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As an investor or bounty hunter, you have dedicated either your funds or time for a pjoject and it turns out to be a fail project, what next?

Many at times we have come across this situations and I see a lot of negative posts from different bodies about this projects, y? Because people are hurt and have lost precious time and capital.

I suggest that whenever this situations arise, rather than telling the whole world how you messed up, tell yourself never again and pick up your pieces, go back to the drawing board and never repeat 🔂 that same action that lead you to following and supporting a failed / scam project in the first place.

Beware guys!

but such failure is a risk for Bounty Hunter. It is necessary to analyze first before participating in the bounty, so as not to get caught in the same mistake. But the projects that we follow are sometimes very good from the start and definitely pay off. But after a while there was a problem and finally Bounty Hunter was not paid. The problem is not paid also depends on the success of the project, if softcap is not reached then just relax and consider it as learning. We cannot demand much, we just need to find a new project and work on it.

As investor and bounty hunters, especially i joined translate campaign in past, i can't do anything about it. If investor, when i think it can be saved anymore so i will sell it at current price. Or if project not have value and not listed in exchanges, i don't have any choice beside to keep it in my wallet. When translate whitepaper i always read disclaimer, a lot of project almost have same disclaimer. People not forced to buy the coin at sale and all risk go to investor.

This situation has been repeated over and over again, as today's scam campaigns are difficult to predict. That's why we come in even when it's risky.
So it is best not to join campaigns and seek other revenue opportunities such as trading, and freelance jobs that are paid in bitcoin.

The first thing we have to know is risk and it will happen in investments, jobs and whatever we do. So don't just think about benefits or results, but think about all aspects related to it.

We live not alone, so be diligent to share, learn with friends and the community to achieve satisfying results. Don't regret, make it an experience and move on to focus on the next activity.

There are two results from a different perspective to answer your question.

As a bounty hunter and there is nothing we can do because when we have joined in the bounty campaign and we have agreed with all of the rules that have already created and we are joining in our risk. Just move on and then try to do the best to get legit bounty.

As an investor tries to learn how to get legit project or join in the legit platform. I have experienced lost my money in icos so many times and i have learned a lot from there. Due to the scammers are located abroad in the country and i can't take the scammer to the court.

There are so many scammers these days and we must be aware about that.

I guess all bounty hunters here had experienced this. Promoting a project for months, delaying bounty payment and in the end, it ends up a scam or even worthless. It is a risk that bounty hunters take when joining bounties and we cannot remove it, that is why we must review a project before promoting it.

Indeed we must learn from these mistakes. Whatever comments we make on the project do not really affect much, they are gone and what we can only take is the mistakes we make. In the future, surely we do not want to promote a project that is not so good.

First thing you need to do when you encounter a scam project is to inform everyone here by posting on scam accusation section here in forum in order for that project to scam more people if you are one of their victim just simply forget about it and move on, learn from it.

Do your due diligence before you do anything. That's my advice.

Remember that when you are doing bounties, what you are doing is essentially selling your labour in exchange for a reward. You obviously want to ensure that that reward is proportional to the effort that you put in - and to protect your own interests, you MUST do sufficient research before deciding to go with a bounty campaign.

I've seen too many people being asked KYC after their campaign ended, or end up with worthless tokens at the end of bounty campaigns.

Our comments will do something to the project if they failed to meet their promises to us. If you get scammed do not keep silent but tell the world how you get scammed and tell them to stay away from that project. With that not only you can prevent other people from getting scammed, but you also can get rid of some of your frustration.
after doing that you can learn from your mistakes and make a proper research in the future to prevent you from getting scammed again.

yes you're right, that's why we have to learn so that events like this don't happen again. maybe for investors they have learned, but bounty hunter I think they always repeat the same mistakes. just see there are still many people who participate in projects that are not feasible. and at the end they regret it. even though they have experienced this many times. no desire to change.

No the best method to avoid falling for this worthless promises is by been very skeptical about any project you come across. Been skeptical is one of rhe many qualities you should develop as a cryptocurrency Investors, more qualifiies can be found here; Qualities worth developing as a crypto enthusiast (Investor). (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5194359.0) Instead of relying merely on the promise of project and invest via ICO or IEO you can keep tab on the project, monitoring it then invest once it successfully delivered what it promise on the WhitePaper.

This strategy would prevent you falling victims to scam projects although there's a little price you would pay, which involves not benefiting the total ROI if you had invested during the early days of the project but still it's a safer option then relying on just promises without seeing any working product.

This been the scene for around 2018 that are many bounty hunters and investors leave for a while, since we can't do anything as a bounty hunter since we will only be paid when the project reach soft cap atleast. But as an investor we have the right to get our refund and contact them for details but it already waste our effort and money in those times that it should be profiting.

the next plan I will just think and will not repeat it to the same hole, actually a failed project or a fraudulent project is common in this industry, only from there you will get important experience about being a bounty hunter or a wise investor.

I have been a part of several projects like timebox, chynge and Athero wherein I have invested my time but in return got some tokens which were worthless and there was noone to buy that tokens when it comes to timebox and yet to receive any tokens for chynge, Athero distributed the token after dumping it and now there is no buyers for that. I blame myself to be a part of these failed projects for enrolling with them just by going through their website and fake credentials post which I did not join any bounty as it was a lesson for me.

I agree with you, we better see them work first before investing. investing while still in IEO/ICO is not the right choice because it is very risky now. it is better to invest when the project has been running for 3-4 months or when the project has completed several stages in their roadmap. this looks promising and is proven to be safer. but maybe for those who want to get quick profits this way seems very slow and too much time wasting.

I usually count that as in loss pretty fast and leave sell orders to hang on in the exchange. Often i like to still hang around and watch the drama it brings. You can learn a lot from a scam too, what lead to it and what were the warning signs that investors missed. At least you should learn from it because you technically paid for the lesson. Sometimes i offer to help if i am sure that brings any value to project and if it's salvable. But that would mean that there would be any effort from the team to actually make the project work instead of catching them lying about everything.

Time is a valuable thing but with time you can get good result if you are not a giving up type, i have promoted many projects and as a starter i promoted few bad to scam projects yet i start learning what makes a project a better choice so i adjust how i choose them, till date i have promoted good ones too, nestree, airwallet, storichain, etherzero, switch, eterbase , moozicore etc all this projects are not scam but legit projects

Basically if the projects fail or be categorized as scam or fraud after the bounty, who I blame is my self, If I will be more observant to the project, read the white paper, and research the people behind the project much more effectively, I will not be part of those who messed up. But right now, I have not much time to pick and choose bounty as for me, these projects aren't reputable at this time. So I will wait till next season of projects for bounty hunters came up.

In the world of crypto there is no guarantee that it is free from failed projects or scams. I get a lot of failed projects and even scams from the bounty that I joined, but there are also successful. So if you experience failure, it does not dampen but is more selective and learns more about each project being followed

It is actually hard to pick up the pieces and start all over again. Most of the projects are scams. Even if you pick up the pieces, get back in a better shape, start looking for a better project, and promote it properly, you are still most likely to fail once more. Sometimes, it is your fault. Sometimes, it is not. And sometimes, after falling over and over again, and getting up and trying over and over again, it becomes tiring. Sometimes, you just have to give up and stop joining any of them.

Thanks for the heads up, extra lessons learnt. It's fair like you said to offer help if it will help but most of this project owners do not listen, not just that but some only have the intentions to defraud the public hence not ready to diversify their intentions

This is to give a warning to others.

The same things we do when telling about scam project or fail project, to make people aware about this is.

