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Hi All,

This is not about scam projects. This is about the projects which fail to raise enough funds due to what so ever reasons. When bounty hunters work for weeks and at the last moment project announces that they can no longer run it due to insufficient funds raised, its nothing but a waste of time and energy for us.
In my opinion, should project teams have enough fundings before they look for investors? What is called MVP is very important for the users to check for before investing.
MVP will ensure that even if funds are not raised as expected, it can be delayed but not dead.
From your point of view, what other points are there which projects and investors both look for?

There are a lot of indicators that we can look for a project to ensure the success of project, from team members, project itself, whitepaper, roadmap etc. but still we can only identify if the project will run or not until the end of sale even with a working project before raising funds is still not an assurance for success. So with the title of this thread, Bounty and ICO/IEO or whatever it is, it is still a trial and error.

It is very difficult if the project does not get the expected funding because the project also needs funds to build their products so they often make sales through IEO or ICO.
From my point of view it is looking at the whole project in order to know which one should be invested whether the project is good or not, the important thing is that investors already understand it because the project does not have funds will surely die.

This is true especially late 2018 and 2019 when there is totally lack of trust in new projects. New projects cannot even get enough funding to cover soft cap. But since this has been a problem for so long, bounty hunters should be wiser by now. If they want a secure payment, then they should demand that they get paid weekly with ETH or BTC or other cryptos that is already in the market. Otherwise, it will always be a risk promoting startups.

Every time I read the terms of some bounties, they always say that allocation will happen at the end of ICO. And that means, if then project sale fails, there is no more payment to be expected.

Projects should be serious with the thing they have started whether it will not reach the target cap, they will continue it.

When viewed from current market conditions, projects that have the potential to choose not to launch beforehand and wait for conditions to improve. That's why too many projects are failing at the moment, especially investors' fear of scam projects, and for now most of them are just crap. Solution, innovation, and team activity are one of the factors in project success. We can see from the objectives of the project and how important it is for the public, especially in terms of usage. Bounty hunter is currently only paid for, as we often call sh*tcoin, promoting projects for several weeks at a pay of only $2-7.

we shouldn't be joining a campaign of projects that isn't really doable and i think its best to accept only BTC from these teams to see how serious they are with their projects. it would appear these teams are just doing trial and error and if they didn't get the softcap they can just abandoned the project. bounty hunters wasted time without gain. escrow the BTC for the marketing/promotion campaign and NOT the tokens.

Joining in Altcoins Bounty now are very risky because we don't have any assurance that they will pay us,  even the coin that with no real market value are escrow.  Because campaign organizer can easly scam the collected funds for developing the coins or tokens. That's why we need now new bounty reward distribution.
This is good idea to find legit ico or ieo because we know that even the funds are not raised campaign will have a backup funds to support that coins.

Lately I have been doing Bounties on KuCoinPlay. They have the advantage of not only having an automated reporting system but also you know every Bounty you get you will be able to monetise since every coin they do is already trading on KuCoin Exchange. It is nice to know that your efforts will produce a reward.

Not really a trial and error method but I must say that we should always pick the best quality of a project. Most bounty hunter prefers quantity over quality because they didnt knew what project will succeed or give them profit. I do the opposite, I prefer quality over quantity. Even I only do one bounties, it doesnt matter as long as that I believe in that project will succeed.

even with mvp nobody can guarantee us the project will keep moving because the development requires a lot of money and time, from the start before participating or investing our money into something. we need to know what will they do and what they can do if they can not get their desired level of funding, we also need to know their source of income outside of the sales event if they want to build something that will require a lot of time to fulfill. lastly but not least, we need to know the demand.

Not reaching the hard cap is so much wide spread these days that I have stopped promoting for ICOs. The last one I promoted Bitbond is a popular name in crypto industry, one of th oldest and reputable P2P lending site based on Germany and issuing a fixed rate STO with a license from german authorities. There's nothing I thought could go wrong. But the project was short of it's cap on the end date. Though they distributed some tokens, they were dust compared to how much users gave their effort to.

Many projects eventually fail and the softcap is not achieved, then the developer leaves the project and for bounty hunters they only waste time to promote the project and get nothing. Indeed, for the time being, maybe a project that dares to take the step of paying eth or btc will show that the project is really serious about developing the project they are bringing in and I think many investors will join.

