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So a few months ago I did some bounty work for a company called Swachhcoin. Like many of you, I spent countless hours developing and creating posts that highlighted key features of the platform. Fast forward several months...they tell all of us bounty campaign participants that we will have to pass KYC to receive the NEW swachhcoin tokens (SWACHH). My previous Swachhcoin tokens (SCX) are now worth $0 and I will have to do KYC to get my new usable tokens. Also, they set a monthly limit of how many tokens we can sell. We will receive 10% each month to prevent dumping. I like this idea, but NONE of this was presented during the bounty campaign period. I also bought 2 ETH worth of tokens and they've delayed the project at least 2 times! To me, this is unprofessional, ridiculous, and outlandish. Sorry for the rant, but this is the exact reason I've been slowly putting my money into projects that I think have a future. I'm trying to stay away from the bad apples and put some leftover money aside into Bitcoin, Nauticus, Ethereum, EOS, and even XRP.

His experience with this project was horrible, but the bounties campaigns exist even before ETH tokens or anything else related. It's possible for you to get coins without investing a single penny! Moreover I think that the most important of all of this is to learn and be wise with the little amount you receive.

Bounty campaign only profitable in 2017 and in the beginning of 2018, and after that this job not really promising good reward because too many ICO that has low quality product. So ICO market turn  in to low demand and the trend of crypto market also in bearish mode. Bounty campaign maybe profitable job again if the market back to bullish trend.

Wait, did swachchh (however its spelled) coin released the soft cap that you got your bounty tokens? It looked me a shit project from the start tbh

No morw time wasting on the bounties which make you to wait for months and pay you nothing just ignorre the bounties which can atleast make the bounty team to pay the participants on the time or with listed currency.

bounty campaign always be profitable thing.we didnt need spend any money and we get free money, although its amount small.compare it with ico investors, they spend much money but unfortunately they get much loss.

Yeah, this is not fairly to the bounty hunters, when bounty pool decreases after the end of ICO or when rules are changed post factum. I've also participate in bounty, which say after the ICO, that we will distribute bounty tokens in a year from now. :-\

Sadly Bounty hunters will be hard to claim once the campaign is over. When the campaign started, they offered a lot of incentives, with pool bounty of millions of dollars, after the campaign ended. Managers are willing to correct the law in a blatant way, because they think they have the right to do so.

ICO nowadays is not profitable anymore because the investors lost interest due to the cryptocurrency price drops last year.
But it already started to recovers and some of good ICOs probably will rise in this year

Unfortunately, participating in bounty companies can be low-income and even useless, and frustration can poison you. But you are on the market, consider all the components, do not bite on the promise of the gold mountains, choose a more normal, real company. So you will avoid disappointment.

I never liked that swachhcoin anyway because its more like mediocre project to me ,there developers are lesser professional and I don't like the white paper but what matters is the teams of a project no matter how good it looks ,don't give up ,whatever you experienced almost all of us on here have same experience so its left for you to be more careful in the future when selecting a bounty

Maybe you just wrong to pick bounty campaign, because actually not all bounty campaign tokens is worthless in market. There are some bounty campaign that can give big rewards. That is why if we join social media or maybe blog / video campaig, just do all bounty that we find.

Wow this is a solid negative feedback on your part. Im sorry to hear your story but to be honest, bounty isnt a work it is just a free way of earning money. What do you expect, all of them will be successful? You need to pick a good one that will not collapse it is the matter of picking.

Most bounties now are total waste of time but give me another source to make money in crypto space if not bounties ,I think its best to jeep trying and never give up ,be more careful when doing research on bounties and don't get carried away by huge allocation bounties

Swachh totally fucked me too; luckily Nauticus did come through with their bounty campaign

Yup swachhcoin team's decision is horrible and take note that I joined this bounty as well. However, that is not a reason to stop doing bounty campaigns. Lets face that there are projects out there that really don't care about the bounty hunters but there are also startup projects who are worthy to become successful that need our support.

So many times have state by a lot of people if you must do a lot of research before participate in the bounty and ico. I was seeing so many suspicious things on swachcoin and that was i have thrown it to the trash. It's a scam.

If we should be allowed I seriously believe that many of us has many stories to tell on how bounty or projects owners has treated bounty hunters.  It is surprised to promote a projects with quality posts and at the end you earn notting.  I have many worthless tokens in myetherwallet and most of them are bounty I participate for 3 to 6 months.

Hello, my advice before joining the bounty campaign is that you better choose and ensure a good project. if you have studied and seen projects that you can trust, you can join the bounty campaign. joining a bounty campaign is indeed fun because it can get coins. my advice, if you want to invest, bitcoin is the most suitable place to invest.

It is almost a waste of time participating in bounty campaign as bounty hunters because most of these campaign will just waste your time without any benefit.

If the bounty you chose is fair, it will pay and will do it in a token that gets listed. That's your part, to choose fair bounties.
Then the token you receive... is a lottery. Some rise, some fall, you cannot know. You will have to have some trader skills, I guess.

Bounty participants can reach thousands of accounts, but many of them cheat. for example, using a bot or claiming someone else's work.
for honest participants this is not fair but they cannot do much.

you only referenced to swachcoin. I was expecting to see many other bounty campaign that you have done and reason why I should stop bounty.  As a matter of fact you have not even 1 reason why I should stop bounty. Your personal decision has nothing to do with me. You made a selfish decision as far as I am concerned

Joining bounty campaign is the right for every person to do or not, we can't really force anyone to not join bounty campaign cause we had meet one or two bad project, since there are projects that still worth to join even in this condition, all we have to do is find that awesome project to join.

