, besides fewer prizes, more and more rivals.

The downtrend has really affected the ICOs and we Bounty hunters are also deeply affected too cos we work and dont see the reward of what we worked fir but that hasn't  dettered me to give. Life is all about risk and I keep taking the risk of doing more bounty, it is not over in till I have finally given up and as it is now I ain't giving up yet

Bear market is not a favorable one for ICOs and for investors so far and it affects the bounty hunters as well. It can take for years to the market to recover but also it could turn into bullish very fast, for example if institutional investors enter the market and things can change rapidly.

I am sure that in the future the ICO will definitely develop and generate income for investors. But to achieve this result, certain conditions must be met. First of all, the situation on the crypto market should now stabilize. Some regulatory methods should also appear to minimize the incidence of fraud.

I hope that there will be a body that oversees the bounty and ICO campaigns, in order to minimize scam projects, because in my opinion the bounty campaign is a powerful way to promote ICO projects. However, if there is no trusted ICO, the reward program will automatically end. This, I personally have set the strategy. I don't just focus on being a bounty hunter. But also buy how many altcoins and tokens to trade and hold for a certain time.

This decline in market prices had a tremendous impact on the ICO. There are many failed ICO projects. But this does not make many people give up. They continue to work hard to get a good ICO. When they get tokens, of course, if the token is sold the price is very cheap. It's better if I get tokens that I hold for a long time until the market recovers.

many ICOs failed and there were also many ICO scams, assuming this was an experiment for all of us and kept trying to do our best.
the future of the gift program will be better, any program can still run and will stay alive so you cannot give up easily and keep the spirit to get the best, the market will recover soon.

expirement ? hmm i guess not .  failed ico's had caused by a market reaction  , while scam ico's are intended  . trying our best to find a good bounty is the best way to overcome these issues  .

we must not concern about the future of bounties because they will be just fine  . when the market recovers , majority of the bounties can also go back to normal  in which the scam and failed projects can be minimize   .


in terms of bounties , trusted managers cant totally assure the legitness of the campaign because most of them wont probably hold the payments even if we say that the coin is already listed and has a value  .

Actually, we only just wait until the market recovers and if the market is pumping again, of course, things will get better. But that will happen, but everyone doesn't know when that can happen. For now, if we complain about crypto market conditions, I don't think it will change it. It's better to take advantage of the opportunities that exist now, by investing carefully.

Of course, the last year was not lucky for most ICOs and people wasted a lot of time for those bounty programs that eventually failed. This fact is disappointing for sure. But I think everything will be OK soon and in the near future the market will be constantly in the green zone.

I regret not being aware of bounties in early 2017. In this case I would not do bounties in 2018, because now it is low payment activity and in 2017 you could become millionaire.
But probably another trend will appear un crypto

dont ever think that bounty reward will always have low payment.if work on several bounty campaign, maybe one of them could give us lot dollar when listed in market.keep optimist with bounty future and dont give up.

Good ico is still there, and you can safely do it. Only choose very carefully. If you look at everything, the market is weak and everyone doesn’t have any mood, but ico itself needs to be thought over how to promote and conduct in another way.

Dont you have ideas about how many time market falls like this but yet it manged to recover and hit that 2017 hype ?
Why acting like this is the last breath of crypto space and ofcourse ICO?bounty hunters are part of the crypto community because theyre the one who’s responsible for advertising,what we need to do is regulation for this area must not be abused

You speak reasonably. Now is not the best time for bounty hunters on the cryptocurrency market. But who is easy now? Everyone is trying to survive as they can. I prefer to carry the signature of the bounty campaign. Thus, I have a chance to earn at least something. I still communicate on the forum, so there is no extra waste of time for me.