Bounty and other marketing campaigns are all trial and error in my opinion since there are no sure fire strategy that can guarantee a successful ICO. From what I know, most serious projects now have their private funding already for the initial development of the project and  some of them even have their MVP ready before they even launch their bounty campaign and public token sale.

The points to look for has been answered many times already but the way most people look at new projects now, the only way they would invest is when new projects will be listed on bigger exchanges (IEO).

The project teams are to be blame for their failure, many of them failed to do their own research about why many projects are failing and they end up listing on bad exchanges even after bounty hunters warned them not to use a particular exchange

I think we can consider that also a scam project. Why? In the first place, before you create a project, you have to know all the aspects  of the project. You will put up a team that is credible and reliable enough to push through the project under any circumstances. A project that will really solve a problem. Being unprepared is an indication of a scam project which focus on funds and profits. They don't really have a plan. They have the roadmap and every part of that should be planned and executed carefully.

the only thing that interests investors is profit. so now investors do not invest in new projects, because they know that now in 90 percent of cases new projects will bring only losses and no one can give any guarantees that the project will be successful or profitable. Now investors are waiting for the most secure way to invest in new projects.

How they will invest for such things that doesn't give them ROI, so it's really becoming hard nowadays to run a legit project as it's hard to attract users now due to the trauma from the past projects, scam projects, shitcoins, no ROI at all and the project's team doesn't care about investors.

They should but if you are thinking about funding is the main point in the crypto development and it's a big wrong. When you are skilful and you can create a new idea, consensus, design or something else without needing a lot of money. Byteball has created DAG consensus which has already used by major coins like NANO and IOTA without need fundings from the investors. It has even created by a single developer. MVP is a very important thing. MVP will represent how much experience that already had by the developer and how good he was in developing the MVP and make it becomes useful.

All projects go on like this now. It's enough to just capitalize on ideas, raise funds, not reach targets, bounty hunters aren't paid for failing to raise funds. Things like this have often happened, even good projects that will be difficult to pay bounty hunter. If they don't get investors who invest in their projects.

many teams do this first, but that also doesn't guarantee the success of a project. Well, I think that's a pretty good idea, it's just that the expenses for the development have actually been done to hire teams, do lists for IEO, coin making, and so on. if they already have the funds, they can develop their project and sell the product when it's finished without looking for investors. but, investors are really needed for something like this.

We know that MVP will help a project succeed or fail. But very few projects have an MVP before launching an ICO or an IEO, because those projects do not have any budget to implement their idea. So they need to call on investors through ICOs or IEOs, but unfortunately the current market is too boring and previous ICO projects have become scams. And it strongly impacts current new projects, investors are scared and do not dare to invest in any new projects today.

What you say is true that the quality of a project is better than the quantity. But for the time being I find it difficult to find good projects and also because we know that in the past year many projects ended in failure due to scammers or softcap not being achieved, I think this has an impact on projects that have good quality and maybe the project should have their own funds to be able to develop the project because I think at this time it will be difficult to attract investors.

The fact that the projects could not raise the required amount does not relieve them of responsibility to the participants of their platform. I have already watched many times how the project conducts fundraising through ICOs or IEOs and they all seem to be fine, but there is one thing, but they do not publish information about their current fundraising anywhere, which already cast doubt on their entire work. And as you noticed at the time of graduation, they suddenly remember that everything is bad with them. I think this is also a hoax. Indeed, there are a lot of factors for which a particular project is not worth our attention, and it is very bad that the admins of such projects themselves do not think about it. The main thing for investors and participants is to be honest with them.

 This is why everyone is afraid of working for them and they are finding harder for bounty stuff. Many people have fake twitter accounts that doesn't really mean anything, many of them got fake follows and eventually they are just charging the bounties for money that goes to nothing and they in return get nothing as well. I mean think about it, they deserve each other so well, there is this one twitter account with 15000 fake followers, whatever you share there goes unnoticed and doesn't help anyone, than there is this new coin coming up that will worth zero, so the coin owners give the zero worth worthless coin to people with fake followers who will do no good to them and they both end up with absolutely nothing.

There will not be bounty campaign if the project has a lot of money at least they have fund for promoting stuff. IEO/ICO is the way for some project to raise funds in order to their project can be run correctly.

