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Please show me how to filter a good bounty project. I have participated in many bounty projects, and after more than 1 year now my wallet is a lot of junk coins. please help me !

The solution: don't do bounty projects. Why? You said it yourself. Probably 95-99% are junk.

This is most definitely not what you want to hear, but seriously. The altcoin market is over saturated already and it's going to be very very very difficult for new projects to rise in price(in a decently sustainable manner).

Yes, agree. But only avoid to join bounties paid in altcoins (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=238.0). While for bounties paid in Bitcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0), why not to join?  :)

Filter with your knowledge and experiences. I guess after joining various bounties, you should know which one is potential (good), and which one is bad. I assume, each person must have their own way to know potential bounties.

Analyze: Team member information, whitepaper, their social media channels, the project legality, token listing plan, partnership, etc

You are lucky that you ended up with junk tokens. Other bounty hunters ends up not getting paid  :D

Joking aside, no matter how hard you try to study a project, you will still end up with a lot of useless tokens. The current market is making it hard for seemingly legit projects to reach the soft cap and that also affects hunters. To be profitable from bounty hunting today, you will probably need 99% luck.

Without any hesitation and doubt, we can say that you spent your time on nothing, others probably made a lot of money (the ones you worked for), and now you can just be an example to others to learn from your mistakes. In a year and a half, you could become at least a Member or a Full Member, learn something and become a valuable member of the forum, which would be enough for you to participate in a signature campaign that pays in BTC.

My advice to you is to stop bounty campaigns, and use the New Year for something new, it's never too late for life changes.

yeah mostly agree with you but so far i think bounty get paid with altcoins is still worth it. i mean these altcoins like ethereum, LTC, BCH or another altcoins that listing on the many market. but if the bounty will paid with tokens not list on the market yet. i think better not join because it just wasting your time , it will paid with not rates

Most bounty hunters do fail to realize this thing where they do still believe that they can make money out of bounty hunting just like on 2017.
Bounties becomes shit after that year and its no surprise that bounters will surely get useless tokens.Im still surprised that bounty still exist nowadays in spite of the current situation.I cant say that theres no already projects are worth but as said its just like finding a needle on a haystack.
Lucky if you do find it but if not then you do just simply waste up your time and effort on bounty.Its better to find other alternatives or utilize your time well into things that do generate income.

Just forget about bounties. It's not 2017 outside the window when bounties were really good. Now it's turned into complete waste of time. It's almost impossible to filter bounties. You can make huge reasearch about project to assure yourself that's not scam. But it doesn't gives guarantees that you won't get some worthless tokens in the end.
You should use your time more effective and productivs. Learn something what will help you to make money. Coding and design services are always needed for example. Or try to build your Bitcointalk account. Maybe one day you will get chance to join Bitcoin paying signature campaign.

try to find bounty project that already listed on market or coinmarketcap
it can boost your chance to get more income after the bounty end

Trust me

I have over 50 junk projects in all my wallets, it's better to stop participating in bounty campaign and if you are going to participate, just go for bounty campaign where the token or coin that you are promoting are already in the market, it's safe and profitable, so far only Emirex is  the only campaign that is already in the market, others are just potential but with no guaranty.

It's true that it's hard for us to filter out bounties which would be better, true @smyslov said it's better to look for bounties that are already on the token exchange and I think it's also very rare for bounties like that.
In the bounty I call it luck because I can't be certain whether this token will be worth it or not because there is no guarantee at all.

You are not the only one, its the same thing with many bounty hunters today including my very self, all you have to do is work on your sense of doing research, do research on team and the project idea is a good place to start

but a bounty that already listed on exchange rarely started so i think it will be good if you make your own criteria for the bounty that you want to join.

Most projects end up in tokens which only adorn the wallet and nothing can be done, to avoid junk tokens like that, the only way you have to follow the bounty project with a paid bitcoin is guaranteed to be 100% safe, but indeed  You must first raise your account rank to join the bounty with a bitcoin payment.

The problem is probably in you of how you choose bounty projects. And it is a common thing in bounties now that many of them wouldn't pay that much or the token that they'll give to their participants as the reward doesn't have much value.

The solution was already given to you and you just have to choose the ones that wouldn't pay you with worthless tokens of their creation.

Just because it's on coinmarketcap, you think that it's worth it? I don't think so, there are data on that website with those new projects that shows nothing.

Even if the projects look good and legit, we cannot be so sure that it will become successful in their crowdfunding and more so in the market, have you seen the project LIKER https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/liker-world, this project successfully got $14 million funding but check out their volume almost zero.

Nowadays it's very hard to find any good and legit bounty projects because almost all new token or coin out there are scam just made them to promote their project and after get a large sales they will run or abadon the project.

