Bitcoin Forum

I do not do this every day, but last night I checked all my bounty hunting files from social media, signature and article marketing, I am very disappointed, only 5% of my bounty campaigns proved to be successful, what I mean successful is it's worth the profit after many months of the campaign.

One disappointing side of it is the projects that I thought are legit are the one that turns out to be scams and the project that I thought will not turn out to be good turns to be profitable.

Things are not good in bounty campaign at this point of time, what proves to be a source of excitement to bounty hunters is now the agony of bounty hunters

Till now I participated in many project's campaigns. 10%of them were scam, 20% of projects not paid rewards since months, and 50% of projects distributed on time but at this time the price is too low.
Only 20% of project's token price is stable and giving good profits.
Let's hope future bounties will give good returns.

I don't see that it's going to happen that soon, bounty hunters are now at its worse, what makes it worse are big projects that turn out to be bad those who generate millions of funds are running away and those bounty rewards that you expect to claim and trade are being locked.

There's no improvement in bounty hunting, ICO bounty managers are not doing their best to upgrade the condition of bounty hunting, they should at least ask projects that they are working to pay tradeable coins or do not delay and lock bounty hunter's shares, this way they will not resort to cheating and will very active in promoting your project.

Not surprisingly anymore, since there are a bunch of bounty campaigns that are ongoing everyday, only few to be successful. You are lucky if you got one decent bounty project. Just like mine, i join several.bounty campaigns and one few that has the tokens listed on an exchange, the rest is hard to get listed 3ven fir a successful project.

yes for the problem of disappointment of course all bounty hunters feel it, but I am more concerned with investors because they are actually 2x more disadvantage compared to hunters for example project 2017/2018 many of them experience the destruction of value and the worst is almost all the bounties that I follow experience this. I remember having a token with a price of $ 2-5 / Token now the price of the token is only less than $ 0.1, and I sell them when approaching $ 2 in the past and imagine there are investors who buy this tokens and don't do cutloss :'(

We can't find the project is legit or not before the start in the bounty campaigns. Some good projects are getting scam after the ICO. Another projects type are listing exchanges and not paying to bounty hunters. That's why own research is very important. You can choose good projects with your own research. I have seen already listed projects also doing bounty campaigns. But those campaigns rewards are low. Then we have to work hard with good projects and avoid scam projects.

This is so sad but i tjink this applies to the crypto space in general, investing in a project and the next day you hear that the project has not meet softcap amd funds are been returned, anyways at least that is better than the ones that least ans get negative% few seconds later, how about those that elope with our funds? This space is not friendly anymore

I think it is safe to say that more than 90% of the bounty hunters is experiencing the same. I also have some hundreds of tokens in my eth wallet and I haven't checked them for some time now (pretty sure the value will be dismal if I check)  :D

Just another proof that we never really know what's going to happen to projects we follow/promoted.

I am similar to you, big projects are promoted so much that it takes me a lot of time and almost no money. What shows that large projects are not necessarily profitable for bounty hunters

It only means that we really can't say what projects are legit or not on its face value alone. Very difficult even if we do our research, and it reflects the current state of altcoin market right now.


You're right. We are at the stage that investors are getting wiser by the minute and no longer interested to put their money on ICO, that's why 90% failed (scams or not).

TBH: Ever since the IEOs are launched it's getting harder and harder to find good projects which are running a bounty campaign.

And when we find a good project to participate they unlock the rewards after a really long wait.

I guess most bounty hunters including me share your sentiment but there is almost nothing we can do to prevent it. Adding to this injury, is that some projects which conducted bounty campaigns, deceive their participants by rewarding their efforts with significantly very low amount compared to what was expected based on the bounty spreadsheet resulting to the disappointment of bounty participants.

Unfortunately you are right, my friend. Once the bounty campaigns were for attracting money to worthy projects, but now it’s just a way to make money for scammers. However, decent projects are appearing now, but there are too few of them.

Bounty hunters are only respected at the period when the bounty is ongoing. After the campaign, they are threatened to be banned from group even if they ask about distribution or listing date. Their bounty rewards will be withheld for months all because developers think they would dump their tokens. Bounty hunting is really sad these days.

