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Try not to be beguiled, there is cash to be make in promoting bounty projects ,the individuals who make colossal cash will never express an announcement about it, don't leave since individuals reveal to you they aren't paying because i still find out today that many bounty hunters still don't know what they are doing when choosing projects to promote, they are still choosing projects blindly and don't depend on a solitary tasks either but the most important is not to get deceived by inexperienced bounty hunters cos they will always have bad news to share about bounties

Could Please try to describe what is your criteria by choosing bounty to work on, it would be helpful I think.

In some ways You are right, but in General the ICO market itself has changed too much.Many startups this year virtually nothing was collected.Accordingly, it is very difficult to earn on bounty programs.

Hm, many bounty projects are bad or scam and at the same time bounty hunters still promote them, i understand you very well but don't forget that some bounties are so shady that you will never know they are scam projects until they turned scam right in your face

The actual problem is, I do not even think bounties are useful for project. There are thousands of projects on social media shared by those people. So how can one be seen better than other? Bounties should turn to 'Social mining' so people should compete with each other to create useful content. I really like the social mining concept to be honest.

1. Bounties are not useful to the project?
Then why you are wearing an avatar and promoting a project now?
-Bounties have a different campaign and this is the marketing team of the project which advertises that can reach many countries of the world.

2. There are thousands of projects on social media shared by those people. So how can one be seen better than others?
- Bounty participants are here to advertise and spread the words of the project to the people, the readers are the ones to judge or to choose and study what is worth. and where to invest. Like in Commercials, there are so many shampoos but the consumer are the one to decide which brand to buy.

I think this is a possibility... I mean the lack of experience in bounty hunting could be contributing to the choosing of bad projects. However, picking the right project to promote in crypto space is quite difficult. If you succeed in finding the right ones, they would be likely few because of how difficult it is to research and find something worthwhile

It is true that up to now there are lot of bounty hunters don't know how to choose the legit or better project campaign.
It is because most of the time they didn't read the whitepaper first, check the team of the team of the project, and they always
depend on the millions or billion allocation for the bounty campaign, so the result always in the end they failed to receive their rewards
it is because scam project. And those bounty hunters always deceive their co-hunters are most often pretend to know everything in the bounty campaign but the truth is not.

You can't blame them, us(The bounty hunters) because today bounty hunting was change a lot compare before. As we see the ICO's today is not as popular like 2017, plus the  left and right scams and fraudulent activities that damaging the cryptocurrency industry as a whole, but in some reason others still able to collect enough funds in ICO's thats why some bounty people are paid accordingly but not "colossal cash" that you said thats too good to be true in this kind of market condition thats why choose the quality bounties and not the quantity.

it is important to draw conclusions only regarding your own experience. a lot of people say that it’s impossible to make money on bounty campaigns now, but I think the opposite is true. who knows how to work and make quality content - earns money

There are some metrics that needed to be met before you even select any project to promote. A project without any activities on Github for over 10 months, the team lack adequate experience on the subject matter and most painfully, they deceive newcomers with incentives that are too good to overlook.  

No bounty hunter is perfect. You might say that you have been participating in the bounty of good projects, but you cannot confidently assert that you cannot be vulnerable to one.
Also, a project might look good and perform well after listing, but it's bounty might not be a good experience to talk about. In which if a bounty hunter is to research, he focuses more on the project and its team and not the bounty.

First thing that you must consider is bounty campaign manager itself, you have find the reputable bounty manager.

Second, the project itself. When you right to choose reputable bounty campaign which is mean you will be paid at the end of the project. You have to have a good prediction against the project that you promoted, its function and how is the response of investor to the project because that is an important thing between you gain money or not.

Three, just focus on your main account, I mean don't be fool to participated one bounty campaign with a bunch of your account it will kill you. You won't make an useful post so as your account will end up in banned and when bounty campaign has known that you join with many accounts then you will know what will happen, don't be greedy this forum is not a place to be your source income.

People are speaking based on their experiences, why would they do that, and what would they get, it's up to us to check and study if what he is sayings are true, when it comes to the bounty we should not follow veteran and newbies, we should do our own and if they are sharing something let them it's a free forum to share their observation and experiences, and it's up to us if we take it or not.

Honestly i don't blame bounty hunters for any projects they decide to promote because even the most promising bounty projects sometimes turn out to be scam and the ones that looks very bad or not good enough ends up giving bounty hunters some rewards atleast, bounty is totally unpredictable

I agree with what you say, there must be experience so that we can easily find out the criteria of a bounty that really pays and not a scam. But bounty is currently more scam and so shady so it takes time to investigate them

Everyone has different criteria for choosing bounty to work on, but in general everyone is looking for bounty that he will join, if the information is unclear and not worth following, then just leave it, because it is useless to spend time on bounty that are not clear origin.

IMO bounties are easier way as advertisement. Already they give the payments in their own coins and it means that the more fixed money remains in your pocket. There are also those who value their coins more and they pay reward with ETH or other top coins.
I also think signature campaigns are meaningless to most of the newly created projects. More money should be reserved for social media and youtube bounty.

yes, I agree with your statement, the point all depends on how someone thinks in participating in a project. I would not say that most prize hunters are good, but in this industry what determines their destiny is ourselves & not depend on others.

That is because the alt market suffers from a bearish cycle that's why there's no more money to be made as compare to 2017 wherein even airdrops will give you a $100 return. As far as inexperienced managers, I haven't join bounties with them, I have nothing against them, but I looked for more experienced managers specially those who have good reputation and won't simply accept scam projects.

But as I have said, damn this bear market, everyone is really on the edge whether to continue doing bounties or just let this cycle go away first before joining campaigns again, because its not worth to spend hundred of hours and in the end, you won't received your rewards.

Bounty campaigns are still good, one can still earn profit by dumping the coins or wait til the price goes up. Its not meant to be your day job so you gotta take it lighter.  Learn about the project before joining the bounty campaign.

Projects today though aren't paying the bounty right after the IEO, they protect the real investors so it takes months, even more than a year which is frustrating.

Nobody is saying that plenty of hunters are unable to search for good campaigns, but a much bigger problem is that the amount of legit bounty campaigns is around 20 percent among those that are published on this forum.

It cannot be stopped, some of them really made it like a daily job.
You cannot make enough money relying on just one account.
Some of them are even using high ranking names and accounts to inquire for a bounty position then using their address as a payment receiver.
It is sad. But it will be a lot of work to be traced.

And when all things are done and not get paid they will get mad even if they dont even know a thing into what project they subscribed.

The concept of bounties and social mining almost the same, to promote the project and expand their reach. Bounty hunters are creating useful contents as well, competing with their competitors to receive a higher stakes. I'm not against this social mining, I like the idea but they should add more campaigns on the table like signature campaign.

You cannot blame bounty hunters for promoting projects. Because, some are just basing with the site of the project and its bounty design in this forum. If both of these are check then say no more, the ignorant bounty hunter will promote that project no matter what the cost. They don't know that it'll be their problem in the future if the project will never pay them.