The biggest problem is lack of money in the market
But people have learned and are not putting his money in ico
What for on fact to lose them most of those ico are scams and quality exchanges don't want to list them.There is very hard to find really quality ico now most of quality ico are rising funds through private sale
So all together it is hard time for bounty hunters

It seems to me that we should expect less ICO activity in the conditions of a falling cryptocurrency market. On the one hand, this is not very good for bounty hunters. But, on the other hand, it is possible that there will be high-quality and more profitable projects that will lead bounty hunters to prosperity.

It’s hard to say what will happen, but so far I don’t see anything, the market is dead and it’s unclear what is happening to it, ICO constantly dies and because of this the earnings on bounty programs are also constantly falling, so a market reversal is needed and then everything will return to its place.

One big problem why bounty hunting have had a major crack down is because of the market.  If the marked had been healthy and ICO projects successfully  raised required funds, hunters would have much problem to tackle. But as the market suffers, the ico suffers and so are the hunters

Well in my opinion is bounty program will survive if the market green again. Market is a major factor in cryptocurrency especially for bounty program. The number of fail ICO last year is very high because they cant resist with current market condition. I have no idea how many time take for the market recover again.

it is true that we are not getting the same rewards that we used to get earlier and also most of the projects are failure. bounty hunters those are doing current bounties projects are not getting any good returns .however i am sure if they continue to doing with their hard-work they will get get paid. in future it may be  change that therre will be limited bounty campaigns. that will be worthy to both.

I don't care about paid bounties because there are lots of bounty programs that even their projects don't hold ICOs and I just add alt so I have more and more savings.
in my opinion the bounty project is still worth it even though there is a bearish market

Soon, the ICO will become so small that this type of fund-raising will be carried out only by the strongest projects having large institutional investors, for such projects it is pointless to conduct a bounty company.

I think that just the opposite, now the bounty lasts a very long time, and this way of earning will not end soon, and when it ends it will be replaced by another one!

No problem if the price is going down or been dump with the my co bounty hunters as long as it is fair and beside it is part of the game. What the problem is if the ico team and the ico itself gone wrong after the ico is finish and the rules were changed. And lots of promises are made to be broken. Those icos are doomed and not going to be successful because they don't care about their community. So the community take their revenge and after getting their shares of the token, they are abandoning there support to the project.

but if in my opinion the gift program has a less good future because from last year until now there are still many projects that fail and many harm people too. but if the projects are all successful, of course the gift will come back crowded and can last for a long time

my opinion as a bounty hunter maybe we can only be patient waiting for a market increase to get a decent income, we know now the income from the bounty can be said to be very low but this can also be used to find possible free assets after the market returns to normal will give a big profit the problem is can we as bounty hunters choose the project?

In my opinion ICOs and bounty programs are failing now just because of market situation. And when the market will go up - everything will come back like it was at the start of 2018 or even 2017.

ico who failed might not get a chance this year. those who decide to quit the project, they are gone. now I think market conditions will help us to choose ico and a really good bounty campaign and be able to survive in poor market conditions.

No, bounty campaigns will keep on existing as long as the owner of the forum allows them but if at some point he changes his mind then you can say goodbye to bounty campaigns so all of those that are depending on them to get money need to look for something else to do so when that happens you do not suffer that much the lost income that you will not get anymore.

The number of ICO failures last year was very high because they could not stand the current market conditions. I don't know how much time is needed for the market to recover. According to me, the bounty program will survive if the market is green again. The market is a major factor in cryptocurrency especially for gift programs.

The downturn in the market had a very strong effect on the ICO, and as a result of this, they began to increase their fees to collect the necessary sums!

the effect is not really visible. the most visible now is that many bounties failed to get paid because there were many scams. if a lot of ico scams may be a lot of people trapped in this problem, there must be a solution immediately to prevent the problem of scam projects that make the bounty hunter harmed.

Absolutely true. It is happening because of the bearish market. And as per the time when the market will start to grow then, after that time bounties will become profitable for us.