If I'm join the project as bounty hunter I will not get hurt much just annoyed, different If i'm the investor losing money is not easy thing to accept, but I do not want to continue to dissolve in the stupidity that I made myself, forget and learn to no longer choose the wrong project to invest.

As a bounty hunter, find other project, report and inform the others about the scammed peoject.

As an investor, It's fairly different from bounty hunter. As bounty hunter we only lost our time, but as investor we lost our money, even sometimes our confidence in crypto world. Even with our best research about one's project, it's doesnt mean that one project is legit.

What to do if that happens? Move on. Pull ourselves together, find another project, do a researh and hope that the next one will be a success one. Learn from your past mistakes

Only invest what you can afford to lose.

Sometimes we cannot predict the outcome or future of the project unless they already have a working product, supported by venture capital, Listed on trusted and well-known exchange. Sometimes even if we research too much on a project it still fails or turned scam, we have nothing to do about it I just move on and do a better review next time before joining.

First of all, we should know that failure is a way to get back stronger and better, if you have ever been involved in a failed project as a hunter or an investor, all you need do is possibly do more research, try finding out what led to your decision in investing in the failed project, then make amends,but don't dwell in your failure, move ahead.

I made many mistakes when choosing projects and i am sure its the same for many on here, but there is no way to get stronger if you are not making mistakes, mistakes is the only thing that teaches us and shape us up for the better, once you learn from your mistakes you will grow stronger

I experienced participating in failed project few times already but it doesnt mean I didnt conduct a research thats why it happened to me not only once. Its just that its hard to determine the real to not because they seems genuine after looking at the things that need to research before participating. Some of them fail due to lack of support and some are just pure scam after accumulating money from the investors.

What we can do is to move on and accept the fact, next time be careful and dont join without doing an extensive research about the team and the project.

Actually, we do not say anything. Why should we? We want regulation in the system which we also want freedom, but both can not be in the same place. I am personally on the side of freedom, and if I am scammed, it is because of me so, I do not have enough experience. Most scammed ones are newbies, if they want to learn instead of greed, they will not be scammed.

we must be aware of the scam project, because it is detrimental to us, we must be observant every time we want to join a new project by looking at whitpaper, roadmaps, and teams to avoid scam projects, or you can ask in this forum whether this project is a scam or not.

What is there to do than to keep trying or quit, the choice is yours to be made, if you keep choosing projects wrongly then relax and try to figure out whats making the projects failed, learn from your mistakes and try to avoid too good offers, mostly scammers use them alot

Usually i just move on and find other worthy project to invest my time but if i'm able to identify the team behind the scam project then i will report it to the community to stop them for their future motives. moving on is not an easy task especially if you lose money and your valuable time that is why we should turn our mistakes as a lesson to avoid doing it again.

It happens, we have to deal with these consequences. The end of token sale usually is the last step before the team asks KYC from the bounty hunters and investors for the token distribution. If the project has failed before the coin is get listed, I count my liveliness in the projects as a time-wasting activity, unfortunately. That is the reason every investor must check the legitimacy of the crypto project before investing or joining the bounty campaign.

I will not support your idea that people that got burnt by a project should not tell other people, in fact they should make it known where ever they have an opportunity to mention project failure example(s). This will make other people to visit the project website or whitepaper and get exposed to what to avoid in the future when choosing an ICO/IEO/STO or bounty programs.

How do i feel when it happens to me ? I always feel cheated.

So when we want to join a project, a good analysis is needed, so we don't regret it in the future because we chose the wrong project, because all the mistakes we make, obviously we ourselves must bear the risk.

If you speak as an investor, of course there is a sense of disappointment. But what's more important is that the funds we give them are better returned quickly and without deductions. If you talk as a bounty hunter, it hurts too. Because every day we promote their project for 2-3 months but it does not produce anything. Anger and hate must arise. But this gave me a lesson that to be more careful in choosing where to invest and promote it.

When the project fails you, it is not your fault, don't ever let yourself feel bad about it. It is the fault of the scam project or scam campaign manager. If anything, you should be telling the world that the project is messed up and should be avoided at all costs.

Whatever you do, don't give up. There are lots of other projects and other things to look forward with Bitcoin and crypto. Skies the limit.

it's ur choice to choose those projects you were joined to, so if you got something bad at least it was ur choice afterall not just following other peoples advice. I will move on and don't make regret kill my motivations to earn more in the future.

yes, with this failure, you can actually learn something to not repeat it in the future.

Never to dwell with failures that you experienced from your past participation, either you invest or you joined the bounties. It will only dragged you back
from your mistakes, better to move on and study more clearly those things that you mistakenly calculated before. With determination to pull over and
continue in seeking the right path to successfully use this venue for your investment activities. Keep your heads up and be positive, it will add confidence
and more patience to analyze and observe everything inside this industry.

If I failed as an bounty hunter in a one project, then I must go and move forward than staying in a god damn feeling of being a failure to choose of a project. Moving forward and bringing those failure as my lesson will help me to be a better bounty hunter and I would be very picky next time when I choose a project to support on. That's life, sometimes we're cheated by others but we must go on.

Bounty hunters and investors (well.. most of them) understand that there is a very large risk associated with participating in the bounty campaigns and investing in the ICOs. As we have seen, the success rate has dropped to less than 5% for the recent ICOs. Investors always need to keep this in mind before investing in any project. For the bounty hunters, they are not losing any money if a project fails, but even then their efforts may go waste.

Now the question arises about what to do when a particular token suddenly loses 80% or 90% of its value upon listing. If you ask me, I would advice you to sell your tokens and book a loss. Because in 99% of the cases, such sharp falls occur when the promoters dump their tokens. So a sudden drop is a massive red flag and unless there is a good explanation to prove otherwise, you should exit the project.

Becoming a participant of a failure project is the risk we are facing as bounty hunters. This is something that we can't confirm at the very beginning of the project. Moving forward and going for another project is the best action and bringing those experiences will help us grow and will be able to find a better project in the future.

We cannot avoid or prevent this to happen, as a bounty hunter or as an investor, you must expect that a certain project could either be a successful one or will be a failure, you should always be prepare for whatever scenarios that will happen at the end of the ICO, failures are essential to us which may act as a teacher for us to be better, depends on how we see it. You can't help yourself but to be mad but you that is how life works, we lose sometimes to win sometimes.

It is called the "wheel of life" sometimes we are on the top, sometimes we are down, we have to make everything worth it for us not to regret even a single thing, if a certain project failed you, and you gave up while others didn't and earn much, that will be more heartbreaking.

You cannot stop bounty hunters from complaining and feeling that way it's 3 to 6 months of wasted effort, have you been scammed before not once twice or thrice, you will know the feeling when you have a run of successive scam projects.
and of course, they can always come back with a lesson but let them pour their complaints and report and post about the project they worked with, it is right because like I said it's wasted time and effort.

It is our job as an investor or bounty hunter to search for a good project that could make us some profit.
But it wouldn't always be that way and I have faced it many times before ,
The only thing that we could do is to make sure no one else falls victim to their project by spreading up the word about their scam.
We couldn't do anything with our investment but we could save some from being a victim too.

If you lose funds in a scam or failed project, there is no need ranting on social media for instance especially when there is nothing anyone can do about it (we still have problems with no regulations in crypto), hence it's best to learn from the mistake and move on already. I remember doing some bounties in the past and after much ado, there is nothing to show for the time input, I just take it as part of my experience in my crypto hustle and move on. We've gone through "hills and valleys" in crypto, hence my little advise for investors is never to put 100% trust in any project, invest what you can afford to lose. Then for bounty hunters, take quality time doing research about a project and also check the allocation if it's worth your time. My humble opinion.

analysis is the most important thing, both bounty, investment and trading. so all of it is full of risk, but for bounty hunters it is nothing compared to investors. I tend to choose bounties or projects that have new innovations in the public, usually projects like this achieve success. or if you don't want to waste your time in vain, the current IEO project has real earning potential. maybe everyone knows about the ICO problem.