I am sure if they succeed in deceiving me, they are not inexperienced. But it is also good to point them out because I really do admire they're advertising skills. They have the talent to reach out and socialize, things that I am not so good at. But finding a real campaign that is really worth the time and effort is the task that not everyone here can manage wisely. After all, experience is the best teacher that is why I believe that those "inexperience" bounty hunters will soon come to their senses and find their passion in this industry (when it is not just about the income anymore).

Inexperienced bounty hunters also are deceived by the bear market, there are no more big reward bounty campaigns anymore in the bounty section. The bear market makes it hard for the bounty hunters selling the bounty rewards for higher amounts of ETH and they have no other choice except dumping the bounty allocation to the market orders. Both sides on the bounty campaigns are victims of the bear market IMHO.

Yup, I agree there are so many inexperience bounty hunters now that are so very arrogant. They are saying that stop this bounty because it is just scam but they don't know is that it will pay after the campaigns end. Some of them actually many of them are joining without even searching the name of the campaign or project if it is really existed or what. Someone should explain to them what they are doing and what can it do to them.

Yes, that is something that often happens to bounty hunters. For all bounty hunters to believe in what they are doing and know what they are going to do, don't just participate in a project without knowing about the project and when the project fails they will start to complain. So, do your own observations and make decisions based on the observations you make, don't be easily influenced by what other people say, if you think the project you are taking on has great potential and opportunities then do it, whatever the results do it according to what you want to do.

who would tell them?
they will learn for themselves from what they do and get from forums. most of them choose projects as they wish without doing research and study. origin work on the project without knowing whether they will be paid or not. Inexperienced bounty hunters won't know where they rate a good project.

No business is going to pay for something they do not consider valuable, it is obvious that if they are willing to give away so many of their coins they are doing it because they know how valuable it can be to have a successful bounty campaign, but we have reached a point of saturation in which all the coins are doing the same and are competing for a very small amount of money compared to what they could get during the bull market of 2017.

only when they pay and register their tokens in exchange does the developer truly appreciate the bounty hunter and their community. but when after that if they run away it is a foul trick done by a villain in a joke.

New bounty projects of 2019 failed to distribute to bounty hunters claiming that they don't want their token to lose value on exchanges, its seems they are all trying to play safe by playing to win and not to lose but its really tiresome waiting for months before getting paid and after that the tokens might be useless

Somehow I had been a part of cleaning up some of this guys in the PundiX bounty which happened last year.

I was saddened by the less tokens I will receive during the campaign for I supported them well.
So I dug a lot of accounts that should be kicked out because of duplicates and negative trust.

Yes, some of them just doesnt care anymore. It is all about the money.
We all need money but being fair should also be a part of it.

I agree with you, buddy, but in fact the ICO market has changed too much in recent years. Now is a bad time for ICO and for bounty hunters. However, I don’t think anyone should listen to what inexperienced bounty hunters say.

At this point in time it's not about the reward but the volume in the exchange ,this has been affected by the bear market, so if you think you are experienced, situation  like this could make you feel you didn't do the research. Most time you see people complaining not because they didn't do research but because the price of the token crashed

The panic level is high during the bear market and yes they blame someone if the token they have is dumping, its not about being inexperienced but more on panicking. Do not deceived by the market because every dump is normal and you have to be more focus and do buy good coins, if your token is still down during a bull market then its already a shitcoin.

I don't know how long you have been in crypto but I am sure I am older and I command more experience ;). Times have changed for bounty hunters and you must accept that. Earlier years, you have 7 good paying bounties out of 10 but nowadays, out of every 10 bounties, only 1 is good paying. And this one good paying bounty will be filled with crowded spreadsheet. Do you now see the difference now? The numbers of good bounties have reduced drastically and it hurts most hunters

The problem is researching a good project I consider bounty hunter in a kind of way as investors basically with their personal time so i think the best idea is to use your time productively and work hard on finding worthy project for both you and the investor you are promoting to

I do not think that bounty hunters are the one to blame for a failured project , mostly bounty hunters only advertise a project for a reward that will be given when the ICO , IEO is finish. And the success nad failure of the ICO, IEO is the team to blame not bounty hunters , even if the project fails they will not receive any tokens or rewards.

Most of bounty hunters don't really care about the  project they are promoting. When the saw that they can get rewards, they grab it. That's why most of the are being scammed by the projects they're promoting. That's why they're are always have something had to say about bounties. I was scammed by bogus project too. But lessons learned. So, ATTENTION TO ALL BOUNTY HUNTERS OUT THERE! JOIN BOUNTY PROJECTS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.

Some BMs always say that. I hate that some BMs don't really even bother to know the project first and who are the people behind it before promoting it. They just grab any opportunity to earn and don't care about the participants of the bounty. Because they are receiving upfront payment before executing the bounty project. So when the participants are scammed, they are blaming also their participants and act like a victim also.

I would not consider myself an "inexperienced" bounty hunter and I have been around here for more than 5 years. And more over, I don't need anyone else's testimonial to decide whether to participate in a bounty campaign or not. The stats regarding bounty payments can be directly sourced from the thousands of threads here in the Bounty section.

As per your opinion, almost all the bounties are paying and the bounty hunters who received the rewards are not revealing it. This argument is ridiculous. You can check the spreadsheets by yourselves (most of them can be viewed by anyone). Less than 5% of the recent projects were successful, and the bounty hunters got good reward in even less number of bounty campaigns. 

now it is difficult to determine whether the normal company in which you participate. first it is necessary to examine the project in which you will participate. secondly, see the ratings of this project and when the site and social networks are created. you really need to be careful

Bounty hunters cannot be blamed because they have worked as much as possible to promote ICOs and about their projects, if the projects they follow fail to run well then bounty hunters can only be patient while the guilty team cannot succeed in the projects they run.

The problem is that many projects only seek profits from investors. Pretending to develop the project in the past few months was ignored. Sometimes the scapegoat are bounty hunters because they damage the market price, they said.
It would be better for each project to be paid for with coins that already have a market price. And also with best checking to avoid cheating.
The possibility to choose is not too risky for bounty hunters. Because they also spend time doing that. It is unfortunate if it ultimately does not produce results.

Even the most experienced bounty hunters here in the forum are getting scammed by different bounty campaigns too. Its because nobody knows if a bounty campaign will be a successful one in the future. They are choosing projects base on the campaign manager maybe. Some are just picking one and will invest their time on it.

Bounty hunting is no longer an easy task, It's more now like gambling with your fate when you participate with any available bounty inside the forum. You don't need to entrust anyone but use your own understanding before following and supporting a project. After all it's your precious time and efforts that will be wasted when you been victimized of the bounty developers.
With the bounty managers, same with the deal of bounty hunters, even expert managers are not safe with scam, they are just working and without any knowledge once the project is scam they will suffer the same thing together with the hunters.

If I personally continue to analyze it myself, even though one prize campaign has many participants, it is difficult for ordinary people to find a valid prize. What is clear is that we must be careful and more selective in choosing projects. Back to each of us. His name is also business

I don't think that's what bounty hunters do. they don't spread FUD news about the project they do, new bounty hunters are often mistaken for believing someone's words while they don't know anyone here.
Their mistake will be their choice, nobody will influence them. They will create their own mistakes and experience.

Researching the project is how to make money in Bounties. Most people are only spamming to get paid.