I think I heard this in some ICO because they don't want to see their tokens don't have a good price at the market. I think that is a good idea too, but they don't have to cancel the payment for their participants especially for the investor, they need to distribute the token to them. Without any good reason to delay the project, I think they do not deserve to get success in the future. Everything should have a reason and them to explain to the public why they delay the project.

Apart from this swachhcoin how many bounties have you joined that doesn't pay? Just because you joined one that doesn't pay doesn't mean its the end ,why advising others to stay away from bounties? That's not right ,do your research well next time to avoid this kinda shits

Its good that you finally realize this thing but we cannot force everyone not to participate on a bounty because they are still earning and they still believe for the future of a specific project. Its our job to make sure that the project is good, don't participate if you doubt about it. Being bounty hunter consist of big risk, so be careful always.

Unfortunately, bounty campaigns, as well as investing in ICO are a lottery and we are not protected from changing the terms or fraud. So I can understand the frustration and emotions of many bounty hunters and investors, but there's nothing we can do about it. It remains only to diversify its activities and take part in several projects at the same time.

You're right, but sometimes you have to really lucky to earn from some bounty campaigns. As you said, some of them can make absurd requests. At the end of the campaign, I hate the bounties who is changing rules. But I will continue to participate in the bounties.

Thank you for sharing the story. This situation belongs to the project side. Almost all the bounty activities do not require KYC. If there is a need, KYC should inform in advance, instead of telling the bounty hunter that KYC is required to obtain the token when the project is ready to pay.

You have a bad experience from one campaign and that is all? People here are doing 10 bounty campaigns at one time because they know that the succesful ratio is around 1:10. 1 bounty campaign worths and 10 are worthless.

Imma say you are wrong on your title. Not all projects are shitty projects just like what you have participated. I feel sorry for what you experience. Next time try to search for more good projects, theres still a lot of them paying in eth too.

For a long time that I spent looking for promising ICOS and participating in bounty campaigns, I came to the conclusion that this carries much more risks than investing my own funds in coins that have long proven themselves (BTC, ETH, XRP and others). Therefore, I try to minimize my risks and carefully select companies, reducing their number and improving quality.

I thought that Swachhcoin is a legal company with real product. We can´t believe any ICO!
I'm glad I did not have to spend months of time for nothing.

 well, that was a bad experience you got there . but all the same some bounties still pay, i prefer putting my effort in doing bounties for projects that are already trading or rewards given in stable coins.

 otherwise engaging in bounties these days can be frustrating because some projects either exit scam  or they do not meet their softcap and so cannot continue, then if either of these happens your effort as a bounty hunter is in vain.

I still participate in signature campaigns, facebook and twitter, the main thing is to carefully select projects. Study the project idea, team, partnerships, icodrops reports and you can be confident in a good and strong project. Yes, now it is not 2017, but still it is quite realistic to make good money on bounty.

When a team changes the rules of the game at the end of the campaign - this is unacceptable! Not only that the team introduced KYC, it has also set a limit on the sale - it is generally outrageous !!!
Recently projects often change the conditions of a campaign, change the managers who lead the project, this is alarming and adds a "-" project.

Unfortunately, token values from bounty campaigns are quite low compared to 2017. But that doesn't make me give up on my bounty campaigns. I only joining with twitter campaigns. So I don't spend a lot of time and I get token in return. And I holding these token in my wallet. Because at the moment the values of token could be coming to us pretty low. But when that token started trading on a stock market and the market rose, we could make good profits through that token.

Impossible, currently bounty does not help you earn money. 99% of the current bounty is dead and scam, I have wasted more than 8 months to participate in some signature campaigns but so far I have not received anything. Obviously this is not 2017 and so the bounty is dead

It seems to me to continue all the same, because so we will be able to get tokens for free without any investment that can make a profit!

That's one of the hidden strategies that most projects use to strip bounty hunters of their token, you will campaign and do everything and at the end they will present useless rules which most hunters won't be able to meet up to. Have learnt my lesson and I choose what projects to run campaigns on very carefully now and so far it has been paying off

This is the problem why most ICO's fail because of this stupid ICO's. Investors are thinking if they will invest into it or not. One thing more is the developers gives new instructions after the campaign etc. I have joined bounty campaigns already and maybe I'm lucky with the campaigns I joined because some of them gave me tokens that I can sell.

One more, don't ever give your personal information to these stupid developers. They can sell your information for a cheap price.

Agreed. We are paying the price for the insane reward-to-effort ratio that bounty hunters enjoyed in 2016-2017. We're never seeing 3 bitcoins per month ever again.

It seems to me to stop practicing bounty is not worth it at all, because you only lose time if you don’t have luck, and if successful you get money!

That is quiet unfortunate I was following that project just that i wasn't able to make the deadline. But never give up because of this, try another project that is crypto for you. Just push till your last breath.

Recently, I stopped participating in company bounty projects. First of all, since I spend a lot of time and energy, and the payments are very small. Also almost all projects are scam. Just a pity spent personal time.