Maybe you need to try to join signature campaign which paid in bitcoin. Because this kind of project will be have the fund first and they use this forum to promote their project. Indeed, it will be difficult for bounty hunter if they are try to promote the project that can't paid them. And I think you should be familiar with this thing especially when you try to promote a project through bounty campaign.

when there are no funds to build their project, they should be able to think to be able to create a project that is really useful for many people because when the project developed is very good and very useful, investors will come by themselves and there will certainly be a lot of funds collected from investors .

Choose wisely and don't just joined any campaign that being announce in the bounty section. Don't be like those bot-like users that are joining all bounty program specially the social media bounties.

It always pays to read their ANN thread, if you see a tons of newbies spamming a thread then its an indicator that the ICO project owner hired paid bump bots and only SCAM project do this kind of  spam activity.  

Yes, maybe with that they can attract investors so maybe that investors will see if the developer serious with their project, or at least have some efforts to their project not only focus on investor's money. And maybe developer's money can be backup if maybe something unexpected come.

Very well said. Even if we conduct some research on the project we are going to engage in it is still a gamble. We cannot fully tell if the project is capable to finish the crowd sale within the given time frame or they will able to reach their target cap. I've seen a lot of projects had a good start, have a good team, whitepaper and more but for some reason, some of them are still failed. Moreover, even if they successfully finish the next problem will be to enlist their token on exchanges which commonly takes a lot of time. Hence, I do believe that bounty campaigns are definitely a trial and error.

even if the bounty get paid but the project fails, the token that you get will only become junk in your wallet.
and also, if the project already has start-up capital, let's say a reserve money when it fails to raise funds. then the project, I'm sure will not do a bounty campaign.
the project is getting worse if the reserve money is only to pay bounty participants while the project itself fails to collect money from IEO/ICO.
sometimes a successful project not necessarily bounty hunter will be paid, if paid sometimes the distribution will be delayed.

the general point sought by the project is to get as much funding from the investors. for investors sought profit from bonuses/discounts during the sale period (IEO/ICO).

That is the reason why they do need to run initially, to raise fund. They are seeking for fund to cover the project necessity and bring it to the next level they can do. Besides everybody has the capacity of covering necessary funds, and even if so they do have sufficient fund there is still no guarantee of success. Problems might occur from nowhere.

still the most important thing is about funds, no matter they run a trial and error project, because when they have a lot of money or capital, the success of raising funds from investors is not their main focus because what they have to prioritize is to pay campaign participants for their work done

before they get funds from investors they have to make concepts and promotions that are serious. no investor will invest in the project by trial and error. the hard work of creating a platform must be done from the beginning, even in their platform planning process.

Lol.
The title was funny.

Trial and error. Seems to be like that. I avoided ICO nowadays. Before I was joining bounties and also getting hooked in telegram group talking about increase after the listing. But repeatedly in different ICOs all of them were dumped.
It somehow gets me mad but you cant do anything about it.
So I stopped.

That's why you have to do several bounties at the same time, because not every good project can raise enough funds. It's normal that if a project can't get the soft cap then there will be no payment for bounty hunters. Yes, you have a point that bounty hunters' hard work will go in vain, but think about the project owner's and team's members' situation. They are more hurt than any bounty hunters, right? So, I don't see any problem here.

This is how they work if their project is not success they will leave or if they actually made a project just to sell them and run those project are made only for scamming purposes. I can't find any good or trusted campaign nowadays unlike before that you can trust many ICO project because after the end of sales they are listed on some exchanges where you can sell the reward you earn during bounty campaign. Right now they are now rarely to find a good ICO project and if you join and promote them until the end of sales without receiving rewards you are just wasting your time promoting them.

Much better to look for a bounty campaign which is paying with major coins ETH,XRP, BTC or any top 10 coins on the market.

No one can catch a project with enough money before attracting investors, every bounty hunter needs to make a judgment before deciding to participate in a program. Researching the development team, products, media sites will help hunters avoid bad projects.
Besides, if the project cannot attract investors in the beginning, they will fail whether they have MVP or not.

