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Here are my solution to growing complained by the bounty hunters regarding KYC.

1. As we all know KYC by its definition. We all know that we aren't obliged to do so. Since no fiat or investment we did to get the tokens which solely the purpose of KYC to monitor the funds ans circulation of token during purchase. Don't comply and don't join bounty with KYC! Simple as that.

2. If youre afraid of KYC asked someone to do it for you and gave him funds in return. I think this is happening on some cases ( But this is form of cheating)

3. Read again step 1. If youre still have complain and still want to join that particular bounty and you are really a nutcracker!

Yes I agree with the first step. For those who are afraid to do KYC maybe they have some agenda or did something. I know how sensitive KYC is and we shouldn't not let give our details so easily. If you dont want KYC then, dont participate on the campaign. No one is forcing you to join hence find one without any KYC simple as that like the OP said.

I have never joined a bounty campaign where KYC was mandatory. But then there were some cases in which the KYC requirement was initially not there and then the bounty manager added it just before the bounty payout. And I am not very sure with step #2. It would be really difficult to find someone who is willing to undergo the KYC process for you. And it will destroy the whole purpose.

Anyone who participated in Bounty and bounty admin and see work was done should be paid for work done. Even if the person used multi account and admin saw work done. It simple means the individual added enough effort to do three or four persons job. I feel the host should get the bounty coin and pay hunters with ETH or btc for the individual is afraid of kyc. Not everyone want their I'd out there

You can employ step two in case they changed their rules, and now asking for KYC, don't worry it's not you that cheats the first one that cheats is the campaign, because they know if they implement KYC right away few people will join and they want free advertisers for those who don't want to undergo and yet finished the campaign, so they are the real cheat..

I believe there are other ways to checkmate issue of multiple bounty accounts which are efficient without necessarily asking for KYC. KYC should be strictly restricted to investors in my humble view

KYC is one of violation on the core definition and purpose of decentralization.
However, it is an unavoidable adaptation of crypto world, despite of the fact that decentraliztion damaged by KYCs a little bit.
KYC is mandatory in some cases, such as bounties.
Because, if bounty hunters surpass screening process, and make bounties become centralised, it is obviously bad for decentralization as well as the effectiveness of bounties for companies who spend funds to run them.
Bounty hunters, usually dump their free assets from bounties at once, that often have negative impacts in short period, or they can create fuds to sell their free ones at highs.

Don't participate on the bounties is the only solution if you don't want to under go KYC.Most of the bounties will ask for KYC procedure at the end of bounty weeks so we really don't have any idea about that bounty we are participating have KYC or not to get the rewards.Even bounty campaign managers don't know about it until the project team insist for them to do it to get tokens.

Well a lot of chaos from the bounty participants concerning the kyc. I have tried to understand why they run from  the kyc and only one thing became their problem which is that their IDs can be sold out sort of to commit crimes. But this whole thing is simple.  If you don't want kyc, avoid any project that offers it

the problem and complain about KYC from  bounty hunters and any ICO participant is that these ICO scammers are only asking for KYC documents to first pretend they are legit while they clearly are scamming and second to sell their personal documents on the dark net and make an extra amount of profit from it.

I support your idea but that will be considered illegal. To me, it's not a must to do kyc and also its not a must to engage in bounties that offers kyc

I agree that the developers like to talk about the KYC procedure at the end of the bounty program.And I'm sure they do it because they're greedy.In such cases, the best solution is paragraph 2 from the author of the topic. If they are deceiving us,then we have the right to do so.

I think it's better to avoid bounties with kyc and go on with bounties that doesn't offer kyc. There are many of them out there else, just abide by the bounty program rules if they require kyc

unfortunately there is no solution to something that is seriously flawed. there shouldn't be any KYC for any of the bounty hunters in first place specially since they are not really participating in the fund raising and they are only "workers" that are supposed to be paid for their time that they waste advertising these crappy projects to other users.

Lol agreed. If bounty hunters don't want to do KYC verification or complain about it, then don't join bounties, go join signature campaign that paid bitcoin, so you don't need do KYC. As i said on the previous thread, KYC is also good to eliminate all alt accounts, so you can get more tokens.

In KYC's defence, i believe is can be used to flush out multiple account owners in a campaign thus preventing someone taking over the whole bounty pool which is unfair to other innocent bounty hunters

You're absolutely right about KYC. We don't have to. You need to stay away from ICOs who want KYC. The request for a token distributed as a prize is nonsense to the KYC. For this reason, I participate in Bounty who do not want KYC when possible. So I don't have problems.

This is the same concern I am worried when joining bounty campaigns that require KYC. The information we are giving away can be used in identity theft. This is also the reason I stopped joining bounty campaigns. I used the first solution OP stated. There is plenty of campaigns you can join without giving away personal information.

Yes, they simply introduce an affirmation of the person at the wrong stage. The project initially considers the tokens. Then the project starts to dance with proving. I do not believe such projects. If the project is normal, it immediately fulfills all the conditions; if not, then it is not necessary to go through a confirmation.

Number 2 is way to get scammed by someone. Most of those who participated the ICO are also trying to get away with KYC and if you happen to ask someone to do KYC for you then good luck if you end up with someone who are faking their documents. Those who also participated in ICO are also participating the bounty programs, that's what I notice a lot in crypto.

If you want to take it fairly while you see the project is verified not a scam then submit your KYC fairly.

I would never give away my KYC to anonymous people who run an ICO, why would anyone do this?

If the ICO want their bounty hunters to do KYC, then I think they should make a deal with an exchange, where they will list their coin, and then only allow bounty hunters with KYC accounts on that exchange to join their bounty!

If you do not like the kis procedure, pay the money for what he would do for you. If you are really so afraid. But I assure you the data of all people who have ever bought something with a passport on the network for a long time. And they are afraid that someone will use them for their own purposes is stupid.

If the bounty is legitimate then I think there's nothing to worry about when doing KYC. Plus, if the bounty you'll be getting is big. I think it's safe to give info. But, be smart and test the legitimacy of the project.

Asking someone to do KYC for you is not that needed. You just need to be smart in order to determine if the project you invested on is legitimate.

Fyi most of bounty management that asking for kyc to join bounty task is not about money circulation or investment, it is totally to avoid cheating of multiple accounts that run by one person. By doing kyc, it will clearly make clean participants and real human joining their bounty.
I personally will never join any bounty that requires kyc. I don't know why, but sending my personal ID and selfie to someone I don't know in the internet is something weird for me. Except I do some investment or maybe on crypto exchanges.

Doing what you said on number 2 is kind of illegal because you are trying to buy someone's identity. If you find a person that is willing to do it for real it will surely cost you a lot of money, and we are talking about fiat here or you will probably get scammed because they will use some fake identity to complete that KYC. So best recommendation is either complete KYC yourself or don't join any project that requires that.

Unfortunately, KYC requirements do no longer determine the genuineness of a project, the best advice is if you are not comfortable with submitting your details for KYC on a particular project, you simply ignore it. There are hundreds of projects that do not ask for KYC details from participants. Personally I am very selective and seldom join in are one that requires KYC

Some are indeed KYC needed for bounty hunters. And some are not. Like the Bcnex project, all bounty hunters are required for KYC. Maybe with the existence of kyc for bounty hunter is to avoid people who use many accounts. But actually I have no problem with Kyc. If it's not too difficult, I'll do it. But if it is difficult to do KYC it will certainly make it difficult for the bounty hunter.

For those bounty hunters complaining about this KYC thing, better for you to get out of bounty. Bounty managers are asking KYC for them to minimize/eliminate the cheaters on the bounty campaign they are running. So if you still complain then i think you are one of those cheaters that have multiple accounts.