There are times that i think of stopping doing bounty campaigns because some of the bounty is not profitable now to be honest but we need to research well which bounty to join. Who knows we can hit a diamond bounty campaign that will leads us to a good fortune. I just continue doing it because maybe one time it will come back again just like the old days where one token from another had a good value but for today. It's kinda hard to find some gems in different bounty. Just don't stop doing it because you will never know what will happen in the future.

For what happened into bounty campaigns since last year up to the present was really not good experienced for most of the bounty hunters.
But of course, I still do believed that there are good ico which I knew remain good and legit. We just need to patiently seek it. And besides there's a time of harvesting also there's a time too for Sowing.

I know what you feel mate. I stop doing bounty campaign for almost 6 months. I dont get any profit from bounties. Most of them are scam projects. The problem is its so hard to find a real project. Back in 2017 there is so much good project. I hopes this year will be a good year for bounty hunters.

There are tons of 2018 ICO project that paid nearly 0 bounty hunters like me.. that' why I stopped doing new campaigns except for some few ones....

The caption of your topic attracted me and i found  it amusing, but coming to the content, i felt so sorry, most especially when bounty hunters pass through ordeals like this.  Sometimes, even when you feel you are in the right project, there are some conditions that may make you unhappy and feel like every other project is the same. I also read about the same experience from someone, also a fellow hunter, sometimes ago. This is why i always prefer projects where conditions and rules have already been given prior to the bounty participation.

IMHO if one of ICO changed rules this is not right, but you should participate more bounty programmes maybe some of them can still succeed. Just be patient and choose ICO wisely.

Also spent a lot of time on this project.  He wrote articles about the platform.  I studied the project thoroughly,  And now it is.  Disappointed

I know that at the moment it's terrible time for crypto world so it's very difficult to find out a good bounty campaign to join but that doesn't mean it's impossible to find out a good bounty campaign to join or stay away from bounty campaign :). There are still good bounty campaigns to join for example WPP bounty campaign. Try to spend more time at looking for good campaign then you'll find out good bounty to join but you guys shouldn't stop joining bounty campaign.

Anything you said doesn't matter for me, i will keep on doing bounty campaign, the reason would be because this is my way on making some investment.
With all the bounty reward that i get, i could save them for the future, hoping that it could give me a fortune.

this is very similar to last month's case, namely the lyfe.health project, they distribute tokens for hunter bounties every 10% every month for 10 months, and they also use a bounty manager who I think is bad and unprofessional. they always change the rules and don't update the participants who are confused. spreadsheets are always suddenly replaced. right now they are giving new rules, which must be for bounty hunters. they like not respecting hunter bounties when participants ask questions or aspirations because they also have rights.

I understand your concern and it is also the concerns of so many bounty hunters, stop investing in ICO and just go for stable coins in the market or better wait for the coins to get into the market and right now, it's not the best idea to do bounty hunting for ICO.

that is very clear that the team has the most control over their tokens, they can delay the progress if they want or even what they have done to your investment, that is the problem with today's ICO there was no security for the investors.

of course with the bounty campaign it's a better and easier way to earn income or coins for free. so the bounty is very useful for me, of course

more than half the ICO bounties you're participating in won't make it. At least you didn't invest in the project like the actual investors that get screwed when their tokens hit exchanges, if that ever happens in the first place.

You have to identify good projects and stick with those. Over the weeks you'll have a feeling which ones aren't good and which ones do have a chance in the markets. Even then, if an ICO is successful and you get a good amount of tokens, their value is never going to be rewarding unless it's a bull market, then some bounties do pay off. Right now, only a few ICOs are worth it and if you're willing to put the effort in curating the best ones, it might be rewarding at the end.

Exactly the team who wrote the "Terms and Condition including Rules "on its Marketing campaign or Bounty Campaign are also the violators of its own rules. Its a sad truth nowdays in Bounty Hunters are "cheated" in technical reason! But some of the Bounty campaigns are still honest and truthfully applied the Terms and Condition therein.

There are many such scam projects. but it's ridiculous and unbearable. But we are just a bounty hunters, we need to accept the fact that we've partnered with scammers and lack of professionalism.
We need to improve our ICO project analysis skills if we don't want to be fooled.

we are aware of the risks in joining bounty campaigns so your kind of story is within expectations on this space. You don't need to necessarily stop doing bounties, you also don't need to put a lot of energy into it since you can never know if it would turn out as a scam. Just do it when you have free time--similar to like a part-time job.

To avoid such experience pal try to join In any finished projects wherein less worries because of being reliable and trustworthy .,because some of fresh project nowadays that always emerge on this forum and even out side of this forum are always turn onto ponz after. so much better to become practical on this kind of business to make sure everything will be fine.  

Well it's bad that you encountered this kind of project, not all project end up like that, but for now most of them got difficulty to try to prevent the dumping and put a good price on the coin, this could be a good lesson for all bounty hunters to do a more thorough research before participating, read the whitepaper, try to search the aim and the vision of the project

I see their telegram & the bounty chat the project have some really weird and problem, Do you think this project just another shit ICO again ? they raised a good money from the investor.