In any case the trial and error method continues because it is difficult for companies to make an accurate development forecast. In addition to lack of funds, there are many other factors that can slow down the process.

as we can see that the current market situation really doesn't support much about the altcoin market, especially with projects that use the ethereum erc20 platform that doesn't work well, many tokens are worthless, don't have exchanges and even products don't work with well. maybe another problem because investors are now starting to wane, are reluctant to invest in ico and prefer to wait until the market actually improves.

sometimes it's hard to find good projects, doing research also sometimes not many can find projects that have good prospects, so in my opinion sometimes good projects also depend on trends too because developers will also think of trends to launch projects. so in my opinion the trend can also depend on the trend too.

There are many important things that investors look for in new projects, and certainly the most important ones are still MVP and the investment company. If the project had MVP before launching the ICO, it would be a great thing because this project is definitely good and not a scam. But to get the MVP before starting the ICO is very difficult, the project needs to be funded or have a separate operating budget in the past. And besides that bounty hunter should also accept the failure status of the project because this is an unexpected incident of theirs.

Along with your point of view it is also necessary that before joining the campaign we must see that if the project collected the softcap or not, if they have raised till softcap hen it means the project will continue and our time and energy will not be wasted and if they are not reached to their softcap then we have to demand in BTC or they have to escrow some funds in BTC till they reach to their softcap.

Could you please give me more details about it? Your experience so far with the projects you worked on. 
At last, nobody can predict the future of the project but even if it goes well at initial stages, we can be benefitted.

You not really take care with situation from ICO project and bounty campaign when failed raised hard cap target and never get soft cap for their selling and it usually happen for bounty campaign scam and payment will be failed bounty is stop, if you want looking for with worth bounty campaign maybe you have participated at third weeks when soft cap of ICO raised.

Problem of new project team is they are treating projects like do or die matter, it's not a force to launch projects when you can't afford to list on better exchanges, the truth is the greatest enemy of new projects is exchanges

I think there should be some sort of remedy to hunters for their time spent on project promotion even if such project fails to raise anything during ICOs or IEOs. Or payment should be made in stable coins to escrow accounts to stop hunters from wasting their time promoting campaigns. Some projects raise funds yet don't pay hunters.

The reason why these projects are targeting bounty workers is because they know that they can raise funds with giving empty promises and once they raise the money they could say anything even if they are legit projects.

If it is a legit project they will get the Angel funds required and then goes to the common investors and most of the time they do not need other funds if they get an Angel investor.

Seems you know how to detect good bounties but why promoting ridenode then? As slacking as i am i can never promote such project because the idea and use case is way off and won't help crypto space at all, there are few things to consider in bounty projects before joining

For all the time I have been working in the cryptocurrency market, I have already come across many different types of problems for bounty hunters.  Today, Bounty Hunters not only do not receive the earned remuneration, but also face such problems when a team of a certain project comes up with various tricks in order to pay as little percentage of the remuneration as possible, fewer participants or to aggravate the reward by some new conditions, already  a long perfect bounty company.  Of course, such cases can be safely called fraudulent actions on the part of the team, but the fact is that the activities of the Bounty Hunters are nowhere protected by law and therefore not one Bounty Hunter will be able to protect their rights.

I think for all projects it should be made compulsory that they raise private/seed funding from private/angel investors first before opening ico, this will be win win situation for all and will have following positive outcomes.
1) It will make sure that only quality and practical projects will continue.
2) It will become an automatic and organic project filtration process and will gain the trust of investors and they will be back to icos.
3) Teams behind the project will also know from the start that their project is worthwhile or not that will save further time and energy.
4) Bounty hunters will also be sure of the continuation of the projeft and this way bounty industry will revive too.
This will definitely be win win for all as i explained i hope industry will find a way to follow this simple process.

They actually become greedy and they do not want to spend their money and just want to collect money from the investors and not care for the future of these investors. In the start they just launch their project and bounty campaign and do not try to spend any penny to do further marketing and after they collect the money from investors they become more greedy and start to list their coins on only free listing exchanges which do not have any trade volume but the fake.

I think one should look for project that are already on exchanges and are offering bounties or look for a project that is outstanding. So far the only bounty that scammed me was Temtum.

Interesting didn't know about this, Thanks for sharing. Although competition to be in top 550 will be tough. Does it requires users to go through KYC to participate?

This is the current crowdfunding scenario now, and it's not recommended for small investors to invest in any project now because of the uncertainty, it seems the market does not want new crowdfunding, they can look for private investors but public crowdfunding is not attractive anymore.