People would relieve a lot of stress by just watching the prices and not investing in crappy products.

right, the thing we need to do is do research about the project/bounty. no matter how many prizes are offered, no matter how many people support the project. we need to do a separate search for whether this project is feasible or not. besides that, we have our own way of seeing a project. because of that, joining with the project because people's opinions is wrong (unless the person gives a strong opinion).

Until now, there are still quite a lot of people who support the project blindly, whether it's a scam or not, it's all about reward, and that will lead you to regret.

Trading volume on exchange is the main issue with bounty projects nowadays, its not about how much reward you get but be able to sell your coins or tokens after bounty ends, very few bounty tokens have good volumes on exchanges this is why i don't rush to promote any bounty projects, if there is no demand for the token there will be zero volume

Buy Good coins only, if you buy good coins you won't have volume problems plaguing many bounty projects and new projects in crypto space today, they have no real use case to offer so people and investors have no interest in them, if no one is buying there will never be any volume on exchange

There is cash to be made doing most things. Lately, I have found out a lot about dropshipping and cpa and affiliate marketing. YOu will be amazed at what sort of things they sell and the number of people that buy them. People are very different and after different things. You can make money just doing one thing online like selling shirts or something and survive on that income. You just need to know how to drive hits to your website and get leads that make sales. This is why I do not listen to people that say "this and this does not work" it is not true. One example is traffic exchanges. I was told that they are useless since people quickly click through them yet I notice an increase in my traffic and the amount of signups i get. Sure you don't get many signups but you get a fair amount of visitor and it brings your rank up. I know they are useful since I have found many great website just surfing through the ads.  In fact there is a hell of a lot of info worth reading there. People are just lazy.

The same with bounties. They just blindly pick as you say. They do no research. Most projects are just a one-page interactive transitional webpage, white paper, road map and pretty colours and story, social media.
All projects have that. It is not impressive it is normal. You need a project thats website actually has additional pages not a prebuild ICO. You need to see at least some of the plans already taking action. Don't just read what they plan on doing. Planning and doing are very different things.

No ones save us but ourselve. So it is very important for us to understand how to adapt in the cryptocurrency ecosystem so that we can exist and get maximum benefits. Do not be lazy to read and share experiences with trusted friends, increase knowledge so that we are not easily affected by hype, and the most important thing is to understand the rules, be an educated bounty hunter. We also need to know our capacity, passion and abilities, so we can maximize the opportunities of each campaign. Prioritizing quality over quantity.

It is our biggest obligation as a bounty hunter to promote the projects we have chosen in a very convincing and educative words and that would be our best weapon to attract investors to finally invest in the project. So we should not stop from researching and learning new ideas so that we can share those valuable things being learned to all the audience particularly for the incoming investors that would serve as the best asset in the project aside from the bounty hunters alone.

That's right, it is our very own responsibility to study and know everything about the project before being part of it. Most of the bounty hunter these days are only looking for the bounty and not even spending enough time to know if the project is worth of their time and support.

LOL, swallow your own word. You are even wearing a bounty signature and yet saying that bounties are not useful to project. Bounties such as signature campaign and social media campaigns help spread and promote a project.

We can't blame the bounty hunters that promoted a scam project which they didn't get paid so they get frustrated. Sure there are some legit and quality projects out there worth the bounty hunters time and effort, but in the current situation it's hard to find them.

of course, anyone will not blame him. even the campaign manager cannot be blamed for promoting the project scam. Who knew it was fraud? if indeed it was indicated from the beginning there was a problem that would end the deception, of course, no one would support the campaign. Bounty Hunter chooses projects that they support themselves based on their analytical skills.

Not all bounty managers are good and even the popular bounty managers can still promote shit projects or scam projects, i promoted a bounty from arteezy and it was bad till date, we got rewards but no volume on exchange, i joined another bounty from bubbalex too and no trading volume as well, the only thing popular bounty managers solve is getting your tokens correctly as promised

   Anyone can be a manager, with a bit of experience on this forum. I wish to say nothing depends from manager, everything
depends from the team behind the project.
   I remember bounty campaign with the team that instead of their pictures they had cartoon characters pictures. People
participated in that bounty, some people invested in this project! Later bounty participants and investors cried because
project was a scam! What they really expected to happen!?
   Doing a research is not a fools job, it`s essential if you wish to be productive and make some profit as hunter and as
investor.

Do not seriously be moved  or be deceived by the comments and words of inexperienced bounty hunters, some indeed wants to take and lead other bounty hunters astray and sometimes even the bounty projects that they themselves are promoting, they say ill comments about it in other to avoid others to also join in and promote the project as well and they do all these without any vivid evidence and it is wrong to follow them and make a decision with their post without any research.

I was very dumbfounded with a bounty hunter like that. only blame the project he/she supports if his expectations do not match reality. Even though he/she decided to join. We should understand all losses as risks, don't protest without thinking about the problem beforehand. We are all faced with a difficult time right now. There are lots of new bounty campaigns, but most are dubious and lead to scams.

Caring for the bounties has become less and less profitable; on the other hand, it is not the fault of the iCOs but of the sector that is going through a moment of stasis.
However, I think that it will sooner or later bring some results.
So, I think we can insist, also because in the meantime we learn something.

Why not? You don't gain much by withholding such information, as developers pay all bounty hunters equally. And if you are one of those bounty hunters that knows the secret of being paid well, then you are contradicting yourself with creating this post, because according to your reasoning you would just keep quiet instead of bringing attention to this topic.

And even if some bounties pay well, it's still not worth doing them, because for every successful bounty there are dozens of scams that you have to spend your time on, and there's no way to tell which one's aren't scam with a good degree of confidence.

Am not sure about the word inexperienced
Because the most experienced hunter anywhere participated in deex and did not get paid

Doing researches before venturing into bounty will only make u choose the best and safest
It doesn’t entirely ward u off scam project

Tons of ICO projects are trash. Only 1-2% is really legit and paying. But that doesn't mean we give up joining bounty projects. And to think that bounty hunters seems unknowledgeable about choosing which is the right project join or how to spot scam ICO projects, then maybe this may be a great help to those who are seeking what criteria are qe looking for.

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How to spot good and scam ICO (https://hackernoon.com/how-to-spot-good-ico-how-to-spot-scam-ico-f0f57c1a4c38)

Bounty hunters tend to complained always and this isn't shocking. Many people complained are mostly those who are not using their head to research first whether the campaign they are doing is legit or not. Yes, thousand of campaigns are launch every time and from 10 there are only 2 who are really working for the said project others, are just a fundraising scam projects. This is a risky sideline, and inevitable one.

Right now, do not hope to find a good bounty, almost all of the projects nowadays that presents their own coin isn't worthy at all. I am advising this to you in order for you to spend your time to other productive task here on cryptocurrency space. Let me say, the season for bounty hunting is not now, you try out and study cryptex, exchange your coins and gain profit which can be assured by you since the coins or cryptocurrency is already established.

Gone are the times when bounty hunters could choose any project and they would make huge money (2k17!), now you need to spend some time in research. Market has matured, hunters need to mature as well.