All promlema in choosing the right and fair ICO. With the current level of bad faith of developers and impunity of fraudsters, the company for rewards ceased to be attractive. And many participants left, and who remained are experiencing headaches from what is happening and resentment

the current bounty campaign should not be made a basic job that can produce something.
this must be remembered only coin is free and don't have to hope it will be something big just do what you want to do don't exceed the limit, if you find a good project then the results will also be good.

indeed most bounties always have their own problems in the case of Swachhcoin that can still be said to be not too severe because it only asks for KYC and the rewards are shared every month, my story is worse than this I follow the required KYC bounty but do it when their platform becomes , a problem is they changed the plan in ico which made the bounty participants lose their reward in the form of tokens and was replaced with shit services that were not useful to me and they offered it from 1-6 months

It's a matter of how you choose the bounty campaigns that you will join in. Actually, if you choose other bounties that are good, you don't need to spend money and still get a profitable amount of money. So next time you choose to do bounty again, be careful what you pick.

Unfortunately, the campaigns no longer offer good earnings. Moreover, campaigns with or without good earning potential create various challenges and destroy the labor and the time spent by the participants. KYC and similar transactions, of course, are a good thing in terms of security and abuse of campaigns with multiple memberships, but it is also a fact that these regulations negatively affect the participants. In particular, you experience an event like the event that you live unfortunately it does not deal with people. It can be really sad for us to give so much time, to save a lot of dreams and to be frustrated as a result of all these events.

I feel your pain. Many bounty projects don't reward their hunters. Take for example Kelta mining that some of us did last year. Up till now we have not been paid. The devs used us for their own selfish gains and after the campaign ended, we were tagged as bots and fakes. Too bad I cannot delete or edit the article I wrote for them on steemit

I have never heard of that Swachhcoin, I bet you joined through the bounty platform which somehow I find not appealing because most if not all projects that goes there aren't dong good after the ICO. They can even be scam. If you are to join a bounty you can try the ones that pay BTC. They are much preferred by most of the hunters actually.

What happen to you in participating in just this one campaign is not enough reason to stop participating in bounty campaign and advising everyone to stop as well. There are still good campaign. Since I started participating in bounty campaigns if I sum it up I have earn over $10000.

Your experience is not unique, unfortunately, such problems with KYC occur periodically. The main problem is that the organizers can change the conditions of the campaign unilaterally and the participants who began work under certain conditions are forced to accept and agree with all the changes or be left with nothing. I would call it blackmail and we should not tolerate it. Nevertheless, I would not refuse to participate in bounty campaigns, just need to be more responsible in their choice.

It is getting scarce now to find real project doing bounty, most of the bounties out there lack substance and it is better to stay away from them, because at the end of the day, it will just be a waste of precious time. I have said it over and over again that do not carry a signature of project you can not invest your own money into.

I appreciate and support your decisionbut at the same time i will suggest you to take take part in promoting good campaigns, i know that in last many months most bounty rewards have either been poor or not paid status while some are just delaying and delaying distribution  with lame excuses but i think market situation can change anytime so we should be positive and hope that bounties will become profitable in coming days.

Actually you can't single out every bounties just by one bad example. Actually bounty world like crypto world. There is some good ones and bad ones. Mostly you need pure luck, nothing more.

besides luck in choosing a bounty we must also pay attention to how we choose. we cannot immediately choose bounty like gambling, because choosing also requires analysis and calculation. that's what makes us later able to get a good bounty, but the rest is our luck.

2017 was the very last year ICO profited most people, years afterwards was a mess in ICO.  I also did the same bounty you're talking about, they hosted it in a bounty platform and we all participated in it. After the end of the bounty, they were now telling the campaigners that we have to do kyc before we could receive our token which wasn't in the agreement before the campaign start, what a mess.

Now a lot of projects introduce this procedure at the end of the bounty campaign. I also think that it is not correct

You need to be able to choose bounty. There are a lot of projects that lead bounty and most of them have no chance for the future. But there are really good projects that pay immediately and their coins are worth good money.

It's really for the best I'd say, even if you do find a good campaign, it's pretty rare to actually earn a decent amount of money with it.
You'd be better off just saving up some money to invest into established coins, like the ones you mentioned.

Alternatively, you could also just provide people with a service in exchange for cryptocurrency.
You know, like a freelance job for example.

maybe the time of the ico and of the bounty is finished the bounty hunters have to look for other ways to earn such as translations, original content, videos or maybe even start trading...

You can write another article. This time, expose it and write in it everything you think about this project.
As for me, I continue to participate in bounty campaigns, despite the fact that I have been waiting for many awards since last year.

It looks naive. A project that acts unprofessionally, but still lives, is a good project. At least because many crypto startups are either fraudulent or slowly dying in inactivity.

When I entered in cryptocurrencies world, I was not knowing about bounty programs. Later I was exposed to those and got attracted towards it.
Until few days back my opinion was just opposite to your.
Now I have seen that many projects are changing criterias at the last moment to receive the awards. Many Force us to install xyz wallet so that they get benefited out of it.
Few days ago from one of the program that bounty has suddenly halted due to some reasons and rewards have been decreased.
Even if everything goes well, we can not guarantee that the amount of tokens we hold, can give us good value out of it.

May be you haven't chooses the right bounty to join, if you have joined to the content protocol bounty or aergo, you would be very happy coz they have been added to exchanges and are trading higher than ico price, yes I know it is hard to find the right bounty that really worth it, but if you find it then you would get some really good profit and it is not impossible.