Your post is kind of self contradictory.

The whole point of an ICO is to raise funding for development. There is no surebet on whether or not an ICO can raise enough funds for their development, and if they had funding to begin with then theoretically, they would never have to go public with their tokens anyhow.

But yes, I agree with the bounty statement. I think that teams have the obligation to compensate the bounty hunters fairly, even if their projects may fail.

If they insist on running a project with a small amount of funds, I think it will be useless because one day their project will surely die and need money for all their project needs. Research before investment is important in order to avoid dead projects.

This has happened to me quite a few times and it is very frustrating after all the effort and time we put in. But we bounty hunters also need to introspect. Why we are joining bounty campaigns, where there is no guarantee of payment? There are too many bounty hunters and too few bounty campaigns out there. So obviously there will be enough people willing to work for whatever exploitative terms they put in. Bounty hunters need to organize and demand better terms from the campaigns. We should make sure that no one goes unpaid.

Some of the new ICO that comes here, has zero funding and they rely on the funding that they will generate to set up the platform, it works in the past, but not on our present time anymore, people are more careful and they want to see initial stage of the platform before they proceed to invest, they want to make sure this time, that they are investing in a serious project.

Usually a good projects is not really have to raised too much funds because they are already built a solid professional teams that could build a really good products. If the projects have to raise so much fund to develop their projects as their reason is for paying salary of their teams, that means the teams is just working on money oriented and don't have a spirit for the project.

It is sad but we have to accept it because we all know that most of them are fail, so we have to choose the bounty more carefully. If teams have enough fundings before they look for investors, the bounty reward might be much lower and will you accpet it?

That was depend on the rewards given how low it is. If its lower than 50$ then i dont think there still people may promote that even they have enough funding and how good the project its still not worth it to participate if the rewards is that low.

This is the risk you take once you join a bounty campaign. It had always been since the beginning.
But unlike before, they could really raise large funds because of the small competition.


Yes, they do have enough funds. But that is just for the initiation of the project and the ICO.
Payment for the team and employees and other stuffs.
Bounties are not included with it. They will get it from the contribution.

That is how it is, swallow it if the campaign fails to reach even a small cap.
It will feel better that way.

I think when the project had its own funds to develop their projects before seeking funding from investors I felt that the bounty reward that would be obtained was only in small amounts and we know that at this time it can be said that running the bounty is less promising if the project does not pay the hunters use btc or eth because we know that bounty hunters will not want to do something that is ultimately useless and they will certainly choose projects that dare to pay them using eth or btc.

Why not? I consider joining this project as I can see the use case the may help the community not just the crypto space. That is what crypto for as well right? Adaption would one. But can you tell me, what are those things to consider?

If me act like investor, for now i am not really rely on ICO project anymore. Maybe project which not raise enough funds or not reach softcap is better because sometime they refund investor's money. And it is better than project that get minimal funds or their softcap and then not develop it well, it can make investor lose time and money.

Project must have realistic target and release it at the right moment, those thing are crucial for developer. In investor side or our ( bounty hunter ) get the real information about developer ( road map, team, white paper ) is really important, from there we can make objective review about the project. Now project using popular coin as payment ( btc/ eth ) is more acceptable than new coin, I think developer should see it as opportunity to keep going ( adaptation ).

Indeed many of us find such projects, should they extend the ICO time so that hardcap can be achieved instead of eliminating the trace until many parties feel disappointed because of the time spent so long, if I think this including scam projects as well as they are lost at the time the payout of the prize occurs, projects like this should be destroyed.

yes, I also agree with this, that the team must confirm in advance that they at least have the funds to run the project. it will be even greater if the team does not depend on investors. so whether you can get investors or not, the project is still running. in my opinion there is no need to pursue a large total supply, but the liquidity of the token is the most important one after the token is released to the public.