Not entirely for crypto. before buying crypto you better know what crypto is and how crypto works so that it can make a profit. Many fail because they don't care about the coins they use as investment or trading. I have tried the exchange called CoinSwitch
Trade 300+ coins without creating an account and NO KYC is required on their exchange (https://coinswitch.co/#!How-to-do-cryptocurrency-trading-on-CoinSwitch).You may please create an order for small amount.  if you face any issues in order creation or completion their team is available for 24*7 to support.Once you are satisfied with their service, you may then create orders of larger amounts. Their team is very friendly and helpful. Through their exchange  users can access the crypto-markets.

We should definitely need more bounty campaign with escrows, as it will solve the trust problem between the developers possibly scamming the bounty hunters or adding KYC at the end of the campaign so they could keep most of the coins from bounty campaign.

I do not think that KYC is bad, but I still do not want to send my personal data to any company. I believe that this procedure is necessary for investors.

My solution is not to participate in most bounty campaigns that want KYC. I only agree with the bounty campaigns which want KYC of the bounty managers I trust. I prefer not to participate in other KYC bounty campaigns. Because I don't think it's right to give my credentials to a fairly new project.

Wow, thank you genius.

1. Bounty says, no kyc and at the end they ask for it? And your whole rubbish system is down.

2. Why should someone get paid with my job.

3. Read 1 again.

It is nothing strange is undergoing a KYC process. If you have nothing to hide, it takes several minutes and you will get your rewards on time. The only thing is that if a KYC is announced after the TGE, I would have some questions.

Stop promoting ICOs and giving your IDs to some unknown strangers on Net , ICO owner don't do KYC and ask investors and bounty hunters for it , such irony....
ICOs are just easy money grab and it already proven in 99% of ico projects , they just make crypto sphere look ugly in eyes of new comers and public

Exactly, I have experienced the same thing. After the program has started they begin to impose KYC on us..
It's completely unfair. Paying someone to carry out KYC is also not an option.. In a market where you are not even sure of the success of the project

You are encouraging people to do crime. It's a clear crime and you can be punished for doing so. Using fake KYC may also get you related with more international crime. I think people who are not wanting to share identity, they should ignore it.

Just don't join in bounty campaigns that requires KYC if you want your information to be safe.

Unfortunately, there are some bounty campaigns that will only requires KYC when the distribution of token happens which is another form of cheating to the bounty hunters. This is the disadvantage of the bounty hunter because their time will be wasted if incase the team will require KYC to get the bounty tokens.

As you know every ICO are demanding KYC for investors and also for bounty hunters, so kyc should not be for bounty hunter and if kyc than should be easy.

Though we as bounty hunters are not directly defined as customer s, but in a sense that we are holders of their tokens. Then that would presume that we are also customers holding their product. Which in my opinion, KYC is a strategy of the project owner to avoid multiple account on their bounty programs.

I agree to these statement some company that promote on bounty campaign required todo a kyc to get your token,but because you are afraid to give your identity then you will not do a kyc in other words company get a free promotion on you.
Well the step 2 is good idea if you dont want todo kyc then get someone todo it for you.

What you say can be true if KYC is predetermined by devs. However, most projects do not determine it when bounty first start, but do so after bounty is finished. This is not a big problem, but the participants join because the conditions are appropriate.

If the bounty organizers suspects users of using multiple identity, there can be several other ways to verify that none of the participants are entering multiple times without asking for private informations. Even if they need to carry out one, they should do that using a trusted third party identity verifier.

Your second point is not only a form of cheating, you are exposing another person to get his identity stolen if for some reason you choose a bad ico to participate, so while you may be protecting yourself from losing your information you are now affecting another person in your life just to get a few dollars which is not fair at all, the best solution is your first point, it is better to miss in a good bounty in order to protect your information because it doesn't matter how much money you get it is never going to be as valuable as your personal information.

maybe the kyc system for bounty hunters is a pretty good thing, at least it can reduce a little cheating.
you can imagine if someone has 5-10 senior accounts and then enters into 1 bounty project then if he is lucky he will get more tokens than the investors who bought

But other things that are considered by the participants are now the bounty itself does not provide many benefits for its users and they also feel disadvantaged if they have to send their data without getting a profit

Of course, we are not required to undergo KYC, but if some company announces that it will conduct this procedure, then we simply have no choice

For some of us is easy, for others is complicated. In most cases the KYC measures are related with the fear stealing the identity.

Just not joining is a not a solution for popularization though thats the issue. I would love to just not join and I do, I hate giving away my KYC and never have to anyone ever but that doesn't stop the new ICO's coming out with KYC requirements neither, there are more and more of them every single day. Which means maybe one day most of the ICO's will have KYC requirement and that is definitely not nice to hear.

So, when people talk about and complain about the KYC requirements "just not join" is not a good solution, yeah I will not join but I also want them to stop asking for it just for the future as well, so they don't become an example to the other ICO's coming up. We would like to find a way to stop KYC requirement all together or at least keep it a not liked option so we could continue having good non-KYC ICO options for ourselves.

I also think that KYC for members bounty is not needed, but there is nothing wrong with that. The project team also does not want to deal with multi-accounts and therefore they use KYC to prevent this.

I seriously don't have any issues with doing of KYC as bounty hunters because at least through it the activities of cheaters can be check mate. The only issue I have with it is bringing it at the end of the campaign knowing fully well that not all hunters will have the required documents for it, I think this is another form of cheating.

It would be nice to still check not only the Bounty Hunters, but also check the team, because in most cases today, participants in the Bounty companies do not receive any rewards. Why are you all trying to find a scammer among the participants of the Bounty company, which in one way or another still performs the amount of work, But if the Bounty company deceives everyone without going over the participants, then there are no levers of pressure on such situations. For me, kyc is not a problem, but in most cases when I participated in the Bounty company and provided my kyc, I remained as a result without tokens or with coins that cost nothing at all.

What if bounty applies KYC when at the end of the campaign while we have joined for more than 12 weeks, will you still not do KYC? if not it means you will work in vain

That is why OP has given point 2 as doing KYC by help of other person and in against you have to pay him some fees. but in this case mostly it will get scammed as the KYC holder will get the token and if not giving to the real owner then it is one type of cheating. So only join that project who is runned by the reputed campaign manage who are not changing their rules after the campaign is ended.

Got nothing against KYC.
But my position that KYC must be announced at the beginning of campaign, so hunters could decide join or not, I personally will never join.
In cases, where bounty is announced shortly before campaign end or even payments - it is cheating from dev side I believe.

There is also some complains about hunters sending fake information.
It is cheat but I think they are doing it to keep their personal information safe,
Because we don't know what would happen next after the KYC.

you dont need to cheat and give false information if you feel that the campaign that you'v join is legit . cheating them could only give you a bad karma  but i think its okay to use fake infos or fake kyc's if you arent unsure to the legitimacy of the project  .


Yes they are announce if  campaign will require a kyc or not before they start .  your right .  its already considered a cheating or scamming if they will announce the kyc at the end of on the middle of the camapign . you can still make a complain to the campaign that your onto  .

Number one would have been more doable but only if theres a union for hunters to ensure every hunter adheres to the rules or laws bounded by bounty hunting else it will be a movement in futility 

Exactly. The problem with several projects is that they announced the KYC requirements afterwards. So those hunters who don't want to comply with KYC are in rage because they wasted their effort. And some others will require to download their app, and then, you will complete your KYC in that app. Now, where is the fairness here? People should respect the fact that many people are hesitant to disclose their personal documents because we don't know where these data will end up to. Are we too trusting with these websites and not care for our own privacy? I would comply such requirement if I know by heart that project is 100% legit.

As a bounty hunter there are cases whereby KYC wasn't specified until the end of the campaigns and voom there is KYC before you can claim your token, to me I see that as cheating and the BM should desist from it.

I do not agree with your terms

The perfect solution to kyc complains by hunters is transparency and loyalty from project devs and bounty managers


Inform hunters of kyc at the start of bounty; then let any willing hunter to work for you
It wouldn’t cause any hassle that way

I support you No 1 point, if you have no interest in KYC just stay away from bounties that requires it. But have seen cases where KYC was introduced to deprive hunters

I agree with your last point, the developer should have informed the KYC before try to start the bounty. that means the team gives a chance for the bounty hunters to decide their decision regarding it. That will not create a big problem between developers and participants.