I supported what Btcmaster said because the purpose of bounty campaign is advertise the project, gain new investors/community support and increase the current circulation token/coin. But, it unfortunate that some people abuse the benefits of bounties. However, forum moderators won't stop bounty and can only tighten the terms and conditions.

Guys, you really choose the right things, because advertising today is needed not only by ico companies, but will also be needed by other types of startups. But if we talk about the difficulties involved Bounty companies On bitcointalk, then you should take into account the fact that today there are other forums with similar activities.

I think that in the future, the Bounty  will be completely unclaimed and people will not participate in them.

in my opinion the bounty and ICO campaigns have a beneficial relationship. I think the ICO development team benefits from bounty participants because they don't need money in the form of money but they give the tokens they make and vice versa. unfortunately some teams also used this for several purposes

I think that bounty as an ICO markets are closely depend on the current situation on the cryptomarket. When it is bullrun, many projects are entering the market and providing bounty programs but when it is bear market for a year it's stupid for startups enter the market.

I think that the decline in the cryptocurrency market is characterized by the duration of ICO terms. Also I think that projects on the contrary will appear at the moment when the market falls and the consolidation stage begins, I have really good projects.

Even in such a market, many projects successfully collect the necessary amounts to launch their products, so you need to continue!

Now significantly reduced the number of bounty hunters. This is understandable because earnings have decreased. We need growth in the market. Without it, ICO and bounty will stagnate.

Unsuccessful ico's and scammers are likely to disappear but the bounty will remain, at least for many companies it is a cheap option of PR.

It is likely that over the next year and a half, the number of ICOs that appear on the market will steadily decrease. And this state will last until Bitcoin overcomes the $ 15,000 mark, after which large investors will return to this market. And only after that the projects will again have the opportunity to collect the necessary amounts for their development.

Yeah, I think icos will continue its current trend until bitcoin reaches certain threshold which affects everything else and bigger ico returns to the market just like it was back in 2017.

Yes, but even good projects now do not pay anything, that is, we work for millet so. Will you work if you know that you will not be paid anything? - Not. Another half a year of such work and most of the remaining bounty hunters will leave.

I am wondering when bull run will set in or maybe in a year, or five or 10 or cryptocurrency will crash to the extreme from where it cannot to rise again? But I think none can say when the market goes up or down. If there is anyone who can guess are manipulators. Concerning ICOs, they are already in a small number and may reduce to a few given regulations in place, people turning away from cryptocurrency.

As long as the market continues to decline, it will still have an impact on the ICO project. Several times took part in ICO projects and it took a long time to work on them. Indeed, at the end of the ICO project, we got the token as promised. However, after being listed on the exchange market, the price of tokens is very cheap. Of course, this is very sad.

it seems true, but the future of the ICO and the gift program has a good future because that's where crypto continues to grow even though the market has been destroyed which has had a big impact on the ICO

Because of the bearish market situation, many users have not worked on bounty programs. And the great number of bounty hunter has left this thing due to less pay. That's why it is really become important to take some actions in favor of the bounty hunters.

Not not only of being in the state of declining status but due to the delays of rewards and it sometimes they'll just scam and aren't receive any from their participation. Of course, they are just human and they'll get tired, and such feeling of disappointment from those hardworks of promoting project which in the end they only just receive pity amount or sometimes nothing.

No, without solving the problem of fraud in ICO projects, they will not be able to be reborn as before. Fraud in the ICO has reached a threatening scale, the most correct would be to regulate this activity by the state bodies. However, it will take some time, states need time to prepare and adopt the relevant regulations.

Well bounty now of course not very effective, as a lot of spam now, I think now is very popular ieo , especially after torrent, but I just like you hope that the ico will not die!

I pray for bounty campaigns. Finally, I find out the really working money making method on the internet, that is really really profitable and I cant even imagine the future if my portfoli will grow  8).