Bounties used to be pretty lucrative, you could easily get $100-300 per campaign for just doing some retweets or translating or posting, and a significant amount of my current Bitcoin holding is thanks to bounties, but I have stopped bounty hunting as soon as I saw signs of quick decline, and I switched to more productive activities. I feel sorry for people who do bounties today, they are probably misguided by stories from the past or just very desperate, though in their situation even faucets and captchas would provide higher rewards.

Personally, I believe that bounty hunters still work and earn rewards. But still you need to look and work hard in search of good bounties. Since there are still many promising projects on the market. Which still can bring good profit for bounty hunters. Good luck to everyone.

i know this is hard to hear and i am sorry to say this but they deserve what they get.
when people stop caring what they advertise and start getting involved with all kinds of scam and garbage and help these scammers get their victims, then there is really not much room for them to complain about their profitability of doing so!
when you see some useless token that is trying to get investors you should stay away from it instead of helping them "spread the word". but when you don't you will also become one of their many victims.

The ICO market is itself dead or on the verge of dying! Millions of investors were duped by these unknown start ups which actually paved the way for loosing credibility of ICOs. When investors are not getting profit, what bounty hunters can expect? I too also active in the bounty hunting earlier, but I have noticed that the profit is not worth the time I was spending on bounties so I have moved out of this market. I still have millions of tokens in the ETH wallet which has no value at all and not being traded in any exchanges.

There was a project called Coin Janitor which was initially gave me hope that I will be able to unlock the values of the dead coins but they also seem to be not helpful much!

Yes, bounty hunters are quitting the job day by day because it's not really profitable anymore but there are still bounty hunters who have trust in cryptocurrency that it will recover soon. Its very hard to pinpoint a project if its really a legit or will not dump below ico price nowadays.

Very true as you say.
This phenomenon has been happening for a long time, so many projects are ongoing, thus making it difficult for bounty hunters to make choices.
Almost all bounties offer promising concepts, but in the end very much that makes the bounty hunter disappointed.

my advice, don't judge a book by its cover, look and understand the contents first, Only then can we make the right choice.

Unfortunately, for bounty hunters this is really a really bad time to work. The teams of ICO projects after its completion, as a rule, begin to deceive the participants of the bounty campaigns. Previously, this was a rarity, but now it is a rarity to fulfill the previously agreed conditions. A vivid example is Miracle Tele, which paid passive income in euros on its website, and now those who did not withdraw it are going to re-read the already paid amounts, intending to reduce them by about five times. This can already be called direct fraud. Therefore, I never trusted those projects that pay bounty hunters on their sites, and not in the wallets we specified. Now this is a mass phenomenon. The ICO project teams promise us to pay their tokens to the wallets we provided, but already during the ICO they change their minds and say that the payment will be either on their website, for which they need to register, or in their wallets, which almost always cause various problems.

You shouldn't blame yourself for bounty decision making,i am in a similar shoe as you are,the issue with bounties is trick projects have make each new projects terrible looking,like at any rate you take a gander at new projects they are just tricks however the fact of the matter is there is no real way to know which bounty task will end up being successful,no one can and regardless of how great are get at getting along explores

And how do you measure the success? For me is much important how much money I earn from the campaign than if ICO becomes successful.
Give me an example. I participated in Harmony bounty campaign - this project is successful, listed on Binance, but the reward was only few dollars. I would prefer more dollars now, than believe in the success of the project.

It's also been a problem by the bounty hunters who participated and believes with so much promises coming from the developers who you can think that will not do any harmed with their projects, the team that you think is much safer to support and much better to follow are also scamming or making such actions that is no longer favorable to the bounty hunters, it's so many factors that influenced the actions of the team but most of that is always in there favor, there's nothing left for the hunters but hope for luck.

Things will start making sense when everyone is leaving the space,thats the way i always view things,that moments everything start getting more harder means something good is around the corner,i won't give up this easily if you are wise you won't give up either,altcoins won't keep losing value forever,things will take different turn for only the strongs

Sometimes you tend to do the opposite, there are a lot of bad reports about a certain project, but you still continue because you find something about the project, one example that I've promoted that has a lot of bad reports, I stopped promoting it when scam reports escalate was Adab solutions, I'm surprised that I still receive my tokens, but this project is still hanging.