It's a very good thing that they are afraid of KYC and i think it's best to avoid KYC in all this ICO platform, because most their database are not secured and they end up becoming a shitcoin, all the information you have with them is lossed and can be gotten by anyone who have access to the database of the project. I don't see any reason why any one have to carry out KYC in order to make purchase of a token since we did not make the purchase via fiat or any government issued currency.

The second point is cheating and hunters are doing this not because they are afraid of losing their personal data or something else. They just have already passed KYC from their first account and are searching for some other persons to get more rewards.

and yet if the Headhunters use several accounts, their work still benefits the Bounty companies. But there is no need to talk about risks here, because Headhunters are much more often deceived than the company’s ico.

KYC is currently an interesting matter to continue to be discussed among bounty hunters. You all depend on your decision and you have the right not to do KYC. But there are risks like you don't get tokens. This KYC is based on the consideration of Team members.

KYC is very complicated for the bounty hunter besides that many projects suddenly make regulations to require KYC I prefer KYC rules made from the start so that bounty hunters can make choices join or not

KYC was previously used for investors, but with many people who cheat. So that a lot of KYC is used for bounty hunters. But this is indeed not needed by bounty hunters to do KYC. And there are still many projects that don't use KYC, so you don't have to complain.

I think it’s very bad to ask someone to take KYC for you. This is a fraud for which you can get punishment.
It is better not to participate in projects that require the passage of the KYC, than to deceive and present the personal data of another person.

Yes, it is simple, just don't join or take a part in bounty campaign requiring KYC to get reward.
There are still many campaigns not asking for KYC to be eligible, just find that and you will be ok.
But in my experience, a legit ICO with KYC required usually their token value will be worth much better.

What is see is that sometimes a project doesn't mention KYC in their first days when the bounty began, but at the end of the project. nearing the distribution of the tokens, some of that project requesting for KYC, i think that is deceiving the bounty participant. That what makes the bounty participant to get angry.

There are projects that only require KYC when their bounty campaign ends. You will have to choose to give up the reward or KYC.

Things that didn't clearly stated before bounty have been started, if this things was clearly place inside the rules, bounty hunters have a choice to join or not if they are not willing to share and provide their real information, the problem is they just been asked after the bounty so they got no choice but to comply or else they won't get anything from their share.

The problem is that while the project is not known help to tell about it. As they gather the necessary amount of money, hunters are no longer needed. kyc helps them not to pay much bounty hunters. Since not everyone will provide their documents.

The problem for bounty hunters right now is that the ICO teams first silence the need to pass the KYC test, or directly say that there will be no such test, and then, at the end of the ICO, change their mind and announce the KYC test. In fact, this is a fraud on the part of the ICO team, since after that many bounty hunters for various reasons cannot pass this test and lose their earned tokens. A KYC check on bounty hunters is illegal, but if it is done, it should be carried out at an early stage, or at least be able to familiarize yourself with the requirements of this check, so that we can assess whether we can pass it further.

KYC in the first place is the loss of tokens for hunters,especially who make bounty social networks,and as a rule there are about 70-100 companies at once,and then track all just not real,where and what is planned,when payments,and whether KYC, plus there are still different wallets,so here KYC is a kind of hindrance

Yeah, It's simple, don't join bounty campaign that need to pass kyc, but current situation is a lot of project required kyc or change the rules at the end of campaign to force participants pass kyc to receive rewards, in this case what is your choice, pass kyc or give up reward？

the only step for not doing kyc is not following the bounty.
You can join other projects without having to grumble.
because there are so many bounties you just have to choose.

If we ask someone to provide their data so that we can pass the KYC check, I do not think that this can be considered a fraud.

Firstly, this activity is not regulated and there are no regulatory legal acts that would oblige bounty hunters to be tested by KYC. Such a requirement is an excess of authority by the ICO team.

Secondly, fraud punishable under criminal law is not considered to be any deception, but deception for the purpose of stealing funds or other property. Bounty hunters in any case earn their tokens, and therefore there will be no fraud on their part, so far only ICO teams that bring their check at the end, or after the completion of ICO and in fact do not pay for bounty hunters them tokens.

True.  Stop joining if you're are not comfortable about that kyc. It's so easy. Lol .  In fact they didn't force you to participate so why complaining?  bounty project put that kyc for interested investors only so if your not interested then you're not belong on it , wherein keep looking forward instead to those project tha have no KYC stuff to protect your information.

Well that is true. If you think your identity will be stolen then avoid campaigns that requires KYC. I have joined on some bounties that asked for KYC and so far i didn't have any problem on it. I just don't like AIRDROPS that requires it.

It's not about you are willing to put your identity or you are not willing to put identity but this is cryptocurrency, I can say most people who has been in crypto investment for many years they don't like KYC because cryptocurrency is a decentralized system and we hope that it will keep to be maintained. I just worried when KYC still used for bounty campaign or anything else related to cryptocurrency so sooner or later cryptocurrency is not a place that can be kept secret.

The bounty programs that specify NO KYC in their threads are much more popular. Bounty managers should specify at the start of the campaign whether it is needed or not

No, you are wrong, definitely wrong. KYC is the main thing for the ICO because the investor may invest the money which is stolen or money laundering. So why bounty hunters need KYC?

I agree that bounty participants should avoid bounties with KYC requirements as much as possible, though some bounties may suddenly change their terms during or after the campaign. This is a security risk for participants.

KYC is no guarantee that the ICO project can succeed. And until now many coins are not listed on the stock exchange and even projects are not developed by Tim. I think we must be more careful in determining a project. And projects that do not use KYC can become successful and be listed on the Exchange.

On point number one, people are held, prisoner, the bounty manager will announce there will be KYC but in the final week or bounty hunters are about to claim their stakes, they change the rule and ask for KYC and point number 2, people are doing that because the first one who does it is the bounty manager or the token administrator.

Maybe many hunters are disappointed because KYC is at the end of the campaign. And before the project began they said that they did not use KYC. But at the end of the ICO, the team changes the rules and prizes of participants must go through KYC before they receive the token. This certainly disappointed them because the team changed the rules as they pleased.

I don't think that you will have any solution to this hunters issues with kyc. They  already have 100 and 1 problems with anything called kyc. The only solution is to for this hunters to just forget about any bounty with kyc

I think that the problem that many bounty hunters have is not doing KYC but giving personal data to perfect strangers and most of times "scammers". I think a possible solution is to require that KYC must be done using a trusted third part app like CIVIC for example, so that KYC will be done and your personal data will not be in ICO team hands

Many bounty campaign participants always complain about the KTC procedure and look hard for pass KYC, how ever bounty campaign manager have rule how to make KYC is easy and not hard to pass it.

Usually those who do KYC are third parties and there are some who use application services, in my opinion it can make the KYC process easier to do. KYC is a must because it will have such a huge impact on the success of a project. KYC is a thing that needs to be done and for anyone who rejects it must be a matter of suspicion, KYC can reduce Alt-accounts and it's proven to work on many projects.

This is actually a matter of bounty hunters who follow the campaign, do not accept the decision. Because from the start, KYC was not recommended, but at the end of the campaign it was implemented. Before the campaign began, of course there were some people who asked about KYC they should not have made the decision to require KYC at the end of the campaign if at first they don't expect that.

According to my own point of view participating or investing in a project is not must, if know that you can't undergo kyc is better you look for another project that don't require kyc because if you look for someone to do kyc for you, you are part of the people that are jeopardizing the system.

My KYC is only for investors, but now the gift and Airdrop program uses KYC. I think this is wrong because KYC is not used for bounty hunters, but those who have invested money. But we also can't do much about the regulations made by the Team, and now all the decisions are in our hands.

i think KYC is a normal procedure that need for avoiding cheat hunters, who apply with multiple account, but it must be sounding from the start of the bountu program, not right after the bounty program finished.