Life is full of lessons, we learn as we journey hence this should also be applied to every sphere of life including projects involving cryptocurrencies. It is always frustrating to see a project that you had high hopes failing or ending up as a scam project. When the unfortunate happens, just pick up  lessons and move on.

You're right. If you constantly whine that some project again did not bring any benefit, it will not lead to anything good. I prefer to forget about such a project and just move on.

To find out if a project will be promising - no one can know for sure, even if you carefully study the project. When a project fails, we are powerless to do anything. The least I can do is complain in a thread on a forum and express my outrage on a telegram.

I'll agree with this fully, and in my mind the only solution for either bounty hunters or investors is to NOT get involved in ico's.  At all, period. 

Especially as a bounty hunter, which I'm not.  I've seen these guys help advertise ico projects for months with the hopes of getting their stakes at the end, only to get screwed instead.  That has to hurt.  But it's disappointing and sad that these bounty hunters *don't* learn from their mistakes, and they end up participating in other bounties and likely continue to get scammed.  The truth is that they're desperate for money, and I don't think it's a matter of believing in the wrong project.  I don't think bounty hunters care one way or another if the project has any merit.

This will never stop until investors stop giving these scammers their money.  It has to be profitable for the ico developers, else they wouldn't keep doing it.  I don't know who these investors are, and I'd love to know, but they obviously don't learn from their mistakes either.

At first I was also very worried about the fact that the project turned out to be a fraud, but then I realized that it was useless. Negative emotions will never bring anything good and therefore don't need to dwell on them.

The first rule as a bounty hunter: must be prepared to accept all risks.

Risks that must be understood: the allocation is cut, the bounty period is extended without additional allocation, old distribution, old listing, bad market price, token or coin locked, etc.

We do spend energy and thought to support a project according to the rules, but if it ends not as expected, then don't be angry, that's the risk. Didn't you decide to join? be an educated bounty hunter.
I also often see a bounty hunter who is angry and says bad words, let alone using the local language, very unfortunate even though it was his own decision to join. If you are not ready to accept the risk, then don't join as a bounty hunter, don't harm others with your bad attitude.
If the bounty I support fails, there's not much that can be done other than accept it gracefully, then gather more enthusiasm to join other projects.

Usually, if you constantly blame failure, then you are doing something wrong. I believe that every failure should bring experience and you must draw conclusions so that in the future you will not make such mistakes. Nevertheless, it is necessary to take a more serious approach to the process of selecting projects for participation. This is the only way to eliminate all bad projects and not lose time and money.

Even after analysing a project that has a reputable team, has track record of physical project development and all, there still are no guarantees the project will be successful.  What if they don't hit softcap and decide to continue without issuing tokens(investors' refund)? What if it lists and the price is terrible?  At most even though we try to pick projects we promote intelligently, these days bounty hunting is more of a game of chance and numbers.  So if a project fails,  you saddle up and ride harder.

Often there is no lessons to be learnt from your past mistakes, because projects often rise money then go to exchnage and lose almost all of their value. Time after time i have to deal with teams which do not care or dont understand how to take care of their token value.

At first, you never know how it will end before you try. Scammers look more legitimately than those who are serious about it and that is the problem.
Look for example at Centra scam, probably the biggest scam in the ICO history and who knew it before they gone with money?

What I do when the project fails is to search for other projects. Project failure is not entirely a scam. there are also some projects that fail because they don't reach softcap. But if it's a scam project, report it quickly and publish it so it won't hurt many people.

im bounty hunter, and when im join on some campaign and that campaign fail, im really dissapoint because its like what you said, i loss my time, effort is useless, sometimes i comment on their community or place to see what happen, and give up what happened

I messed up again and again even after drawing board to never do it again. Now set my mind that I will invest after price fall to down. I'm researching by myself for a good coin that will rise again in short term. I can't do nothing when a project price down because no one knows what will happen. But for drawing board now I'm can control myself from messed up.

Well, it depends on sever aspects. If a project has scammed you, you need to tag this account on BTT to protect other users, but if a project just did not manage to collect enough funds, you are just switching to another one.

I keep on promoting and never think of quitting because as big as scam projects are few good projects still entered the space this year and give bounty hunters good rewards

As a bounty hunter i am fully prepared for any loses, its same as investing too, the risks are always present so to win it will take several try over again and again, losing is always a path to winning

There's really nothing we can do, but to report it, we need reference not only for ourselves but for people who will come in here, so they will know how these scammers play their games and how some of them are caught, for me it's ok to report or review it if you have a blog or a youtube channel, it will ease you up and at the same time people will learn from your experience.
You can continue or you can quit but you have to say something on projects that you've worked with but give you nothing

Well I will acknowledge that I failed myself in terms of choosing the right and high potential project that made me waste my precious time, but that's it. I won't curl up.on the floor whining that my time was wasted and I lost funds and such, that's another waste of time. Yep, I agree with you, I'll pick myself up amd take everything as a lesson because not everything will go my way, that's inevitable and that's okay. Everything that didn't go in my favor will always be a lesson learned.

Investing in Cryptocurrencies are basically like investing in HYIPs because while it has the potential to make you rich and buy you a lambo, it also has the potential to rekt you because it's not regulated at all and all sorts of inexperienced people can start a project, so as an investor, I always bear this in mind and whenever a project underperforms, I just wrote it off as a loss and move on.

Of course, we will have to take the risk as it’s part of life better be brave and face it or we can reduce it with making a research about it. In crypto, we get risk because of panic selling and taking wrong decisions It those people who make fair research and not try every new project that’s why I always say take a step but be sure about.

well , remembering the past .
ehhmm.
i've joined a some of project as a investor, and the project fail for sure, since the telegram admin has kicked out all of member inside.
of course , its so much REKT for me. but well, i must accept it, since i've thinking the worst can be happened anytime. although all of money i invested is came from payment as a bounty hunter,but still it sucks.

when i joined a project as a bounty hunters, oh come on . no need to regret it. that just take a few hours on a week

Informal terms and conditions must be understood together when participating in projects, so that no regrets for participants in other new projects should be allowed.

What I prioritize when that happens must at least ensure there is a refund program, or at least their coins can be sold on dex with a 50% reduction risk. or I would not be interested in investing with it. It seems that the most disadvantaged here is the bounty participant, but there is nothing important to guarantee a more trusted condition.

Many had alrey given up in this industry. It is normal if one person will want to quit after experiencing a loss in a round. But I also hope that if someone wishes to take a break from everything here in cryoto industry, will come back once again in the future. I hope he will continue hid dream and passion. To be an investor, is difficult and tiring. Yet if you really love what you're doing, and it is not greed that drives you, you sure will succeed in the future.

Why would you even become part of any bounty when you do not have high hopes from it? If you are always prepared for loss, that means you understand potential of your selection. I don't think risks are always present. It wont if you will go for more reliable and beneficial stuff. You should go for something worthy of your time and efforts, like bitcoin. It involves no risk and no losses.

Even with high hopes still, we should prepare when project fails, since I joined this forum I have experienced so many bounty that always fails, though yes I put my trust and hopes in them thats why I join their campaign but I always ready myself everytime when it fails or turns into scam. In investment when I took the risk I will also put in my mind that the moment I trade I can lose my money when something terrible happen or when it dumps.

Whenever I came across any project that has failed me I just simply move on and find a new project to work on because there's no point in being stuck at one place.