If we talk about this year and the last year, become a bounty hunter will make us a headache because almost all project become a scam. The other project has delayed its phase until the unknown time, especially if the market does not come back to the normal situation.

Many projects have run out of their expectation because they are hard to survive and continue the project. So they decide to shut down the project for a while. Some of them choose to continue, but they don't give the reward for many months.

But you can hope that your rewards in the token will be worth in the future, especially if the market can recover from the bear market. So maybe we will see the project will be rise again in the future and the token will also rise too. So be patient for more and don't give up to see another chance that will come to you.

I agreed, investors are more hammered than bounty hunters with failed projects. There is one project( not disclosing name ) whose token was sold at $.03 during IEO and now trading at 1 sats,just think about the investors who bought this coin at $.03. Although this project has good product and backed by dedicated team even they distributed bounties genuinely but price is drastically down,  it may give profit in future but who knows when. I think the over all environment for crypto project is not good currently. It is very important to regain investor's faith in crypto projects.

How I wish there were a decent number of bounty hunters especially old-timers who would be willing to compile and archive collective experiences with bounty hunting. It would be interesting and would be a great guide for bounty hunting if data or some sort of comprehensive history on bounty hunting is accessible somewhere. I'm picturing a chronological list of crypto projects which conducted bounty campaigns with some summary of their success or not-so-successful stories. Historical accounts should have info on names of major proponents associated with each project, info on valuation of incentives provided during or distributed after campaign, so on and so forth...

Yes, bounty programs are no longer as hot as they used to be. Now that everything can happen, good projects can turn into worse and sad ones, more and more fraudulent projects.
Potential projects now don't need marketing, they just need to contact Binance Exchange or Huobi Global to be able to sell more tokens.
That's it, we're currently working on bad projects.

I feel you mate and i believe your observation is true for the past year bounty hunting was degraded, thats why im very careful when i choose a bounty to participate unlike before that im just joined a lot of bounties without a proper checking if it was good or worthy but sad to say most of those is prove to be worthless. thats why now im just selected with a few bounties resulting in less stress and less complicated.

Unfortunately, it is todays reality of bounty hunting. 80 percent of all projects that are now live, won't achieve their funding goals, will go scam or will collect enough funds, but the price will drop after the first exchange listing, so your earning will be worth a penny.

In this market situation, bounty hunting is sometimes unpredictable, because even the projects that have the potential to succeed may fail to reach their softcaps, or even not reach the market. The research isn't enough nowadays, but participating in many good campaigns may result in a good payment after a few months.

Latest bounties for a half of year most of them are unsuccessful. And if token listed on exchange price downs in 3-5x and more so worth of bounty reward near to 0.
Only Projects that going IEO give some profits.

Rubbish bounty hunter are a scourge and must be purged with much fire.

Most of the problem is that most bounty hunters are not here for crypto and they don't give a shit about the community or what goes on here. They just get paid and dump. They do not even read about the project they just join whatever they see. They are the bane of the crypto community and give bounty hunters a bad name. We are social media promotors and we should have pride and act like that. These are very unprofessional people that take and take and have little to give if anything at all.


20% is not bad really. I think it is worth it then.

Most of the bounty hunters were blamed because of they were participating in the bounties which turned into scams later but the real thing is that they can't do anything about it.Atleast they can try to expose them as scam once you found it.Which helps other investors and hunters.

True, on the other hand good earnings have been made in the past and with a modest amount of work.
Now everything is certainly more difficult and competition is greater, but the fact remains that it is a good idea to continue working. Why give up right now?

I think hunters should focus on few projects to  promote.
Bounty shouldn't be seen as regular source of income. It should simply be see as risky investments which can turn out good or bad. Once you see things this way, you will spend more time researching projects that have high chances of succeeding. Projects with high chances of success is almost non-existent unfortunately

Very true. After spending some much time and data, then at the end the campaign is unprofitable. I still believe most bounty should distribute tokens weekly or bi-weekly to know a worthy campaign.