The future of ICO and bounty hunters are not too certain going by the state of the market and the types of projects we are having now,it is something that is worrisome if we are thinking about it,I just hope something can change,and we can beginning to have bull run because that is the only thing that can turn things around now.

I think that the cryptocurrencies were a niche sector ... now it is expanding and different new players are coming into play. the ico and the bounty campaigns of 2017 made much because we were inside a speculative bubble. Now the market has made a profound correction and all that is overestimated is sweeping it away.

Bounty hunters has no future concerning the project he or she did if the project itself has no future, he has done his best to advertise the project at the bounty stage, it left to the project to be good to the hunters if truly they are like they always say.

The number of participants in the bounty companies in the bear market has already decreased, but I do not think that the number of ICO and bounty companies will be reduced. Now the market is cleaning up all unnecessary and weak projects.

It is high time bounty hunters come to the understanding that depending on bounty is not a good decision.
Bounty should be seen as a hobby, which should be like you are just surfing the internet for leisure, yet you earn from it.
Some projects are really taking time, which means that bounty participants will have to wait for a long time to get rewards.

Indeed, it is not an easy time for projects to fulfill their soft cap and investors/bounty hunters as well. Misery and desperation play a big role in the current condition of the market. However, I do not think that bounties will vanish in this phase: crypto is not that popular among the mainstream and any kind of support is useful for emerging startups. Tools that reward exposure will not be released but rather transformed to make the promotion easier and more effective. Bounties might not pay a lot nowadays, but people had never thought of the astonishing bull run and it was a reality. You lose only when you give up entirely  ;).

Participating in bounties, especially social campaigns waste a lot of time and when the ICO is cancelled in the end, it makes it more annoying. I see that in as much as ICOs are not that successful in the past 1 year, bounty hunters will continue to suffer this way. Even those that pay bounty hunters for their work now lock hunters tokens for some period of time to prevent dump of the price. In 2017, things were not that way.
If you earn 2m USD, you were paid because the ICOs at that time were very successful compared to this time.
There is nothing that can be done so let's manage it that way and take the few bucks that we are paid maybe 2017 period will never come agian.

I think the falling market will last another year, but still the reward programs should not suffer much from it!

I believe that ICO and bounty campaigns can make good money even in 2019. The number of bounty hunters has decreased, but you can still find good projects that collect soft cap, and this ensures that the project will continue to develop, albeit not so quickly. Are you ready to put up with this situation, you decide.

That's why I try to join Bitcoin paying bounties but when you see pay for your rank you tend to move towards ICO bounties. That's only choice low rank members have. But, there are good ICOs once in a while, who have no soft cap to reach so you can take part in it.

We must be able to find the right project. indeed there are not many good projects and in fact most Ico projects end in failure. Bounty Hunter still has a large community and the opportunity is still very large. The decrease in the number of bounty hunters can certainly be utilized because fewer opponents will make it possible for other bounty hunters to earn far more income.

You shouldn't be relying on internet work as income.  It is too unstable and low-paying.  Get educated (doesn't have to be school, but do it yourself)

Get a real job and you will have skills that last a lifetime.

I myself have felt what you said and in fact, the fact that being a bounty hunter is currently less promising because a lot of the coins they give are worthless when registered on an exchange. I just hope that in 2019 there will be a good change to this condition so that in the future ICO can be useful.

The concerns I have in bounty projects today are the low cost and low prices of bounty projects. Another is the ineffective interest of bounty hunters in bounty projects because of the scam projects and also the downfall of the market.

The lower the market falls, the less they collect projects, the less they collect, the less they pay, respectively, as bounty hunters, we risk losing our job if the market situation does not change.

This suggests that now is the best time to work in bounty campaigns to earn tokens. And when the market will grow we will already have our portfolios

I have fear that one day ICOs will no longer exist and we as bounty hunters will not have a job. That is why I am still working hard to earn as much as possible because who know how long bounty will continue.