I think Kyc is very important to know the identity of the user, so that the user does not abuse the account in making transactions

What you're saying is true. And what is the solution for projects that want KYC when the bounty campaign is over? Because they did not want kyc at the beginning of campaign.

Nobody wants to be a nutcracker or lose their shares in a bounty hunting, bounty manager kept changing rules, they announce that they do not ask for KYC the next time they ask for KYC before the bounty is finish one of this is DESICO and ADAB SOLUTIONS.

That is exact what will happened into the future, changing rules are part of the policy made to the campaign and the manager of bounty have no power on that once the decision of the team requires KYC for every participants. So, as a bounty hunters we don't have a choice except to accept the situation in the benefits of earnings.

There are dome projects that will not ask for KYC at the the beginning or during the bounty. It is when it has ended that you will see them beginning to ask participants to do kyc.
In a situation like that, you may have to either do it or leave it, but your time might have been wasted.

The only solutions are for these ICO to stop changing their terms or rules, they announced no KYC then after the ICO is finished and they are going to distribute the tokens, they changed the rule and ask all bounty hunters to go through KYC, if they stop changing rules about KYC there will be no complaints coming from bounty hunters.

Problem is several projects won't pre-inform bounty participants about kyc requirement at the initial stage. When bounty is near to closing then they come out guns blazing to demand you perform kyc before being rewarded

I get the purpose of KYCs, but on the other hand, I hate the idea of giving out personal information online, especially to companies.
Guess we can just ignore bounties that enforce it and hope it won't spread, there ought to be a better way to handle it though.

If you dont have to be afraid of, why not do the kyc thing? And if its for the betterness of the project we should do so. But many says that kyc is not necessary to the bounty participants, in order to receive rewards. But if its required and nothing to lose to you, just do the kyc.

Why should you give out your data to all? In fact, now a photo of your passport and you yourself can be very harmful if they fall into the hands of a bad person.
Ok, the concept, why KYC in exchanges is understandable - everything is simple. But when the bounty manager says that bounty project is without KYC, and then at the end introduces KYC form - this is fraud and injustice.

there have been many complaints about KYC for bounty hunters, increasingly protested and discussed more and more projects that require KYC.
in the end I believe that inevitably we have to follow the rules of the DEV and the team of the projects we follow.

there is no other thing that can be done to really do a verification to find out cheating besides kyc although pro contra but I personally support it because at this time cheating is very much happening

That is if you still insist on doing bounty hunting and if you still must insist to do it with projects like that. Maybe it is time that people rethink what they see the crypto market is and realize now it is no longer a get rich quick scheme? I mean guys, nothing is free. And when teams see nothing but cheats, fake shilling, and ZERO return on investment, why do you think they ask for KYC?

When they need money, they have to pay a cost for it.
It is better for them if they do KYC to get money on trusted sites, but it is not common stories of bounty hunters.
Actually not simply or complicated here about KYC.
I think KYC is simple step to do, but the security level of KYC and personal information is more important.

I accept the first factor you have mentioned because the KYC process is now almost taking place in every aspect of our lives and can cause great problems for many individuals. The fact that almost every project now wants to implement a KYC transaction is also a factor for many members. It's also a matter of discussion to send credentials to unreliable projects or projects that are not interesting to the investor. For that reason, I would advise not to send documents such as identity cards or passports to bounty campaigns that have not provided trust in the market. As a result, the purpose of some people is not to make money, but to collect data and to obtain credentials.

Yes, I see some mandatory bonus programs KYC but the bonuses they pay us very little, for those projects I will not do.

KYC is often asked already to most of the campaigns today but if you have doubts about giving your personal details, then find another campaign that would not need any KYC. For me KYC has really a good purpose but as a human, sometimes we tend to think negativity over positivity.

Not all of this is cheating, only a small example will run if you have gotten a profit on the condition that you have to provide identity through KYC.
just an example like what I follow OTTPAY.io is one example of a bounty that must and needs to send KYC and until now it can still be used..
Once again not all of those gifts cheat.. Good luck all..

Is this really a solution?or is this a joke?ofcourse its everyone’s prerogative if what decisions to make,so this is nothing to tell for
Still this is the common things hunters do right now because this can hide their personalities but for me this is cheating and not a good human behavior

So what are the help you made for the bounty hunters then?

Well, the majority of the ICOs asking the bounty hunters for KYC turns out to the scammy ones. therefore, it is no-no for me to join any new bounty with KYC anymore. I stopped from joining any ICO that is asking for my personal data because they might sell it on the Darkweb.

That's indeed, but i think any ico that interested to implement KYC verification must need to give awareness when they are creating a bounty announcement. this to avoid there will be a lot of cons with the participants if they didn't know that will apply KYC.

Nowadays some ultra-modern cheaters are asking kyc process for only proving that they are totally legit and don't want to any work which is against the government. Thus they are spreading their Trap. And some fool people enter into the trap and got by the scammers. We should aware of scam ico. Though here we are talking about bounty hunters problem so want to say bounty hunters mainly don't invest any ico. So bounty hunters should avoid uploading kyc document to any scam project. Good luck. thanks

I think this is the only solution — any ICO that wants to implement KYC should state the requirement from the beginning and not in the middle or at the end of the bounty program when hunters have laboured so hard. Then if there is need to implement it where it was not stated from onset, I think the DEV and the hunters should agree on a way around it and not necessarily force the procedure on hunters where a lot end up losing their rewards.

Yes you are telling the right thing but what if the project haven't ask for KYC procedure at the beginning of the bounty campaign but they asked you when the campaign ends? Unfortunately they wouldn't send the bounty tokens if you don't send your KYC. So they are using the bounty hunters the ways that they want and it is something very very bad..

It's not as if bounty hunters do not know nor understand the meaning of kyc or what it entails ,the issue here is that the rewards from this projects are not much, some are even as little as $20 and requesting kyc of a hunter over $20 is not fair.

You consider yourself the smartest and you know everything. Vyogoda not determined by the instant live on the project. So compare it with $ 20 is not worth it. Your personal data has long been online. And all who need them easily take advantage. Just this procedure does not give any guarantees.

I'm even tired of KYC, by now my information has been used by a lot of projects for their own rewards and I never had a share of it. I have decided not to take part in projects that need KYC before payments are made.

I think most of the complaints on KYC are not those bounty campaigns who already set that rule at the beginning of the campaign but from those who require it at the very end. Most hunters do not want their bounty rewards to be held hostage and be forced to undergo KYC procedure to claim their due reward. Even if there is that rule that "we reserve the right to change the rule......" clause, that should only cover changes in bounty allocations and not add rules such as KYC and exchange voting.

I fully agree with your opinion, since it is already a statistic that all projects that are forced to provide passport data cost nothing. They either do not pay out the tokens, or give the tokens to the Bounty company altogether, and then disappear completely from the sight of all users of cryptocurrency.

You are only thinking about the possible benefits of know your customer policies but you are not thinking about the real world consequences of what happens when things do not go as expected, when most of the projects in the market are scams then there is a real risk that whatever information that you send to them is going to be stolen and sold on the darknet, are you willing to risk your personal information just to earn a few dollars? Because that is the risk that you are taking if you do that.

This will be not a simple solution because huge amount of project is also changing the rules while they are doing token distribution. Even you check it does not need any KYC, it can be changed easily.

the solution for bounty hunters who don't want to do KYC is actually very simple, the solution is enough to follow bounty that does not require KYC, indeed most bounty now need to fill KYC but you can still find bounty that do not require KYC, all choices are yours

I believe that KYC should be for those who bought the tokens with their money, and not for bounty hunters. Why I said it should be for rthose that tokens with money is because with the KYC they will be able to check the sources of funds that were raised during the token sale. But, I’m against bounty hunters doing a KYC. So as a bounty hunter, the best you can do is to avoid those with KYC. There is no need for the second point op has made, cause you might pay someone to do the KYC and at the end you won’t benefit from it, and it is also cheating to use another person’s info.