The pains of bounty hunting always streams from payments of rewards after most campaigns. It is during this time that a lot of incomprehensible and flimsy excuses emanate from project developers with most ending up NOT keeping to their words. Bounty hunters are left with a feeling of having been used, abused and dumped. Unless there is somehow a bounty responsible for bounty hunters, sadly, I see this not changing any time soon.

It can be very painful, when you already write off a project as one of the worse or being bad and afterwards it becomes almost the best. Or you think that a coin will not perform well, which now made you sell too early, you might want to blame yourself for that. Start a project and end it well, no matter what the situation might be at that time.

It's normal at this stage. The altcoin market is always slowly dragging behind Bitcoin and Bitcoin was in a bear market for more than a year. It's now slowly recovering but for altcoins to enter the cycle in which bitcoin is now it will take a few more months.

You will see a change when Bitcoin goes parabolic again and people begin to spend their profits on altcoins to differentiate because they think this is the right thing to do. They are wrong but it's another story.

So true that this was true, the only time there were plenty of bounties you can get was the year 2017 of October. Because the time the token were released wad the peak of the Bitcoin and ethereum, this two was a huge factor to consider the time of selling the bounty coins at that time. Now you can even have heart disease just getting you payment from the bounty. They hardly follow their own set of ruled in the dated release of coin.

The reason why I already stopped joining bounty campaigns paid via their tokens or coins. Even if the project is very promising at the beginning, there is no assurance that they will ever get listed in exchanges or be worth your time in doing all the tasks assigned per bounty program. Most of the time, they are worth pennies or few bucks once listed. There is major reason why a lot are giving up in those bounty programs, not worth spending your time!

Of course the bounty situation is very sad now. But You would still you can observe that many on this forum continue to wear signature. So the hope for the success of the bounty is still alive.

We have all been here before, from one disappointing side to the other, the projects that we thought are legit are the ones that turns out to be scams and the project that we thought will not turn out to be good turns to be profitable. Thing seem hard now doing bounties and waiting for close to 5 months to get reward and an extra month to get listed and even upon listing, you find out that price is way less than ico price making bounties unreliable but we shouldn't give up since we know why we started. Lets keep working.

This is sadly true but then that's how life generally is - Don't expect fairness from life. I have had occasions where I found myself in similar situation. I guess that's what hunters like us face from time to time because the Altcoins section of this forum isn't properly moderated to weed out scam and shitty projects. But we also have to be careful on our part selecting bounties we participate in to avoid futility at the end.

Many projects that show fraud, are very disappointing. However, we must realize that this is the risk we should face. There are still many people who experience like you. This year maybe I was a little more fortunate because the Gowhitemi project became a worthwhile project.

It is important before we step in to join the Bounty campaign. All we have to do is check it out. Check team activity on social media and they should be very active. From the experience that if they are active in social media like Telegram, the project can succeed.

yes, we really can't really determine a really good project or scam before entering the market. when they enter the market and are traded, we will see how good the project we choose. for now we can only choose and hope for the best for each project we support.

for this year there are only a few projects that pay bounty hunters. now we must be clever to choose the project that is really real to pay the bounty. I usually do more in-depth research for 1-2 weeks to see how strong their community is.

Just yesterday I saw that the coins for the bounty company, which ended more than 1.5 years ago, appeared on the stock exchange. Of course only a little, only $ 200, but I'm not disappointed and continue to participate in bounty companies.

Many of each prize hunters are disappointed with what they experience when participating in a number of bounties, only a few results we get from the dozens of bounties that we follow even months of our work, but ultimately only 3-5% of the payment is sent, during bitcoin fell at the beginning of 2018, most bounties have a deception mode that only wants to make a profit for themselves, we make this experience an important lesson in the history of bounties going forward

I totally agree with you, unfortunately now there are a very small number of companies that want to do a bounty and almost all of these companies eventually disappear due to various reasons and bounty hunters lose a lot of time and invested effort in promoting these companies, but there are exceptions, and sometimes you can at least earn something, but unfortunately we will not see such a profit as in 2017, so it’s worth to come to terms with it and move on.

