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Bounties are taking more sudden turns than ever,now I don't realize what to accept anymore,i need to pass on a message to all bounty hunters on here that bounties with working items can turn scam,yes it transpired already,bounties with genuine use life cases or working products can go to be trick directly before your eye.

Regardless of whether the groups or teams are professionals or they have great previous chronicles doesn't mean they can't trick individuals,they are just feeding investors with fake use cases to lure them

Sorry pal,many developers coming into crypto space this days have only one aim,which is MONEY so to achieve this they will try to give investors what they want so as to get money from them,there is norhing to stop this for now. Imagine a project teams that refuse to list on exchange yet telling their investors to chill till altcoin season returns so that everyone will be happy? what is that actually?they only care about what will come into their pockets,its really sad,dont just give up yet,there will be some serious developers that cares and ready to deliver

Interesting. So what was the project with a working product that tricked you? Maybe you can also open a topic in the scam accusation board and provide evidence. We can have a better understanding if we can see more information.

This is the sad state of bounty right now, it's really hard to find a project that is legit, everyone is trying to scam investors here. You work every hard and then not receiving anything at the end because the project is a failure or it took the investors money.

Again, it's no longer profitable to do bounty hunting today, gone are the days wherein you can really make huge profit by joining one. Projects are just a copy and not unique that's why investors are not willing to put their money on such kind of projects.

Yes, there are many such projects now.
I want to condemn the BQTX project, it's a complete trap for bounty hunters.
When it was first listed on the exchange, its price was $ 1.1 and the spreadsheet has been carefully counted for months.
But after I asked the manager, he said he had made a mistake and delayed for another 3 months. After that, the price went down to $ 0.1.
The bounty hunters are really offended and disrespectful.

Over the last year, bounties have experienced a lot of scams, so many prize hunters have stopped participating in bounties, but since there have been changes or methods of collecting funds through IEO, bounty participants and investors have begun to trust each bounty using that method, even though It also does not guarantee the success of the bounty, but at least it is a little far from being called a scam.

A lot is at stake in this space of recent promoting a bounty campaign has no guarantee for pay of services rendered at the end. Projects with working products can't stoop so low to trick hunters what they do best is not pay at the end but they don't turn scam as they have their projects known and developers known as well court case can be served to them.

Any startup can fail. Everything is very simple. Therefore, I do not understand why they invest so heavily in IEO on large exchanges. I think scammers will be able to steal millions there if they manage to go through the registration of the project.

BQTX project is only trying to safe its neck but in the end its still end up losing its value,i never promote the bounty but i did joined the airdrop which worths over 100$ at that time it was trading at 1.12$ per token but unfortunately i was unable to trade because deposit access was disabled on the exchanges,i guess they are avoiding dump but yet still the failed

Hate to say but is true...
What income we can get from bounty is really different and not much like in 2017.  I still remember while I do bounty on 2017 I can get income more than $300 per bounty that I have worked.
But now, most of the bounty becomes shit like they don't want to pay you, you only paid in small amount, or maybe they delayed your bounty reward for a very long time  :-\

You sound like a person who was hurt lately by a project or team, you believed so much. I'm quite sorry for your loss, but there's virtually nothing we can do than to trust our instinct in choosing the right project to work. I don't believe in giving up and I'm certain that there are still several good projects out there who appreciate the effort of bounty hunters.

That is why many investors now stay away from the project because they are worried if the project becomes a scam. They already get the worst experience before, and they don't want to get the same things now. I don't know which project that will follows to be the next scam project because we cannot detect or know about that. We could be careful if we want to join in the bounty campaign, but there is nothing we can do to prevent because we don't know how to prevent. The only way we can prevent is we are not joining with them, so they don't have any participants to their project, and they cannot continue the project itself.

Unfortunately, many honest participants in such programs have already stopped their activities in our cryptospace.

It is much easier to find new job.

a large number of robots in the bounty programs.

The bounties are changed right now. Because there are too many scam projects and otherwise are not going to pay after the token sale. Then we hard to choose legit bounty program. Your own research is the best thing to choose a legit bounty campaign. Then the next thing is the bounty allocation is not enough for the number of participants. Because these days boungies getting a large number of p[articipats. That means each participant will be getting low amounts of rewards.

You just have to accept it. Bounty hunters are the lowest rung of the crypto social ladder. No cares about your predicament. That's why you shouldn't think of bounties as a source of income. Think of it as a way to pass the time.

**There are some projects who keep extending the bounty program without adding budget for the payment.
**THere are still many projects that are scammed or abandoned.
**Some projects are not scam and had a good public sales though the bounty payment is being delayed and even locking the tokens.

I have joined few bounties and I have paid with one bounty which I have to communicate with the bounty manager and I'm happy with that.

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The other one that I've joined, sadly until now it didn't have any updates and I just assume that it won't pay anymore. I just forget about those past bounties that never paid their participants and it's acceptable that bounties today are hit or miss.