There is really no need for this second point, the first point is what I’m agreeing on. If you don’t want to give out your info for KYC then you should simply not go for ICOs with KYC. And most of them with KYC are even scam, they never pay you for the work you do and they will also make use of your information that you’ve given to them. So, you should simply avoid them.

I truly don’t know too, there is this project that I participated in then called AFCASH of Africunia Bank, I was surprised too that they didn’t ask us to do KYC from the beginning until after ICO has ended and they were about distributing tokens which was even for hunters.

I really don’t see sense in any of these policy, this is why we are not moving forward because of too many competition in this crypto investment, once one project hears that the others are doing something, they all tend to do the same without first checking if it is necessary or not. Why we are then in a decentralized system, if they still do all these things found n a centralized system.

Personally, I am in favor of the KYC process, because it has arisen as a result of greater regulation on the part of the competent authorities to avoid the large number of frauds that had been observed in this nascent market. I think that anyone who is interested in doing things seriously should not oppose this simple measure. Perhaps the most opposed to it are cheaters and multi-accounts, because if you do not agree with this measure, you are not obliged to participate in such a bounty.

Almost every bounty and ICO projects asking the KYC! So, by ignoring KYC, it will not be helpful! I think! KYC is not bad at all, it is a procedure to avoid the scammers or abuser of bounty! If someone avoids a good bounty because of KYC, then I would say him not to do bounty at all!

This is a serious crime in most countries and I don't recommend it. Using ID mules can get you in trouble.

You made a solid point here, if you can't do KYC stay off the bounty  buy have also come to understand that some BM are now fraudulent  by imposing KYC after bounty has ended which to me isn't right

Know Your Customer (KYC) as it is known is not a bad idea though but it literally affects the anonymous mode being canvassed by cryptocurrency as a decentralized distributed ledger system where information are not visible to everyone. Though in some cases regarding bounties, it’s applicable to curb cheating and inasmuch as that they should be a way of remaining anonymous for security reasons to avoid stealing of participant’s records for gains other than what it’s meant for.

Filling a KYC form is quite easy and i think people should always believe it is voluntary and not mandatory especially in investing, you have to complete KYC only if you are willing to buy. And another thing is that bounty of these days have also been stating it clearly in any bounty if its going to involve KYC or not. So let just keep it low off this forum

The main concern of many bounty campaign managers is multispam accounts. Kyc gets around that.

Maybe there is a less intrusive way to do Kyc. For example if the project does an IEO instead it can use the exchange's checking process to make sure there is only one real person per account. Telegram helps too but isn't as robust.

Also all the bounty hunters acting like someone owes them something need to wake up - a project doesn't owe you anything if you're just spamming - and bounties are completely optional!

You just should not try to cheat the system. There is nothing complicated or strange in passing a KYC and everybody is capable to do it. Be honest, verify your identity and get your rewards. Nothing can be easier.

Bounty hunters hate KYC  because they can't join multiple account in one campaign because through KYC  all bounty activity can be monitored and can only use 1 account.
 As a bounty hunter myself I'm favor KYC so it would be fair to all bounty hunter that only 1 account to be used.

Most of those bounty tokens which demand KYC from the hunters turn out to be shit coins. Imagine trading your identity for 5 dollars.

Simple you're right if you not want to KYC so don't join to the bounty campaign who are required to pass the real informatiom that you have that's it because they have more bounty until now who are not requiring to submit any of your information and I thinl that's is good for you and you can join if you want and I believe you will not encounter any problems once they are distributing tokens.

i think there is another reason for this dude.maybe they prefer to keep secret their identity document.moreover if bounty reward has less value.they consider it worthless if give their document.

but some projects begin to demand KYC at the end of bounty and you don't have a choice because you have done a job.

Well, you can buy on the darknet the documents of other users who sell their data. or you can ask your friends to pass for you

point number one is the best. never joining ico that need kyc to claim their reward except there is no announce about kyc, than at the end of bounty they need to fill kyc. it suck for some people.
and point number two, i think many people already do it. im sure if they have many account and following ico that require kyc, they will use other information like friend or family.
people alredy for kyc, i think it doesnt matter if some exchanger or ico require it.

I do not just admins wrote n this occasion,as it turns out that you spend time doing,and the documents in a certain period of time almost forgot,or did not,or were not,often vseo when you're about 70-80 projects in the social Seth,to keep track of all 100% generally will not,therefore, KYC will be taken away from you these tokens

some kyc process are very stringent and it takes the patient set of bounty hunters to get to adapt to the process of verification and getting verified and this has so far reduced the rate at which people have participate in kyc related bounty campaigns and i must say that it is not the best way to welcome bounty hunters as they are still contributing to the success of the project

I strongly agree with what is in the first point, and I strongly agree, if there is a bounty of applying the code for the business process in crypto, sometimes there are many times when asked for KYC and the end of the project is not valuable in the market and can stop at midway.

Yeah you're right... At first, before bounty starts there is
No kyc indicated in the rules.. But as bounty time running, they just suddenly putting all the hunters in kyc session... Especially when softcap or hardcap not reached... They will required it mandatorily telling that they will not recieve their payments if they will not comply to kyc... For me as base of my experience, seems like they are just doing this as an escape strategy to not to pay the hunters.. Some times also escape goat and just leave the project hanging and turns into scam the following days... And i agree that kyc should not be an obligatory job for hunters..

There is no problem per se when projects team ask for kyc from bounty participants, but i for one will not promote such. Since i have the privilege of choosing from so many non kyc compliant projects, i can easily go for them.

i also make it easy and participate not in any bounty that kyc demands of me. there are so many bounties without kyc, so kyc is not a problem for me either. for me, that is the best solution, because i do not want to give anyone my data.

Almost all new campaigns now are required to undergo KYC due to the regulation of SEC and OP is right that if you don't want to give your personal information then don't join but the problem is some campaigns announce KYC at the end of campaign which is unfair for bounty participants especially those hunters who have a hard time to get verified due for not having a legal documents.

But the fact is that more and more new projects are needed to do KYC at the end of the season when they will send tokens to gift participants, of course that is a very bad situation because from the beginning they did not provide clear information about getting their tokens, so the participants also will follow this rule to get the tokens they follow during the campaign time so even though we don't like whether we want to lose time?

Yeah I'm kinda avoiding bounty program that required KYC to claim my reward at the end, but it's different if the reward is high and worthful, I won't dare to miss it and I'll give my identity for it. I also avoid a KYC that required passport.

I realize that KYC verification is important but I just want to do it for projects that are handled by a trusted team and if the coin I will get is a good coin and has a large amount
the point is that I don't mind verifying KYC as long as it's worth it

there are many bounty hunters who disagree with KYC, maybe some of them use multiple accounts, so that makes it difficult for them to follow the bounty, I don't mind the existence of KYC if the project is good and guarantees data security, if the bounty hunter doesn't want to fill the KYC for bounties, look for bounty that don't require KYC

I think there are now a number of projects that from the beginning told us that this project was using KYC. And of course, things like this have become your decision. If you want to join, of course, you have to be ready with KYC. In my opinion, KYC is not a problem as long as the project has good potential.

Yes. You're right. There are also good bounties that demand KYC nowadays and if you trust the project, then you should comply with the KYC. But on the other hand, if you don't want to support their KYC system, find another bounties that will not require KYC anymore.

Totally agree with you. There are too many cheater joining the bounty campaign. And they really do not bring advertising value to ICO because most of the accounts they use are clone, virtual. But they got too many rewards. KYC need to be hard to cheater insurmountable.

I do not think it's a thing of force, I think it's a thing of choice rather. I participated in a bounty that gave strict compliance to kyc and I simply declined because I couldn't share my details for a small change. If you don't want to don't do it

Why would you advice something that is considerably a form of cheating? I guess if you really want to be involved in a projects sphere, you will going to do what is needed fairly, and equal to all of the investors just like you. KYC just meant to verify, no fund harassment so make sure to comply if you really want it.