I might have to disagree with you, I first had this idea that I can't waste my time doing bounties because it's an absolute waste of time until I benefited over $500 from a bounty which i just decided to try out since I had enough free time and I don't need to buy the coins anyways.

I just do some task and get to hold the coin. Guess what, it paid off, I made up to $500 after I sold my coin on exchange.

I think its an everybody's prerogative whether they would join a bounty campaigns or not, everybody are entitled to their own opinions and hardwork, as long as they are studying what they are engaging to, but the most important factor is that the legibility of the project they are promoting and they are paid for doing it so.

well, if you are deceived in one project - it does not mean that it will be the same in others. There were a lot of bounty companies where hunters received worthy awards. so do not judge everyone because of one bounty company.

That is part of risk. Investing in crypto, either time or money, is high risk thing. We all need to do a deeper research before decided to invest in any project, sometimes we think "it's a good project and will Make profitable for me" but tomorrow, they could scam us. Thats why you need to be sure, to invest only in what you afford to lose.

Well, that's bounty specifics, mate. In fact you were lucky enough to get anything - they could easily scam all the participants and pay you nothing. That's quite a usual scenario here. But the possible profits worth it.

Right, according to my research and evaluation, if we have 10 bounty, it will take 6-7 bounty scam and we will get nothing from them. So if we are unlucky, we will be wasting time with those scam projects

Free money? we are working hard for them, promoting their shitty coin for some little gain that they will give us and it's not even guaranteed. What they are having is free advertisement because they are paying us some assets that came out of thin air, probably a fork of another coin. It's not always profitable so stop spreading your bullshit here. We are working with time, electricity and effort so your claims are all false.

This is the case that bounty hunters often encounter when doing bounty for ICO project from the mid last year to now and I think this is the way which projects want to reduce amount of distribution token for bounty hunters and it is also considered a scam

obviously it was a fraud for campaign participants. we already know all the rules can indeed change at any time according to the wishes and decisions of the development team. but if it feels that it is not in accordance with the reasonableness, surely the campaign participants will protest.

I think the conditions for participating in bounties should be spelt out by the manager.
If you don't see or understand the conditions you ask the manager personally.
I guess some of them intentionally introduce the conditions at the end of the campaign to make receiving coin difficult for the hunters.

yeah for real Bounty work is real work for minimum benefit sometimes; Like I had said several have screwed me with dumb rules that they make up at the end or cut the amounts given if it wasnt for Nauticus paying me out I would be up shit creek

Yes, unfortunately this is becoming more and more common, and the KYC at the very end of the company often began to be introduced. In fact, this is a bad tone and should reflect on the reputation of the project.

          Unfortunately, so many bounty campaigns are doing. Provides some information at the beginning of the campaign that is kept until the end of the campaign and then adds other tasks the bounty hunter has to follow to get paid. I have encountered such situations. We can not prevent that. However, it is good that you will receive the coins, because 2019 will give us very few successful ICO projects. Let's hope that in the future there will be a solution to detect and combat ICO SCAM projects or do not have potential.

Yeah it is our own choice If we are interested to use it or not but it has not bad effect on our job, as I am good at using bounty because it is giving me extra income and I keep on searching about it in my extra time which is enhancing my knowledge and polishing my skills, being trader and investors because you makes verity post related to it, which helps you and readers as well.

It is so sad to have read your past experience,  that wasn't funny at all, but I still want to believe there are still some good projects and being managed by some wonderful bounty manager. Don't loose hope because of your past experience. Just look at the project and the bounty manager  managing it ,if it is worth the join then go ahead

Just becaue you joined a scam bounty campaign so you suggest that nobody should join bounty campaign while there are good bounty campaigns in this forum still available??? You should know it's not easy to find out good bounty campaign as before but good campaigns are still available so you can leave if you wanna but I think you should stay and spend more time to find than before to get a good campaign.

More and more negative remarks and experiences have continued to pour in by different people on this platform. That means the bounty managers and ICO teams should do what is write to save the bounty programs so that people don't loose interest.

Yah right now alot of bounty campaign are scam they are just a waste of time and effort, even the project is legit the rewards is not satisfying because there is alot of bounty participants, but my advice to you dont stop to do bounty because it's free all you need is effort.

I also have a lot of tokens that are worth nothing. I just realized late that I shouldn't be involved in everything. Even now you can find good bounty companies, I think to participate in them maybe is still profitable.

ICO bounty now is not good at the past year. I remembered that at the moment last year, when ICO investing was the trend and it makes the market cap of this market grow so fast. At that time, there are a lot of people become rich and millionaire based on joining bounty campaigns. 

Everyone has their own experience of participating in the bounty companies, someone carries, and who is not and strangely enough it's more about luck, negede in professionalism.

Somebody have stopped doing the bounty. It's almost useless now. Those who remained continue to participate in them in the hope that in the growing market their tokens can grow in price. There's nothing wrong with that. But in addition to the bounty you need to do something else.

It's quite disheartening to see hunters work for nothing. But it doesn't rule out bounty hunting because some will tell you they gain a lot from it too. For now am sticking with signature campaigns.

There are good bounties from good projects like Brain-Space. You just have to search for good ones

You have to accept the fact that whenever we join any bounty we have to follow their rules and I believe that each campaign have their disclaimer that they can change the rules at anytime. ive been there, I also invest to the project whenever I join campaigns but since last year it was a total loss.