Whenever a bounty project that i am promoting failed me i always say to myself that there is a project somewhere waiting for me, i will be a part of a very good project and i will earn alot from it, instead of getting sad i learn from my mistake and try to know why the project failed

I agree with you bro, we must not give up let's just keep moving on and find a better project. I supported many projects before, but many of them were failed, I guess because of the bear market, but I just move on, hoping to spot a better one. Well this is the life of bounty hunters there is a failure and there is successful.

Yes still being positive will help you a lot to move on, that's why we should not just stick to bounty hunting let us always find something new which we can help ourselves in having income and bounty hunting is not the answer of it as it is just for luck when the project becomes successful, but we all know that not all are becoming successful. So try to look other ways to earn.

Do not let failed or scam bounty projects ruin your good minds, it can easily kill the zeal you have in you so once a project turned scam just keep digging, this is the only way you will get lucky on the way, if you give up you will get nothing in return, learn from your experience too

Yes, it is better to think of positive things so that we do not lose hope in ourselves. Usually because of our negative thinking we lose focus and we fall further. So we must fight for it in order to achieve the success we are hoping for. Let's learn from our mistakes and just keep on going with the flow of life.

Wish there is a way that only qualified people can build projects in crypto space, its a big mess that almost all tokens are been built just to steal people's hard earned money, i really wish for crypto regulation to take place now, we need it badly

It depends on the project team effort to build the product of the project itself.
If we saw their effort is hard and they do everything with the project but the market says the opposite thing, we can accept the fail as just a bad luck for us. But if the project team looks like never have an intention to make the project grow, we should blame the project team and make sure we're not joining any other project from them anymore

Definitely, we have to take learning from the past experiences and try to move on. But since we the people are so optimistic, sometimes over optimistic, we should never regret our decision. For bounty hunters its just their efforts got wasted but for investors, its their hard earn money which is wasted due to dead project. For investors they always have chance to judge the project. Now a days its better to buy token after few months of listing as its always seen that price goes more than 50% down from the ICO/IEO price. So based on the performance, investors should select a project after certain time.

As usual as what other bounty hunters do, I move on and find for another opportunity through another projects but I make sure that this time I'll be more picky when choosing one. For the projects that I found failed, I use to remove it from my list thus even if it exist to my wallet, I don't bother to check it making myself be more positive and optimistic to work with the new upcoming projects.

Nothing comes easily so if any bounty project fails me i will let go and move on, this doesn't mean i will quit hunting for more, there is no reason to give up because of few failures

It is really a bad situation for bounty hunters and investors when the projects in which they have invested money and time as bounty hunters turn out to be a scam and a failed one. And it is natural for them to lament and let out their complaint on social medias and bitcoin forum following such event. But there is a lesson from this. You should research thoroughly beforehand. 

When we have dedicated our time and money to a project and then the project fails, of course we will feel very disappointed because what we do ends up in vain and maybe many people who share the experience to provide information to people so as not to experience things the same with him. And I think when we get that, we will be more careful in choosing each project so that it does not experience the same thing again.

You can't really do much but just to move on and learn from your mistakes. Either way, investing in ICOs and such is always a gamble a lot riskier than bitcoin's volatility since you invest in a newly minted coin or project that has potential but lacking of investors and user base, and it feels experimental since it hasn't really experience real-life use cases. Every investment is a gamble, they just vary in degree of profit and loss factor. One tip I can only give is do not put all you cards in, that is not to invest everything you have, and research then conclude whether a particular organization/company has the objectives to grow and be successful.

Well, you move on, what else to do haha, you dont really have any other options. The fact is that more than 95% of projects that have opened up bounty threads here will eventually fail, some right at the beginning of their "journey" and some later on that path, so you better be well prepared and accept this fact when jumping into the bounty hunting scene.

Correct, that is why it is called bounty "hunting", even in predators, hunting never succeeded most of the time, it varies of their hunting skills, but no matter how skillful you are, if your prey (ICO) is smarter than you (by fooling you), you'll starve forever, and this is when you have to add something on your skill, and that is your hunting instinct to get those prey (ICO) precisely without failing.

I don't expect good results from all bounties i promote so when failure do comes i will take it as a piece of cake and keep my head up and keep hunting till i come across good projects again although this can't get me blind to do research on the projects, its better to get a failed project than a scam project

Telling the world how you messed up can help people out there because at least they will be warned. This can still be a good thing as long as you separate the rants from the criticism. Indeed, if the project fails, there is nothing for you to blame because you're supposed to know and accepted the risks of investing. Complaining like a child will do you no good. Instead, it will be wiser to move forward with the hard things you learned from that experience.

It sucks but you must move on, what else can be done except you just accept it as part of your experience in crypto, I have had some failed bounty project and my own investment but I try not to let it weigh me down, I just try to be more careful and observant ofcourse.

Yeah! Being ready with all the probabilities and possibilities will be the answer. We are all a bounty hunters, we does not even know if they are going to pay us for our work, but still we take the risk. When joining bounty we should take the risk and be prepared that our efforts will not be paid.

It is best to just forget and move on, of course if that was only a bounty hunt. As a case as investor, things may turn out  bit south, especially if KYC was used during the promo process. If the project went down due to deliberate, faulty or simply fraudulent cause, participants may be called by the authorities as a witnesses. Quite a lot of unnecessary troubles, if you ask me.
Now think about what happens during such scenario, if some minor lies from your side went on, while signing up for kyc...
Not to spread fud but let's face reality, it may happen.
     

You are just wasting your precious time on bounty campaigns that you have no guarantee of paying. We should avoid this and find other alternative ways to earn money. Sometimes we need to let go of them as well because we see new opportunities that will change our lives.

What is next? regret then contemplate fate. I mean after losing a large investment in the project. in fact it is a risk in the form of investment and it is important to be more careful before investing in any project.

It's part of the risk that comes with crypto. I've been hurt by failed projects in the past. Sometimes what really cause the pain is the trust rubbished in the mud but you only have to move on since there's nothing you can do.

Basically you do nothing but just move on while saying a little prayer for the few investors you led to the failed project and have most probably lost money. Choosing a bounty project is the hunters perogative but then promoting the right projects should be everyone's concern because the success or failure of any crypto project has a Ripple effect on the market. So, while it can't be controlled 100 percent, I urge bounty hunters to do proper diligence before promoting any project. Bitcointalk does its best to punish bad projects promoters, and I think we all should support them too in our own little way

sometimes we have to be rational, we dont just say "never give up" in thing which has very low opportunity
in this case, join bounty altcoin has very low opportunity to get good amount. we have to change to get better result
for example, we find the bounty which is paid by bitcoin. yeah i know that's harder than altcoin bounty. but it's worth to do

Well for me if the project will going to fail must better to leave early than to continue promoting for these project. If we still continue to support maybe it is wasted our time only doing working on them. And depend on us if we want to, But must better find more other bounty can be totally succeed from their project. And ill think it is only few of them are now in here are more trusted because of we encountered always a scam project.

Sometimes you can't predict what project is a scam or just will fail due to other reasons. You can just try avoiding obvious scams and filter weak projects - that's the only chance to decrease the volume of your time/money losses.

if we invest or promote by joined bounty campaign from any failed project i will do nothing mate
because thats the risk when we invest in cryprocurrency, risk will always come together with rewards
so, people must think about the risk too, not only the rewards

Sometimes you win sometimes you lose, you need to move on.  But  still dont get when some team spend 2 years to make a game they did it, and then took it off apple store and start doing new and gave up half year latter and then ended up with totally no game at all. They could at least have the bad game done.   In most ICOs Bitcoin will do way better then products that those ICO were crowdfunding for. Even if they will successfully deliver the product.

maybe a sense of disappointment will be felt by investors because they use personal capital to invest but not for bounty hunters because they are only harmed by time and back to the beginning in the world of crypto currency is always full of risk so we must be ready to accept whatever happens
and before investing in IEO or ICO projects must be full of accuracy so as not to get disappointed

I really like your last paragraph,  you nailed it well. However,  it's not always that easy moving on. It's really painful seeing the hard earned cash you invested in a project you so much believe in go south due to the fact that the developers of the the project happens to be a greedy set of people who planned nothing but to scam people of their hard earned fortunes or failure of the project due to certain mismanagement by the devs.

