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I'm just ranting. I have participated in three consecutive ICO bounty campaigns: the first one was finished along with the ICO but then the ICO changed heads and then they stiffed the bounty participants and just completely ignored everyone. The second campaign was just blah, nothing. No communication, there's even no ICO scheduled to happen! The third one just completely shut down in one day, they removed their LinkedIn page too.

Things were indeed a lot different before the massive bullrun of 2017.

Anyone thinking of joining bounties, don't rely on them.

It looks like you don't know how to analyze a good bounty, have you seen the latest bounty that called harmony? even the telegram participants gets more than 0.1 btc in a month for easy work.
Please, learn more about how to analyze a good bounty and you will never regret it.
The different thing that is so difficult to determine the best bounty caused by so many scammers these days.

Why do you speak for all campaigns? You have described your personal experience, but many other people have very good results after participating in bounty campaigns

I guess you find it difficult to evaluate bounties because with what you said I can see that you just start doing bounties without proper analysis of the projects. Therefore in order not to be pissed off every time then take your time to analyse bounties before you join it.

Have promoted some campaigns as well that didn't turned out good. Somehow those who can spot scam ICO skipped checking those projects which is why I thought its going to be a good campaign to join. Some campaigns pay tokens but were not listed to any exchange for the longest time up to a year and a half.  Frustrating to see they still are doing it, this is why I get to join more on coins that is already listed or campaigns that pay BTCs.

i am a bounty hunter and already join here sience 2016 and i have a many feels here.
i think bounty campain now it is not too worth like before, but income is keep come.
the point here is don't you place your bounty job to be your main income but seccond job if you have a single time.
it is better.

If there are a lot of this happened to you then maybe the problem is not the scam projects but you?. It seems like you have a hard time diffirentiating good ICOs and obvious scam projects just like those one day shutdown case. There are also a lot of good bounties up there but dont come inside it without having any background check or youll repeat the history itself.

You have to choose better bounty campaigns
Prefer the ones who pays in BTC or ETH

There are lot of serious campaigns here in BitcoinTalk, but it's not easy to join, keep looking

I was too pissed about the bounties. Did a bounty for over 6 months but got nothing. One of the tokens given was listed for $90 total. $90 for 4 months of work. Decided to hodl and it went to $8. Then I left bounties overall.
Than I found some bitcoin paid bounties, though they are hard to find and low on the start, the pay gets increased as you stay longer.
Bitves generally have a slot left on each week end in the lowest tier.

Like you, I had a poor bounty year in 2018. Bitcoin's downtrend killed so many ICO projects, from good to bad. But my patient still brought me some sweet result, though not much. If you're still have faith in bounty, take a look on some IEO or STO bounties. Not sure if they're good ones but at least you're less likely to be scammed.

2018 was a bad year for the development of ICO projects, most of them failed, in 2018 I got nothing from the prize campaign all the campaigns that I followed failed, I think that's caused by not knowing how to analyze a project because a good project will produce good results.

Bounty campaigns are no longer a profitable business now. Most of campaigns either not finished or do not pay bounties on time,even if bounty campaign is successfully finished, coins are distributed and launched on exchange still it remains under valued, so doing hard work for 2-3 months for a project promotion for less reward is not justified. Bounty participants need to choose projects carefully, not all projects are worthless there are some good projects as well which have solid projects with dedicated team, bounties reward can good from such projects.

I guess OP need to learn a lot when it comes to selection of bounty campaign. The truth here is that we have got some good campaign these days and i am still expecting more because dev are now bringing up good project that will eventually give good return.

yes it's really hard if we compare it back with 2017. Really need have some special criteria to join a bounty instead doing some blind register and hoping for getting
the payment

The success of ICO in 2017 is what makes ICO a target for scammers ,that's why we have too Manny useless projects pumping out of no where almost everyday ,take bounties as a secondary job and promote only good new projects then you will be fine

Well 8 out of 10 are scam ICO and you were hit by one of the 8 scam, there are still good projects out there, but honestly you'll have to take them all to see who will come out the real, it has become a number game for bounty hunters and this is very time consuming, I burn out some months ago because I'm not getting good results.