Of a truth, what should be a thing of Joy for bounty hunters have turned to Agony. Imagine hunters working for several months and the end of the campaign, you won't hear anything from the bounty manager again, sometimes tokens will be locked or one-third of the reward will be paid while bounty hunters have to wait for months before getting the remaining reward. Sometimes they end up not receiving anything even though the project is trading already.

The main thing in this direction is to be in plus, if you are in plus then you are already successful, one of my friends bought a bunch of tables and various programs for participation in the bounty, as well as always ordered articles from copywriters and by the end he remained in the red .. if you are in the black then it is already a success)

Following the bounty campaign on a project is also speculation as is investing in altcoin. Sometimes there are many big names as advisors on a project but the performance in the market is not as expected by the investors or bounty hunters and I think this is a risk in the investment world

Of course hope is still wide open, but there is very little chance of getting a good project. Most bounty hunters continue to do their work by participating in various campaigns, such as: signature, social media, Translation, Articles, Redid and many other campaigns that can be followed. But in the end not all bounties can succeed, incident like this that always make the bounty hunters disappointed. But all of that are risk from work, keep on fighting, because failure is delayed success.

What I'm experiencing right now is exactly the way @OP feels
Most bounties are not profitable right now, tend to be a waste of time.
I began to think, whether the bounty period was over.

Bounty hunters are feeling the pain badly now. After much work and hope that they'll be payed at the end, they'll end up getting nothing. 99% of ICO project are scam, only 1% is legit. What annoys me most is the legit ICO's do take bounty hunters for granted

now we must be selective in choosing bounties. because if you think now the work that we do for months can not get a good reward. we must try to continue to be selective and more careful about bounties, because today there are still many projects that do not have a good future in the future.

Well i was joined a signature campaign for a year. Luckily the project pay me but the reward is not worth it for time that already spended. The day when bounty got his reward
also bad news always there. The team decide to cut off 80% of prize pool signature. I was really mad & sad but i cant do anything. I think bounty its not worth it anymore

To be honest, you are still lucky to get that 5% though. I've had experienced a whole year without any good profit bounties last year. This is the only year that I at least got 1 bounty that works for me, that still gave me a decent profit.

I agree with you. Bounty is becoming more and more tedious as time goes by, especially those who are late distributors but turns out to be scam in the end. The thing here is that I don't see bounty hunting getting any better in the future because of how ICO is turning out to be. Even if IEO is introduced, bounty hunting has even become more harder than before.

Sometimes I feel bored with what happens to the Bounty project. Maybe this is my fault for not being careful in determining the project. But I also do research and the results remain the same. Many of these projects are scams and will only waste my time.

However, I try to learn from experience in 2017, that at that time many people did not expect that the Bounty project could succeed. But at the end of the year, 2017 bounty can succeed.

Now all I do is keep working hard to collect coins from the Bounty project. And hope that the conditions like the year 2017 can be again repeated in 2020.

I managed to participate in many good campaigns in 2017. And got a good amount of tokens. And I did not sell them. Hoping for further growth. And also left with nothing. Fool :)

I share the same feeling I agonize seeing tokens that I've got from my bounty hunting and to think that I've promoted these tokens for 3 to 6 months only to see it's worth nothing in the market, back in 2017 all the tokens I've received from bounty hunting will yield me a good profit but not now.

The glory days are indeed over.

Yes, I agree with you, things are not good in bounty campaign at this point of time, and although airdrop takes some hours to participate in it and without a doubt, you will receive shit coins that have no value or you will get nothing of the airdrop you participated in, but the bounty campaign is more painful than airdrop because it takes so many months to work and when the project team distribute the tokens you will get tokens for failed or scam project, the work now in the bounty campaign, I think it depends on luck because despite the research and despite everything may fail the project or turned to scam and these shit coins that participants in the bounty will receive, will be unfair because their time is wasted on nothing.

Now many of us regret that we did not sell our tokens at the end of 2017 - the beginning of 2018, when many of them had a price of more than a thousand dollars for participating in the signature-level campaign of a member. Now these tokens, if they have value, they cost only a few tens of dollars. We can get about a few tens of dollars for participating in the current signature campaigns. I also do not sell them yet, I hope that the altcoin market will also grow soon.