Atimes,  it is always easier to move on as a bounty hunter knowing fulling invested just your time and effort but not cash. Eitherway,  getting over it as soon as possible is the best way to survive in cryptocurrency sector

This has happened to me a lot of times. Although, I felt I had wasted my time and resources, but at the same time, it has helped me to gain more experience, particularly in knowing how to choose and on what I should always go for.

There will really be some times wherein you will encounter a project failing. No matter how good the whitepaper and the road map is, there can still be a possibility that the project will fail if ever they do not meet their market cap. Even though the team is trusted also, as I've mentioned, if they didn't make it, it will still fail. As a bounty hunter or as an investor, it is your right to demand atleast any incentives for participating. The best thing you could do next is find a new one and remember still that it will be a risk no matter what.

Since it is called bounty hunting, hunting for the rewards given just for publishing the article or joining the social media page looks like the satisfying for the jobless people. If the project's future is not bright enough, I don't want to waste my time with the useless bounty tasks. The reward amount is also under the questions which can ruin my weeks for nothing.

Personally, I don't invest in projects that have a high risk to reward ratio. I only invest in relatively safe-bets, with a proven income stream and a solid team that have proven histories of success.

Nonetheless, a couple of the projects I have invested in haven't met their goals due to a variety of errors. Luckily, my portfolio is diverse enough that a few rotten eggs don't have too much effect on the profitability.

I usually just cut my losses and hope for the best, no point dwelling on it. Never invest more than 5-10% of your savings in a single project, and you won't be too sad if it fails.

It hard to know investment or project with high risk to reward ratio and even ones was lucky to have figure out one the reward ratio doesn't mean the project will thrive because the community and miners support level as so vital. However, a project never fail me because I usually sell some huge portion of the token or coin when it listed so that I won't make lost when it dump in price and if it surge I usually buy back at good price.

That is the fact you have here, What can really be done other than moving on in life, there are always some of these challenges that you will meet in life, and we should expect that it is not every time that things will always be rosy , sometime things gets smooth and sometimes, things get rough, and this is why we have to consider all these things before we make an investment, So that in case, things goes wrong, we will be able to pick up easily from the pieces like you strongly advised.

When I first made own wrong move too out of greed, I was able to identify exactly what went wrong which made me to correct the mistake never to repeat it again and ever since I was able to identify and correct my mistake, I think that things have been okay.

Yes, to move forward for the better, of course we have to go through many obstacles including risk in the crypto market. all because of the initial experience, I had a bad experience and maybe worse than yours, but I realized that the first mistake was a good start for the next. including the crypto market sometimes above and sometimes vice versa.

Yes it is hard move forward, I am one of the investor of mnx coin and also i joined their bounty campaign here in forum. At first they have a good start, everything seems fine after a year when they end the program , their price goes to moon no one think that it could be happen, I hodl my token and now I cant open my wallet I dont know why, I wish I sell it when the price is good and I did not but more of it, its time for me to move forward.

Participating in a project and then it fails is very common to happen.
So far, as a bounty hunter, it means that we work for free and we cannot force the project to pay us.
As an investor, it means that we must get a refund from their team if we don't get the refund, it means that they scam us.

We won't know whether a project will fail or succeed, but of course, analysis is very important to do in order to pick a good project.

For the gift of gift itself at this time not so much that can provide benefits. on average we are actually harmed because of so many cases that have occurred. starting from delayed payments. payment deducted. the process made difficult until the price has decreased so big. so we must be careful in our election

most of the time, the team is not refunding the money they collected. they just fade away from the scene

so as an investor, if the project fails, i just move on but of course, if there are options how to get it back, i will. you cant regret all the time by your wrong decision
as a bounty hunter, i guess the same. move on and find a more meaningful activity that you can spare your free time other than these crap projects

Learn from my mistake and try out another project either for invest or bounty hunting, it doesn't make sense to get sad and down because a project fail you, its part of the challenges that you can't escape in crypto space, few scam projects are well built that you won't detect they are scam

I have participated in several projects and some are scams, but I still continue with new projects, on and on. my reason is if this project is a scam, there will be a good new project, and so on. when getting a scam, both in terms of very low prices, or worst is not paid by the team, the first time I do is contact the bounty manager and ask what happened and the latest updates what will happen. and the answer from the bounty manager is what I believe.

my advice, don't give up and believe there must be a good project because people will not always cheat.

it is good if you dont give up whatever happen, but we have to be realistic
we dont always believe and do this if the scams continously, it is just wasting our time
in my opinions, if i get scam project i do another project with deep research. if still get the scam projects, i look for another chance such as bounty with fixed payment or do trading cryptocurrency

If I had to be good at looking for a good project to be in a job, let me not waste my time. Now many investors have no confidence in the new project because it is a scam. They prefer IEO or buy Bitcoins for the long haul.

Agree, even though we were hit by a scam project, we shouldn't stop and give up on finding a good project. There are some good projects that are already in the market or new projects that do ICO / IEO and can give us profit if we do research first.

Whats next?? Move on, find another project or bounty campaign to join and learn from that mistakes.

Investing in an ICO/IEO right now is very hard and if you are an investor, you will think twice or thrice just to decide if you will invest or join into it or not. As an investor, it will be lessen if you will make your own basis whether a project is good or not.

Regarding bounty hunting, it is one of the risk that bounty hunters must face if they really want to get a reward. They will sacrifice their time for a project which is not sure whether it will be a successful one or not. Anyway, being a bounty hunter right now is not profitable for me (just for me).

If you have been scammed so many times and you think that you are likely to get scammed again as a bounty hunter and investor, then you can opt to stop or take a vacation, it's very frustrating in your part if you are wasting all your time and efforts and money from these useless projects.

It happens to a bounty or investor a project failed for so many reasons. Well others prefer IEO but not all since there is no assurance they could get earn profit. The thing that we could do when there is a failure when we invest or has joined bounty is to move on from it. And, take it as a lesson to assess every project that we are joining.

In every bounty, there's a possibility that a project would fail or be a scam even if you've done your research, even if you've done everything that you could, replace your mistakes and such, the probability of a failing project is still there. The only thing that a bounty could do is the move on with another project and hope that it will be the success that he needs.

there is no guarantee, even if you buy stock which is regulated, you still be able to lose your money

this is a high risk investment, so the return is high too. it is natural if many projects failed and many people lose of their investment

yes, the wise character is move on and find new project, with new knowledge of mistake

Regrets won't fix any thing so if you fail or lose you should try to work harder and learn from your mistakes, in crypto space i doubt if one can escape loss forever because there is risk in every corner of this space, the only reliable tool is your research

I just try to move on and try to find another project to invest in.
I'm sure everyone will be upset when a project fails. But these are all risks that we must accept as investors.

Make those failed as an experience to make a better decision in the future. Most of new bounty hunters are randomly choosing a project and promote them "freely" because at the end they will ended scam.
And also for new crypto investors this thing is oftenly happen, because they look the project is cool and promising but ended up lost their assets.
More experience is needed so survive in cryptocurrency industry.