The points here are true, especially for those who read the whitepaper and trust the project then go ahead to do the bounty. Whitepapers might be deceiving, some team members might have contrary motives. Some projects will showcase an MVP but yet will never develop the actual product. In essence, scrutinize a project very well before doing the bounty, so that even if at the end your efforts don't worth it, you did your best with due diligence. Most times with proper due diligence, the bounty pays off well especially when the funds allocated is escrowed.

We have a lot of dishonest management that make a silly managerial decision which can crash the project and make investors loss total trust for the project. Just look at MiracleTele for example, a single stupid announcement by the CEO turned the project into a scam, despite their damage control strategy, the project is as good as dead. Altcoin stalking may as well be a scam.

After the huge success of Binance, every developer wants to set up their own exchange and do ICO, last year and this year there were so many exchanged based ICO, people invested in these ICO, in the hope that they are investing in a project that will likely become a successful exchange like Binance.

Unfortunately, things did not turn out what investors are expected, there are too many failed and unsuccessful exchanged based ICO

Ironx ; they reportedly got 20 million but their exchange is useless and hopeless they are now a scammed project.
Xera  : failed to reach softcap
LBX     ; Stopped their ICO
Becent  : failed to reach ICO

There are so many exchanged based ICO that failed to generate interest investors and traders.

We cannot blame bounty hunters it's just the trend did not work out fine.

It will not be a good judgement if I say that all bounty projects are scams. There are also good bounty projects which are honest to pay its hunters and go on track to achieve its goals. Sessia (kicks) is one of the projects which are honest. What we need to do is research for bounty projects before investing or working for as bounty hunters.

Miracle tele CEO ruined the life of the project already,they feed us investors and bounty hunters nothing but lies,first was CEO flee to God knows where and secondly was hackers hack their system and now they are not accepting their very own token that was earned through bounty tasks on their platform again and here i am thinking all projects with pro teams will do fine,i was wrong

Is there a right solution to improve the Bounties to get back well from you. For me, the Bounties program only prioritizes services for investors and prize hunters will also get a part of their success. Likewise when ending with a scam, the bounty hunter will also suffer a sad fate.

There is no such thing as forever, there is no forever in everything, what we can do is to accept the fact that some people here making a useless project and then abandoned when they were able to collect money from investments, being a bounty hunter we must have diligence and maybe disposed all those tokens which have value now, so that you cant be sorry in the long run.

Bounties are the sphere where you should spread your attention to many projects, without thinking about winning in some particular one. You will never know where you earn here and where they scam you completely.

I often saw some bounties who take action to launch their project into IEO such as tokoin and etc. I think that is a legitimate project and you will be paid eventually. Unless, you choose the project who managed some member which cannot be trusted or the bounty manager only newbie who have copper member.

Yeah I think that is the risk when you taking part with bounty program in such bounty manager. Although the name of the account is the project itself it doesn't mean the project will end with legitimate. I only have a suggestion, being bounty hunter is not suitable to be made as your source income. You have to spend your own money and you can be an investor ICO or IEO.

I already read a lot of complains about bounty hunting now, it's not anymore profitable compared to the past.

Well, that's what it is, it's the reality that we have to accept, bounty hunters has to also experience the struggle of investors who invested in a project that did not increase its value yet, I think it's just part of the journey, not everyday is a happy day for bounty hunters, the golden days have already pass but I'm optimistic that will be experience again.

I was one of the bounty hunters and I'm proud I made a good amount of reward in the past, but things changes and like I said, we need to accept it.

There are many bounty projects that are not legit and are scamming bounty hunters and investors. As a result, many traders have kept their faith off new ICOs ad IEOs and participating in bounty campaigns are not profitable these days. I think strict regulations are in need to discourage such fake bounty projects.

New projects don't want to pay bounty hunters for their work anymore,i wish all bounty hunters can stop promoting these projects but there is no way to know which project will keep its promises or not so we gotta keep trying is all we have left,a leap of faith can change it all,now its no more about how good the project is,now its about survival and luck

For luring the new investors they need to promote the project as much as possible online destinations. Bounties are no the real way to make money, the bounty promotions are designed to spread awareness among the interested people. The future of the bounty campaigns is not bright because of the IEOs. The exchanges now promote the project which they planned to list on the exchange after the successfully finished exchange offering sales.

What do you mean by fake use case?
Bounty hunters sometimes dont understand, it is their means of contributing to the projects, marketing is their form of investing and it is not as cheap as they think.It is necessary not to usually market scammed projects, wasting your time on a project that wont end well. To those who use their personal account to market scam project they should consider all the messages they are giving out to their followers and friends, in the name of making money. So we need to do our research regularly.

I think you're just one of the thousands of people out there to try their luck on some bounties but they miserably failed. The best thing about those failures is the priceless experience that you can get after you're hard work and you didn't get anything from it, little you know you already got some experience which you can use when choosing another bounty to Join.

Still, that's not mean you're gonna get a %100 paying bounty this time rather you increase your chance to get a good bounty with that experience that you got from those failed campaigns.