That is exactly the agony faced in bounty hunting and altcoins investment. You never can tell which is which among the projects you promote. Even if what you promote succeeded, the earnings do what what your time. That's why I now see bounty hunting as a thing you should do at your leisure time.

I've seen too many projects I thought were garbage do 10x or higher in a short amount of time.  Crypto really can be a crapshoot sometimes and all you can do is hope for the best since a lot of these altcoins is just like playing the slots.

Thoughts are more failure now than before.
We experienced a great bounty community before specially 2017.
It is not a good time now, we should study and make research on any project we will join.
Me, too i ahve a hard time having a good campaign.

There are still projects which their tokens that are good to keep, since their platform is already working and they are already in the exchanges, I kept them to see if the future holds something for them. But there are also projects where the team itself had made their own some problem jsut to escape sending bounty tokens to the bounty hunters.

They go all the trouble by sending different tokens, ETERBASE for instance distributes BEP2 tokens instead of ERCbase tokens, some team did the same thing like the STORIChain. We might be seeing this kind of pattern til next year.

I can relate to this problem , I remember the times when I was excited to search and participate in bounties because there was a decent chance of getting paid. BUt now there is very little excitement or noting at all, this is why I am doing very little bounty hunting now, it is just not worth my time and energy.

Participating in a bounty is more like a gambling, because luck is indeed a very influential factor, many bounty projects that we consider to be very good and potential to be followed but ultimately do not produce at all and so with the projects that  do not have a future but succeed very successful and have a fairly high coin price, but of course we do have to be more careful in assessing a bounty project because now many bounties end up scam

No one know show a bounty campaign will turn out at the end. The years hasn't been good on ICOs and hunting inclusive. One thing I've noticed is that most projects hyped by hunters don't perform well whereas other low key projects on their low key performs more than expected. Keep promoting hyped and low key projects.

Its same result for many bounty hunters but all i have to say is to keep your hunting alive, don't quit because many projects turn out to be worse just keep hunting for good projects and one day will be yours, you will be able to share your good news on here just like few bounty hunters did, to earn big from bounties now is very hard because of many useless projects

Yes it’s totally silly situation over bounty participants, many of bounty almost 80% are going to non-profit program and become worthless for bounty hunters! Many of scam and no paid and also provided shitcoin which almost valueless!

Rewards is enormous though if there will be bullrun but this might not happen in the next 2 years from now. I might even move to another campaigns these days to join a BTC paying campaign. By it means I can receive weekly btc. More than enough to buy the coins to invest than hoping for the team to send away the bounties before the listing in the market.

From this we can draw only one conclusion-you do not know how to analyze projects. How long did you work before checking your wallet? 5% is a very small number. You'd better write from how many projects you drew this conclusion. I think that Twitter and Facebook are not actual platforms for bounty hunters. Time airdrops passed. Try to be creative.  :)

I guess it's only a matter of time before no bounty hunters will promote ICO campaign anymore, bounty hunters cannot keep up this kind of scenarios, it has become gambling, and a very costly gambling, imagine you are with it for several months and there's no guarantee of good profit, had a friend who worked for a certain bounty for several months only to end up getting $5 worth of their token in the market.

rigtht now , many ico  bounty campaign are slowly starting to die and being replaced by ieo campaigns . people like the hype about ieo and they are getting  crazy about joining one  but as of now i dont see any good feedbacks about how good ieo campaign was , compare to the old ico campaigns because ieo campaigns are still new at the moment  . working on these kind of campaigns are not really tough at all , it only takes a little of your time and you dont risk any amount on here so i cant say that its like a gamble  .

Same way that I feel here mate, I found out also that most of the altcoins that I fell are the ones that would be solid turns out to be very bad project, and we have only been trying to console yourself that it is because of bitcoin dominance, but not all this downfall of altcoins are as a result of bitcoin dominance, in fact I am beginning to see this issue of claiming they are being affected by bitcoin dominance as a self-made believe statement which in reality was never through.

It seems to me that most of these projects developers are the plague that has befallen the ICO industry because they are all scam, they might not come with the intention initially, but they later develop this nonchalant attitude since they have already made their own gain from the money they have raised.