The majorities are just there to runaway the funds that they've gonna collect, if you don't have any idea on how to find the right project you are prone to become a victim of those scammed teams. Make sure to find time doing research and don't stop following updates from the team, If they are really concern with the project they will do their best to communicate. Making sure that the community including the bounty hunters will be well-informed to any progress of their works.

nothing like those trash anymore as now a days bounty are all scam but people are just waiting and believe it will turn good when the bullish return but another thing is if the oken or the coin it self will survive the bear as lots of team are not just helping the matter while they get their token listed in scam or very low exchange that has no volume and liquidity to boom the project.

And they think it will turn good? Well, it is really sad when participated for bounty but never been paid or it is somewhat ridiculous when paid by shitcoins. That is common today and we don't know such scheme will be change when there are still bounties keep running.  I'd think it was a waste of time participating with this kind of activity for nothing unless we are sure it was legit.

Quite true though,  choosing the right bounty to promote is essential in making it in this bounty space,  there are lots of scam project out there that will be worth Shit after distribution

Before joining any bounty check if they have an established date of when they will deliver the tokens to their bounty participants, if at the end of the campaign they try to change the rules with the excuse of not wanting to distribute the tokens to the bounty hunters because this could crash the price make a scam accusation against them since they are violating their own terms, besides if the developers need to do that to protect their coin then this means their coin was not that good to begin with.

I believe this has often been done by the Bounty Hunter and in the end it was all in vain. Because the project always does not care about the changes they make for the usual reasons. But usually at the beginning of a bounty campaign, if we ask for distribution then they will answer after the sale. That is a condition where we want to participate or not, unfortunately we entered there. Because what is seen is whether the project is good or not.

I guess OP just got paid a lot from his/her previous campaign  ;D I've been doing bounties for almost 3 years and based on my experience there are lot of bounty since 2018 started that turns of to be a scam or a dead project now though there are still few campaigns are still out there that offer a fair rewards for their participants.

Unfortunately, this is not so easy to do. Nobody wants to be cheated and get nothing for their time spent. No matter how much we write here about a thorough study of projects, there will still be scammers who try to cheat. And it’s hard to insure against it.

Honestly you hardly can't differentiate a good bounty from the bad ones in fact the bad ones package their promotions such that one can hardly detect them to be scam, they hired good bounty managers to manage their promotions and assembles arrays of teams of experts all these geared towards attracting investors however after putting every efforts by the bounty hunters its very disappointing to see them goes off the radar this had a been a regular occurrence due to the not being regulated.

As a bounty hunter I listen to myself and not to other bounty participants. Before I choose to promote any project in this industry, I first carryout a thorough research about the project before making attempt to promote them. I have promoted many bounties and have gained good profits in return. I always check the team of the project before I join and promote the  company.

Certainly, there is someone to encourage the majority, and everyone follows him. In the end, 100x fall at the price.
In my opinion, the latest market situation, the ICO's, the bounty's situation and the scammers have affected everyone, and everyone is headed to the side that they think they can make more profit. But the result is often the same because the main issue is not the main goal of the project, but whether it raises enough money.

"Research" is a common problem with the most bounty hunters. They never do it actually cause they only look for an attractive offer and they'll think that they could get much from a certain project they've promoted. What makes these existed problems unresolve because even though they have complained about bounties but they keep promoting on it.

This needs to be considered by the bounty hunters, to not easily trust the words of others and continue to believe in their own decisions based on observations and analyzes that have been done. The number of scam projects will certainly make the bounty hunters easier to be influenced by bad news and they will be easy to believe. So, I think everyone must have their respective beliefs in the decisions that have been taken.

After all, to do a thorough research it must have skills and experience. Well, some of us or bounty hunters do not have the skills about it, which in the end will only promote random projects with attractive offers. But there are some who only follow other bounty hunters and of course it will produce a good result and not, because there are many bounty hunters that are worthy to be followed and not. But anyway, choosing to promote it with your own research will be better because it will improve your skills and experience for yourself.

I agree with you. There's money to be made in bounty hunting given a hunter is dedicated to the act of Bounty hunting. Why it seems money isn't made is because we most times promote bounties blindly.

Indeed, gone are the days where bounty hunters are being rewarded by thousands of dollars in a single campaing.  Also gone are the days where a campaign will pay bounty hunters after a week of end of the project crowdfunding.  What in now is the wait of more than 6 months before being paid, an attempt of scam by implementing KYC after the bounty is over to claim the reward, and worst, swapping coins requiring KYC (see Swace). And I forgot to mention, and evading tactics of blaming the campaign manager not doing his job so they won't pay the bounty participants.

No matter how inexperience the bounty hunter is, if these projects paid them accordingly, there won't be any thread about those issues.  They are victims here and it is not deceiving to expose scams in bounty campaigns.

I agree with you. There are some participants who did not understand the work of the bounty and who received negative experience write about it, thereby pushing away those who really could figure it out and start earning. I believe that you always need to check, try to figure it out and work on your own, only then you will know for sure whether it makes sense to work in the bounty. In any case, the crypto industry is developing and advertising for projects will be needed, which means that there will be work for the bounty sections and there will be earnings.

If you're ready to waste your time pursuing low wages then yes there's money to be made in bounty hunting.
There's a lot of threads about this problem and you should really consider this before you begin. You will be a tool for devs who will scam you like those who started to require full KYC when the bounty was completed or they will abandon the project and you'll get nothing.

Waste of time, better start trading.

Bounty hunting is not as profitable as it used to be.  Here are some reasons why:
ICO/IEO participation rate has declined significantly as compared with 2017.

The ever increasing population of hunters participating in the same set of bounties which use staked pools.

The reduction of bounty pools by projects in many cases. Not to mention the general market condition.

The work of bounty hunters should not be limited on promoting a project. Choosing a a good project with great potential is difficult for many people since those are rare. Mainly, bounty hunting is just to gain income but he must also know what exactly the project is. Blindly promoting something will not do any good in the industry. The market is struggling and so the people that's why many just choose any opportunity just to earn money.

This means that a lot of people now are quitting their job just for crypto... ;D

It is really disappointing to see those bounty hunters received for almost nothing after their participation in ICO. We know already that the market isn't healthy as of 2017 (living into the hypes), but can't think how these bounty hunters become least fortunate with the bounties today. Actually, I'm a bounty before but I could think that the life of bounty hunters is getting hard day by day especially in the current situation.

Bounty hunters are not dull people as many people may think, the problem is just that the whole situation is really beyond their control, and as you have said yourself, look at the percentage of good project to bad projects out of the many projects that is being released on a daily basis, how would you be able to know them when they all have very good whitepaper?

It is not like before when majority of them use to copy whitepaper, they now even hire a project writer now to write a fresh idea which they know they cannot carry out to make the whitepaper have a real use case, and till they scam, before the whole thing is glaring. Most criteria that people have suggested is not really working again, as many of these scammers are also devising strong strategies too using these advises.

Those hunters needs to go back to reality, meaning to say that they need to go back and work as usual from their day job careers is no longer the hype of the market where bounty rewards is really huge once the project become successful. But now is lesser to nothing at all. It can be used as a side job whole staying inside this industry but make sure you have a good source of financial funds and not to rely with it.