Weve found a lot of scam projects now and our time is in vain just continuously promoting projects that don't pay us as promised, I think this is all because of the presence of IEO that can rival the ICO and the teams are not sure anymore about the success of their projects so we bounty hunters are victims

the current situation for bounty hunters is indeed bad. not many can get paid well for their work. some projects pay but very cheaply, and some disappear without news. too much like that, throughout 2018 until this year, it might have been a difficult time for bounty hunters.

I feel you, some bounties nowadays are not worth the time and effort anymore, worst thing scenario in the end it will turn out as a scam after all. Some projects toying bounty hunters and making them as promotional slaves and paying a little amount of rewards and worst not getting paid at all.

Bounty hunters should coordinate their emphasis on the future from now on,there is no motivation to surrender in light of the fact that numerous new Projects are attempting to be on more secure part also that is the reason there are numerous postponements from projects,market is truly in an exceptionally terrible shape so they need to string cautiously

so what is the solution for Bounty hunters, with the conditions as you mentioned about bounty campaign?
I don't think we have to rely too much on a bounty, the solution is you have to try your luck in trading because there is more profit, you won't find a scammer, you are a player there, or try to be an investor if you think the bounty feeds investor only.

Yeah it is a very discouraging situation for almost all the people who participate in bounty campaigns. In recent months we have seen so many failed projects and failed bounty campaigns that bounty trend is really at the lowest at the moment that is why many people have stopped promoting and participating in more campaigns due to despair, this is also the reason that even the activity on this forum has also dropped, we can only hope that the sitiation will get better soon.

Unfortunately that's true, mate, it becomes harder and harder to find legit projects to join their bounty programs and eventually when they pay you, the payment not to worth pennies.

However, you should always take into account some key points before joining a bounty:
 - read carefully the Whitepaper
 - check the experience of the team members and ensure they are real
 - verify the activity on social media channels. A great project without marketing is a dead project as nobody will know about it.

IRONX Project has what it takes already to make the project a success but they don't bother to list their token on other exchanges to get better volume,the trading is only available on ironx platform but unfortunately no trading volume at all,if project like
IRONX
MIRACLE TELE
turn scam they anything can happen to legit looking projects,bounties are now nearly impossible to know its outcome based on how good the project is or what kind of teams own the project

Only the fear of God can make any bounty rewardable again as all are just scam and very painful , with a very useless excuse now a days , I totally think just some project before but I can see almost every project using that opportunity to scam bounty hunters now ,

Every hunter need a kind of oneness now to fight this or even forget about bounty as I will not in any way  stress myself anymore even if the project will give me million.

Besides the team being scam form the start. There are also teams who wants to trick the bounty hunters, without the good faith to pay for the marketing promotions done by bounty hunters. They pay the tokens but will subject users to KYC even when they said there will be no KYC before the campaign started. 2019 is the worse year for a newbie to start a crypto career.

All of us do, maybe some but not all the time. We need money that's why most of us here is here. Once I saw a here that alts or including the prime coin is a way to steal money, and somehow it has dee meaning and somewhat true. There are only few folks who were here that did not just came here for money, but to fight the system we have and all of it that makes us suffer. One person or group of person is the one who created all of this, he did not just made this for money but for a change.

What do you think is the bounty example that makes a work item a scam? If a bounty project with a professional team is a way to cheat, then as a bounty hunter is no longer effective. Because one of the characteristics of good gifts is that I think a professional team and logical work flow. Always stay careful

Perhaps from some projects that have been followed have been cheating. Bounty worsened and the situation began in 2018. In 2019 now appears IEO and STO provide a new atmosphere for the bounty hunters. IEO and STO are still running, but also have not given good results.

I suggest that with the deterioration of the gift, whatever you do better before deciding to join a project, be more cautious and do some research.

this is sad but in my opinion not all concepts like that are good bounties and vice versa, not all bounties whose concepts are different from what you say are bad bounties
there is no guarantee or benchmark to say that this or that concept is a good bounty because actually every concept can turn into a scam depending on the developer's intention
but for some reason even though the risk is indeed high but I don't want to stop being a bounty hunter, maybe because I've felt the luck and now want to feel again

for that I am not surprised because this has indeed been felt since 2018, and during 2018 I participated in 2 projects that indicated scam, because I was tempted by reward they bargained for but turned out token was very useless and one of the projects had indicated a scam because a few weeks after bounty was finished there was no news from community manager and the group telegram became a place for spammers

I hope that hunters can avoid this kind of thing.

Unfortunately, it is true, because nowadays it is almost impossible to determine a good bounty programme. Maybe it is just better to start trading, because during 2018 and 2019 you would not be able to leave from bounties.

Many ways are used by scamers to deceive investors, they will never stop doing it. as long as you are careless can't research in detail about the project or team background can end badly. but I think investors already understand about this, they will always be vigilant before putting their money in and will not feed scamers with their bullshit.

yes unfortunately this is true. There are many fake projects around. it is getting harder to come up with a good project. Most projects do not fulfill the promises.

Up to today there are still fake projects that some bounty hunters have joined. I have joined several of them that just wasted my time for months. There are also projects that you  never thought comes back to fulfill their promise though. I have joined the SWIPE bounty campaign which a lot had already declare to be scam but few months later they did an IEO and were listed on good exchange.