In all investment actually failing is part of it, we don't know what the result will be so if we think the project have potential,we can help thru promoting it. If we think the team and supporters still fail then we can't do anything about it as the market and crowd funding isn't really going well when scam projects pop ups that affects even the good projects.

Rome is not built in one day. I believe not all projects are totally messed up and we can’t generalised our judgement. I takes time and patience before those projects can show results and products wouldn’t take days or months but we are talking years or decades. That’s why its very important to choose feasible projects but that’s a hard thing to do to evaluate them one by one.

When the project fails and if I am a bounty hunter or an investor, I simply accept the fact that I fail to achieve what I want with the project. I check all the things that I did before and during the project to see what are the mistakes that I have done so I can learn from those mistakes and I will never do the same thing again so I can avoid getting into the same scenario.

As a bounty hunter and an investors sad to say that it is very difficult for me to know if a projects is a fail and a scam because i wasted all of my money and time and didn't receive any rewards from all of it. When i started to experienced participating in a fail project all over again, i started to move on and stop participating in ICO projects for a while because i have been a fool joining and expecting that i will earned good profit from those unsuccessful projects.

As mentioned nothing can be done as an investor or as a bounty participant. We need to accept the fact, maybe the next time will think and analyze choosing the right asset to invest. Lot of my participated bounties have gone worth nothing, some hasn't got listed to exchanges. Crypto market is at its early stage, without doubt the mistake done now will give a learning for the future.

There is nothing one can do beyond moving on and stop making the same mistake over and over again. We were all in 2018 of cryptocurrency dooms in both bearish market and scams, and here we still are at the moment.

Well in few more months things will never be the same again and altcoins will reclaim their lost glories once again, i won't be surprised if i start seeing investors going hot on altcoins starting from now, as for those who are scared away because of bear market they will soon regret

You move on and you learn from your mistake and then you expose the team behind the project.

If you're a bouty hunter who participated in such a projects, most of the time is your fault as no one obligated you to spend your time for worthless tokens/coins so this is a risk that bounty hunters are always take whenever they join an altcoin bounty.

If you were an investor and they don't refund your money, there are laws in order to get your money back but are you willing to spend another bunch of money to get your money back ? If there is a big amount if them , sure , we must fight for our money but if its a small amount ...accept the fact that you did a super bad investment and learn from that and never do it again , especially with ICO's or projects that are not officially launched.

some of the views that I have seen, some bounty hunters support the project blindly because they think that there is no loss they get even when the project becomes a scam. but they don't think they have spent time on that. I suggest that bounty hunters appreciate the time they have, and start choosing quality projects rather than choosing blindly.

while for new investors, don't only look at the profit side. because we know that so many con artists out there try to attract investors through large bonuses and short ROI.

only regret can be had if that happens. so, start to get up and try to choose a better project. make all failures into the experience is something that can be done when it all happens.

We want to demand that we cannot and also want to do it so that our funds cannot be returned. indeed quite risky. Agree with the tone that indeed when we are trapped in these conditions we must be fast to be able to get up. there's no way we can continue to regret what we have now. keep moving and make it our experience to be more careful

As an investor it hurts a lot when a project fails or scam you that is why now I do not invest with those projects which do not have their IEO on any high volume and high ranking exchange. That save my investment.

While as a bounty hunter when a project fails then we can do nothing but to apply your strategy and if the project scam then it is our responsibility to start a scam accusation and publish about that project on famous places so that it do not scam any other person again.

That's right once you participate in a failed bounty campaign or in failed project just move on and try to find new good bounty campaign. I have a lot of experiences in partipating failed project and I know it just a waste of time but take note it is part of being bounty hunter. Just be positive and ignore all your memories in a failed project or bounty and just focus on new project that you have. Lastly, be wise and good on choosing a project because not all them will bring a good income.

it is risk of bounty hunter or investor but before in one project you must make a research about the project. it is important to protect us from the scam project

in any position it has consequences and you must be ready to accept whatever happens in the future. as bounty hunter, you not lose anything except your time. but investor? of course money. when the project failed or scam, you can't do anything!! lets the problem will teach you and make it an experience.

we should be gratefull we only oss our time and energy when working bounty campaign on scam projects.investors  that put their own money very harmed but they never give and keep trying to find good projects that might be could recover their loss.let hs take this mistakes as important lesson for us,so we know how to analize profitable projects in future . By this accidents we was warned ,we have to improve our knowledge or we will not survive in crypto market.

Well, it isn't a new thing to encounter failure as either an investor or a bounty hunter, though painful but one has to move on, trying knowing what wrong you did by choosing the project, so that next time you would do more research properly, also one should let others know of scam projects so that more people won't get involved.

Honestly i will feel sad and few times angry, sincerely it hurts but it can't turn back the hands on time so i just pretend i never promote the project in the first place and move on, this time more carefully than before, its always good to learn from your mistakes, take them as a big lesson and you will never remain the same again

The answer is: nothing.

Maybe you will hate me, but sometimes look at the terms and conditions of each ICO, IEO. You will find out that they do not guarantee you anything and that you are sending them voluntary contribution (a gift). How many scam ICOs scammed people and these people never seen their money? It is because this ICO market is not regulated and all you do is your own responsibility.  8)

As I have said elsewhere, it is something that happens often: the world of the crypto is unstable, there are many scammers and even more guys who believe themselves capable but they aren't, with the result of creating megaprojects that do not end up anywhere.
I think it's our job to understand which projects are valid and which are not.

I have been scammed and felt disappointed with scam projects before. It came to a point where I almost gave up and felt like all my hard works and efforts were just wasted. I realized that I'm not alone in that kind of situation. From then on, I moved on and look for better opportunities. Life doesn't end in a single failure. There are still lots of ways to earn in crypto world. If we get scammed by fake projects, we should just go on with our lives and look for better opportunities.

If the  project is failed to reach the target I accept why? Being hunter or investor can't avoid loses of failure need to understand not all project is successful. But always becarefull choosing bounty as investor or participant to avoid failure.

indeed no one will be able to avoid disaster like that the name is risk and the risk will always be wherever you are and whatever you do, but at this time I feel it is a little safe to invest if you want to invest in a project can use a little IEO help investors not to be fooled because IEO is held at a place of exchange that has a high reputation as it was held at the Binance exchange place.

You can easily move forward if you have that kind of attitude. Failures is unavoidable when investing or participating with bounties. A lots of projects which has been introduced giving a good chance of success but in the end it turned into scammed. If you can do a deeper research and you are not
rushing everything out, you'll be able to pick good project after suffering from your previous mistake. by continuing and not being affected too much from what happened previously.

Yes you are right. In this industry we are like inventor we need to face negative experienced and failure. But like you said we need to take down notes that we need to avoid in the next project. We need to learn from our mistakes. And I think the most important thing is being not emotional just continue to a new project and look as failed project as a lesson and not a failure.

Based on your post, we can conclude that you want to offer to refuse to participate in the bounty. Yes, there are failed projects, and that's fine, I think. Absolutely everyone can not collect the necessary amounts from investors. This is just unreal. And you should consider this situation. And to refuse an bounty because of 1 failed project is silly!

In fact we never make mistakes intentionally, because the average cheated are people who overly believe in the sweet promises of the project team, so it becomes a very fatal mistake, so the solution is to keep moving and analyzing something before believing it is a very good thing.

We can't do anything about that but to move on, and in order that you can survive from the problematic market growth nowadays, learning to be more choosy is very important. Unlike the old days, most of the projects we seem to see and hear was too exciting once we've read their whitepaper but a failure in reality. Learning can be so harsh, and once we're moving on it must be more defined and certain for our next milestones.