If the project is legitimate and you trust a team that has been thoroughly tested or are confident in the project for other reasons, the KYC procedure should not be a burden. But this is not always the case, and the results of the study may not be sufficient to determine a fraudster who wants to use the personal data of gullible participants.

KYC always makes it difficult for people to participate in bounties, with different reasons, of course. For my experience, KYC is the reason why I don't want to participate in the bounty because I always forget to send my KYC and in the end I get nothing. Of course everyone has different reasons why they don't want to do KYC.

There are still good bounties out today that doesn't require KYC at all my advice is bounty hunters who doesn't like KYC for a reason or the other should just ignore bounties that requires one and go after the bounties that has no KYC implemented ,if not for security purposes KYC is good

For the time being, a big problem for bounty hunters is that the ICO teams at first hush up or even deny the possibility of passing a KYC check for bounty hunters. However, by the end of the ICO, they declare that they have changed their mind and we need to undergo a KYC check. This is quite similar to fraud, given that the task of such verification is to prevent the laundering of dirty money and fight against the financing of terrorism, and since bounty hunters do not invest in ICO projects, they should not be tested by KYC. Thanks to the KYC check, which does not have a predetermined form of its passage in advance, the ICO teams have good opportunities for any far-fetched reasons not to pay the tokens bounty hunters.

The thing is, how do you even make sure that your data is secured? These are projects that hasn't proven anything yet, and even those that seem to have legitimate whitepapers sometimes end up as fraud. I think the best solution is to just move to a different bounty campaign if you don't feel comfortable about it's kyc policy.

For those who are not willing to reveal their private data the solution could be  to sell their stakes.
There are bounty platforms where you can sell your weekly stakes for ETH immediately like on the exchange.
Other hunters who are willing to undergo the KYC process or seven some investors  could buy it cheaper
 and that would be a win - win solution.

Maybe what really regrets is when I have done the KYC process. And then I got the token they promised. However, the project was unsuccessful and many of them reasoned. This is what I regret about the ICO project and this might be my fault for not being careful when choosing the ICO project.

the most is airdrop, for bounty campaigns, there are still many who don't require kyc. it seems like more to the free gift and do not want a double account to receive donations.

 
This is the problem, most thread in bounties have this which the ICO team and the manager can change the allocation and sometimes the rules which they can tell people to do KYC at the end of bounties.

What you will do if you stayed in the campaign for 2 months and you need to do KYC to have it?

Yes it is ! If bounty hunters are afraid of verifying their identity during the bounty period then all they need to is not to join with those bounties which requires KYC, so that they are not be triggered.
It is really for of cheating because we are the ones who join the bounty campaign and not other people. It is better for us bounty hunters to do it in our own so that we will have no issues on receiving our bounty rewards.

yeah, i also regret the same thing as you.
that is why i am currently too careful in KYC, i really need to pay attention to where the project comes from and what the goals are.

i don't want the same mistake to happen again.

Even if I dislike know your customer policies if the project tells its participants that they are going to apply those policies from the beginning then it is your choice whether or not you choose to join them, but there are many projects that assure their participants that they will not ask for any personal information only to change the rules at the end, and that is very unfair to those that supported the project and now need to give out their information to get their tokens, in that case the developers are obviously doing that because they know that not everyone will share their information and then they can avoid paying them.

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if we analyze all those bounty companies from which I participated, then almost all the companies that demanded passport data turned out to be very bad in terms of remuneration. By That is why I am not very good at kyc.

It might be very difficult to get someone to do KYC for you,instead i better stay away from campaigns asking for KYC.Giving away vital information just for reward can be very dangerous.

Isn't the purpose of KYC for bounty hunters to ensure hunters are not using bots and creating multiple accounts? 

I know that one can pay another to do kyc for one .
But it's a risky game.
Besides, the best solution Will be to exempt bounty hunters whose rewards are not up to $500 worth of the token from kyc processes.

In trying to avoid KYC, we need to also be careful not to allow fraudsters take advantage of our fear in helping them promote their projects by producing projects without KYC.

Most of these projects have their website and most information that are submitted are via website and once a site installs SSL certificate on their website that automatically protect user’s sensitive information, I think this is enough to guarantee us of the safety of our information, but we need to avoid any website that is not making use of SSL, it means they totally disregard and don’t have the privacy interest of the users at heart.

Problem with point number one is they do not tell you right away if there is a KYC or not, they just tell it, after the bounty was finished and they are processing the distribution,  so even if you are not into KYC you are obliged to do so, because you will lose the stakes that you've worked with for so many months.

Often times, the project that request for kyc (even from Bounty hunters) are not only as a result of fiats but to also make sure some countries with restrictions on ICOs do not participate and thereby avoid possible sanctions or legal battles in the future as regard this.it is more like being on the safer side

Its very simple, if you're a bounty hunter as me and through research you find any promising bounty which comes with KYC and you think because of KYC you can't do it, that is your own decision. So decide whether to do a KYC bounty or not and stop the complains.

I think you advise about KYC participation is quite amazing and I really appreciate your  efforts,for me I don't like the idea of KYC from the beginning because it negate the concept of decentralization which the blockchain technology is all about

In the world of technology and Artificial Intelligence domination on the main line internet, I think utilizing KYC procedure is a one step precautionary measures as to very us, basically who knows what people can do today? we doesn't know if a technology just enrolling enormous amount of accounts. That will be dangerous. So what we need to do is to comply.

It can really be painful, many of us are being careful in the way we display our vital information to the public, and it can be very annoying after picking up the courage to trust a project and then submit the KYC requirements, only to later hear that the project was not successful, which means one will no longer have any information or trace to the project that has ones KYC and they might use it probably for an ulterior motive since the information is stored permanently in their database and like you said, we need to be very picky when it comes to investing in these projects for security and safety purpose.

Step number one was the main thing I did in hunting bounty programs. I will go for the bounty without KYC because it is less hassle and no possible leak of personal information. Complying KYC even though we are not sure whether the project will become successful is very painful as we do our best to spread the news but they had failed to pay bounty hunters that deserves the said amount allocated in the program.

yes, because the rules are very different. if in the previous year there were no kyc but still got a reward, this year or the end of this time it did not get anything but always required by Kyc. in my opinion this is unfair, and detrimental to the bounty hunter. because personal identity is very important, but if you get a big reward, I think it's okay.

You are not understanding what this is about, it is obvious that most investors do not have enough money to be subjects of such investigation, so they are not worried about that, they are worried that those in charge of the ico will sell their information to criminals in the darknet and once your information is out there it is impossible to take it back, and while that kind of information may not be very valuable for those that are buying it, it is very valuable for you and losing it is not an option.

Alas, while we have almost no influence on the abolition of KYC in bounty companies, the only way out is not to participate in such projects, it should be massive, but I understand that in current realities this will not happen.

The issue is that most bounty managers don't spread the required details for the kyc, just like you requesting for only passport or national ID only for a verification which should at least be more than that, most countries don't issue national ID yet and passport is more like what the rich only own. So at least there should be another way for that expect personal details.

That's right. If someone does not want to participate in the KYC, they have every right to refuse it. Dont complain and dont say that the project is fraudulent if he decided to carry out this procedure.

KYC problem is not new in the crypto projects but many projects joined to scam train for getting more coin. The dark web is full of KYC documents for sale and sometimes I fear about my documents.

I used to be more positive about KYC, but after experiencing the market crash and the fickleness of most ICOs, I have come to the conclusion that it's not worth giving very sensitive documents to a project that may not exist in one year. Projects that require KYC among bounty hunters should be avoided like the plague.

Haha. What you say is true. And, skip the prize campaign with kyc requirement. With kyc you won't know what's going to happen next.

KYC is mandatory for IEO based token sales and scam projects always want an easy solution to the problems caused by KYC. What will happen next will be interesting to watch if the team decide to cancel the token sale after collecting the documents from customers.

I think you can add an item here.
4. If you do not want to go through the KYC, then look for projects where this is not required. Leave projects with KYC for those who want their documents to be "walking" over the network.