Yeah, because everyone are not experienced bounty hunters that's why they can't find out which projects are legitimacy and they will be get payment. Actually still now most of the hunters are newbie so that they go to join randomly without analysis. Even they unintentionally promoting a lot of shady projects which are looking really scam/fake core team. At the moment is very difficult to search worthy projects.                   

Crpyto market is struggling presently and many rubbish baked projects keep entering every single day, wise up bounty hunters, you don't need anyone to tell you that not all those projects will be good, good projects are rare to come by nowadays, promote projects that are worth promoting and stop giving scammers a hand

That's the reason why we have to do researchers on our own. It's risky to join bounties these days without knowing it well. We have colleagues who will share us with the latest campaigns but we still have to do research before grabbing each opportunity. We must check its legitimacy and the team behind it.

This is how good scammers are now, they are sometimes better than developers, they are script writers and do necessary research to come up with idea of scamming without us noticing. We need to be smarter each day since chances are they are discovering or preparing to something that will trap us. At this time before I engaged in any bounty hunting or ICO or trading new alts, I read reviews and check their support system. Though this past few months since bounty hunting will took months before you received anything mostly I don't bother joining and just focus on trading.

Yes, agree that many bounty hunters take part in most of the bounty campaigns but that doesn't mean the project does not have good potential.
There are many projects which have a good potential but get hidden in the plethora of scam projects on the internet.
Bounty campaigns are a good way of promoting a project while earning some money but people have misused it a lot and hence too many scams started to take place.
These days people are much aware and alert of such scams.

I think bounty hunters are in deep trouble because of scam projects taking bounty hunters advantages to lure people to invest in their crappy projects, bounty hunters should start looking into projects more carefully, if we can start abandoning or ignoring some projects it will make a difference on the long run, even developers will start singing ' oh its hard to gain the attention of bounty hunters nowdays' lets not take shit from any rubbish projects

Everyone who wants to participate in any bounty company should understand his actions and his abilities with which he will approximately know how much he will be able to get from the bounty company in which he will participate, it is of course very important to study the project a little before you will enter in the bounty company, so as not to lose your time promoting scam company.

Its a fact that those who make good bucks from bounties will never come on here and boss about it lol but actually the present results of bounty hunting is generally bad and almost everyone is complaining, only very few bounty projects became successful this year so far, if i have any other way i would have quit bounty job but i have no choice

Personally, I select projects very carefully and calculate the entire pool of rewards. And I see how much it costs for each social network. After I calculated, if it is profitable, then I join. And so it is with every project. If the project is profitable then you can get rewards well.

Bounty hunter still patience so far with almost bounty campaign have many participants, they look patience about how long payment distribution and keep waiting for every investor said bounty hunter make price dump, although with little allocation reward for bounty participants how come make price dump, but keep joining almost bounty campaign.

To some extent, bounty hunters are blamed for whatever scam crypto projects are taking advantage by cheating investors and bounty hunters. Bounty hunters blindly support and promote scam projects. They rush to work for any project offering a high volume of bounty pool or any other lucrative promises without researching and looking at the road map, whitepaper and concept of the project.

It all depends on how your skills are in this industry, I would not say that there are many gift hunters who are inexperienced or say randomly, they and you have different paths so what you have to do here doesn't depend on anyone, you itself must determine how to survive in this industry.

It's up too the person if he or she believe in someone who tells a negative about the ICO projects but in fact there are many projects that end up scamming many people so the only way that bounty hunters can do is to make their own research, choose a good project by reading the background of the team, check the credentials of the manager if trust score of manager are high for sure the chance not to get scam are also high.

the most important thing is always to believe in every action you take and not depend on anyone. no one will guarantee the security of your money and my advice is never to spend your money if you cannot estimate the feedback you receive.

Exactly, we should not belittle bounty hunters, yes, they maybe trying their luck in hunting bounties but that doesn't mean they are inexperience and that we should not trust, not all of them don't know what they are doing. There maybe new bounty hunters everyday, but time will come when they will have their own strategy like expert hunters, and they play a big role in a project as they are not just promoting it but they are also investing if the project is promising.

Bounty hunters are also victims here, its not their choice that there are so many scam campaigns. They are just looking for a promising campaign but it turns out to be a scam campaign, its doesnt mean like they dont have a skill to find a campaign which is good. Bounty hunters spend their time and effort of finding a better campaign each day, their skills is being honed and they learn more as they found newly released camapaigns.

People don't say these things without a reason. If someone has told me few years back that it is impossible I wouldn't believe them, nowadays it is just like playing lottery. KYC, low payment, no payment, no new idea, many scam projects, lack of investors, project can't raise funds, that is all what is going on with ICO and bounties.

Bounty hunting isn't as profitable as a few years ago, that's the truth regardless of the wrong opinions of beginners with bounties. Yes, the newbies with bounty hunting spread generally false information because they are falling in making money with this field, but on the other side, even if you choose the best campaigns nowadays, the payment isn't guaranteed and it is really low.

Lol that's funny. I do bounty a lot however, I would do a little research on the project I want to blog about cos I'm very concerned about what I am trying to make people get into so I don't be a ladder to others' loss. Meanwhile, I still think it's an ignorance thing for those who do bring bas news. More don't even know what they're getting into.

its not about being decieved but i believe on what others are saying because i did also experience that too  . i wont only believe on them if i dont ever tried bounty hunting and what ill do is that ill do bounty hunting first so that i can prove if who is saying the truth  . to be honest i think i am more against on those who said that bounty is still profitable because i myself cant experience what they are talking about but that does not mean that im blindly joining any bounties  .

Actually we're not beguilded, some projects have paid us as the they promised at the beginning.
The problem is, the tokens of their project become worthless right after it enter exchanges due to bad management and less investors.

Bounty hunters need to begin to defend what it is rightfully theirs, it may seem useless but if a scam accusation is created and the facts back the accusations of the bounty hunters I can assure you some of the most reputable members of the forum will back them out, and a scam accusation in this forum is not a small thing any investor that is interested in investing in a coin will probably make a small search about the project and if he reads what they have done to those that were promoting the project then he will most likely stay away from it.

Very much true Sir. No matter how hard we do our own research for projects that may seem legit but in the end we're still not certain.
I've happened to have an awful experience with a project handled by a very hardworking set of talented team known in their own fields of expertise. Needless to say, a large number of high ranked members were amongst those that participated. But then again, who would have known that these very team will be the cause of the projects failure.
So i guess it's not always the bounty hunters who should be blamed. In general, most bounty hunters do their job well because they've wanted to be payed appropriately.

I completely agree with the author of the branch, you do not need to participate in all projects, you need to carefully select projects

Haha, newbies are always there. The 14-15 years old kids come to earn free money and join almost every shitty bounty in the hope of money. But being seasoned bounty hunter,  I recommend such members to not waste their energy on something so unworthy. Rather try building your skill, learn more about bitcoin and do something better.

Well I wouldn't totally disagree, yes people make some cool cash but then it's once in a while, if a bounty hunter says there is no pay in bounty, then that person might be talking out of experience doesn't necessarily mean he or she wants to deceive others. With intensive research one can get a few good projects.