Because of the market condition many ICOs are slowing down on there projects due to lack of funds mainly and that doesn't mean they are dead ,either investors or bounty hunters we should accept the fact that things will slow down big time ,I'm not talking about the scam projects but the good ones ,the market price is whats ruining everything for ICOs this day

The situation on the market is certainly not the best, but this is not a reason for ending the era of bounty companies, many projects simply don’t hope for one ico, but also look for alternative ways to raise funds, since a bounty company is one of the main components of each project. All marketing, if the project has no advertising and it is not on the ear, then in fact it has no reputation, so my opinion of the bounty company will live.

You just hit the nail on the head. The instability in the market is really causing a lot harm in the system. Nevertheless some projects dwell on this just to rob hunters of their reward and this is very bad.

I have that fear as well but I doubt if ICOs will seize to exist because I see it as the bedrock of the system. The competition is on which project will survive or take over. Besides, bounty is not just limited to projects on ICO.

The bearish market isn't a good one at all but that won't deter me as a hunter instead i push myself to go more and achieve more by doing more bounties and also been positive that things turn around

in any case, today the demand for Bounty companies is very relevant and I am sure that in the future many projects will need the services of Bounty Hunters. As I said, very reputable people, advertising is the engine of progress.

I still ask this question, how do you know the real projects when most of them go the wrong way at last. It's either the hunters are mandated to download app or the project admins start banning participants requesting for their bounty tokens.

Bounty might not really stay that long, but there will always be special ways through which projects are promoted.
There are also some areas or aspects of bounty that will remain relevant, part of which is translation.
A lot of projects would need those who will translate their whitepapers into other languages. Except there won't be anything like ICO again.

I am not talking about the forum moderators but about the administrator of the forum, he can do as he pleases with the forum and if at some point he has enough of it and believes there is no way to stop all of those that are abusing the forum then he could just ban all forms of promotion in the forum, that is a possibility and there is no point in closing your eyes to that fact.

You should be careful with the kind of bounty programs you get yourself involved with.
There are lots of them which are owned by scammers and you should do your best to avoid them. What they do is to just waste your time and after all that they will dump your and disappear with the funds and everything, all your time and efforts will just become a waste.

OP, your words are meaningful, because as at now, some ICOs that seem to have ended, had better not list, than list and yet experience drastic dump. Well, with all that have been said, there are still good ICOs, but this will necessitate that bounty hunters choose well, by doing thorough research before promoting any project. At least, recently i have been able to promote some good projects that listed and i was able to sell at good price.

In recent months, the best ICOs are the ones which price falls just 10x, also it is hard to encounter them. Altcoin paidly Bounties are waste of time. You should join btc paidly bounties.

IEO is here to fix that even if market price is crumbling it won't be affceting IEO because investors won't care about the market condition but only invest in IEO that they are sure are real and will surely bring them better profit in time

Bounty will not going to be missed out in the market, as far as I know, update today adds the inclusion of IEOs in the market. They kind of saying, it is the future of ICO's and still needs the support of people in the market to be able to attract customers and investors. Let us still acknowledge what Bounties have gone through, and embrace the updates that will lead us to better profit.

The frustration and demerits associated with bounty hunting are outrageous and its understandable when people choose to stay out of the industry due to the bearish trend of the market, but I still believe there's hope for bounty hunters. The market will never remain bearish forever and with the incorporation of IEO, the services of bounty hunters will still be required.

I believe the progress of karuia will continue to run, except that only part of it will benefit us. and for me the success of the ICO program from a particular project does not depend on market conditions, but depends on the seriousness of the project team.

Bounty will still available but it will not profitable like the last 2 years. IEOs is a sign though, that legit project will using IEO for more easy to get investor to fund their project. If IEOs keep success, i guess ICO will be dead soon and there will be no more bounties in the future.

After 2018's cryptocurrency market, the bounty campaigns gets lame and not as active as the past years of bounty campaigns. Many ico's and campaigns get unsuccessful and even now that successful projects making many roundabouts to their project, some of them having or making swapping thingy for their tokens, what's the point of these?

