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If i am asked to write a story about my crypto accomplishments so far well i don't have any thing to write about except how much i have make, since 2018 i haven't make better money investing in crypto and for months i have invested in crappy projects because at that time i never understand why coins can be demanding, i think its same thing for most newbies too, i started my bounty journey but still nothing, instead every few dollars i made are from airdrops, yes i made reasonable money from airdrops like
-Apollo currency
- Blockstamp
- originalmy
- Data token
E t c, why haven't  my bounty tokens turned money? airdrops quickly get on exchanges and they are tradable but not bounty tokens, tell me whats your experience so far?

Bounty rewards today gets listed quickly just like airdrops because of the current IEO trend.

It's not always the case but some projects distribute bounty rewards at a later date compared to airdrops. They lock it up for months and release until the "price is good" but that's rarely the case in my experience. Some would release bounty tokens only after investors already had their tokens sold or dumped on exchanges (see Foresting for example).

I have promoted few bounties and they are already listed and trading too but till date they refuse to distribute tokens to participants, vodix , x-block project, platinuum qusd etc, if there is going to be any locks on the rewards participants needs to know instead of postponing us

Let me address the issue of bounty tokens first. Bounties have no guarantees of being profitable.
-- The project might not raise funds or not enough
-- It might be difficult to get the project listed on exchange(s)
-- Even if it's listed, The value might be very low. (implies your holdings == low value)

So you see, many things can go run with participatiin bounties and receiving your tokens.

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Everyone's Crypto journey is filled with hits and then some miss. Whether it's not getting aboard an opportunity, selling too early, selling too late, investing in shitty projects or you bought and sold at the right time etc. These things do happen. What's more important is that you learn from it and onky then you'll analyze good bounties to participate in, good opportunities and how to take advantage of them.

My experience is not different from yours. I have not got anything except a few dollar worth of tokens. Even price of these tokens has fallen to low on exchanges. Talking about airdrops, I have got some tokens from only a few airdrop projects. So I do not have faith in even airdrops. Rather I love participating in bounty campaigns.

All bounty hunters will say same with you, the earning decreased much, this fact because there are much bounty which can join but almost 50% fail to get listing in exchange or need more time to get listed many reason.
Mostly airdrops is from existing project who has listing in exchange. Airdrops and bounty in same situation many is like a trash.
That's why bounty hunters need to wise use money they got and make another business from money they got, if only focus to earn from airdrops and bounty then will get bored or will make your life chaos because don't have another income.

Well your own experience is also like mine if not that you have some airdrop you said you have profitted from - I really don't like  airdrop because they distribute little coin and most times require referral.

Further, I have also invested in some shitty coins and they have really gone down from invested price. Coin exchange is going down and some are only listed there...  :o :)

When it comes to bounty hunting many risks are involved and as a matter of fact you might end up with nothing

1. The project might turned scam
2. The project might not interest investors and this can make the softcap unreachable
3. Exchange listing delays
4. After listed tokens may have low value or see huge dump

Better to promote projects just for 'maybe i can get lucky this time' and its free, only your time and energy is required

It's not the airdrops that gets on exchange but it's the tokens or coins that you get. Airdrop is a sort of marketing from these projects which seem to be effective even up to date and the claimers doesn't care if it's a trash token that they'll be giving away. I don't like of getting involved with airdrops but I'm happy with those people that has made decent money from it. I've seen those airdrops that worth around hundreds to thousands like hydro but soon it turned out to drop. Bounty is no longer profitable as everyone turns to say.

Not all projects have bounties for their project but some only release airdrops instead of bounties and i have found some airdrops that are better than bounties as well, the fact is projects needs to stop introducing bounty allocations they can't afford

Exactly until March 2018, I earned good amounts of money participating hunter and invested in projects, but after this milestone, after many efforts, payments simply stopped or projects were Scam. at the moment, it makes no sense to invest in ICO and IEO. And it is not profitable to participate in companies as workers!

Starting from August 2018, earnings in bounty campaigns have fallen dramatically. Speaking of experience with airdrops, in September 2018, I stopped participating. I believe that now it’s just a waste of your time.

Not all of them were a scam, I participated in some project before but they were not able to raise the funding to their softcap and forced to close their business because they do not have initial funding to develop the project. It still makes a sense investing in ICO and IEO, you can find many projects doing fine after finishing the IEO.
at least their initial price after it gets listed on the exchange is a little higher compared to their IEO time, even though the orders are thin.

and bounty hunting is about the project itself, for now doing this does not bring any benefit because most projects do not meet their softcap and the market lacks of demand which results in shutting down the project before it gets listed on any exchange.