Yes there is many people who blinded join in every bounty.
But personally i will also try to join in some bounty.
because this day really hard to know where is legit or not.
Some project look good, team is the best. But in another day they going to scam. Lol..  :D
I hope people read the project detail like whitepaper first before join .

That’s a bright question since OP is accusing bounty hunters bein deceiving so the best way to react is bring criteria here for how to find good bounties?
I must admit that it’s harder to find one now,I don’t know about the bounty signature OP has wearing if it’s still profitable?or Deceiving as well?

Experienced hunters can also pass wrong info if care is not taken, so let alone the inexperienced ones. Well, they are not to blame, because sometimes, the team of those project with little or no worth still find a way to deceive and attract people. So it sometimes require a lot of experience, which although is not a guarantee, to be able to decipher a project with great value and which is safe at least to a large extent, because not all legit projects are also safe to invest in.

Your point is on the money.  Potential investors, aka suckers, are getting wise to all of these bogus projects and hopefully they'll stop giving them money.  The spamming that bounty hunters do, regardless of whether its profitable for the bounty hunters or not, should not be considered to be legit work.  It's just spamming, and when bounty hunters get screwed at the end of a bounty by the project devs I just laugh.

Huh.  You may know more about it than I do, but I didn't think most of them were that young.  Then again I've read about entire families entering the spamming for money business, so I should not be surprised.

Bounty program is important for the project. Today bounty hunters find it very difficult to analyze projects and draw conclusions about their success. Therefore, they undertake any project that promises them mountains of gold. I believe that the bounty program today is beneficial for projects as it is the main means to attract investors. I do not think that this is bad but it is necessary to modernize the structure somehow. To bounty program does not turn into useless spam and garbage in social networks. I really liked the idea of social mining.

It's every bounty hunter's responsibility to investigate for every information we received. If a bounty hunter can easily accept and adapt the information he gathered, he's not taking too much time and effort to benefit himself. A bounty hunter should not only accept information but also we should gather more information to know if its true and investigate further for better understanding of the project and in any situation.

Even the old bounty hunters are having a hard time choosing one so what more for those who are new.
Just take a look on those well known Bounty Manager how many of them are still active and have  a good percent of successful project?
It just shows that even those who once hold a good reputation on choosing a good project are also struggling now when it comes to choosing one.

that's one of the reasons I don't just choose projects to be supported. Well, I might be interested when a project is handled by an experienced bounty manager compared to projects handled by new members. however, all of that does need research so that we know the ins and outs of the project that will run. sometimes people see projects from rewards, even when it's introduced by new members. Well, the point of all of that, don't blindly choose a project, because sometimes, new members bring scam projects with quite a lot of prizes.

As far as i know these hunters are increasing their chance to get a good project by joining the various campaign. That's not a problem but they must care to analyze the project before they try to join in any project.
These hunters are never doing any effort to determine which is the best one after they have analyzed every project.
But it's very sad to see the don't even care about that. This time so many scam projects around here. hunters must be critical in thoughts.

Many bounty hunter not looking about rule of bounty campaign and joined for bounty campaign, doing task without check get qualify or not, after ended of bounty campaign asking why they got not stake and token, they do not check have doing task correctly or not. Bounty campaign hunter always look easy with doing task but never check what rule first in bounty campaign, payment system is not always use erc20 wallet and bounty hunter have ready register to website for receiving coins.

The reason is becuase there many campaign bounty hunters participating not only one campaign sometimes more than 30 campaign they joined . how do you they can check it always.

Almost everyone in this workspace think they can manage everything. Useless inexperienced people take role as a bounty manager and they fail everytime. Please, if you cannot handle those stuff, do not do. Money is not everything. I have seen tons of projects with shitty bounty managers, they lost reputation because of them.

You are right but not always an inexperienced gift hunter is the problem. . now just like this, in this forum for free in the sense that does not mean you are always safe to be here both investment and become a bounty hunter. and you cannot set benchmarks if the cause is an inexperienced prize hunter. . but a valid reason is your lack of accuracy before joining a project that makes you fall into the junk project yourself.

most prize hunters now as long as choosing a project even though the project is not necessarily good / will really pay, we must be observant to see projects from whitepaper, roadmap, team and mission. in my opinion the prize hunters who originally chose the project without looking at the contents of the project were beginners who wanted to join the world of bounties, but they did not learn what bounties were, instead they went straight into the world of bounties so that they only did and hoped for big prizes while on the contrary.

Correct. I agree with you. there are indeed many inexperienced prize hunters who try to spread bad news without being based on their knowledge. sometimes they are without thinking about the risks experienced by others due to their actions.

Developers are to be blame for that, if they can't find experience bounty manager to manage their bounty campaign it will wreck the image of the project entirely and some foolish developers find it hard to pay qualified bounty manager and instead look for new inexperienced bounty manager

If right from the onset, hunters are being selective of the project that they promote, I am sure the record of scam that has been recorded so far would not have been, at least if we will have any scam project scale through, it would not be as much as they were till they laid the ICO market to rest,  so we hunters are to be blamed to an extent also because we are not being picky of project, and we know that it is what we show to the investors out there that they believe which some of them believe that we must have done our research on them or enjoying some benefits from them for promoting them, I have seen many of my friend invest in some cryptocurrency because of me having seeing it through their Facebook page, so they believe that I will be dealing with something solid which promoted them to investing.

Bounty manager has fault if you look from newbie members eyes. Most of the Social media hunters are newbie, where this is hard to find legit projects for experience members. Investors shouldn't follow inexperienced members research, where legit is easy to find.

if we talk about newcomer in bounty campaign, of course i think all of them are working on all bounty campaign for make better income without research the project and selecting potential project.

because in this forum are too many campaign running at the same time we must selective for working on the campaign

I am not sure we are to blame the so called inexperienced hunters because we truly lack quality bounties. Truthfully, there might still be some amount of good money to be made but then it requires keen research. Things have changed from what it used to be due to increased bad projects and hunters

It's not about being experienced or non-experienced, for sure there is cash to be made and many has made good money from bounties but it's now different because one thing that makes bounties thrive is ICO and IEO and presently those things are presently suffering and this means that bounty campaigns are suffering too.

It is still hard to find bounties that will offer good rewards in exchange for your work. The majority of projects that is listed on Bitcointalk won't even collect a soft cap or will go scam, by leaving hunters with empty pockets.

You're right. Those who manage to make good money on the Bounty will never reveal their methods. Indeed, now far from every project and not every company brings a good income.
Bounty Hunters have to make more efforts than before, and they have to develop advanced techniques for working with various projects.
I know several such techniques, but I will not begin to disclose them. I do not use all the methods because some of them are not honest, I prefer only honest earnings.

but in my opinion experience is important as your way to develop in the world of crypto, good research is also certainly due to the experience that is happening. but it needs to be recognized that the current project is not much profitable for campaign participants, most of which produce coins whose results do not meet the needs

It's better that everything we get information does have to be checked by itself so we really know whether it's valid or not. I myself sometimes also experience the same problem with a lot of information that turns out to be incorrect. sometimes the participants themselves are jealous and accusing one another

Not just that, other great projects will not succeed because of inexperience bounty hunters.. they didn't know to handle with their participants. bounty manager is a big rule you can't just chill and let the bounty hunters do their work. but there are also projects won't pay the right for bounty managers because they know it is not more effective for their sale. so we should do is dyor and make an effort to take a task that you can earn.

yes, you are correct. when you do the job hunting for prizes. then you must be thorough before you work on the prize project. because if you are not good at choosing, then disappointed that will befall you at the end of the project. because not all projects are good, so many junk projects will not give prizes to prize hunters when the project is over. follow the instructions of friends who really understand about the good or bad of a project. do not let you regret when the project is over.