That's very correct. Posting how you were disspointed by a particular project will discourage some other people from being bounty hunters. But at the same time, never remain in that dissapointed state where a scam project left you. Arise from the ashes and move on. I can assure you that there are good projects out there. One just has to learn from past mistakes and not repeat them

This is actually a choice, if we are dumb enough to believe on the same person (project) again, that scams us, the problem is not them, it is us, therefore we have no rights to put the blame on them, nonetheless, we also have the chances to not make the same mistakes over and over again.


That can't be avoided, and if sweet promises are not the ones we should trust, I don't know what to trust anymore, I'm not a masochist who will believe in projects that are obviously scams and still supports it. We are going to be scam sometimes, if not, we are not even trying.

Nothing is left to do when you are a bounty hunter and have invested time to promote to it, but if you have the token already you can just sell your token and leave it all behind. Project fails not because of the bounty hunters, its always the team's duty to build success which them includes the marketing development and if the investors find the team did nothing for it to take place eventually they will file a scam accusation.

Well, bounty hunters and investors has only one thing to do but to moved on. This kind of situation should not become the reason to keep us down.
It is true that we should be more extra careful when choosing a project to become part with, do some extra research about the project and analyzation will help us prevent to become a victim of a fail project.

Honestly at first its a normal thing that we were disappointed. But we cant do anything about it that's why the best thing that we can do is move on and find another project to invest if your an investors or to promote if your a bounty hunter, its a must do to prevent stress.

As you know, the most members in here joined in several bounty campaigns. So if one of them are scams, I think that is not big problem because they still have a chance in another campaign. On the other hand, even though a lot of time is wasted but it seems they don't care, because it's about free money, so everyone doesn't really think about it.

You cant actually do anything about that sir, you just only need to move on and find some better project for you to join. There are lots of projects out there you should pick some great one, you can actually recognized which is better, by doing some readings about their project and you can actually see all of their plan in their whitepaper and also you can see what they should do in every months and years by visiting on their website and check their roadmap. You should also consider the team itself, if you think that the bounty manager is not legit or maybe he has some negative trust, you should not join some projects like that because who is gonna hire some bounty manager who has negative trust. No one because it may lessen their investors or promoters.

Actually even in bounty it is not free money because the time invested for these bounty are more precious. But it cannot be recovered if you find any scam project or failed project among those which you joined for your bounty. That risk was much high in 2018 but now as we can see the market is now growing so I hope if the project do not scam then they will not fail and will give a good return.

This one has happened many times even now when there are many new projects that lead to fraud, when it happens, the most important thing we do is to learn the mistake of seeing a good rule in a bounty that has a vision of trading, do not decide with mistakes existing but rising from failure continues to look good, because there are still many quality projects out there

that moment will happen anytime soon and I will just move on and don't want to regret it forever because it's my fault to choose those projects, it would be promising at first cuz the roadmap and the ideas behind it but you know at the end of the sale things could be get worse at that time and we can't really predict that.

if a project that I follow fails or I invest in a scam project, I will not talk much or regret it. I will make it an experience. because all this learns from experience. it's important to be more selective before choosing a project or investing in it.

If a project fails a bounty Hunter, the hunter should know it is bound to happen one a while, is it every shut of an hunter that kill the animal on target?  No. An investor too will have to take heart and move on, but whatever you go through is not as important as the lesson you learn from it. The time invested, energy, money invested, will be replenished from other project. The one that could be very unrecoverably painful is if ones wallet account be lost.

Many projects will exist now because of other countries acceptance and we should expect this kind of fraud happening everyday in crypto. but learning isn't enough to avoid those kind of project that turn to failure. we should be wiser and smarter to start things that prevents us from investing in those projects. luck of knowledge is a very serious case happening now that experience users should warn newbies to select a good one. so that those fraudulent project could not continue their work and would not be victims of many more.

If I am in a project that fails or does not develop and only the loss that I get, I will do further investigation and find out what the problem is even if it is not useful, at least I know what really happened.
and that will all be my lessons and experience to be more careful when I want to participate in projects, and whatever happens in the crypto world will all be valuable lessons that make us more mature and better.

projects usually fail due to insufficient funds and scammers. That usually makes the reason the project failed, and I think if you do that to get detailed information about the project failure will be a lot of time wasted. it's good to know the essence of the information alone and then use the time to do research back on the next project

This has transpired a great deal of times. In spite of the fact that, I believed I had burnt through my time and assets, and yet, it has helped me to acquire understanding, especially in realizing how to pick and on what I ought to consistently go for.

As a bounty hunters if a project that you promoted fail, there's nothing you can do than to move on and be more conscious of the projects you do promote. Mere reading the details of some projects will reveal to you that they won't be able to raised any money in this time that investors are more smarter but the issue is that most bounty hunters don't read, they just jump into any project and start promoting it.

Nothing lost but time, the one solution is to keep trying, losers quit easily but winners keep on trying until good turn better, bounties is more like a gamble, you can't predict which one will turn out good

Well if the project fail maybe I should forget it and find another project that we can earn more bounty rewards. If we always complain on them why the project failed maybe they wont answer our complain about of them. So we need to move on, Actually there are more bounties right now can be going to success but in this year it was hard to find them because of these project that almost scam.

It is not that easy to forget what someone has spend his precious time in hope to earn some profit. If that does not happen, obviously it is hurting but at the same time, one is taught good lesson. Crying over spill milk wont bring back the milk. Complaining will just waste time. Learning from mistakes matters only. Before joining any bounty program, the hunter should do research and read reviews of experts.

Investors and bounty hunters are all victims, money and effort, time. For bounty hunters, this happens often. Although there are some good projects already listed on the trading platforms but don't pay bounty hunters. I'm a bounty hunter, which makes me really uncomfortable, needing solutions to overcome these scam projects.

I'm kind of person that is not bother to move on with such effort I did. Yes, it really disappointed when a project you invest money or time failed. But not everyone can complained about it forever. Let's just say that we've been cheated by someone but not intentional to do. But that is life we must continue to move on and accept it. No matter what lies within. Crypto space is always a volatile situation that we can't predict or knows the outcome. Sometime its good and most of the time not in our favor. If you want to stay here be strong to all things such as OP mentioned.

I'm sure everyone will be upset if they get a scam project.
But in my personal opinion, I will continue to move on and look for the latest projects that are more profitable.

Actually, when I was a bounty hunter, I always prepared for the worst situation. Failure projects are just a lesson in my experience to avoid risks, I will not collapse and I will make smarter choices in the future.

There is nothing to do than to move on, what else is there to do, even if you decided to open a scam accusation here, it won't do much good and that project will still remain disappointed, so in my own case, I just walk away and look for something else to join with the  hope that it will be better than the previous.

It’s time for these years to develop the ability to steadfastly endure the failures of participating in weak and scam projects. This is a lottery, and we take responsibility for the risk ourselves. I follow the great advice: you can’t change the situation, change your attitude towards it. Worse when a successful team unscrupulously deceives us. For example, the project is Bcnex. Even after distributing tokens for hunters they  unblocked only 5% of the total earnings tokens and then only 0.5% of tokens are unblocked daily. All this would be funny when it were not so sad.

the most important thing is that we understand risk.  the cryptocurrency market is very dynamic, many things are unpredictable.  we must prepare mentally and patience, isn't protesting and saying rude is useless?  will not change things.  so be strong mentally and strategically, be at peace with yourself from every consequence

it's okay when project turning to scam. Also it's a good experience and it helps to select safest project for investing or bounty hunting.

It's true. Each mistake should bring experience and conclusions should be drawn from it. If you tell everyone about what a terrible project and that he deceived you, it will be just a waste of time.