I know that, but I hope to find the Bounty Kampat Project, which is managed by a professional team that can produce satisfying results.  The scammers in the Bounty campaign must die soon, so that they can no longer cheat the investors and Bounty hunters.

All of us (investors, bounty participants, traders) are in a place where no one gives any guarantees to anyone.Read the first pages of any whitepaper and you will understand what are talking about.So if you are not satisfied with something-just refuse to participate in the bounty and do other things.

Its seems you've been joining scam bounties simultaneously.Well I cant really deny the fact that bounties are becoming shitty nowadays and I cant even believe that there are still
people who are still engaging into things.This thing wont disappear as long there are people who do keep advertising these scams which it do lead investors to feed up those scammers and repeat the whole process all over again which causes for these scams to exist endlessly.If no one would just advertise those projects then we might able to get rid of these things but sadly due to greed and false hopes,people do still believe and even abuse it for the sake of earning shit tokens on exchange without even having a value in the end
which means they do totally waste up their time and effort and I highly amazed that they can still able to take such scenario.

Many Investors are just scared to enter the project ideas these days because of all the previous big scam going all about Is hard to gain trust these days Project can even succeed with their IEO yet hold back on just decide to wait on the project there by causing token dumps and losses

Unfortunately, now is such a time in the cryptocurrency sphere, almost all companies that doing bounty companies do not think about bounty hunters at all and try to allocate the bounty pool to the bounty companies as little as possible and are constantly looking for various reasons to throw bountists, now it’s such a difficult time that there are problems everywhere in bounty companies, so there’s nothing you can do and you have to decide for yourself whether to continue to participate in bounty companies or not.

Correct. Bounties with work items that have changed to a scam are present. Caution is very necessary.
My advice to you, if you don't want to waste your time here, you better stop being a bounty hunters.

being a bounty hunter aint so easy lol, o many projects have scammed me in the past of my hardwork, I even had to stop hunting and look for funds elsewhere, I hope the bounty ecosystem becomes more genuine and fruitful

It's really worse it's more like gambling and a box of chocolate combine you never know, what you are going to get, some of the projects coming from ICO do have platform and projects to boast but unfortunately, it's not getting enough support when it hit the market, so why are you investing in a new coin that shows zero in the market.

The amount of rewards received from Bounty campaigns is very low compared to previous years. And unfortunately there are too many scam or failed bounty campaigns in the market right now. There are only quite a few successful bounty campaigns. And that's why you need to do a good research before you participate in campaigns. Nevertheless, I think that when the increase in altcoin prices then good bounty campaigns and prize amounts will increase. But it is currently impossible for me to predict when the rise in altcoin prices will begin.

Now many good projects, such as Minter, are launching their bounty campaigns. I think that if you are constantly in this market, then you can earn money on it

I advise you to have a look into this bounty.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181947.0

Just have a look.

If you are in for quick bucks from promoting bounties then you get into the space in a very wrong time, bounties are only very good in altcoin season and since altcoins are suffering right now its time for every bounty hunters to thread with patience, i just keep promoting bounties because i belief that my luck is around the corner, sooner or later i will promote a project that will give me reasonable rewards

Is there a project with work g product turned scam? Let's not Generali e projects with a product and real life use case can't be turned scam because these projects are in business as such they can't exit scam leaving behind their already established business

That's why we need to make research before join any bounty. I am join lot of bounties in the past, most of them give me tokens but just become a scammer. From what happen to me, now I am start to make simple research about project such as team, location, product etc, to make sure this project will be good in the future. As you say, there is still good bounty campaign we can join, from this you can start to choose the right bounty and can sell that tokens when distribution over.

Bounties these days is gradually losing it and several factors are just working against the projects. I have followed up on quite a number of them and even the ones that promises to pay in ETH unfortunately, its just one and the same. The most ridiculous aspect of it is the managers whether hired or part of the team that is saddled with the responsibility of managing the bounty hunters and those who want to bring some exposure to the project one way or the other. I then realize that these managers are creating more problem. They would fail to attend to queries, they would not calculate stakes at the right time, they make rules from their head in the middle or the campaign and worst of all, they can just decide to end the campaign because they found that some people are cheating when in actual sense its their own job to prevent that from happening.

in the cryptoqurency market any kind of project or investment can happen to be both evil and good, but I believe it depends on the developer and the project team, now there is no guarantee about the product of the project, in my opinion it is about how they develop projects in any situation .

Participation in the bounty always carries the risk of stumbling on scammers. You must consider this fact when choosing a bounty campaign.

I don't really like bounty anymore, but I still want to join a bounty maybe to kill my time. I hate when project developers blame us for falling prices.
and some bounty project always scam quickly or does not give us a gift.

Many novice investors are deceived by the latest ICO bounties or projects. It requires vigilance and in-depth research to find out about the project and who is the person behind the project. Do not get into the SCAMMER trap. You should be able to make sure the project you want to join, in this Forum there is also a thread that discusses a collection of project scams that will help you to find out whether the project is a fraud or not.

lately the bounty for me is quite good and it's just having problems such as distribution that takes a long time and low allocation. there is also a bounty that is a scam but I don't follow it.