I can't say alot about bounties since i have no records of participation, i just start promoting bounties actually but i have promoted many airdrops and i started in april 2018 and the result is not that bad because i am able to pay off some debts and still afford some things i needed at that time

The same scenario could've been experienced by almost every participant of bounties. There are people who have made themselves rich through bounties, and most users keep hold millions of tokens unused as they weren't listed to the exchanges. Maybe the luckiest get benefited in the long run. I came across few bounties that weren't active for a long and in unexpected time got listed and gave good profiting.

Its all different experiences when it comes to airdrop and bounties, some will found airdrops to be better and some will found bounty as the better choice, i myself prefers both because i don't know which one will favours so i just hunt both, bounties takes much time just as airdrops do, no difference at all

I cannot recall everything. But in general, my experience is that it all depends on the project. I cannot seem to conclude that bounty tokens or coins are listed earlier than airdropped tokens or coins, or the other way around. I have bounty tokens/coins that were listed earlier than airdropped tokens/coins but I also have airdropped tokens/coins that are also listed earlier than bounty tokens. It all boils down to the quality of the project. Bounty or airdrop is a choice of projects to distribute their tokens/coins as widely as possible and it does not have any bearing to their early or late listing to an exchange.

I am not here to argue about if airdrops get listed faster than bounty projects, it doesn't matter to me if it is to you guys i think what matters is which one gives the highest rewards, i made 100$ in earlier 2019 from MTC airdrop and the token already drop in value compare to back then, its really hard to make that kind of money in airdrops but not impossible at least

Perhaps you really have not yet learned how to choose projects, but everyone learns from their mistakes. Although, as my experience shows, there is always a risk in everything. The cryptocurrency market is really unpredictable, and not only beginners lose their money, don’t give up, study all kinds of information on cryptocurrency websites.

I already invest in cryptocurrency from 2013 where Bitcoin is in low price.
I playing Bitcoin faucet, it make me around 0.1 BTC.
After that altcoin showed, so i buy Doge i forget the price, but that is little low price, then i sell it in 2016, i make a bunch profit from there.
For bounty and airdrop until now i'm not fan to join it.
So many KYC needed to verified.

This KYC thing is real headache to all bounty hunters.
The bounty hunting trend is ended already reason why many project only pay small amount because there are no new investors invest in a new project. So how can they pay to bounty participants  if the project it self dont earn .

Many hate airdrops but as disgusting as they are some of them still brings profit today in this bad altcoin season we are in, i made some good money from airdrops too from projects like
1. Ethplode
2. Bqtx
3. Volume
4. Atomic wallet

If we talk about bounty experience, it for sure everyone could tell hard to be with and more about disappointment.
Bounties never work well today and it is too far from what we've experienced last 2017 where bounties are too hot and have exponential market gains. It sounds like bounties are started to turn off. I don't mean that it was totally dead but we can't expect that it turns back just like how's it works before.

May the course has change and newly created project become worthless which investors never give their confidence to invest with rather than to risk those existed already. How it was sad, but that is the reality and can't take it away.
 

Yes, don't be tempted by the bounty of huge rewards, because there are so many failures, prizes are different from last year, prizes are long, but there are no results, even though we have been looking for the best, but the results are not commensurate with the work for so long.

Most devs are playing safe when they put locks on your tokens or coins, do not worry much because once they market start surging they will release the tokens or once the release date come to past you will have your tokens, dumpers can make tokens become useless on exchanges that is why.

It's something that people should have seen coming. I mean, they are distributing money, which governments have never liked with how people here can freely claim the bounties without there being a trail linking to your identity.

I'm sure projects will come up with new ways of distributing bounties trying to exploit grey areas, but governments will strike back and update their current set of requirements so that there is no way out anymore.

People all wanted crypto to become more mainstream, well, this is a side effect of that. If you think the current situation is bad already, then wait until you see how the regulatory framework works in the next couple of years.