For me, if you want to find a legit project to promote better find them on altcoin bounties then follow this "[TIPS] Forum Thread Sorting Guide - How to Display Newest Thread First (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3158138.0)"
then after that check those project if it is already added on Coingecko and Coinmarketcap because those coins/token are already listed on some exchange so if you receive them as reward you can directly sell them and earn. But this is not easy to find so you need to be patience in searching them.

good thing that you still recieve some coins even if its junk and how can you say that its junk  ? no value , small value , or what else  ? its still not consider as a junk if it has a value  . just wait for more time and see if the coin rises   . what you did is right . you join lots of project  because you dont know how to filter the good from the bad  . by that , youl soon learn how to pick a good one  or you can check out some threads on this forum , there were threads here that already segregated good and bad bounties for you  .

In fact, I joined the Liker Word campaign. I was happy to receive LK tokens from the bounty and the Liker World project was very successful in selling. I even thought the project originating from Korea would be successful in the future, but the reality was just nonsense, even I continued to follow Telegram channel but they say "coming soon"
So the bounty cannot be guaranteed to be successful in the future, it can still be another garbage token that has accumulated in my wallet.

All the hard work for promoting these projects for weeks go to waste when the team abandoned the project.
There are lost of them in my wallet as well and these are the ones I joined back 2018. It would look good if they are just in the exchanges that these ERC20 coins has value unfortunately it doesn't have any. If you find its contract address on etherdelta you might wanna dump it if there has volume.

That is why I've said that just because it is there, they'll already rely on it as a requirement of filtering. Good that you have mentioned that CMC doesn't have that kind of special filtering because it's not totally a factor that you can depend on if you're for the filtering of projects.

The clue that you will be getting there is very limited.

How to filter? You can do more than that, and it's don't ever join in any of bounty again. Focus with your rank and try to join in btc paid campaign which much more worthy rather than altcoin bounty. It's sad to hear you have wasted 1 year in altcoin bounty

Bounties is now all about 'try your luck' if you aren't too scared of that then you can jump right in, i will mention ways to detect good bounties but this won't entirely safe you from promoting bad projects sometimes..
1. Make sure the project has good partnerships
2. Shady projects will evade tough questions, ask them questions
3. Exchange they plan to list is very important, even if the project has good idea if they list of bad exchange its going no where

For past years I saw so many project claims that they will be listed on top tier exchange and other more but turns out a bluff only so this is not a good way to look for bounty hunters as basis as a good project and I agree with number 1 on your choices since if their listed good partners will verify the participation of the said ICO then we will find the project good.

But overall bounty campaigns is now a dying ways for us to earn so better not to expect to much.

It is best to join as many bounty as possible, because in this market we can hardly distinguish between good and fake projects. Over the last time I have seen hundreds of bullshit projects listed at exchanges, but the highly regarded projects became scammer after completing IEO or ICO. As long as you participate in lots of bounty, you will surely get lucky with a few projects

If you carefully analyse the project with checking the white paper, team, project background means you can come to know the right details about the good ICO. If you able to analyse the good ICO then it is applicable for the bounties too.
So take charge to learn more about the ICO instead of the checking ICO's bounties blindly.

I already got tired on tracking off my shitcoins in my bag which i do have tons of them and mostly are erc20.Some coins got from bounty and some coins got from ICO.Mistakes are done and you cant get rid of those tokens until you sell it off for cents.Its quite frustrating and stressful on checking it out from time to time.

Going back on topic on how to filter out bounty projects? Never consider on engaging on these things ever again because you would basically waste up your time and effort.

Even if you filter a project if investors are not interested to invest, it will not going to succeed, there are projects that look legit members are real people and good developers but the kind of Crowdfunding they picked was ICO and investors are not supporting ICO anymore the campaign failed miserably, better join campaign where the coin is already in the market.

it seems difficult that many crypto projects have not lasted long since last year, your junk coins could be valuable if the crypto market really recovered and came out of the bear market, but of course projects that still hold and have more funds so that dead projects can get their lives back, it's just hard to get investor confidence, just look at a lot of old projects coming suddenly handing out their tokens by 2020, it indicates that some of them want a launch right in the bullish year, if you are not sure to be a bounty hunter you can find another job and leave if it is not profitable because it is difficult to find a project that is really good at this time

There are 3 ways to do bounty:
1. The best one is - do not participate in any bounties  ;D
2. Do your own research (whitepaper, team members, proof of previous work etc.)
3. If you have a lot of free time then you should participate in as many bounties as you can to accumulate tons of tokens which might have a good value in the next bullrun.

we have the same problem,but  im still looking for a way to sell of this shit tokens and remove them in my wallet. For now  no one can help as we are holding junk tokens no one will buy these coins.

well,listen,maybe u already hear a dozen of people tell about research before joining bounty,bla bla bla,etc.
but,nowadays,just a few of project which it can live for a long time.may u ask,what the point of my explanation?
just sell it immediately.
u say,u have joined many many project before,but u get nothing from it,i am quite sure from a tons bounty which you joined,there must be 2 or 5 get a market,but u prefer to hodl it as a investement,then as the time goes by,the project seems like a cancer,then market delist that project.

the way is to find a bounty project that pays with bitcoin or eth or altcoins that already have value, don't follow the bounty paid using the token of the project. unfortunately your account rank is low, if only your rank is high my suggestion might be better to follow the signature campaign that is paid using btc only and stop following the bounty project.
if you have already followed the bounty paid using a token, it's better when the token is listed in the market or can be sold at forkdelta, hurry up and sell rather than hold the coins and eventually become junk in your wallet.