THere is a lot of reasons we have so many bounty hunters, If there was no bear market and scam ICO like we had, we might see larger number of hunters move into ICO investment but a lot of the new members at the bullrun got burnt by the moment. Even investors lost a lot and are struggling to ever consider crypto investment. every one was looking for another bitcoin in the market.

It is actually unbelievable to see the way most bounties are turning down the expectations of their supporters. Most bounty campaigns now rather pay  the bounty hunters late or not even pay at all despite all the good plans they state in their social media sites. This is really becoming too painful to bear. The stress that many bounty hunters go through to promote bounty campaigns is not that easy for one to now be disappointed at the end of the campaign. Most often times, the rewards that majority of bounty hunters received from participating in bounty campaign are of know value when it is time to trade in the market. Another challenge that bounty hunters are confronted with is when they fall victim of scam bounty.


 

Adjusting to how the situation is showing right now would save you time and your efforts, even though it's hard to pick the right project to participate but it's your obligation to work closer in order to learn much further it will lessen the chance being scammed and to avoid being disappointed.

Bounties are tough nowadays and without doing any good research it will be a waste of everything.

It is easy to identify a bad project that would not collect enough funds, but it is getting almost impossible to identify a scam project, because even scams are looking great, having good team members, open community, even an MVP, but at the end they leave people with empty pockets.

i just keep promoting bounties because i belief that my luck is around the corner, sooner or later i will promote a project that will give me reasonable rewards

I don't understand the logic in participating in the bounties anymore. At the most 2% or 3% of them are paying good rewards. The chance of getting a good payout is extremely low and IMO the users should try something else if they have spare time. Social media bounty payouts are now in the range of $1 to $5 per campaign (in case they make the payments in time), although signature bounty is paying slightly higher.

Has Jimbi really turned out to be an abandoned project? More recently, their token is valued at several tens of dollars. I once participated in this bounty, back in November of last year passed KYC, but I still did not receive my earned tokens. The distribution time was periodically postponed.
The Miracle Tele project, of course, upset everyone. Now, the tokens received from the bounty are dead weight in them on the site on the stack and no longer generate any passive income. The ICO team refused to pay to those who received tokens from the bounty.
 I agree that earning bounty hunters is getting harder and harder.

overall it's wrong, not all developers are like that. maybe only a few developers are crazy about money and embezzling investor funds through projects, I think if the transparency and reputation of the project team is good they will certainly care about the project and develop the products they have made. now think ahead and be more selective before joining the project.

I don’t know for sure whether the Miracle Tele project can be called fraud against members of the bounty companies. The project works fine, but nobody needs the tokens that we received at the moment, as they were thrown out of STACK REWARD. They are motivated by the fact that we did not buy them on the platform. A logical question arises, why did they pay for our work with the fact that in the end, it has no value. Who in this case are the project managers, if not scammers? If I'm wrong, I would like to hear an opinion on this matter.

Very few projects are true to their words. However, you can't blame them if they haven't raised their target funds to continue their project. In this business, it is very hard to achieve success especially if you are relying to get your funds from the crowd. It is better to sourced out your initial funds from private investors to make sure that you can start your project without relying from crowdsourcing type of raising funds. So you should really be careful in choosing a bounty program. Sometimes, it is better not to join them at all anymore.

I participated in Polyx bounty recently. It is an exchange. They are to send the rewards in btc to my exchange wallet on their platform. Unfortunately what they distributed as rewards was utter shit. Not up to $5 worth of btc for 4 weeks of work encompassing twitter, facebook and telegram campaigns. To make matters worse, the exchange withdrawal fee is $4.

Strange warning. Obviously, the bounties have been declining since the start of the ICO decline, this is logical, because the bounties are directly proportional to how much ICO projects are in demand on the market and how much they are able to raise money. It will be more correct to say how much the public (investors) are willing to invest in ICO projects.
At the moment, everyone invests only in IEO on large exchanges, which is not so good for the bounty, but good for the market.

Bounty now died can be said terminally, not met for the last six months those bounty which well paid , only come about 10-20$ for bounty.

You know why bounties are "worse"?

Because you're working for worthless tokens with some supposed 'value' in terms of ICO price.

Maybe 1/10 times, you luck out and it actually turns out to be something more than a few dollars for your efforts. Unfortunately, do bounty hunters really care enough to selectively choose their campaigns? Maybe when they aren't one of the multi-accounting bounty spammers. After all, one of them has to eventually end up as something worthwhile, right?

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You are doing this to yourselves. However, when the 90% of campaigns that don't properly pay out end, all that remains are your spam posts littered all across the forum.

Bounties are getting worse everyday. They will sing the music with irresistible melody that investors love to here with empty use cases. professional background is losing value as we have seen a lot of working project that get no further development while the team dump the coin on innocent investors. In simple term, more than 80% are just there for the MONEY and not the love of the product itself

It has always been so, but you can find good projects, I know a person who for 3 months from one project earned tokens in the amount of 5000$ and sold them for 3000$

You are not far from the truth, bounty hunting is no longer lucrative as it was, and truly sometimes after a period of long bounty hunting, getting paid becomes a very big issue, sometimes you end up not getting paid, one really needs to source for other jobs.