The most annoying moments ever is such, when a bounty project fails me as both an investor and hunter but in these moments of regret, I've gained much experience on how to conduct my research before jumping into any project either to invest or promote as a hunter.

atleast we got good experience and lesson from all of this.without this incident i am sure we will not find good knowledge in how to analize projects.loss our money or our time working in bounty campaign really annoying,but we should not give up and continuesly blamed the condition.we must wake up and improve our mistakes.someday we will get another campaign that will give us profit.

What I tell myself which most times I don't keep to is avoid what led to this loss next time. Sometimes as either an investor or a bounty hunter, we miss the mark there's no point beating ourselves to it move on learn and become consistent.

If the projects failt right after the token enters the market and the price is almost nothing , don't be sad. I've just experienced a strange thing. I've joined a campaign like a year ago and the reward is having no value. So i moved on to another project and forget what happened. And last week i was PMed by someone in this forum and he want to buy my bounty tokens with decent price.
The conclusion is, sometimes your bounty reward can be valueable in the future, just save it in your wallet safely

Its so frustrating when a project you think is going to make you a million dollar rich ends up failing you as a bounty hunter and as an investor as well but should you keep on regretting without looking ahead and seeing such things are normal to happen and the best way to respond to that is reassurance of yourself and engaging in other projects with a different strategy or research.

Definitely, no one likes to be scammed. I mean, what is in it that can really make a person happy. Losing money, wasting time and failing hopes give the most painful experience that anyone can have. Scams are a big trouble and truly a pin in the neck. Moving on is the only option but you must first learn some good lesson out of your mistake. That would prevent happening of such blunders again.

In my personal experience, I had joined bounties which last for months then I would wait again for months then it would turn out to be a scam. I’m quiet disappointed and felt that I had wasted my time and effort for nothing. Maybe what I can get with what had happened is that I am more cautious and picky on what bounties I should join. Because there’s that I can do really other than report it to the moderators here in forum then just sit in the corner ponder a little then move on.

Just by participating in a bounty campaign won't make you a millionaire instantly.
Well, anyways, it is really frustrating.
But there is nothing to do but to move forward and stop regretting the actions you have made.
Getting scammed by a certain bounty project should never been considered as a mistake, it is not yourself/anyone's fault to be a victim of scam but the project itself for being greedy and without considering the effort of bounty hunters and investors.

I am doing bounty like a hobby, when its fails and its happen often, i just make another bounty work again, keep searching good project and do your best..

Stressing yourself will not do anything good so moving forward is the best thing to do when you've been victimized by a failed projects. There's still lots of potentials and it will be a waste of time if you compromised yourself thinking about those mistakes. Though inside investors mind it will be different since they are financing the project and losing money is not that easy to forget, acceptance is the key to move on and try once again.

right, who is not too disappointed with the failure, because there are still many opportunities in other projects. before we enter the world of crypto of course already understand the risks, so let's say we have not been lucky. and starting to analyze other projects will be better than thinking about failure

My answer to that question is quite simple and straightforward.
Move on and learn from it.
For everytime a project fails to meet your expectations, you could spent your time wailing about it but it wouldn't change anything or you could learn a lesson from it, count your loses and move on and make sure your research game is on point to avoid a repeat.

1. Learn from your mistake
2. Don't compare failed project with scam project, they are different
3. If bounty failed nothing is wrong with your research skill, basically project failure happens when fund needed is not raised succesfully
4. Example of solid projects starts from their real use case, will there be better adoption for the token or coin?

It is our responsibility also why we encounter that kind of situation therefore if I will be in that situation, I'll move on immediately and do my best to find a better project next time and to avoid shit projects as much as possible.

As a bounty hunter we lost our time and effort if we end up to those shit projects but it's unavoidable due to the facts that even genuine projects will sometimes end up scamming people upon receiving the funds of investors.

Opportunity to new project ? If you are investors you will not look for new project but the old one that has been proven already.
This is only works for bounties but not for investors even you search and know more about the project you will never know if they will continue developing it.

Each of us have our own way but to do such things that is so unnecessary it so useless in which makes us so disappointed and discourage. Nowadays, it's so difficult to find a nice and good project in which it will depends the stability of the market and the demand of the project that may be relying the support of many here in crypto community.

You just have to understand that you took a risk by investing in a project in which you had a 50-50 chance of you making a profit or losing your investment capital. You just have to accept that you have lost your capital and resources and move on with your life. This will help you gain knowledge on what to invest in and what not to invest in.

Yes I agree with this!! Plus take the risk, I encounter so many fake and failed projects but what else I can do? I am just a bounty hunter I need to accept the fact that not all the bounty is reliable and become succesful there will always be a chance in every project that it will fails. We need to stay focus and go bacl to work and learn from our past mistake.

A failed project or bounty or in the part of investors wherein people loss their money if the team or project was failed to give the tokens is definitely a bad idea. What i do is to pause find another new project and move on, if we post bad reviews thats good but it won't help us and its a time consuming so i think the best thing to do is to find another project, bounty and investment.

When you say "failed projects are different from scam projects", I think the better way to put it is "not all failed projects are scam" since there are some failed projects which are scam after all. Also, for your 3rd point, "basically project failure happens when fund needed is not raised succesfully" , this is just one of the many reasons why projects fail (not the only reason) since fund mismanagement even when project hits hardcap after token sale will also lead to failed project. We just have to move on when projects fail and learn from it.

Do you now know what people are learning from these mistakes?
Investors are now learning not to even regard any ICO project again even if they are genuine or they come with a genuine intention.

They just no longer see the ICO market as one that can benefit them any longer because those one that would have benefited them in the past are either dead with their money or they have ran away with their money, and you know that we have so many investors that have very huge amount of money lost in these projects, although some of these blame to I to us because we have been warned from the beginning that any money that we are risking in these projects should be money that we can all afford to lose and not money that is our life savings.

Failed projects can occur after or after the sale is done, if the project fails before the sale ends, then I think the project is a scam. but if after the sale they fail to survive there may be many factors that can be the cause, and if there is a failure the developer certainly has a mistake he made

Well, those are good points to deal with when a project fails while you invested in the project or maybe waiting for a bounty. We should always learn from our mistakes and try to choose always the best project by making a huge investigate about it before even thinking to invest in it. By saying "don't compare failed project with the one who scams" I think yeah, there's not comparison but also sometimes if the project didn't go well the owner of it just will try to scam ppl to get his money back or something like that. By the way, it's only an experience for you, and anyone interested in such ICO projects should be careful and don't waste a lot of time on it.

I am just looking at the sale stats on their website. 90 percent of projects are not manipulating the sales bar and it always stands on the same point, so during 3 months of campaign the project raised 0 cents and it is obviously a bad investment opportunity.

There is hardly anything you can do if a project you dedicated your time and resources to promoting disappoints you, especially if they didn't raise their stipulated soft cap.  In the case of the project choosing not to pay hunters the aforementioned allocation, hunters can call them out for their unprofessional behavior on social media.  If a project can't keep it's word to bounty hunters,  it definitely won't keep its word to investors.

Doing due diligence and doing your best to determine if a project is legitimate or not is all you can do if its unregulated but if its one of the newer Security Token Offerings (STOs) and is offering innovative technologies that are at the forefront of their field you'll likely benefit from investing just avoid any that aren't fully compliant with regulation in their jurisdiction

Of course, when we participate in a project and the project fails, we will feel disappointed because what we get or what we expect does not match the reality and we will feel that what we are doing is just useless because if the project has had success of course we will also get results that are arguably good and profitable but when the project fails it will be something we really don't want to get and we repeat.

We will feel very disappointed and frustrated for a while as humans but we just have to move on and focus on better things ahead. There will be several opportunities in the future that will help us recover what we lost