I also felt the same way, I always chose the bounty campaign in detail now, especially the bcnex that was already running. try to follow the bcnex campaign, which is only a few weeks away. I think you won't be disappointed if you join this campaign.

There's people who enjoyed the results but mostly those who joined last year are really pissed because of how the market bring and the outcome results didn't favor any bounty holders, or again some might have good experience but still the numbers who succeed are much lesser than to those who are still waiting for any good news about the project.

No, I think you have chosen the wrong projects to join. Because there are still many bad projects being run in the crypto market. Our mission is not just to promote those projects. We need to spend a lot of time analyzing it before joining them in marketing.

Same story here. many Bounty campaigns not worth like before. Many campaigns dying or postponing their ICOs. I also have done 4 campaigns before this one. still, none of them moved forward. We have to be more aware when choosing campaigns than before. These days many scam projects and poor projects are alive.

Well, you as a bounty campaign participation pursuant must be mindful of the signature/bounty campaigns to join with. It is very easy to check the reviews and ask your fellow community members what are the campaigns better to join with. I personally join a lot of campaigns already. Some are scams, some are not successful and some gave me very satisfying profits and I loved it. You just have to learn from this experience and for you to avoid to ranting again, before joining a campaign, remember to ask your friends about it.

I know a good bounty when I see one. Made tens of thousand dollars back in 2017.


Thanks! I'll do this.

This happens when crypto market is down so you projects also not going to make any profits are there is stop the project without mentioning when they are going to resume their bounty campaigns. We should know that this is possible with all the bounty campaign so it is not to be considered as source of income at least you need to you have the knowledge which bounty you should avoid and participate.

Yes, bounties shouldn't be relied on much, the possibility of a success is always very low. Even at that some bounties are still good and have yielded good result though such bounties are scares these days that's why you should carefully select your bounties.

Yes, it makes no sense projects collect millions of dollars and then simply ignore the hunters and investors remove and block them in telegrams. So many scammers now. For example, WPP Energy 60 m $ Scam.

joining a bounties program is indeed very difficult, moreover the world crisis is happening in a related country that allows developers to only take investor funds, this is a problem experienced so far. always make in-depth research so that we are not stuck in a scams project that will only waste time

I have to say that you had a very bad run with bounties.  I agree that there have been a sharp drop in good campaigns, this is becasue of the market.
But also the most difficult part is research before joining. You say that one campaign did not even have an ICo in the end, then join only those ICOs which already have raised some amount to have higher chance of payment.




" Harmony" was one of those very good campaigns, but those who got in, were lucky because they got into Binance launchpad. No one could have know this before it happened.

Not all Bounty is like that. It is true that most of the bounty or ICO is really is not in good shape right now and they are struggling because of lack of funds. Not all are a scam too, investors just don't support them that is why they fail. What we need to do is to research and analyze them so that we know what bounty will be supported by the investors. I don't rant because I am the one who decides if I will do the bounty or not. If it will be successful then it will be very good but if it will not, then I will do the next one.

Amidst so many scam bounty or projects, we still have some reasonable ones. I was surprised that despite all that has happened in the crypto space, despite the level of bear market, despite the increased scam rate and despite how investors have been discouraged from investing, some projects still succeed immensely.

If they collected $60M and then disappear.  But how true can it be that they collect that much. Listing the coin isn't going o be an issue for them. Those ICO who just collected less than a million must have been wandering around looking for more to scam.


Still not enough actually, there are good bounty managers with high trust ratings before which their campaign ends begin scam too.

I guess you have learned from it already that don't depend too much with bounty campaigns anymore. We are not living anymore on 2017 but we are more aware of these fake projects, ICOs and bounties that they run on the forum. Bounty hunters doesn't have a choice but to test their luck if those projects will work for them. Some hunters find a jackpot but most of them doesn't have that luck anymore unlike the glory of 2017 where everybody celebrates with their profits there.