Was thi, this year? I still believe in bounties and I think you just need to take your time and choose projects you see an actual future in and not some fairy tale story about what it wants to be. Before you could almost randomly pick any project and make at least a few bucks. That is over now and you actually have to work for your bounty. It's your job to find out which projects are better to support than others. You really do it to yourself when you support crap.

That is, there are many things that are unthinkable in a bounty campaign, right? Initial agreements often change now, usually allocations are cut, distribution is delayed or tokens are locked for a long time, but what else can I do? that's the risk. Although it is increasingly difficult to find projects that are truly profitable, for me being a bounty hunter is still the best choice for a side job. Who knows, we might be lucky to get a really good project.

The success of bounty programs depend largely on the success of the project itself. I always look out for projects with promising and good capabilities before I decide to join its bounty program. Amidst the reported issues on unsuccessful bounty programs this year, there are a couple of good ones which it will take only the curios investors who is ready to research into the project to ascertain its authenticity and capabilities.

This is the reality that we need to accept that not only the investors are facing the risk in joining a project but the bounties too when they are not get paid in the end due to scam and failed projects. We better to get more vigilant  today than yesterday of joining any project so that our precious time and effort will not be wasted.

I agree even if a project is solid and successful with ICO or IEOS they always have a tendency to make their bounty hunters suffer and taken for granted, especially when their project is listed on exchange and the price goes up. Most bounties that i had partake in changed their allocation when the bounty is about to end then delay the distribution until the price goes down.

I still have free time, and I have already developed the habit of talking on this forum and discussing news about cryptocurrencies. Earning as a bounty hunter is now becoming more and more unpredictable and generally symbolic. So far, the hope in this activity is not just on the rise of the market, but on a qualitative change in the ICO process and, in general, streamlining of its activities. Now, bounty hunters are so often and brazenly deceived that the meaning of this very idea, its necessity and usefulness is lost. It seems that we need state regulation and the establishment of clear rights and obligations.

It's quite unfortunate that most of the new project on the blockchain has only one goal: to cash out. Unfortunately bounty hunters have same mindset as well. Thus it's a game of who's the wisest? It's too bad that investors suffer it all.

How I so wish any project(s) coming on board within the cryptospace be properly regulated to ascertain their claims. We need a better way to invest our money than throwing it here and there on projects without future.

in the crypto market there are no guarantees at all, but both new projects and old projects as long as their team cares about the project might produce good results, now the prize hunter is more selective before choosing the project and does not want time wasted.

For you, the Bounty project is getting worse, but for me not all projects are bad. In some projects, I have been observed as Anmut is actually good as it gives a Token hunter prize. However, until now there is no construction and it looks like dead.

Gowhitme a good project and managed to enter the Exchange  "GATE " in exchange had a good volume. And perhaps now it goes to Binance exchange.

Don't give up to keep joining the Bounty campaign. Because one moment of several projects you follow can be successful.

yeah, that's right. all have risks, both for bounty hunters or investors. so, we must be more vigilant and more choosy in participating in each project, either just becoming a bounty hunter or becoming an investor. we don't want to waste time and waste our money on vague or even scam projects.

indeed it is very difficult to find a good project even though we have analyzed it, but at least we have tried to find and hope we always get a good project and the results are also in accordance with what we expect.

As several crypto enthusiast says that bunch of bounty campaigns now just came to crypto space just to earn money, they are not aiming about the outcome and the product of the bounty projects whereas it is the important thing so that the project has a good outcome and good market demands and supplies.

What do you mean by that? There are several projects that have real use case and have ended up turning scam. Is that hard to do? Some of those projects actually came to the market with a good mindset while they keep the evil one aside, but lack of support sometimes from the community is what triggers them to being a scammer later.

The success of a project is not the fact that they were able to consider their ICO, the success of a project is the fact that they are able to continue with the project and the only way they can continue is when they get support. Take an exchange for example, I am glad that you do participate in ICO, now count the number of exchanges that you have done their iCO and look at how many of them is succeeding now, you will find out that 90% of them failed and not because they have real use case. Do you think cryptopia just exited the market without already giving up on the project after they claim they were being hacked which don’t believe.

I have also taken part in the project minter, because I am sure and like the project minter, and the campaign that was opened was only one that is a signature campaign, so I like to take part in the minter.

If someone wants to make posts here and increase his merit/activity levels, then there is nothing wrong in displaying one of the bounty signatures. But the user should do that without any expectation. The chances that he may get any form of reward from that bounty program is very low. So just take it as a lottery. If you are lucky, then you may get some reward.

This is the saddest truth about bounty campaigns, the more you think the project will succeed because they have active team, working product and genuine use-case turns out to do exit-scams after the fundraising they made. But still I haven't been tired of doing bounties since there are still more projects that gives me profits.