I think the success of the project does not only depend on the bounty hunters, the hunters only perform tasks according to the rules of the campaign manager. Investors cannot use prize hunters as an indicator of their investment. If the project is legitimate, even without prize hunters they can succeed in sales. So in my opinion the bounty hunter cant be blamed if many projects dont achieve success.

Even the project who engage the service of this inexperience bm are to blame, if a project is reputable and cares about this, will try as much as possible to have a reputable bm run their campaign for them, but since most campaigns don't really consider this aspect as important or necessary or rather to stingy to hire a good reputable bm they will settle for less, this inexperience bm will do a very poor job, making things difficult for hunters in the process, can also discourage good hunters to join campaign and promote the project.

That's why we should only participate in a project that managing by a trusted forum member. There are campaign managers that are deceiving other forum member in order to participate in a scam project. We should only trust a campaign manager that have good backgrounds about his past managed campaigns.

The idea about discretely choosing the bounty campaign to join or the project to promote is based mainly on the knowledge that one has been able to acquire over time. Those who are having problem with bounties, are the newbies and some despite with higher ranks still lack the experience or have not bothered to know what should be known.

don't be fooled easily. we all have to seriously inspect the project. we have to check the whitepaper first, check the project teams. and we must select projects that are held by intelligent and responsible managers. so we really know all the objectives of the project and the benefits of the project.

knowing the purpose of the project for now and for the future is important before joining a project. and the manager's experience must sometimes be thought about before you join the project, look for managers who are experienced and provide transparency to the participants. for the benefits gained are the results of your own research not from how much trust there is in the bounty manager

Lots of people already stopped participating in bounties, sooner or later if this bear market keeps up. People would no longer participate in it because they knew they are going to end up getting scammed or payed by peanuts. Its not worth it and many investors prefer to invest in IEO's which most of those projects don't have any bounties.

LOL... this is beyond ridiculous. I joined this forum in 2012, and I hope that you don't regard me as an "inexperienced" bounty hunter. I would like to advise everyone to stay out of bounty campaigns for now. This is a temporary measure, until the situation improves. I have analyzed a huge number of bounty campaigns taken out during the past few weeks. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them never paid any rewards to the participants.

I had analyzed in detail what is wrong with the current bounty campaigns. Anyone interested can read my findings here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5050009.0

I had put forward a few suggestions back then, but I can see that none of them have been implemented yet. And I would advise the bounty hunters to boycott the campaigns, until the campaign managers listen to the suggestions put forward by us.

As a bounty hunter you don't expect to earn big now cos the market is too down now. It's  never a bad idea to be joining bounties and be earning their tokens than earning nothing. Nobody knows how profitable those altcoin you earn and hodl will turnout to be tomorrow

Is unfortunate many bounty hunters won't say precisely what they've gain from hunting, promoting good project still pays more than engaging in monthly works.

In terms of being influenced by bounty hunters, we should not be careless about it. We should always be careful on the projects we are joining, if ever we are being influenced by some bounty hunters, we should see their background first before going on the way they've went already. It may just lead us to harm if ever we won't check their background carefully so it is for the best if we are going to make sure that we've underwent proper background check to those famous bounty hunters.

actually from what point of view do we see the bounty hunter as inexperienced? and how can we know whether the hunter bounty is experienced or not? from their rank? it is not a guarantee. even some people with a small ranking have the quality of choosing projects that are better than those with high ranks. because in this forum there is also no prohibition on the ownership of more than one account.

yes,  it's important for you not to always depend on anyone's advice because no one will guarantee you fully, unless the advice you hear makes sense, it might still be reconsidered. but my advice is far better to do your own research results and not depend on anyone.

bounty is dying because many ico projects fail at the end. even the so called IEOs now are not yielding any positive results. I hope the year 2020 brings us to a new and better dimensions

-Whitepaper
-Project teams
-Intelligent and responsible managers
All these are presently in every big scam projects in crypto space, scammers of today are very smart and they are ready to deliver all what you have on your list, its a shame what crypto space have become and there is still no good way to detect scam projects, they are leved base, a well planned scam project might never be detected until they scam people

confidence in analyzing is very much needed, whereas prize hunters, I think, are only taken into consideration. therefore we must begin to learn to analyze projects in order to get good results. do not be influenced by the words of others if we do not have a good foundation, they will not feel the loss of our money

The level of success of the project is now very much different, the numbers may be very low. The reason is that investors are no longer interested in ICOs and most IEOs are listed on the exchange. Except IEO listed on the top exchange. Without the presence of investors in the sale of ICO or IEO tokens, the bounty hunter will also suffer losses. Work carried out ends without pay because the project cannot reach the financial target. Many projects now look unattractive, so it is very difficult to determine which campaigns to promote.

What you say is true, this happened more than 1 year. many prize hunters choose projects that do not include clear information, about the project and where the project was carried out and the severity of the project ended in a scam. Why ICO project scam always occurs and worse in early 2018? investors and bounties believe in reckless hunters and do not clearly see the authenticity of the project and the developer.

Yes and no, for example, the manager of Artisi, the signature of one of the projects of which you wear has a rather dubious percentage of success among his projects.
Only recently he began to take quite good projects that really began to bring at least some profit, before that there was a period when project after project, from this manager, were unsuccessful.
It cannot be said that these were bad projects, no, quite the contrary, the projects were very promising, but something went wrong, and they either entered the market and were immediately blown away, or did not enter the market at all.

True to this. Bounty hunters needs to make their own decisions aside what others say truth be told some campaigns won't pay but others will the decision to choose what to promote and what not to lies on the hunters themselves.

right bro  . even managers can also be decieve or cant detect accurately if the project that they are going to handle is a fail or succesful one  . its not thier fault if that happens  so we must not put a blame on them   . we cant also put a blame on other bounty hunters because they are not perfect . they just want to help others which is still okay than not helping/suggesting at all   . the decision is still up to us and we must also do the last research .

In working as a bounty hunter, I have a principle: quality is more important than quantity. In addition, you also need to have enough knowledge and confidence from your analysis, try to be more open and discuss with friends who are more experienced, of course, who can be trusted.
That is why I was very selective before joining a project. Moreover, lately there are many dramas in the bounty campaign, rather than our hard work wasted, it is better we spend more time actually analyzing before joining. It would be better to choose a project that has weekly payments (I really like this, unfortunately, this is very rare), has a communicative working product and a developer team, if possible, choose a bounty whose tokens or coins have been listed on the exchange or that have an IEO on the potential exchange.

There are many good projects in this forum and I think they have paid with the bounty allocation they have set, but sometimes the development team always delays distribution for several reasons
I will choose a good and trustworthy manager before participating in new projects, but some projects pay with tokens and not BTC, requiring a minimum rank of Full Member to be able to participate with projects that pay BTC.