I somehow agree with you. As you are a senior member you might have good experience in bounties & participated in several campaigns till date and made good money too. But due to the bearish trend most of the projects get scammed or failed in this period and you should be very choosy in terms of doing any bounty do only bounties that run by genuine bounty managers that pays you earlier as well when you joined their campaign. When I join bounty I always look for high rank bounty manager.

Most ico projects end with failure after 2017.

The reason is simple, past experiences. Lots of ico's raised millions of dollars which didn't produce anything and lost most of the value. If you lose %90 of your investment with an ico would you invest anything else? I won't and also investors won't. So because they are not investing into ICO's, they are failing and bounties are getting no value at all.

Almost all bounty hunters had similar experience last year. It was a really bad time to participate, I've also got some measly rewards after months of promoting. It's been months since I last joined one, I might start again soon if the market maintains its upward trend.

Gone are the days that we were in serious bearish trend. It seemed then that things were not going to work out well. The story has now changed, but not to everyone.
Those who saw the opportunities ahead and still persisted with good analytical knowledge are getting good outcome.
It is not as if all projects are bad. Do your research and you will see that there is still hope.

It is true, that the bounty incomes have dropped science the beginning of 2018, but I believe that the market is recovering and we will see another massive wave of profitable bounty programmes in the nearest future.

That's what I feel now. I don't participate in many bounties right now. Maybe it's because many projects don't pay bounty participants which makes me feel I don't want to participate in many bounties. I only partnered in one project. Because I do not expect fully for income in the bounty.

indeed 2018 is different from 2017 the new ico project they are too ignoring bounty participants not to mention the fake projects that are very deceptive to people and detrimental to the time of the bounty participants so I think following the present gift is a waste of time if you choose the wrong project

In addition to the sensational Harmony, there are a lot of interesting and promising bounty programs.just need to constantly look for and choose the best.

Things changed so much unlike the days of 2017. There were still campaigns that pays about $800 by the time the campaign ends. I think because tokens doesn't get listed on exchange fast and bounty tokens aren't distributed also just as the exchange list the token. This time the team make sure the bounty participants doesn't dumps their token the first.

Now the bounty is usually scam and so be cautious about joining any bounty today. Because you can spend months in a row without getting anything

as a true bounty hunter, don't ever complain about anything that happened to the project that was followed ... because there are so many SCAM projects and don't have clarity and ignore all participants since I joined the project bounty until now ... so, not all projects are paid and not all unpaid project (SCAM) ... so in my opinion there is no difference between 2017 and 2019 ..

nothing change at all aside from the market . as you notice the market these days is not really healthy as compare on the market on the year 2017 .  that should be the reason on why most bounties fail because of less investors that participated on an ico  .

i think most investors have temporarily shifted to cryptos  but dont wory we wont know if they will soon return on ico's   .  for now its not really advisable to join an bounty ico campaign  as most of them will have a high chance to be suspended or postponed  .

I get your point. nevertheless I suggest you to participate in signature sometimes or just write here on a forum just for your fun and getting knowledges.
Don't take bounty seriously as a major income

I have been performing bounty for a year now, and this business does not generate income, there are a lot of tokens in my wallet
but they are worth nothing
no longer looking for new companies
I want to finish the old ones and leave this case

This is the necessary for an understanding and analysis of a project. You and even a bounty hunter out there will never be cheated by a project if you have a way of knowledge to analyze an ICO project. Even if you don't have that understanding, you are sufficient to be active in the scam accusations board to find out about the project scam.

There are always ups and downs in life. Most especially when we put our hopes on something. There are bounties which didn't turn out well and just wasted efforts. Not all projects are bad. There are still some with good quality.