I think it's because bitcoin price influences the market and give the impact for the project itself. Maybe it's not a direct effect, but still, the effect was happening to all project because the project depends on the market and bitcoin. I see it is hard for the project to continue every step on their plan, and that give the effect to the rewards for the participants. But we could hope that at the end of the ICO, all of the participants can get their rewards and the token can get listed on the exchanges.

Its the hard truth regarding bounty campaigns that is why I stopped joining in bounty campaigns already. Yes there are some bounty campaigns that paid me and luckily sold it in a lower price but it is 100% profit since I didn't invest on it but there are more scam bounties that I joined or bounties that didn't paid me after a hard work.

The best thing to do is to don't expect too much in the bounty campaigns you are joining.

Actually investors are not taking interest to invest in ICOs nowadays because we have noticed in the past 1 year after listing coin drops drastically so investors are keeping distance from investing that's why I can say bounties are getting worse and most of the projects are extending again and again because they are not able to achieve even their softcap. At present need some boost in crypto market for the betterment of bounties in the future.

Now people are more demanding to the companies in which they participate and study the company very seriously now you can see that in such conditions will survive only strong persistent and real companies that offer the product .

now there are lots of junk projects, even they have promising products, but the results don't match what they offered at the start. like the miracletele case one of the promising projects but ended in crap. I was cheated while buying their tokens on the exchange! pathetic

You are panic early about MiricaleTele project. the project is still working and so far we expect some changes in their work. they failed but continue to work

Bounty projects are really getting worse with every coming days. Even good projects with dedicated team in the beginning are shutting down their projects suddenly, may be they are not fetching a good amount of money which forces them to shut their business. Even the projects whose ICO completed successfully are not doing good on exchanges, value of their coins is not reaching even ICO price. Investors are not much interested in investing their money in ICO or IEO now a days resulting in poor collection and less bounty rewards. Its very important to win investors faith to boost up crypto market. Lets hope things get on track soon.

yeah bounties keeps getting worse and market condition make it even worse, now i know why many populer bounty manager not post or work on any bounty anymore. from what iam doing since last 5 month i just found like 1 good bounty from 20 totals. Sadly most of them ended with scam or not paying the hunters

Bounty is no longer like it used to be, indeed most bounties now end up being a scam, even though we have been looking for the best but there is still no certainty.

After the gift can make big money. And at its peak in 2017, everyone feels that a gift campaign can be a place to make great profits.

But since 2018 I think people have been tired of waiting for something that is uncertain. But I hope you also do not give up because this Bounty project still has good potential. Now, with the existence of IEO, it can be our solution to make money, but still, have to do the research.

actually not a scam, just an allocation now is very small, and sometimes even allocations are cut,
sometimes even delayed for 6 months,
so if we take the average then the bounty now is already actually not profitable, especially if there are many double accounts that participate.

The projects that easily achieve their softcap or hardcap are IEO projects from big exchanges because many investors have high interest in IEOs on binance or okex rather than small exchanges or ICO projects, crypto market really have to take a different trun for bounties to be profitable again but its not happening anytime soon

true, sometimes i'm tired of being a bounty hunter because right now bounty hunters can't make money. indeed not all, among the many bad bounties there are still good bounties. but to find a good bounty, i have to waste time working on some bad bounty projects first.

i hope that by the end of this year there will be many good changes to the bounty.

I think strong measure need to be put in place to protect investors and avoid falling wrongfully for altcoins that doesn’t worth it and there should be a sanctions for the promoters of such coins (campaign team and not the bounty hunters) Lots of new coins end up being scam after successful bounty campaigns, they fail to compensate the bounty hunter and fail the investors. Something needs to be done

yep, there were so many projects and lots of bounty hunters were cheated.
Now the founders of new projects seem to be paying attention to the money, once they have finished selling the token, they will take the money and exit the scam !!
That's why more and more people want to stay away from ICO projects.

Can you provide some examples of the project with product and users cases which scam investors recently?  Because without proof we cn just talk that everything scam...

The issue with bounty campaigns is that the participants are very unorganized. Since there are so many users without any other option to get their hands on some cryptocurrency, even the worst bounty campaigns have hundreds of hunters enrolled to them. This obviously reduces their bargaining power to near zero, and provides the campaign manager unlimited power to take unilateral decisions.

The only way to avoid bounty hunters going unpaid is to make it mandatory to have the managers payout a part of the reward in ETH or BTC. Another step is to keep the funds in escrow, to prevent the chances of the team refusing to honor their commitment. In order to force the campaign managers and ICO teams to agree to this, the bounty hunters need to organize themselves first and should boycott those campaigns that are refusing to these terms.

Yes, now day's market is full of scam bounties. It is  really hard and tough to find out a legit project, most project's are just advertising their product, trap the investors and make his money. So bounty hunters need to be careful, keep away from scam bounties and save their precious time.

Recently bounties allocate no more then 500k$ budget and I see less and less new bounties at the bounty topic. If it keeps like this the bounty theme will die because most of bounties are unsuccessful or price is very cheap after listing so there's no point to participate in.

The bounties have had their day. Forcing participants to write thousands of messages that nobody read has only created confusion in the forum.
And the credit system gave the final blow.