I usually tell people that most people who benefit from something do not always make noise about it, those who don't benefit will make a fuss of it. Generally to be candid, at least 70% of bounty projects (just my opinion) do not worth hunters' time, but when you are extremely selective with projects you promote, then most likely you will have reasons to promote more good projects in future. I for one, I don't just promote projects just because I see many doing so, I take time to analyze it. Well, sometimes it's all about grace, because some so-called good projects end up not fulfilling their promises.

Choosing a good manager and assuming that this means the project is good is like choosing a good platform and buying any IEO that they offer, assuming that the company launching on your trusted platform is a good company.

False, as we all know now.

Trustworthy managers just means they take care of you in terms of payment. Doesn't mean the project will moon or whatever. Doesn't mean payment will be worth $100 or $0.01. Managers have to market control.

I agree with you totally on this, despite the fact that scam projects have perpetrated the sphere, there's still yet money to be made given a legit project is found by hunters. Let's develop the habit of believing in ourselves first before others opinion about bounty hunting.

In life, we are all responsible for our own decision, and whatever decision that we make at any time in life will determine how our future will be, which is why we should always try as much as possible to make decisions that will be right for us by looking and studying things that will always give us clue to the right decision. This is our money, and this is our time, we have to respect it and we have to try as much as possible that we utilize it in a very positive way.

I guess the op’s advice even goes more to investors, because there are too many inexperience hunters in the community that will project anything they see without caring if the project is good for the community or not, if hunters where trying their best in this regards, I am sure that there would not have been scam as much as it is right now, so we have to learn to always do our research.

Managers had nothing to do on project future price or development.They are just doing their job on community handling but as bounty hunter, its always been ideal to look for managers that had good rate of paying campaigns.It might not be precisely perfect in terms of amount gains but at least they are being paid on the token as promised.
This is way more better than following randomly without even knowing its past experience.Take a look or example on some where managers are keen on selecting good projects because their pay would always vary or depend on projects success.

So many lazy bounty hunters that failed to carry out proper research on good project end up discouraging others of how bounty is no longer paying,  thus misleading people,  but a normal basis when proper research is being carried out on a good projects and qualiry time is being spent on promoting such project via its bounty campaign, hunters ends up getting paid awesomely from such campaigns.  I know of many campaign that have paid well this year

It is sure that bounty is always offering us the opportunity to make some additional income, but it is also obvious that it is harder nowadays to make money with bounty hunting as a few years ago. The number of good projects that have some potential is decreasing, and also the payment rate is really low actually.

One man's meal is another man's poison, just as one country's lambo money is another country's Bicycle money, Bounties has not been paying much these days, infact for most of the bounties around, the bounty allocation is somewhere around the $20,000 range and the campaign would end up having 500 or more participants which is an average of $20 per Participant, the bounties that pay huge money now are usually those campaigns that people think would fail and they decided to ignore it, so the few who did it ended up making lots of money from it.

If we compare bounty hunting before and today there is a big difference, before bounty hunting is full of excitement cause only few campaigns wont pay, bounty pool is great , task is easy specially in aidrops were email and twitter is enough, unlike today almost all campaigns are scam.

Its good to only consider it as a source of income, not a main job as there no guarantee that we can all earn from bounty hunting.
The reward could be lucrative like what we've experience in the previous years, but as the time the market struggles, our income are also affected.


This is because of the market struggle, if we don't have a day job, we might struggle as well, we need to accept the situation and find a away to make money while bounty hunting is still not profitable.

Many projects are often not worth promoting, that's the problem with hunters.  They promote any project they can find.  Your reputation is at stake,  not just that,  your effort also.  Why waste your time promoting projects that have unrealistic fund goals, especially with the present market conditions. Hunters are their own problems,  choose projects wisely,  then give it all you've got!

There is no way they give you free money by doing nothing. If you already knew it very well, why you still joined in one of those campaign? Just move to btc paid campaign which much more safer than altcoin bounty

We can't deny the fact that there are some projects trying their best to promote and endorse but in the end the projects seems nothing and useless as they just suddenly disappear without knowing the updates. Nowadays, is different from the year 2017 in which we need to be vigilant and aware those projects.

The Bounty is no longer a convenient and easy way to make money. However, it is obvious that this work still brings money. Even if the majority on the forum says that this is not so, but they all continue to participate in the promotion of various projects. No one will tell their methods of earning, because this can lead to the fact that the method does not become fast. However, this is a forum, it is a blockchain, and everyone can draw conclusions based on message histories, spreadsheets and user wallets.

Yes, we are seeing completely negative about the bounties because bounty hunters don't have a completely good opinion about the bounties because with the recent scams. People are participating in a different bounty campaign because at least they might get some money from their promotions but it is not happening with the bounties.

Yes, we should identify those projects in the beginning, otherwise, it is impossible for us to get the payment from those companies. Sometimes we are very confused about choosing the project because everything seems to be very impressive, but after crowdsales, we won't get gradually the updates from the team.

Its hard to identity the scam project in the beginning. Most of the projects turn scam or not paying to the bounty hunters or keep extending their bounties again and again and some who finished their bounties are still planning to list their coins but don't know when they will list on exchanges. Those who list their coins are failed in exchange to retain its ICO price. One should always do proper research before joining any bounty. In the present market, I hardly found quality bounty this year, it's very tough to earn money from the bounties as a bounty hunter. 

This is the real situation. As long as you have the ability, you can completely recommend it to the project party. They will pay you bounty tokens according to your ability.

Bounties are only for the strong now, there is no more easy work when it comes to bounties, you have to work extra hard to make good profit from any bounties and do research on them too to avoid fake or scam projects

I believe if you take things very serious with bounty projects you will end up with very good results, people expect earning money to be easy which is never a reality, 2017 was a good year because it was the time of bitcoin bullrun, I don't know why people can't understand this

inexperience bounty hunters can be very misleading because they find it hard to make profits from bounties where as its all their faults, before you know it they will be the ones saying bad things about bounties in general, finding good bounties are tough but bounty hunters of today are so lazy to do better research on projects

Bounty hunters should be more responsibility to work in every project, than it will trigger in bounty managers. Many projects deceived with hunters because of bounty managers mind will changed when projects is hot and coin price worthy than team will not pay for anyone.

Sometimes inexperienced managers failed because can not maintained hunters and team.Their experienced is very important in case of a success projects.

It's true that those who make big cash will never talk about it on here, only those who don't get paid will be the ones ranting about it, the true color of bounties this days is about trying over and over again until you make good money out of it, it's not for the giving up souls anymore

In fact many bounty hunters don't know what they are doing, they don't do research or just don't know how, you can easily see many bounty Hunters promoting fake or scam projects in 2020, I am surprised that people like this are still on here after all that lessons in 2018 and 2019

There are still many profits to be made from bounties but we have limited bounty projects now and that's why bounties spreadsheets consists of too many bounty participants which will make the reward lower

A determined bounty Hunter hardly have any complains to give, either they win or fail they always keep calm, the reality is there is right and their is wrong but most people only want to the right, good things will never come easily