The downside of participating in a bounty campaign is that they can change their rules whatever they want. And those participants has nothing to do but to accept the changes. Worst thing is, they will announce a new rule that might against with the participants right after the bounty ends. Anyway, I haven't tried investing in the bounties that I've joined.

It is a problem that bounty hunters are scammed so often. But honest projects don't do this. Only projects who are scams are not caring to have a community do it and it will hurt the project in long term that they have not paid bounty hunters.

It is if you can trust the team of an ICO you can also do the bounty. Good projects will pay because they care for the community.

Never have bad ideas with bounty campaign and bounty participants, how come an ICO project could be famous without thousand bounty participants are promoted an ICO project, never have new ICO will be success without have bounty participants.

It depends, I guess you have experience a very problematic experience about joining a bounty hunting. Especially choosing the worst ICO you can join. But in the mean time, I think it is still reasonable to join bounties at the moment.

Bitcoin didn't hae any ICO. but still it becomes most valuable crypto currency.

So people got feeling that ICOs are started to make money not for contributing the crypto currency's future.

If we see the bounty trends when market started going up from the 3rd quarter of 2017 every one wanted to participate and earn big bucks from bounty campaigns and we did saw the number of bounty participants grew from dozens to hundreds and then thousands but niw the scenario has changed now due to slow markets and poor performing icos that have cut short the bounty rewards with extended campaigns and small rewards the number of bounty participants is again decreasing and if the market situation prevails we will see bounty hunters go back to dozens again but lets hope market will recover now.

Well the op should not talk about bounty campaign when he/she has not earned the minimal 1 merit.
Well I do bounty campaign but I prefer bitcoin paying campaigns

KYC became even more and more natural in crypto world, but it depends to us whether to do KYC or not.
Even in some exchange, they also implement KYC in order to be able to withdraw our tokens kept in the market.

Swachhcoin is a scam project. YES, they gave all the award and expressed great gratitude. But this is not the result. The result is that there are new rules, the price will fall very much and people will immediately sell those 10% of the rewards that will receive. As a result, the project will understand that he has nothing to do on the stock exchange and just disappear. I'm sorry your time but projects such as Swachhcoin very much.

I agree with this because i've been in a situation too that i feel i don't get what i really deserved to. Been working hard to do the required weekly activities of a bounty campaign for a couple of weeks but at the end of the day, it turned out that i got into a scam ICO. But that's ok for me, besides, i am not investing money on it.

Your post reflects the market condition, you are not the only that experience these two people suffer here investors and bounty hunters, and this is the reason why ICO is now in a big messed and I'm glad I'm out of it.

But still the chance of making money from the bitcoin paying signature campaigns are getting rare and the payouts becomes nothing in these days.

Still lot of members doing bounties and they are ready to take risk of making big or nothing I will say worthy to try.

Really many of us are happy to be out of icos market. Investors has really lose money to scam and abandoned icos and the bounty hunters has work tirelessly without payment or been paid with worthless tokens.  I am also out of icos investments for good.

Yes, the last half of the year has been very stingy with good bounty. And even good bounty still delay payments, but even now you can earn good money, if you choose the right projects. My income has fallen sharply compared with 2017, but still I still earn good money from bounty. Enough to make more efforts to select projects.

Joining a campaign without researching much will get you such a result. You should have more research on projects before joining a campaign. Besides, the nature of the current market is something like unworthy for bounty.

That's the sad part with scam icos since devs only want money and they don't even think about the effort that people make to promote their projects.  It makes the ico bounties in  general, less attractive for hunters.

You need to ignore such scams first by learning the project better. I consider ceasing doing abundance crusades since a portion of the abundance isn't productive currently to be completely forthright however we have to investigate well which abundance to join. Who knows we can hit a jewel abundance crusade that will drives us to a favorable luck.

I simply keep doing it on the grounds that perhaps one time it will return again simply like the days of yore where one token from another had decent esteem however for now.  It's kind of elusive a few diamonds in various abundance. Simply don't quit doing it since you will never recognize what will occur later on.

It can be very frustrating when you spend so much time and energy creating post and contents only for one not to get the deserved pay but at the same time for the purpose of those who do not have money to purchase coins or tokens the only hope is to keep working on bounties while they hope they get good ones that would pay the deserved earnings.

So I do not completely participation in bounty programs. This is still the best and fastest way to get coins for those who do not have money to invest.

There are lots of bounty campaign happening in bitcoin forum. And we get thousands of participants. But I am agree with you, bounty campaign can't give you good return for your effort. Bounty hunters do lots of work with different campaigns but they don't get their deserve earning from it.

yes they are lots of them but as far as i know a bounty campaign cant hold a thousand participants . that is already huge and wont be possible for them to monitor the users properly  .


only if you pick up the scam bounty but if you are lucky to pick the legit one , for sure you can be happy with their rewards  . keep in mind that rewards also depend on your rank and on how many task you'v done properly  .


bounty campaigns are more easier than a regular sig campaign that pays in btc because bounty campaigns have a less stricker rules . you can post on most boards and you can post with lesser text count  .   but as i said earlier  , the reward is dependent  .