The true experience is that almost all bounty projects are failing to meet their funding goals or just exiting scam. Only a few projects will make it to exchanges and even less would stay at the ICO price to get profit.

too much to tell, but I will detail the bitcoin that I made from the start.
 Sparkprofit -> flappybird -> freebitcoin -> faucet -> trading -> bounty -> airdrop -> trading again ---> bounty again. and one of my biggest results was at the bounty at the end of 2017. And thats from CAPPACITY,  before everything was destroyed in 2018. because some results of bounty in 2017 were I invested in 2018. and got a loss of 100-1000%

Sad part of this investment, chance to succeed is too small since investors is no longer interested to participate while those who still supporting
is no longer after the success but to take advantage once the project got listed to exchange, they will simply dumped the coin since they have
good numbers of bonuses. Bounty rewards in the other hands will be delayed when hunters receive the token the value already dumped completely.

Numerous people had a bad experience by joining a bounty project and get nothing in return. This happens the most when there’s a decline of btc. Failure to meet the goal in their project which usually ended up scam. Indeed only a few projects make it to the popular exchange. And to note, there are still some good and reputable projects to join by having diligence could help us to choose a profitable project.

indeed trading requires experience as happened with you, without experience you will not learn and will not find a solution, so do not be afraid and do not give up when it is like that you must be able to improvise in order to be better than before.

In my very first day I have a lot of hope because I live in a dream that this would be the way so that I can help my mother because she diagnosed a cancer then I don't know how to earn token so the first thing that I do is to check all the section then as per checking I need to rank up at least a member rank so that I can joined in signature campaign to earn BTC in Market place section then I'll try to joined bounty project and I realize that the rewards in bounties are more higher and it was way back 2017. I could say that I I'll improve a lot and learned a lot and I'm still here love collecting tokens and investing in some project.

My recommendation is, sell everything when you receive it because other bounty (airdrop) hunters also doing this strategy, thats why price is dropping continuously after the distribution.

Very often, developers freeze coins for further success on the cryptocurrency exchange. Not worry. Most often, defrosting occurs after the sale of coins by investors. Usually the price becomes lower than it was at the ICO but it all depends on the work of the team. If the project has a good financial Foundation, you will get your reward. But never forget that the project can be a scam.

You just got lucky on airdrop, most airdrop did not go to exchange only a few.  Bounty, this had been a pain in the ass.  Even with a good project, it is kinda hard to get a good reward.  Some even requires us to do extra kyc which can disqualify us from getting our hard earned reward. 


Lol they freezes it so that they will be the first one to dump.

Yeah, i agree with your some points first of all in the current projects not succeed specially for the new investors. But many promising IEO's offering low rewards but they have raised a few millions of dollar. But hunters try to promote which project in their best effort instead of penny rewards. Enough new projects but most of them worthless. I don't think bounty trend is ended though something reducing from the previous years.               

When I started, my idea of cryptocurrency was only that it is Bitcoin and Bitcoin is cryptocurrency. I was not familiar of any single altcoin. But when I started watching videos and exploring trading, it was then when I realized that cryptocurrency is really a universe. There were more than a thousand coins and tokens back then. I was confused.

My idea of Bitcoin was very limited but I have this uncontrollable eagerness to buy and so did I. Little did I know that I bought my first Bitcoin when the market was really bullish. I ended up losing in my first attempt to gain.

Yes, and this is also what happening now. Take a look on Harmony Project, its an Binance IEO, the price already go down so high from its previous ATH, and hunters can't sell their tokens on those peak time. Truth hurts, actually but I still like the old version before of campaign during the time bounty hunters are not so many.

comrades 2018 is the beginning of the bear market year if you enter at the beginning of 2017 the story will be different, each bounty almost produces something fantastic at that time.
but do not ever give up my friend one day you will produce something from the results of your hard work at the bounty.

My experience is that it doesn't make a lot of sense to be involved in any airdrop. Often there are rewards that if I send them to the exchange for sale, the transfer fee will eat up all the profits. It's more like gambling entertainment, hoping some airdrop will make a good profit. People say that this happens, but often the time spent on it is more expensive. It is much more effective to participate in good bounty campaigns.

actually it depends on the airdrop token that you follow if it's good, it will certainly produce and will easily enter the exchange.
as with bounties, if you follow the good ones of course it will produce more than airdrops.

Good experience from airdrops , you on the lucky side of winners. From hundreds of airdrops you actually participate into the good ones which paid you with something. Regarding ICO's , stop invest in them as 2019 is a super bad year for new projects and point your attention and money to the ones that are already on the markets and top 100. With bounties its another story as you need time and patience to find a good ones these days because every new day there are a lot of them listed on the bounty section but before you enlist into one , search it on IcoBench and then search the team , don't get the numbers distract you.