Do not just joined blindly on those bounty that being posted everyday by different token projects. Always check if the project have a real team behind using real faces and real name on the linkedin profile. Check for plagiarized content - Any copy paste project will end up scam at the end of their bounty and you will be left holding another spam tokens in your wallet.

To summarize

1. Team members - Legit check
2. Whitepaper and website - plagiarized check
3. Softcap and Hardcap - The lower the softcap the better, The higher - mostly likely the ICO will be cancelled and bounty hunters will get nothing from their work.
4. How long the bounty will run. Any bounty that will run for more than 3 months - SKIP, Don't waste your time

Sadly all who experience a good bounty in limelight of ICO Days have bounty rewards that are too high and we expected to grow in a long run as what some investment should be, but let's just charge it in experience. It's really hard to keep altcoins for long especially for newer projects as they are only good for few months. Just filter projects that still updated in their support and have some updates in their website and eliminate those none.

This is totally waste of time, it's better to don't participate in any bounty project, work with your passion for Bitcoin is the best choice.


Actually this cannot be used as a benchmark, the basic project bounty is a promotional program organized to attract the interest of many people, embrace investors and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Sadly most bounty projects now don't think about the cryptocurrency enthusiastic community, all the information about pumps and dumps is given to developers and investors.

Actually you're late to come to this forum if your intention is having profit consistent form bounty campaign or having intention to gain a lot of money form its event.

I believe when you came to this forum before 2017 ago you will know how profitable bounty campaign was but it was just at that time because for now there is no project who will give you a lot of money.

More than a year is such a long time not to get a good and legit project, better stop what you are doing, right now because bad ICO markets will stretch for more years, there are no good projects now and investors are not supportive of a new crowdfunding now, you are just wasting and even if you receive your rewards, it's still not worth the long wait.

Thanks sir ! That is a great idea.

Thanks everyone! I have read each of your comments, now I know what to do. :)

There is no way to 'filter' which one is good or a bad bounty campaign. Nowadays doing bounty is like wasting your time and effort. Some of them may or may not give you a good result. So, you only have 2 choices in here, either you keep trying doing bounties or look for something else to do other than bounty. You've done well all this time, 1 year is a long journey.

i think im going to agree with this . yes there is no perfect way to filter them because no matter how we filter them  , there will be times that bad bounties can pass thru  , i mean they can only be good at the start and then turned bad at the middle or  at the end of thier run  which happens on most bounties that i see on the past up until today     .  1 year for him is way too long and he still continue doing it  ?  he should detect scam from not after 3 to 4 months of promoting them and that is the time he decide if he still continue or not   .

And the solution is do not join or participate anymore in any bounties. Only few project give a high rewards by this moment most of them will just a waste of your time even how long the bountie is sometimes its ending up nothing.cant even list in exchange so you can sell it.

There is no 100% way to filter good bounties, it's all about try and see now but to avoid wasting time do research on projects, scam projects are still very much around, bounties takes time and be ready to work hard, you can't just join a campaign and relax, join multiple campaigns

Join multiple campaigns is very tired. You must post all report almost in everyday and you must waiting for long time too before the bounty ends. It's also only work for otherbounty except signature bounty which you can't join multiple bounties

you are not the first to experience such conditions but many prize hunters also get junk coins in their wallets including me. sometimes we cannot to filter the prize project because we don't know whether the project we are taking part in will have a future or not. the only way is don't never to give up participating in the bounty because not all the coins you get are junk. trust me friend.

OP already said that he already know on what to do and you can read it up above.Theres no need to bump if its already been settled.
@OP you should lock up this thread for further discussions.
For sake of in topic reply, filtering good project is no joke because you can assume a good looking and legit project but it turns out to be scam on the end
and also you can see a trash looking project but do end up on a success.You cant have that precise choice that's why it do somewhat mixed with luck when selecting.

Hi, my advice is to keep those coins you have in your wallet because you don't know what might happen in few years later, i participated in a bounty in 2018 and they just list this January, unexpectedly i earned good profit

Bounty campaign is now a hit and miss, but don't lose hope we never know, any of these coins will have value in the future, but not the majority of these coins, just the other day I traded Jarvis Token I was in their bounty campaign, I thought that this is another shitcoin but was surprised, it was traded with a good price in Uniswap.exchange, you have to follow some of the coins you've promoted in the past, you just never know,