Thanks for your experience you have shered to us and we all get experience in this beautiful post. But I can't understand why some ICOs have become trouble to bounty Hunters . I think government who accepted crypto should take control of this and pass laws to remove those stains in cryptocurrency. The fraudsters have cotrol of the ICOs project nowadays, they create shit for people to invest in it and they take their monies away, where they are not panelized.

I thought Swachhcoin was a profitable project having professional team. Usually these kind of projects who offer new tokens in exchange of the old ones may be compared to scam but we can't say anything until we see the project fully going down.

Maybe you might have been faced such problems because of the poor management of the project or the unprofessional team but might be they will plan something and you could be able to get your funds back from that project. Bounty campaigns plays a important role for the promotion of any project because bounty campaign covers mostly each of the social media and promotes the project to the fullest.

It's not true. Bounty campaign really pays good but just you need to find a better bounty campaign. There are a number of bounty projects on this forum and identifying real projects from them is always a challenging task. Bounty campaigns pay in their tokens and if a project is worthy than the value for those tokens can multiple in x numbers.

Also we get an opportunity to get some tokens for free which can be of huge benefits afterwards. Some bounty campaigns pays more than the efforts so we can't really blame the bounties for paying less but instead we should blame the bounties which doesn't pay their bounty hunters.

The choice of projects is huge, every day there are several new bounty. It is obvious that some of these projects will succeed, and this is quite a sufficient reason to take part in the bounty.

Im not against with SWACHHcoin project but delays do have corresponding reason which is the current bearish market.They do extent out the duration of the sale

due for them not to accumulate such funds and about into their bounty program it is actually not bad at all having 10% gradual pay-off to prevent dumping but they

didnt able to realize that the number one dumpers is the investor itself knowing that bounty token allocations arent that big that do affect majority of this coins price.

Lots of bounties are followed to earn income by working hard, but in the end many are scam. It hurts, but it's already a risk and continues to live it with the hope that someone will succeed and the coins that are obtained can be sold at an expensive price after being thrown into the crypto market.
There is no guarantee that you will get results, but the ICO will always be there and that is the same as an open opportunity where we will follow or not. Fortune does not come twice, but opportunities are always in crypto.

I know that it must very disappointing for you that it's not your effort is only in vain but also your investments. It is really the norm in the ICO projects and of course we all hate it. KYC is tolerable for me but that kind of conditions, it's too much. Your topic is what I really want and this is my last bounty if it does not work.

What project did you taken part since you made this account in 27 December 2017?

Scam project and reduction price were a part of the reason bounty hunters got a little profit or even didn't profit because the tokens they got were

worthless. And now I don't think project ICO or bounty campaign is a legit way to get token that have potential IMO.

All in all,,, a good example of why not to join a bounty.

First of all, people have terrible expectations about bounties. For them it is free money for doing cheap or easy work. For the project it is the other way around, free marketing, giving free tokens for people to shill their coin.

Think about it. Is the project really interesting to you? Are you also a user and not just a holder or speculator? Do you even understand the technology? If you are not sure about even 1 of the questions what is the point?

People have reasons to do bounties as well as not to do,so it really depends on every individual who give more preference to what.

When someone looking for money and for that they will give any effrot and if there is no payment of need to wait to long they don't care about,they will just keep promoting then bounties are really for those persons.

Oh sad to hear about your bad experience in joining SWACHH, in fact, I also encountered that things on the other bounty campaign. Where after the campaign we've waited 3 months before the distribution begun. Then, 10% each month about the payment which is very unjust actually and many complaint but their frustration can't do nothing.

I do bounty campaigns and airdrops cause its my only way to earn money, but the sad part is if the bounty campaign i joined in didnt pay or turned into scam, i want to give up doing bounties, but i realize patience is a virtue.

Most bounty campaigns are hit and miss now, it's not like the old days when almost all bounties would be rewarding. Now you are lucky to find one that doesn't scam you, extend the deadline 2 more months, and then offer you a worthless token!

Bounty work is for free work only but it depends on you if you are willing to hardwork on it or not to earn free tokens or not. But it depends on a rank to join bounty campaigns to earn huge tokens that they give on you.

It's easy to work on bounty and get token (shit token) but doesn't it worth your time? I think it requires a lot of your times to be wasted in case you don't get a penny. And most of the bounty projects give nothing nowadays.

There are many disappointing things that can really happen when you join in a bounty. We need to include the factor that not all of them are guaranteed to pay you. I would only recommend doing bounties on the services section because they pay weekly using btc but the bounties that pay you the token from ICO is like high risk/high reward ratio.

for this year the prize program is very difficult and the ico program is mostly scam because it doesn't get a softcap, we have to be careful when doing work by looking for tokens or free coins because of all the many risks

Signature campaign that use BTC in reward actually can be alternative but they are really strict in rules. Maybe that is why a lot of people not always accepted in there. But if we're have quality on our post, we can be accepted in there.

Thank God, I stopped working for the swachcoin Bounty. I don't know how many times they brought bounty campaigns and kept extending. The project looked good, but the team and their work strategy were ridiculous! The crypto market is not good for the bounty hunters, they are working continuously but at the end, they are getting peanuts. Many people stopped working in bounties, and it is natural.  No one wants to spend their valuable time before nothing. The crypto market needs to be improved well to make good money from the bounties.