It is quite difficult to understand the development and direction of the sphere. If someone could do it, this person would become quite rich, because the sense of trends - a very cool character.

But with the recent increase in price of all altcoin I believe the future of bounties and ICO Looking promising once again but we just have to be careful what we are investing your time and money into and see the recent increase of bitcoin some other dead projects have been coming back to life and so that didn't want to list before have started listing 

but it is difficult to understand the development of a gift program and we know we need to check every project and find out related to the project so we can find good projects to choose from.
the future of the gift program will be good if the project is really good and the market changes better.
You can be rich if you understand it and can manage it, especially the right strategy.

There are so many projects out there without real world use that can stand the test of time, many of this cryprocurrency projects fail to look at the users point of view , one thing that makes a project to succeed is when people adopt your product but many of this cryprocurrency projects have failed in that aspect without any real world use they just die off as soon as they are lunched

Tbh there is no connection between the increase price of altcoin with bounties and ICO. I also think the future of bounty programs is not good right now, especially after the success of IEO. I believe investors will rather choose IEO than ICO. Also because of many scam ICOs out there, it makes investor won't invest their money again.

For me, the current situation is that crypto prices have not been stable, and many projects from ICO have also failed. namu, I think the price of krypto won't be too long, the price will be back soon.

We cant change the fact that bounty hunters are suffering in this ICOs cancellations/failures, this is all because of the scams and frauds project that have become successful in the era of ICOs. But not all project conduct their bounty campaigns because they want to sell out on ICO. There are some bounty campaigns that are already listed on exchange that wants more exposure and marketing in the community.

It is really disappointed when projects stop their ico or don't pay bounty hunters. But it is a risk we deal with. When we join campaign we agree with rules. And rules says that developers can charge conditions or refused pay without any explanation. But there are a lot projects which pay. So we have to choose bounty campaign more careful and hope for luck.

The future of bounty programs is chaotic and unpredictable just like the future prices of crypto currency cannot be determined

Lots of project has failed immensely and so has bounty programs too
But we have to keep the steadiness and do the best projects only

My concern and my suspicion of bounty projects that are coming out today is not very good because of cryptocurrency recovery is that many scams will happen in bounty projects and in ICo because it is sure that bounty hunters and investors are working harder so are the scammers so they should always be prepared to resist those .

Not rich enough but very rich because they can consider prices will go up or down later. I can liken that person is a human who can see the future with the price of coins in the future.

The future of crypto cannot be compared with bounty as crypto will still exist even without bounty, there are different platforms of raising money
and with the current way now which is IEO there's no bounty since it's all coming from the exchange site itself, their marketing is very effective.
However, we also cannot ensure that it will be stable, just like bounty in the past or the ICO format because changes are very fast in crypto.

The reality is already playing out, a lot of persons came in because of the massive benefit received last year and in 2017 and a lot of those that joined in are already getting disappointed with the meagre rewards so far and are falling out. Sooner bounty hunting will be unpopular again until another bull season.

I am thinking that knowing the fact that bounties today aren't that good as before, maybe there is a chance that we can refresh the reputation of bounties by making a new name and system that we can assign to it. At the same time, make us way better than before in supporting and participating on these bounties.

The bounty programs are not a profitable way of earning in the forums and social media. Bounty payment distributions are delayed with intention and dump possibilities are eliminated with this shady tools.

Is pathetic project like such still exist in crypto space, promoting project nowadays  now need to be done after having research vividly on the project and ensure the project is legit and scam free.

The cryptocurrency market is developing in cycles. The period of decline is always followed by a period of recovery, and not only recovery, but also further growth. Therefore, now that the market situation is still complex, ICO projects have declined, and also largely due to the high level of fraud in this type of activity. Therefore, we began to develop such types of fundraising as STO and IEO. However, they are unlikely to be able to thoroughly solve all the pressing problems. It seems to me that in time we will return to the original ICO projects, but on a different basis, namely, when the ICO will be regulated by the relevant government agencies and the rights of investors and other ICO campaigners will be protected.