I think you need to learn more about analyze bounty campaign, im in hiatus since late 2018, but my friends who still doing bounty till now get good money from doing bounty, and even im back again to doing bounty this month, anyway i hope you will get good project when you try to apply to bounty in future

yes I feel you buddy you're not only one who suffered in bounty campaigns, it's not like 2017 it's really difficult to find a good project that investors interested it.

The fact is that in and 2017, not everyone relied on the bounty program.Just all were in a row and made a good living.But do not be nostalgic.From 2017 to the present time, a huge number of people have joined the bounty programs.Therefore, in any case, the payment will not be the same as it was in 2017-2018.Personally, I see no reason for despondency.Now I try to participate in lanchpad through binance.Revenues are about the same as in the bounty in 2017.

Similar about my experience with the bounties. Participated for months, some didn't even reached hardcap, some never got listed in the exchange, some plummeted by 1000 times to become worthless. About 2 years of my participation in bounties went worthless. That's why I decided to stop doing ICO bounties and ended up taking a weekly bitcoin paid bounty.

It hasn't been easily at all, promoting bounty projects that later won't follow there promises but only turn out to be scam projects is really  tiresome ,there are way too many things to be worried about when promoting all these new projects like meeting softcap or hardcap ,praying to get listed on bigger exchanges ,pray the token has real value etc

Nope those days, ICO tokens gets listed on exchanges easily. right after the ICO and jsut a bout a week or two, its going to be listed on exchange either bittrex, cryptoia, mercatox and liqui. Today you can hardly see a token that quickly get to a small exchange. Bounty hunters earn when tokens gets listed but if its not listed, they are left holding it for months.

Yup, never rely on bounties anymore, look for other means in which you can take advantage of crypto. Trading cryptocurrencies would be one good way but still not reliable but at least there is a chance that you can gain fortune from it though slim but possible.

Always have it at the back of your mind that good bounties are hard to find because too many fake projects are around so all you have to do is investigate thoroughly before making a move

You are not the only one who's pissed about bounties but there is nothing presently that can fix scam projects plaguing crypto space now ,since I have no other way around I have no choice but to keep promoting bounties but this time i tend to be more careful which one to promote

For accounts in the forum with a rank of Full member, the tokens/BTC you get might not be enough. You would have to work that hard to collect more but if you end up with a scam project, all are going to be a waste. Investigation isn't enough actually. It would be best if you just join a campaign where their token is already listed in in the exchange of probably the IEO bounty campaigns. Those in the ICO isn't really something you can trust even if they show team profiles.

I suggest you to join a bounty that has a clear and reasonable project, don't be too easy to follow the bounty, choose the best you think

It makes no sense to be angry at the rewards. you just need to draw conclusions from your actions and not participate in bad bounties again

You have picked the wrong bounty I think. There's some solid project too although the bounty reward wasn't so good. However, you must be more careful while choosing a bounty, don't waste your time to some shit.

I think it wont be nice if you give a generalized statement like this. I am not disputing the fact that your bounty  campaigns of several months turned out to be the way you described it. But not all bounty campaigns are bad. It's not all of them that cannot meet up with their responsibilities like the one you participated in. There are very good ones you can participate in and you will never regret it.

Scammers are invading ICO world because of the 2017 bullrun and they are aware of how many ICOs became successful so that's why we have many fake projects ,you need to be more vigilante when choosing ICO projects now

You choose wrong bounty projects ,take your the and learn how to pick good projects only ,make sure the project has professional teams with past experience about crypto so that they can actually deliver what they promise

That is the hard truth of bounty programs especially if the project is paying with their own tokens. You have no idea if they will ever hit in the exchanges or not or will be abandoned by the devs later on. It is really better to join bounty programs with trusted managers here and they are very few of them. If you want an assurance of payment, apply for those trusted ones even if the payment is low comparable to others. At least you know, you are getting paid each week.

I also ever have such bad experiences of joining the bounty projects. Start from being scammed, very long-time extended ICO, and also other non-clear project development and turning into shitcoins after listing. However, those really make me aware that I must learn more about choosing the good bounty.