Bounties are long term working model we see benefits of bounties only when bitcoin bull run and alt coin season meantime we should select and work for best projects

Bounty hunters in my opinion should be like investors in choosing a project because a scam project only consumes our time and we don't get any results from promoting the project. Therefore, in my opinion it is important to choose a bounty that is managed by a good bounty manager because a good bounty manager will not be arbitrary in choosing projects

Bounties, beside social media (twitter or facebook reposts) takes plethora of time and creativity and could be considered as real job. Translating, writing quality articles and reviews takes time, investigations and knowledge and when the projects fail or even worth - turns out to be scam it can really turn you into a an investor that lost his funds.

Bounties will be becoming dead soon if developers keep doing stupidity plans which they only care of their own but not with the investors. How many times that we've been fooled these developers but some of us are trying to promote their questionable projects. Though not all of them seems to be like that but most of them. If we could imagine in 100 projects, I don't know how many we're able to give their promise, 3-5 project? Will it hope so.

I was out of Bounty Hunting for a while and just got back in again, as I was really dismayed with the lack of decent projects throughout the most of 2018 and the earlier part of 2019. I have come back to try to work hard again in this area, but am wondering if the situation is gettign any better or not. Time will tell and I am only selecting at least good Bounty Manager's projects, where at least I have a better chance of earning a little decent amount of Crypto. I have lost a lot in the last bear market so starting literally from 0 all over again. I am not sure if I will be afforded the luck I had in 2016-2017 but you never know, even if one out of five projects I am involved in, for example, pay me out a decent reward, I will be happy with that. Our time though is passing very fast and is very precious and I feel at my age, I am running out fas tof this precious asset we have, TIME, that is. I hope I can choose decent bounty jobs so that my time is valuable enough to stay on the Internet.

actually it is not surprising because when ico is popular in 2017/2018 some of us in this forum will definitely have an idea under this kind of project (ico), going forward it will deteriorate and of course this will affect the bounty activities because maybe the earnings we can get will certainly It really changes if it is likened and I certainly have time to think about this and it turns out to be true and I don't think there is a solution especially for the bounty campaign problem, the choice is to give up or keep following it.

As some said, the best thing to do right now is probably to pick renowned bounty mangagers and chose a campaign from them. But even then you cannot be completely sure that the project doesn't screw bountyhunters over. For example it happened with MenaPay where Bounty0x couldn't make sure that all bounty hunters get paid.

I like your last sentence "feeding investors with fake use cases to lure them" and that's what really happens, have you heard the project IronX and Bitmillex, after getting funded they create their exchange platform and list it to low exchange then leave it just like that, and create the now famous alibi the market condition is bad.

Projects with working products can't stoop so low to trick hunters what they do best is not pay at the end but they don't turn scam as they have their projects known and developers known as well court case can be served to them. The only way we can prevent is we are not joining with them, so they don't have any participants to their project, and they cannot continue the project itself.

You know what Sir, the author of this topic was telling the truth, there are many of the bounty campaign projects are abusing the bounty hunters. Where mostly in the end they took advantage the majority of their participants. It is really hard or difficult so far to find the legit project campaign. And project campaign, can be a tools for the scammer to scam the community here in the forum.

unlike previous year ago, where bounty hunter still make money from bounty campaign, today is too difficult where more and more hunters are coming to join and many projects that fail, or when can be exchanged only get a few dollars (we can say it's useless token/coin)

Now the biggest problem is not the number of participants but the small amount of normal and honest campaigns. few campaigns pay rewards and few honest managers

I completely agree with your statement. Unfortunately, the participants in the bounty campaigns aren't protected in any way, and any campaign it is a roulette game. It's very sad that many are decided to leave this sphere, on which they had high hopes.

it is very sad that in our decentralized community we have very little opportunity to unite and make a bad reputation for those projects that deceive bounty hunters

In the crypto world the occasions can be good, but they last very little and you have to take them when they are there.
The bounty had a moment - two years ago - in which they earned very well. Then everything collapsed and now it's just a waste of time.

Only very few projects are worth a hunter's timw and effort these days. After spending hours and days promoting projects, some delay payments, some don't pay and in many cases the rewards are terrible. It's sad that it's becoming more difficult to make a reasinable amount from bounty hunting. Even platforms like bounty0x and bountyhive are feeling the impact also.

I don't think I can participate in any bounty again till bull run come , cos many are just here to waste pple precious time and cast away with their money with the token tradable but no distribution will be done which is big scam in town now.

This is more or less the same reason why genuine projects failed to raise substantial funds to pursue their development. Investors are very careful and you can't blame them. So many bad actors had ruined everything. Once projects are not doing or turning to scam, bounties are being seriously affected too. Hard to make penny in bounty these days.

Well, you cannot  eliminate the human factor, but in most cases, if a team has good and clean records with several successful projects, they are more likely to continue to maintain that status quo and not want to tarnish or destroy the reputation that they have been working for.
Also, a working product can be in different forms. There might have an MVP, which sometimes might not worth considering for investment and there might be a complete working product. So when you have this, choose what to invest in.