The tragic story of bounty hunters and investors as well. There are many factors for a project offering ICO to cancel. The main factor maybe they fail to reach their soft and hard cap. In such case, some projects are honest and return investments. But others maynot be honest and run away with the collected money. But bounty hunters are always at the receiving end. They do not get anything if a project cancels its ICO.

If the projects are good enough to make money then bounty projects will survive,but if the projects are not good and only trying to succeed then it has no exact future if it will succeed or not.I say this because investors only invest on good projects as they learn how to invest an investment to assure they will make money,no investor will want to loss.

There are many concerns about new bounty projects and what will be open to bounty projects, It's a great opportunity now that long-term bounty projects that want to get out of the bounty projects will be out of the way because of the crypto market today it will help attract investors to invest in the ICOs of bounty and the opportunity to get the bounty open.

I do not think that the ICO market is dying. Yes, he is experiencing serious problems and limitations. But in fact, now this situation is typical for the entire crypto market. Personally, I will continue to work with promising bounty. Along with the advent of the new ICO, there will be opportunities to get a steady income due to participation in the bounty.

First of all, it is only the matter of time until the market gets recovered. Secondly, there is absolutely no threat for the bounty programmes, because good projects will always need more promotion and marketing.

It's a big risk for bounty Hunter. This can be minimised by taken a deep look into th project, understand what it's about. Have some interaction on the telegram channels with the team members. All this should give you an idea of if hey will pay or not. Even though it's not hundred percent guaranteed, it works for me. I don't do bounties of long months. 4-10 weeks is just enough. Don't also be greedy , once you notice they're not going to pay, move on immediately.

We cannot continue to expect big with the gift. it is better to look for another job that is more productive than a gift that is much unclear and also time consuming. use this for your side job

Indeed even if on bounty can get some coins they will not value so much as was on 2017 bounties, but can be a good way to start on crypto and this will help more people who want to try and see how a coin works.

A good gift program there is always intense competition even though there is no threat, but they also have to work hard to increase their coin enthusiasts in marketing so that their projects can be a big success without any obstacles.

Beneficial if you have a real job and you are treating this as your side job, you will not lean to the rewards but consider it as extra money, when the
time comes for the said project and happened that the team is really serious to succeed, chance to have big value of the rewards you have will bring
big amount of money to you, just keep it up aiming luck will be there for you.

I continue to believe that the ICO market is really of great importance for investors and the development of the entire crypto market. In any case, he will eventually be able to rise and develop successfully in the future. Just to restore the situation you need to improve the trends in the crypto market. Most likely, this will happen from the middle of next year.

The bounty program will still exist even though there has been a scam lately, but there are still projects that are running on target. Because bounty participants are crypto owners, their presence as prize participants strongly supports this program. It cannot be denied, that appropriate payments will make participants more enthusiastic.
When experiencing disappointment because the bounty project turned out to be a scam, there was always a sense of optimism that there were still many projects that were good and realistic so that when they followed them they got good results.

This is the sad truth behind this,back in 2017 when bitcoins price become stable on$10k-$13k every bounty you join pays off huge amounts because price of bitcoin is way too high that it compensate the low amount of tokem you receive from those bounty.Market price has a huge part contributing why most ico this year died

Yeah exactly. As a bounty hunter one out of ten is profitable based on my experience and it is really hard to find the best to take part with. Bounty programs will still exist but most of them where useless. Tokens will become shitcoins  that is why some bounty hunters gave up  and some other had take rest and be back again when good news and opportunity will come again in the near future. In my case, I will never give up on crypto as long as it will give me profit.