The problem with your rant is that it can come across as it the problem is you, and that you're just picking bad projects. I give you the benefit of the doubt though.

I think it's just better to find a real life job and invest part of your earnings.

The thing is, in an ICO everything is potential and may go either way.  There are also promising ICO that had been successful in their campaign but failed to pay the bounty participant.  One of them I think is Tokenpay.  You will feel how OP feels when you do bounty here.  It is quite funny how you tell something to OP when you yourself had not experience this stuff.  Though I agree that it is best have a real life job.

it depends on your analysis and how you review bounties before joining. you need to take your time and review any bounties before partaking in it. these days, the bull market rekindled some dead project back to life while others are gone. one bounty i joined ended yesterday without paying participants claiming that if softcap is not reached, they will not pay anyone.

People used to earn their life just from joining bounty campaigns in here but lately no one gets a penny. Since the market is getting better i see many people started to join bounty campaigns again. I honestly don’t expect much but still hope we all can get some good rewards from now on.

Well, not all bounty programs are like that. Maybe you lack on reviewing things about the bounties before you participated in. There's still bounties out there that also gives legit rewards.

if we think we will surely arise in our hearts upset. because I myself also suffered the same fate. that is, the bounty prize is not distributed for reasons of scam and so on. something like that that causes some members to be very worried about buying a new altcoin. for fear that if it is not sold, buy it on the market.

This happen because most bounty campaign are useless or turning to scam after the end of their token sale but if you are lucky and finding a good bounty campaign you will earn a good profit by your hardwork and effort.

Indeed I see it scamy on those times that most of the campaigns offered a lot of promising platform, but unfortunately it went failure and disappointments. Some we're lucky with good projects during those days but only for those legitimate ones.

I would say Bounty hunting as not been the way I would have pictured it. I have really been working hard doing tasks for project. I am certain something big is going to happen for me before the end of the year. I will advise you not to be discouraged but keep on persisting and Bounty hunting might end up putting a big smile on your face. And try as much as possible to do a lot of bounties.

The one year bearish last 2018 had really trimmed down the list of ICOs, leaving the good ones out there. The trend has been ckntinuing until now wherein for an ICO to be successful, it must be really good. This is the reason why some bounty campaigns failed.

Definitely yes! We should not be upset in all bounty campaigns because many of them are successfully launched and gave a lot of penny in bounty hunters. However, in 30 campaigns, I have joined I cannot deny the fact that only few of them succeed. Most of them turn into scam projects.

Yes, bounty from late 2018 are very different with bounty in 2017. Most of them are scammed us. It's hard to choose between the scam bounty and the legit one. Their project, whitepaper, etc are almost the same.

Very few bounties have live up to expectations since the middle of year 2018.
Some bounty managers default on agreements of bounty budget, while some just refuse to pay bounty hunters. For some other bounties that have paid hunters the projects have either refused to list on a reputable exchange or refused to list all together. Only a few bounties have performed well in that period till this moment.
Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is build on trust and bounty managers should stop taking hunters for granted.

Actually I'm not criticizing the OP at all. I'm basically saying that his problems might be legit, definitely legit for him, but that many people won't really sympathize because they will just see it as though he's just not good at what he does.

I also mostly join in the bounty in 2018, it ends with scamers and the results are not maximal what we do, but in the year must be right to choose the good ones and in my opinion the IEO will be better.

Every hunter meets such problems, even hard projects filtration cant prevent it. I think that situation was in 2017 too, but there was a huge bull run, so even scam projects was making a good gains.

The pity about joining ico projects is that you end up being unsatisfied by their rewards, or the worse case you dont get any rewards due to the unsuccessful ico projects. But i think we shouldn't get tired joining and it can be a lesson to motivate us.