We have the saddest period in bounty hunting and still going right now, last year and this year we can only count bounty campaign that has become profitable for bounty hunters and investors, and unfortunately, the market for this new coins is not friendly either.

But developers keep on building new coins and creating a new concept in the hope that when the altcoin season comes, then have already something they can offer to the market.

I'm new in bounty campaign just entered just this year and all you said are all true, so many bounties and yet none of them are worthy or profitable, it's like you are participating for free, are investors really investing here, they don't seem to have the money to get their coins to decent exchange.

You can try so far the best option right now is the Cryptotalk campaign managed by Yahoo and operated by Yobit, this is the best campaign for me so far this year, because bounty campaign in ICO's  are useless, there's no guaranty that their token that they are going to reward to you will have value and the value is commensurate to your efforts.

These are the current realities of the bounty companies. Previously, more projects were profitable, because everyone expected success from these projects, and later it turned out that only a few could become successful. It is obvious that people quickly realized that investing in new projects brings more losses than profits, which means that projects began to collect an order of magnitude less and an order of magnitude fewer projects began to succeed.

If the project is a good project and has prospects in the future with a clear roadmap then there will be a chance the situation will improve if you hold the token bounty from them. But if only a project is unclear it will be difficult to improve and give benefit us.

I saw the hardship of the bounty hunters in different projects in which they had joined before, were in the end it turns out into nothing. They may have a legit or good project but you need to through the needle of the hole first before you can seek it. Even there is IEO now it is still not assurance to say successful due to most of them too are always implemented on delaying tactics distribution. So the agony was still here for us being a hunters.

Logically correct. If the project has a bright future and if everything is moving according to the plan, chances are  the said project can grow and bring a huge success. But if there's no certainty and the team behind the project is not working to improve the chance of their coin, then there's no use of having your hopes up, no need to assume, and expect that the rewards that you received from the bounty will neither have lesser value nor no value at all.

2018 until now is a bleak time for bounty hunters, starting from not getting paid, allocations are reduced, the division is divided into several, waiting to long to listed in exchange and there are many more dramas that really harm bounty hunters.

But this all happened not apart from the fault of the bounty hunters who did not carefully see every bounty that was followed legit or not, yes we can't determined the project legit or not in first time but still we need to make research about the project and also don't join the bounty just from the rewards their allocated.

Sad truth when we do bounty hunting and just to add up where it do looks like finding a needle on a haystack when it comes to finding legit projects.

Yes, its really hard and the worst thing is not getting anything on all the works we had done.This agonies will always be tied up as a bounty hunter thats why
 we should need to be watchful and do always some research to minimize up the risk on getting into fraud ones.

In your opinion, what is the most effective way for us not to get caught up in a fraud campaign?
It is very difficult to know the potential of a bounty campaign without more knowledge about it. During 2019 there were not many good campaigns in my opinion, there were many campaigns that ended up being useless shitcoins.

Bounty hunting isn't really profitable nowadays. You have to spend a long time researching for a legitimate and promising project, and even if you find it it can delay the payment or even turn into scam after some time (it happened many times during the previous months).
So it is better to make bounty hunting as an additional source of income, and don't depend on it for your living.

in fact, I also sometimes check projects that I have been supporting, and only a few of them actually pay quite well. about 60% of the projects that I support become scams, or have low prices on the market. however, last year I supported the project without doing research and just following people, and this is indeed the risk.

but, for now, I've done a lot of research, so I'm pretty sure about what project I'm in. This is not Agony, but it is a mistake we made ourselves. keep trying to find a quality project that has a professional team so that everything works as you expect.

i think i have the same hit rate as you , checked my erc20 acount to see what cryptos i got after doing some bounty hunting 3 months ago had got 2 diffrent cryptos out of maybe 10-12 bounty campaigns.

Most bounty campaigns are a huge waste of time.

There is a reason why they have to resort to "bounties" and not actual campaigns, paid in BTC. It is likely because of the fact that they don't have much confidence in the project themselves, and that they don't have the necessary funding to get started, which explains their willingness to give away their tokens for labour like this.

Besides, you gotta be careful with projects that don't tell you about KYC until after you give them your time - these people are the most despicable.

Good riddance to the shitty projects and even better riddance to the low quality posters.