I have horrible past with bounties and even with last, doing task almost everyday but it the end the project went to scam, the team members silently exit scam taking along the money they raised during the ico

Why do you still join on another scam token ICO then right now? Joined on their bounty for some months (up to 6 months), did all the work, but in the end you will only get paid less than 10 dollar or even nothing, it's just waste your time.

I also participated in swachhcoin social media campaign and experienced the same way too, up to now I didnt get profit from my tokens and its disappointing.

However thats really the nature if you join in bounty campaign, some may succeed and others are not thats why its important to participate only to projects that will likely to give us profit. It will happen if you've done your part by doing a research before deciding to participate because many scam projects are also existing nowadays.

First, I'm sorry about your bad experienced, the only things you could do now is accept what happened to you, and move on.
In fact, until there some project still implementing 10% each month and they have 1 reason for it to avoid dumping which is they are saying or blaming bounty hunters is the responsible for dumping were it is not right of thoughts. So if the bounty have that kind of rules, well I guess never join in it, just simple as that.

Rules can be altered anytime as they like so you wouldn't know if the initial rules is fixed or not until on the end.So its still a risky thing on putting all of your hardwork to waste.

There's no other thing you can do but to move on and better luck next time on finding a good project to join on this is why researching is crucial when you are just searching up.

CryptoGenius10, Your cautionary tale brings you closer to becoming an actual Crypto Genius. "Unprofessional, ridiculous, and outlandish" is better than 100% criminal.

As you know all bounty campaign and all new projects is risky, as for crypto investment is risky, all you have to do is a back up plan.
Join some Airdrop for free, or join a campaign wherein you don't need too much time to finished the task, like content creation campaign, as you can join as many as you can as long as your are qualified.

Don't just give up, everyone here has already experience worse than this...

It is sure that bounty hunting isn't as profitable as a few years ago, and that so many ICO projects are just either scams or giving away worthless tokens, but there is always good projects which have potential to succeed in the future, and participating in their bounties would be profitable surely.
To distingue these projects, you have to spend some time first in studying carefully the project (The whitepaper, the team, the product..)

Finding this good projects would just like finding a needle on a haystack.I'll say that out of 100 projects there would be only 3-5% which would succeed into hitting to exchangers

and majority of them would just simply die and past away then owners will just simply create another coin and repeat the same process until they would gain sufficient fool investors and then becomes scam and repeat once again.

Let see some of your suggestion,

Bad suggestion, how can you suggest us to join in airdrop when it would only give us mostly less than $1? Wasting our time only

This is not an easy task, you should be able to write something interesting ans you must already have your own site before you joined on there. Its So-So suggestion

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Google IEO and you will know if almost all IEO token will be sure to be listed on exchange sites, eg Bittorent

Not all bounty campaigns are scam but only few of them is good. Better to research first before joining in a bounty campaign, most of the project these days use fake profiles just to have good feedback and  to attract investors.

After all these months of complaining about "doing hard work" why are still fixated on doing bounties if we are not happy with the outcome?

For me, it is always about delivering value and quality.

I gave up doing the bounties long ago that just required you to shill. Instead, use a service you like so you also become an ambassador for it. Then you feel good talking about something you like, you also feel confident, and the project feels you bring value. Then they return to you the value as rewards and incentive. Make it a win-win instead of win-lose.

It is sure that nowadays there are a lot of scams among the ICO projects, but quitting bounty hunting, for this reason, isn't convincible for me at least. You have only to take a good time studying the project and making sure of its value and quality before joining its bounty. If you quit, you are missing the chance to make large profits with the legal bounties.

I agree that finding a legitimate and promising bounty campaign is nowadays really hard, but despite that, I still work with bounties after studying the project and I select carefully the most promising projects and not joining any bounty. If the project is good, then its bounty reward will be valuable as well.

Almost all bounties on 2017 are really profitable, then when 2018 came up the good image of ICO was little by little damaged by those scam ico, were most of it turned into nothing til reached the last month of 2018, now when 2019 came up IEO rise up and became trending where most of the investors and bounty had finally found an alternative way to get profit and ICO also became good compared to 2018.

I'm learning a lot from this thread.

I'm working on an art project that will offer a bounty in ETH (a % of the profit for a successful referral) via an exchange (IEO). Even though, due to the nature of the project, only one person per piece of art issued can collect, at least it's guaranteed and not paid in a token that may only come out to a few cents, if that.

I'm hoping that bounties like this involve less shilling and more targeted efforts. Many of the ones I saw in the past with ICOs seemed to encourage outright spamming. I figure it's the last thing anyone wants associated with their project no matter how big or small.

this is what makes investors run away and frustrates investors to invest in a token or coin sales program. so this is the type of fraud that I often experience in prize programs, so I think you should be more careful to take part in prize campaigns

Some of bounty campaign not only get money from investor. other of them use campaign for growing up them social media follower  like twitter, facebook, linkedin and etc.. and do task for bounty hunter to bumping up they statuse.

Well you got some point on here which is actually true where this kind of thing will continue as long there are people who do continue to keep funding fraud projects.
Scammers will just rinse and repeat as long they can able to make money.No matter how many times we do able to make up some warning but people never ever learn
as long they haven't experienced on losing money even to those who already experience does still continue to put up money.With IEO existence this ico scams is somewhat being
reduced and I'm wondering if there would be an another new IEO hack would exist for some time like exchange of said ieo comes to a completely scamming incident or purely some very obvious price manipulation.