Unfortunately, nothing has changed, there are constantly a lot of companies that scoff at bounty hunters, some companies simply does not want to pay tokens for various reasons, others making kyc to weed out those who are afraid to go through it, and the rest simply turn out to be scammers.

Even the market starts to become bullish still the ICOs are struggling to become successful due to most of the investors are still in doubt to join the new projects specially that most of the Altcoins are not riding with the Bitcoin bullish. This will make people to think twice before investing in ICO as most of the ICOs are belong to the Altcoins so hopefully that the crypro market will become fully recovered so that the confidence of the people will not only for Bitcoin platform but for the ICOs too making the hunters can work well again.

I haven't had a successful bounty company since mid-2018. Either not paid, or was little reward or coins is still worthless. Though carefully selected, but very little success.

Same happen to me last year. We cannot deny that 2018 is the worst for ICOs because of bear market occurs and mostly of ICOs didn`t survive and  shutting down or ending as scam.

It's true that a lot has happened to bounty campaigns since 2018, and are still happening. I won't advice anyone to rely  on bounty campaigns you much. But on the other hand, we still have some projects that are worth joining.

choose a good bounty is same if we want to choose the right cryptocurrency to invest my friend
we need to do a good research on it, before decided to join the campaign
so, its not easy buddy

True that after 2017, there was not a single good bounty almost. Other than IEO, no ICO was successful. Most of those were scam. However, with the recent change in bitcoin price, I think some good project will be there.

you're right, I'm also very difficult to distinguish between the two, maybe in this forum there will be people who do analysis and can recommend campaigns to everyone, so that we can choose projects that are worth following and those that don't

You may think the price of ICOs are depend on bitcoin price but I don't think like that. The price of ICO or the successful of ICO projects are depend on the project itself. There are several token which has been listed on the market that through ICO and have a good price. The bad habit for bounty hunters are sell the token when the distribution done, they will sell all of them the coin because they will think if they don't sell then they will get a small profit. But if they try to hold the token at least for several years  they will get a huge profit for sure.

When 2018 is really very difficult to find a very good project to join the campaign especially to analyze it and everyone won't be able to see which is good or not, for that now if you want to participate in the campaign, you should participate in the IEO rather than the ICO , because their IEO is already registered in the market and does not wait when they distribute it.

Maybe you are following a bad project. I did that too in 2018 but now I understand a little in choosing projects. By the way, it's true that since the bull run ended in 2017, all the projects are scam. But hopefully now the bull run will bring blessings to bounty hunters and investors like last 2017. The point is when we choose a project, choose a project that has a strong team and high dedication in building their project. Project success does not only come to speculation, success is due to good development.

It's too difficult to anyone recommending any projects as there's no assurance if the the newly open project will work properly inside this industry, even how hard you'll try if things is not good from the developing team it will still ends up scamming or just a waste of your time.

really true from mid-2018 then to get a good campaign bounty and produce it is very difficult but in the middle of this year the campaign bounty in my opinion has started to have good results and good results too

from the beginning I joined as a bounty hunter ... I've never experienced disappointment like you experienced ... because before I took part in a project I first checked various things that I thought were important for us to know before joining ... so we could receive payment as expected ... but the difference between 2017 and now only lies in the price ... if in 2017 we are able to get $ 1000 then now we only get $ 100 ..

actually there is nothing we need to regret even though there are now many bounty scam since this year I have always received a few prize from bounty but only a little and I keep on working because bounty is my main income

If we join a gift like this, then who can I count on. Can you provide a solution for us?
As long as I participate, I often experience events like this, but I still think that this is a risk for bounty hunters.

just like you say, from the middle of 2018 im stoping join any bounty program, and when i ask my friend whos join every bounty since middle of 2018, no one of them has a value, i mean it all fail project and scam project.

This is a sad story of general bounty hunters. Bounty hunters are there to help a project team to advertise their project. Bounty hunters work hard so as to get a project expanded to as many as people. So they should not be ignored like this following the completion of a project advertisement. However there are some good projects treating bounty hunters so well.