The forum looks better every day, and the spam gets less, more constructive feedback and better quality content overall.

Of course, when things pick up again, the shitty posters and shitty campaigns and scammy ICOs will return, but for now, just bear with the "agony" if you really genuinely are looking for a good future for "bounties".

Rewards will be enormous if you are holding very good solid tokens from hardworking developers and its very hard to see BTC paying campaigns this days, i know that bounty hunting will still be around for long but this space is lacking quality projects

Which of them pump for holding long? I think no it's because almost all of ICO coins right now are scams and its so dangerous to hold for more longer months since for now you will get a good numbers and next month for sure it will be cents. And we experience that for so many ICO coins that's why I prefer to dump them whenever I see a good value to sold on and don't be so greedy by thinking to earn more since ICO new tokens are questionable these days.

There are few people who are working for part-time on bounties and it will help them to make extra money. They need to spend some time on researching the bounty campaign because every bounty will not give them profit. So before joining any bounty they should research work.

Well that would be the best thing to do before joining on bounty campaign but sadly now we cannot feel the profit unlike those other years since as of now there is no or only few paying campaigns at this point. Maybe we should grow up and learn another things or be creative so that we can still  earn even the bounty era almost ends by now.

Yeah, some project will come out and look very legit without any reason to doubt them only for you to later discover they are nothing but pure scam hence living with you with worthless token for the months you spending campaigning for the project, unfortunate this will always be the experience of bounty hunters as long as these scam project still exist, it is very hard to find a genuine project this days.

Nowadays its better to join in btc paying campaigns because its more reliable but just like what you have said there are only few openings and its hard to get in. If we join in bounties there's no assurance our effort will be paid off once the project is over because even the project is good at first and looks real in the end it will turn out to be the opposite.

It is, but unfortunately not everyone has the previlage to join the this campaigns for one reason or the other, some btc paid campaigns use merit as a criteria to join bounty. if you do not have the specified number of merit required you can not join, others accept participants base on their quality of post, if you are not a constructive poster or your post are of low quality you won't be accepted, while some times it is base on rank, like the yobit sig campaign, lower rank are not accepted, so you see there are different reason why not everyone can join the btc paid campaigns even if they would want to.

It's risking your time and effort without any assurance that after the time frame that you consume is worth to wait. Many project turned to scam
and didn't give any rewards, if you get the chance to see bounties that have pays in btc or other alts that already listed from the exchange that's
much better to support. The situation now inside this market is no longer favoring the bounty hunters.

if your not busy and if you have alot of time to burned , why not join as much as you can  . its not bad at all to join a few knowing that not all are going to pay well  .

did you follow the bounty that you join ? its impossible that they wont post the result  .  they will say that they fail or not , so its not zero at all  unless if they dissapear without giving proper announcement  .

you are not alone with that problem . even me i also experienced that and what i do is i take a rest for a while  . stop burning your energy if your not motivated  . instead spend your energy on things that you think worth it

Bounty hunting used to be the main job of many of us here 2017 is the heyday of bounty campaign, back then some people even left their office job just to go full time doing bounty campaign, some earn ten times of their salary in their company, but that was 2017 now you have to go back to your office job to meet your daily needs, what you earn now is not even a fraction of what you earn back 2017.

Its same result for all bounty hunters pal, you are not the only one and i still consider you to be a lucky bounty hunter, none of the bounties i promoted turn successful and if 5% of all the bounties you promoted is successful then its still not bad either, half bread is better than none

I think part of the problem is also because of the market situation of late, bounty hunters will only benefit if the project is successful but this days most new project hardly have people to invest on them as a result of what we already know, so apart from campaigning for project that are fake or scam, there is also those project you campaign for but couldn't succeed because they couldn't raise enough money to continue with it, in this case hunters will end up working for nothing.

I think this will be last bounty campaign I have joined.
ICO's failing projects not paying.
Changing rules from no KYC to KYC.
Tokens not reaching exchanges.
They say follow telegram for updates and on telegram they say next month we will update project and next month they say we will update next month. It become stressful just to read updates. One project has pinned message on telegram, it says token is on exchange but they didn't say trading volume is 0, normally, project update will be next month.