I entered this crypto business when everything was in red, all i did was invest a little in some new altcoins and bitcoin as well, i have no good news to share yet but i am positive that i will make something good out of crypto investment, i like hunting for airdrops as well but results are too low

Don't you read roadmaps?

There is a timeline there into when their coin will be listed on an exchange.
If they are following it then you should be seeing a value to the token that you hold.

Some of them does it late for a lot should be done before listing and also they will be paying for that listing. Like Binance, it costs a lot of money.
Projects tend to get help from the supporters to win a free listing.

Oh, many hope so. Therefore, they still remain here. But we see that the conditions are changing. Therefore, the next round of crypto history will be different from the previous ones.

It was not a specific first day or first week, I still feel the feeling when I got a large amount of money back from a bounty campaign, basically, I participated in the signature campaign within the bounty, Wow, It was a marvelous memory while I got a lot of tokens because of most of the participants were taking leave or banned from that campaign, That's why My stakes were high and I got a large number of stakes, In the meantime, the price of Bitcoin was spotted a trademark and the time was 2017, I was too delighted and became fan of this platform because of a sudden great achievement, but after then I didn't see any productive and profitable bounty campaign, I think some scam ICOs are the main responsible to this scenario.

Where most people lose money in crypto is scam projects not failed projects, 90% of lost funds or scammed money are from scam projects if not many will be saying different things right now, and if scammers get dealt with crypto risks will limit i can guarantee that

Just got good airdrops but airdrops mostly become shitcoins which is not worth of time now. I started by joining campaigns where the coins listed on the market as planned and also distributed which is worth when you wait for a month or more because increases unlike now that even distributed it is lock and there is no value in the market. Projects are more good before than it is now.

I believe it all depends on what the project is since you are directly investing in the project. If the project is good enough then you will automatically make money.
Not every airdrops are great and not every bounties are shit. Both the bounty and the airdrop have projects which are good and bad.
Most of the time it's all about luck.

Airdrops are just free money but bounties are not like that. You get paid for your work in bounties, if you just analyse before advertising any project you can decrease the probability of entering in to shit projects.
If you are working/consuming time and energy on any project to get bounties then you should at least work a little more to check the project background, it will help you stay away from from worthless ICOs.

My experience is not much different from yours, I have a token just from participating in prize campaigns, I have never participated in an investment or tried as a trader, but by participating in a campaign I get several tokens for free and the results are quite satisfying for me as a beginner at crypto world.

Indeed, in a project, not all tokens will be on the market, everything will come back again depending on the success of a project, so here we have to be smart in choosing projects that really have potential and if we have to choose a project that is already on the market, maybe it will makes it easy for you to get tokens with value of money.

Bounty and airdrop will quickly listed on exchange market depend on how the coins sold out first, bounty campaign look delay for listing but you can get good altcoin with listing on big exchange market, for airdrop maybe faster listing but only with shit exchange. Just patience if you are bounty campaign participants because you can get much profit after coin listed on exchange market.

I already made a few dollars from the bounty from 2017 to 2018. Yes, indeed these days the bounty looks very difficult. for airdrop, I only get it once and of all the airdrops that I followed, only that one made it to the withdrawal stage.

I used to follow airdrops often, but now I have left them because of the many airdrops that I have followed I have never been able to cash it because of the small value, and instead of the airdrop that I followed, my mail inbox was bombed instead by spam messages. now I focus on doing the signature because the results are clearer.

The early journey might seem rough and unsteady but with time, you get to understand a lot happening in the space, not only you, many people missed out then. Well talking about not getting bounty rewards, sometimes you might have joined a bounty that it's project hasn't started sales,and if along the line, no investors got attracted to the project, then you might never receive such token.
What is really needed here is research before starting any bounty project.

You have joined the forum a bit late. When I started in this forum a lot of boubties are paying and still generous. It started getting difficult for most ICOs getting successful when the bear market started or even before that. Since then bounties became really difficult. Some projects are scam and sometimes you will only get a penny after a month of promoting a project. There are still better alternative ways to earn money in crypto aside from bounties.

Let me tell you that you are not the one who suffers from this long bearish trend. Obviously, bounty hunting is such a dead activity that I don't know why people are still doing that in 2019. The landscape has change already, we no longer in the 2017 bubble that's why it's really hard to make money here specially if you rely on just bounty hunting.