When bounty hunters are requested to fulfill KYC it has got some valid reason. The same is going to help with the distribution process and get rid from issues, because there are many countries that weren't allowed to participate into bounties as well for some legal reasons. Maybe in future this will fade off until then no other go.

For me personally, I don't really have a problem if I have to fill KYC when the project is finished to get tokens from hard work so far, but before I have to improve more about this project and the development team behind it must also be a person answer with the identity we will enter.
It's a shame if you have participated in this project for a long time and did not get a token because you do not want to fill out KYC.

Bounty hunters are people who want fast and quick money for making small jobs required by the bounty manager. Bounty earnings are like taking an apple from the basket and bounty participants want to sell the apple for cash.

There's no other reason but to collect personal information from unsuspecting bounty hunters. If they want to get rid of cheaters then its the role of the bounty managers to check and verify each participants.

Exactly, with bunches of channels that managers can use to screen all potential bounty cheaters.
From bitcointalk account, to facebook, twitter, telegram, and Discord. I don't think that all bounty cheaters already have all set of accounts on those channels for each of their bitcointalk account in order to cheat bounties. So, if they use same accounts (such as Telegram, or Twitter) they will be discovered (by bounty managers or by forum community). Then, at the end, they all will be found, and punished (with nuked or red tags). KYC requirements for bounties are unneccessary, in my opinion.

Not all bounty managers are keen on finding cheaters and abusers, Sometimes they only rely on the community effort in exposing the cheaters and sometimes bounty managers themselves own hundreds of farm accounts that he will use to abuse the campaign the they manage.

part 2 is not good to using another person identity for your kyc
its just like cheater or scammer. sometimes bounty managers using kyc for verify the hunter

If they want to get rid of the cheaters, then there are dozens of other less invasive options. Nowadays, KYC is one of the most misused processes in the crypto domain. Most often it is used as a tool to deny the rewards to hard working bounty hunters. And in other cases the KYC documents are sold to hackers and criminals through dark markets. 

This is mostly happen that some campaign managers have many alt accounts and then they add their own alt accounts to his own campaign so that he is the only one who can earn from the campaign. They are mostly abuse this but I'm still not agree with KYC verification it's not fair to give our documents to all altcoins and tokens they should require KYC also if the ICO owners and teams are real people or not because there are many ICO are scam so giving our documents to fake project is worst than having multiple accounts. Because they can use our documents to sell in blackmarket or they can use it to claim in other bounties.
This is our big problem here in crypto they should required KYC only in ICO project owners to avoid from being scam.

But is this solution worked yet? Still lot of people were joining on the bounties no matter kf KYC asked ir nit because only at the end they find about it and they can't do much for asking abiut this as well.

Simple instruction must be follow and read before you join is the best because you will be maybe disagree to the rules so don't join that's simple. But other bounty they did not implement KYC in the few months but once the campaign ends they need to pass it so we need to talk about this also.

I certainly agree with you. If hunters are not comfortable in passing Kyc, I guess it's better for them to look for bounties who don't require it. The problem sometimes is that bounties are just announcing that they require Kyc before the distribution of the rewards. Most of them don't announce it ahead of time so that bounty hunters would be obliged to pass the Kyc just to claim their rewards.

Of course the smart thing to do before joining any bounty campaign is to ask and confirm from the dev or bounty manager if there will be KYC. Problem is they can say no KYC today and later change their minds later by the end of the campaign to force you into doing it before you receive your rewards

forcing to make a KYC at the end of bounty is the worst thing the bounty manager could make. many people just waste time for such bounties and don't earn anything.

Prize hunters are not investors so they don't have to do KYC. KYC is now widely used for gift projects. This happens because there is a lot of fraud and the presence of KYC can prevent fraud. But if you don't want to go through KYC, you have to look for gift projects that don't use KYC.

some bounty managers are afraid that with multiple accounts following their campaign, I can tolerate that reason.
however I am not happy if they change or determine KYC regulations at the end of the campaign, even though at the beginning of the campaign they never discussed KYC for claims.

actually i never get a problem with KYC on bounty campain.
but it happened on Airdrop with KYC, you know Airdrop is a field of scammer.
it make me think if bounty is same like airdrop and i am afraid if join bounty with KYC.

Right, but once a bounty hunter gives that information to an ico then he has even more incentives to keep doing it as there is less competition for those spots as some are not willing to compromise their personal information in exchange for some useless tokens, and once that information falls in the wrong hands and it is sold in the dark markets they have nothing more to lose and so they can keep participating in icos asking for KYC.

It's better they announce to hunters that KYC is mandatory initially and not after working they will implement KYC to reduce the bounty allocation. Some hunters I now don't near any KYC mandatory bounty.

I agree with the first option if you are afraid of KYC then you should not join any bounty that require KYC, the decisions of having to verify your identity is left for the team handling the project after all you as a bounty hunter will eventually becomes member of the project so you need to verify you self for record purposes.

there is nothing to complain about because the Kyc system also has a positive value that can reduce multiple accounts, on the other hand the process is not too complicated, we know that most bounty hunters don't like it because they don't always get the part when they have finished the process. if you feel objections are very simple, avoid and look for projects that don't do Kyc.

i dont think somebody will share his or her personal identity details with you. even if you share the profit. giving kyc is quite risky in this ecosystem. we have seen so many passport leaks because of those kyc processes.

I still join the required bounty KYC in case of potential projects. Because maybe that project will bring me a big amount of money in just a few months

I agree there are bounty campaigns that requires KYC at the end of the campaign. The sad part is that most bounty hunters ask this question beforehand and are replied by TBA (to be announced). Before when I encounter this reply, I cringe, and as the bounty ended hoped I didn't join the campaign.

There's nothing we can do I'm afraid...if the project requires KYC you should ether accept it or just not to participate

I guess KYC is very annoy to bounty hunters who just want to get money for their job done, however with too many scammer and cheat hunters, KYC will be a good way to elliminate those cheaters, and i personally agree with you that KYC should be announced to everyone before the bounty begins, that is useful with a famous ICO that requires good reputations and a good bounty hunters to promote their project.

Asking to do KYC for you is nothing else than providing false KYC documents or cheating. This should not be the goal of a honest bounty hunter that wants to earn tokens. It is not a solution to this problem it is a regular method of scammers.

Providing false,forge KYC documents constitute into a crime., I highly doubts a bounty cheaters will join a bounty that is asking for KYC since there's no way he can produce an ID and a unique selfie documents for all cheaters farm accounts. So one or another it helps in fighting cheaters and abusers. But like i said on my previous post, KYC is not the solution but its the bounty manager job to ensure all cheaters will be dealt accordingly.

I don't know why bounty hunters are making KYC a big threat, this is very simple ,just stop joining bounties that requires KYC and go after those that doesn't, it's very easy to do so.

It is not compulsory to participate to participate in any bounty that requires KYC, Simply look away if you see you  will find it difficult to submit to any of such verification. Some bounties and ICO's spell it out from the beginning that no KYC will be required for payment, where I find it appalling is making it compulsory when it was not spelt out ftpm the beginning

   I think real bounty campaigns often don't require KYC. I have joined many bounty campaigns and they only ask KYC when I continue round 2 or when they pay to me. So we have to find out before joining the project. Otherwise you will be cheated  easily

I don't also join to any bounty that required a KYC it's very hassle for me. I joined a bounty program at that the very last minute you need to do a KYC before you receive your reward.

You cannot forever continue to use someone else's documents for kyc and that is even an outright cheating.
It is not a must you participate in projects that ask for kyc, because there are lots of them that are not kyc compliant and will not compel theirs bounty hunters to do it.
I know of so many projects that did not ask for kyc, yet they succeeded and their prices are good on exchange.

Perhaps I am mistaken, but companies for remuneration with the requirements of KYC, in which I participated, gave more rewards.  The participation table indicates that the pool is divided into a smaller number of participants.  I think the reason for this is the lack of multiple accounts and bots.  KYC is required for cryptocurrency exchange, and if you never pass a KYC test, then every day it will be harder to work in the field of cryptocurrency.