Yes, sometimes the bounty is the not the sure something. We always hope the bad situation will not happen, but in actually that always happen. Our work to promote the ICO is very hard but we don't get anything if the ICO was failed. That will always happen to us if the cryptocurrency system still using the same method to make a promotion if they don't do a change.

Of course, you shouldn’t spend all your time now on participating in bounty programs. It’s not worth it. For me personally, participation in bounty is a kind of hobby. I have long forgotten when a company paid bounty participants well.So bounty do all day makes no sense.In the future, of course, there will be many more worthy bounty programs.The industry has just started to develop,so this fact should not be denied.

Yes, I also do the same thing, real work is the main thing, Bounty is only in my free time to do and find information, don't be lured because of the big reward from Bounty.

Way back to 2017, it was a big pleasure for everyone to wait for airdropped or bounty cryptos. It doesn't worth to drain the energy for the ongoing bounty campaigns due to lack of liquidity on the bounty tokens.

Is very frustrating many projects had failed hunters and many more still keeps failing, scam project everywhere, before joining any bounty program now, proper research should be done.

Yeah I agree! Just treat signature campaigns and/or bounties as a practical way of learning where you can earn few bucks while gaining some knowledge. I know that it sounds pretty good that's why I can't blame if some of our co-members here make bounties as a career than other important  stuffs, there's nothing wrong in finding ways to earn money what is wrong is when you already choose to set aside your priorities.

Future of bounties is shady, to be honest I thought bounties had to finish around half a year but we can still earn money.
Well, now you can earn something here, but these money aren't that big

I am glad that there are still some  bounties like Miracle Tele paying tokens with value for doing tasks.It is not that easy to find such bounty nowdays.I hope with the new bull cycle in crypto we will see more and more such good projects for hunters.

that ico has become an important part of the world of cryptoqurrency, they launched a program to create new coins in the future but it all depends on how the project works and the best will always grow well and vice versa.

For that we must be clever in determining the project before making an investment or joining a bounty so we don't lose a lot of money or work in vain and I also still think if the bounty program will continue to exist as long as many people believe in crypto. and will definitely experience price increases

Well I'm glad things are looking more hopeful thanks to recently bitcoin growth and to me its just the beginning ,very soon bitcoin will surge more in price and every lost hopes will be restored in crypto space ,no condition is permanent

Bounty progress largely depends on market situation.  In a bar market most bounty turns out to be scam as the team will be unable to deliver their promises.  The market is good now and most bounties are giving out meaningful rewards easily

bounty programs will always be on the crypto market even every day many new projects emerge but the problem is most of them look real but it turns out it is a con artist. quite difficult to determine them at the beginning, but to avoid the con artists usually I observe their gestures when in the middle of the road, if I feel strange then I leave and vice versa.

Reviewed whether they have done research first before participating in the bounty project, if the research has been done in advance, the bounty hunter is actually a victim, where after promoting a bounty project for a long time but ultimately does not reach its goal or ends up a scam. And just wasting time and mind and not getting anything. Does the bounty project not care about bounty hunters?

The bounty hunting is nowadays not really profitable like a few years ago, and ICO projects are actually struggling to reach their softcaps and to get new investors, so we see almost every week a new failing project.
The chance of making a profit with bounty hunting is smaller, but if you choose the best projects that have a potential you can make some money.

That experience is so pathetic. I have experienced it times without number and my wallet is filled up with the tokens. That is why some hunters base only on signature campaigns that agree to pay in bitcoin and ethereum.

I only do ICOs that have a good idea and in the long run their tokens can make a profit. Now it is not 2017 when it was possible to keep all bounty in a row and receive good payments for bounty.

market trend is completely over and this weekend of forum also not more friendly to earn bitcoin or tokens. Then huge number of scammers or raised there fund running their bounty campaigns here so so we can talk administration maximum trying to crash the scammers.
So apart from signature campaign there is no other go to earn the Bitcoin or any altcoins.