The only thing you can do is just hold on it and hope that one day we will see another bull run similar to 2017 so that the whole crypto market will go lively again and bounty hunting will be very profitable.

The real matter of this case :

Developer not serious with their concept of project. They just want to make an easy fund raising. Not like 2017. Many project have an Idealism with their concept and technology. Maybe you ever heard Mega Project like INSECOSYSTEM and CRYPTERIUM. they was a best ICO project I ever meet. They have a strong concept and very serious for solving a problem with blockchain technology.

There are very few airdrop that you can earn a good amount of money from 2018 up until now. Base on what I observe the common earnings from airdrop will range from 5-100$.

Unlike last 2017 where there are airdrops that I have joined in which I earned 600$ and the other one is 200$ then the rest is below 100$. In bounty, I guess you are just unlucky to have joined shit project because I still able to joined a good project last 2018 until now where I get good amount of compensation also after it was listed in exchange.

It's rare to become part of airdrops that are paying nowadays, and the drop that they are giving is unlike before, right now airdrops is really low which is fees are much higher than the drop.

We really have different situations from the year 2016-2017 where we feel safe in every bounty campaigns, it's very unlikely in our situations these days. Finding a good campaign right now need to take more time and effort to avoid scam projects.

There's a big twist from 2017 till now, bounty haunting is no longer easy as you need to try many projects before getting lucky to compensate with your works. Though it will lessen wasting time if you pay attention only with projects that have real usage and a good team behind.

Luck is also being considered when participating with any bounty opportunities, take time and not to lose your patience.

The problem is that the bounties today are not as profitable as before back in 2017. The hype is less palpable and there are definitely much less investors than what we previously had. Scams Companies and projects are paying less, if any at all, because there is so much demand from bounty hunters but very few actual investors to potentially profit from.

My recommendation is to look closely at what campaigns to join, only join big and reputable ones handled by well known campaign managers.

The bounty campaign now is not too profitable as in 2017, and I think they cannot survive in the long bear market that still happens until now. But we don't know if, in one day, the bounty campaign will rise again because the possibility to reach their glory will still be there. The problem right now is so many people get scam from the previous project. They still thinking to invest in the project, and that makes the project cannot running as their plan. It is a hard situation for every project because they need to work in the unpredicted market while they still trying to convince the investor and people to join with them.

We're lucky enough if bounties now will pay , and luckier if its really worth at least a dollar, 2017 bounties and earlier are the best in paying bounties, almost all project paid and they are vivid in roadmap as well their plans about the project and allocations. OP finding hard to earn in last years bounty is relatable to everyone since before IEO launched those ICO that year is struggling to be listed in exchanges, unlike in airdrops that have already established projects that do giveaways thru airdrop that give atleast a penny. Im only joining airdrops from old projects that are listed already and just giving bonuss or giveaways and didn't need KYC for a penny.

If we compare bounty when 2017-2018, there is really a big difference. We rarely become a victim of scam project. There's only a few bounty hunters where its rare to meet a 200-300 participant per campaign.
These days, most bounty campaigns are scam and not profitable anymore, most of them are just making a money from their investors and wasting bounty hunters time.

The airdrops and bounty tokens aren't different, the rewards were the same so it's not the matter.
The reason is that most of the projects now are no longer worthy for the investors. And that's why out of all the airdrops you've joined only few of them became real and tradable.

You should analyze project before spending your time and money, deeply check project rating and its market trend. this analysis will provide you quick information about the project. There are so many scam projects that won't pay you much from bounty and airdrop campaign. But recently I visited a site (https://www.coincurb.com/airdrop/?status=active) that look great to me. Bounties and airdrops campaign listed there mostly likely reach their point, mean they will pay you off.

Everybody, even the wisest ones, make mistakes. But the best type of people learn from their mistakes.

The better type of people even can learn from other mistakes (but you know, you only feel the pain from your own mistakes and pain is the best teacher there is in the world).

So the mindset before you set out on your crypto journey has to be right for all of this to happen.

Most of my losses were made in late 2017 and early 2018. It was when I joined this forum in 2018, that I started getting some understanding on how to invest and what to invest in. However, I am still learning, because there are more experts and better knowledgeable folks in this space. For those odds days, I have learnt one thing or the other, which is expected of everyone who comes to stay and explore the crypto space.