Certainly an option, but you would be asking for trouble if the casino's books ever got audited and regulators for whatever reason come knocking at your door asking questions.  No doubt people do this and I have even seen fake dox for sale on bitcointalk.  It is probably the worst of these solutions.

Don't know what you mean by 'companies for remuneration' but I don't think the rest of your statement is true, although it could be. 

The solution for individuals is fairly simple.  If you are comfortable letting an organization know who you really are and the rewards are high enough, do the kyc procedure.  If you don't know how the org is going to use your identity information or don't trust them, don't do it no matter how high the reward is.  I would also counsel against giving up docs to airdrops and bounties, because I highly suspect they are not required to have that info.

Some bounty managers, thus struggling with multi-accounts, on the one hand it is good, but it would be great to use a service that would be trusted by all.

Finding the KYC is not possible earlier when they ask you at the later stage of campaign. ::)

One solution is avoid joining bounties or atleast don't join bounties managed by shit managers.

How can we not participate in ICO projects that require KYC verification, if in most cases the ICO team needs to undergo such verification only at the end of the ICO? KYC verification has now become a form of fraud on the part of the ICO team. After the ICO, they can already refuse to pay the earned tokens individually. Now I see that even in those few ICO projects that are on the forum, there are several participants in the campaign tables in the tables of the campaigns. There are so many frauds in ICO projects that bounty hunters simply refuse to do virtually unpaid work. We urgently need regulation of this type of activity.

The problem is that most bounties do it state abut KYC at the beginning of Bounty. They just come up with the KYC towards the ending of Bounty or when it's time for payment. That's not so cool.

We cannot lie that some people do not like the existence of KYC for their personal reasons. I believe KYC has a good side, which is reducing multi-accounts, but mostly KYC fraud, from what I observe is already a risk of investing. I am sure not all projects that need KYC are bad, look for them and are not easily affected.

I do encountered a bounty which not required a KYC in the beginning of the campaign but I didn't like it when they announced towards the distribution of the reward that they need a KYC before you will receive your payment.

I think it has a good and bad side.
The bad side is when the project is a fake project and the bounty hunter share their identity, it will bring a bad things happen.
So be careful if wants to join bounty with KYC

I think many bounty hunter getting complain their kyc, because the ico team announced it when the bounty ends. For this kyc many bounty hunter do not get their token pie. Actually I agree to give kyc but it must be announced before it starts bounty.

100% agree, just don't join the bounty then if you don't want to do KYC verification, simple as that. just go join signature campaign that paid in bitcoin, you don't need kyc for that thing. also it's your risk join a bounty that need kyc, the bounty manager usually warned it first that this bounty will need kyc.

if you want to follow an interesting bounty and have good future prospects, you should make sure to the project team, use KYC or not, before you join the project.

Yes, this is very simple if you don't do KYC. You can search for projects that do not use KYC. Most ICO companies provide policies for bounty hunters to also do KYC. This is done so that the token can really be shared with people who have worked well.

You are very straightforward, though I have the same thinking with regards to this issue. We have freedom on what we are going to do, if we don't want to reveal any of our identities then it's better to avoid any campaign that requires KYC.

We have the choice whether to join or not, in short it is better to read first all the rules and requirements of any campaign before joining. If you are not sure to the rules or to the requirements as it is not stated there about KYC then you can join their telegram or any communication channel and ask them directly whether KYC is required or not.

Giving any information about ourselves in the project is very sensitive matter. Though, in some other way you really have a point in that mate,
but if you have a valid documents, it is still fine for you to participate in that bounty project. Because it is part of the rules of the bounty manager.
So to those who hate KYC for the bounty hunters, you can decide to your own not join in that particular bounty campaigns so that there is no complain to be happen, just simple as that.

Cheating is something that could ban you from all further campaign, so I guess people should stay away from the bounty that needs KYC if they afraid to show the identity. In some cases, I see individuals wouldn't mind sharing personal data if you are one of them go ahead, get some bucks.

You probably did not consider one fact. What is very often information about the introduction of KYC is kept silent by developers. A person spends a lot of his personal time and it is important for him to pass KYC. My advice is to buy data for passing KYC on black markets and groups in telegram, it is inexpensive and safe.

if you know in the start that the bounty need kyc then don't join, if they declare in the middle of the campaign or after campaign then that's cheating

in fact this is indeed a classic reason for kyc because it is still a debate among many people who are still opposed to the existence of kyc for this reason, but inevitably to reduce fraud this must be done

If the sole reason of asking KYC is to fight the fraudster in the bounty community then this shows how weak the bounty managers in managing the campaign, Fighting fraud and fakes is the responsibility of the bounty manager and KYC is just their shortcut to make their job easier.

Mostly of the bounty campaigns right now has a required KYC even in the airdrop and the investors they are still need to complete the KYC process,and it seems that likely more of the free gift and do not want a double account to receive the rewards.

The solution you provide is actually very useful. It's simpler maybe don't participate in a bounty that requires to do KYC. That is a simple step that must be done if you don't like to do it. For me, KYC can be done and it also depends on the project. If it's good, maybe I'll do it. If not, I will not do Kyc, because usually the bounty notifies participants after the end of the campaign. So what can I do if the project is not good, I will not do it.

i think this not relevant to us.as bounty hunter we didnt spend our money at all.we just give our effort to make them known in any forum or social media.they should do this moreover we have no certainity about how much money we will received.

My opinion Is, if you are sceptical about undergoing kyc for any bounty, then make inquiries before joining though some projects impose kyc on hunters after campaign which is very terrible. I participate in kyc if the project is worth it.

I think is not good to complete kyc to join a bounty and get it, i think are enough ways to choose how bounties are distributed and there is not need a kyc, i think bitcoin and blockchain was created to send coins p2p and without the need of doing kyc.

its make no sense

there are many bounty campaign. you do not need to do any one that require KYC. some project make it compulsory because its required as part of the legal agreement the project dev entered with the country of registration.

You're right. No one is forcing bounty hunters to pass KYC. If they do not want to do this, they can simply not join such a project. Another thing is when this procedure is announced at the end of the bounty. Then it's really wrong and a lot of people find it annoying.

You propose to commit dishonest acts. I do not think it is right to ask someone to pass for you KYC. This can be recognized as fraud and can be stripped of all rewards.
If you do not want to go through KYC, then it is better not to participate in such bounty campaigns, where it is required.

Announcing KYC requirements for bounty in the middle of the campaign or worst after the bounty is the highest form of scamming tactics made by an ICO projects and they should be crucified for committing such acts against bounty participants.

All the fine print about Bounty Campaign should be posted before the start of any campaign and any changes should not be allowed under any circumstances.

Well, basically to say, there are forces that keep pushing us to join a particular bounty even though it has a KYC procedures. In that way, as a bounty hunter, we should also be considered, they are putting allot of pressure to their promising project, and what they need is an effective marketing, and we bounty hunters are not planning to ruin that, as long as they comply with us also.

Just do your KYC with your docs and you will be okay. Any other form of submitting KYC documents is nothing else than cheating the system, and as far as I know the majority of our community is still against such methods.

If you do not want to join KYC, then you do not have to join any project that requires KYC. I don't want to be giving my information to projects that will not pay me at the end and just take my information for nothing.

I know its also risk for us bounty hunters to give about our Information to them. If there's a project that requires KYC and I don't trust them, I quit and just look for other bounty campaigns.

I have come across such a situation several times and believe that the announcement of KYC at the end of the campaign is a fraud. All campaign conditions must be announced to all participants at the beginning of bounty campaign and all responsible managers clearly understand this and adhere to this rule.

Correct! You don't need to risk your identity for a small gain or profits from bounty campaign and as of now most bounty campaign hardly makes money on their ICO fund raising and this pose a great risk for all bounty hunters and most of the time bounty workers hardly get paid for their time and effort.