Yes this is correct but most of the projects collect money first before creating an MVP being greedy is the main reason they did not want to pursue project if theres no money first, the bad thing is they want to collect millions of dollars but in reality they will only spend much little compared to the stated soft cap and about joining bounty do not join those project with no exhanger yet if you dont want to waste our time and effort. 

unfortunatelly, most of dev just wanna steal investors money. devs often dont care what product which will be given
so, MVP isnt given at the first, although there are many projects have been given by investors

in others side, built MVP also need money, no matter how small it is. and the money is got from investment
so, the project must get investment first then devs can develop the product itself

I like short term bounties because they always round things up very fast unlike 8weeks bounties, the second thing to watch for is bounty allocations, it's better to promote projects that want to pay 50k nowadays than those that promise 500k rewards, honestly in this type if market it's not real

It’s good to look for a project with the right team or partnerships, though sometimes these are hard to come by and some of them can still do a good job but just needs the opportunity to prove themselves, but the right team and partnership is a good start.

I have seen various projects that kicked off really good but coming to end they turned to something else and disappointed their investors. Even scam projects there are lots of these days that pretends to be legit and very good, everything about them will look so good and will deceive the investors and as time goes on they show their true selves.

i'm sure when the project has enough funds then at least they will run a bounty campaign or anything with payments using bitcoin or other coins that have been popular in the market, that is a very good reason to prove a project has funds and not just build a trial and error project

A very good idea. But most of the projects have a capital investment, they reward very little. As for the projects that raise capital IEO are almost not called on this market

There are actually some good projects with good and legit team or devs but they do still destined to end up on failure.Why? They havent able to get sufficient support or funding

and instead those scammy ones had been funded for millions of dollars instead on the legit one.Finding a good project wont really be that easy and as of todays situation in regards of bounty
hunting where people do already lost up too much trust and we have seen that IEO is the new trend.Even how hard you do make that trial and error method, i would say it wont
really be that worth for your time.

There are few things which you should consider before you joined on altcoin campaign/bounty. Make sure the bounty allocation isn't too high and for better result, join in bounty which in escrow.

Anything and everything about ICO bounty are all bad, when I was active I have compiled a long list of Shitcoins and they are still coming some of them I did not remember because they are sending my rewards after more than a year, some of the coins/tokens I expected to get did not arrive in my wallet, after the bounty campaign it's hard to keep up monitoring them because they delay the distribution or listing in the market.

If you decide to join bounties just have it at the back of your mind that you might never get anything out of it and its better not to stop working on other bounty projects because if you rely on one project and it failed you just wasted your time, so to at least get something to safe your time try to join many other bounties too

They better raise funds privately and and when they have  the platform set up and coin already in the market, that would be the time that they can do bounty campaign for awareness, like what Emirex is doing right now, they are already in the market and they are doing bounty campaign and referrals contest.

sounds good  but why not all can do this   ? maybe its not simple to do  . its hard to get discovered or sell your products if you wont market it   .and whats the purpose of marketing if they were already succesful because they already got alot of investors  and the coin is already listed  ?  this is why most projects do bounty first or wont do bounty anymore   . trial and error indeed for the hunters  if they want to  gain a valueale coin thru bounty  .

That should be the case for new projects now that wants public funds, but unfortunately, majority of ICO IEO and STO now wants to do crowdfunding in zero out of the pocket, everything is just lip service and they don't want to invest their own money they only invest in website, host and hire freelancers to launch their announcement, that will only cost $1000 maximum.

For me we can't assure the amount because considerably if the project failed to raise their minimum cap it is considered a failure unles like the other project who failed but they raised a good amount they still continue to pay the bounty as far as i know in the past.
The funds for the bounty is not necessary because if they have a peronal funds they will use it for advertisement and promotions and for the bounty hunters or the participants will look for success of the particular project .We need to be wise in picking or choosing a biunty that have a huge or big chance of becoming successful

In essence, having a large amount of funds at the beginning is the most important thing that developers must have, no problem they don't immediately list their tokens on the exchange because when they have large funds at the beginning it would be better to conduct or make a campaign that pays with bitcoin or even ethereum, then so that the marketing they make will be better if compared to them trying to find funds through investors by conducting campaigns

Investor confidence has faded with the promise of a large project, which is why the bounty is not as good as before.
ICO or IEO are no longer in demand unless the project already has a large company behind it.

i think at first you must ask about that because for me i will ask about this so incase that the project does not raise enough funds then they will refund the investor money.
then i will leave the project but if the project says that he will continue no matter how much it's raised during the ICO then i will join it.

Whether good or bad, tiresome or discouraging I will still keep hunting as a bounty hunter, the fact about bounties is you can never tell what will happen and i'm not ready to wait around, with my research and my persistence spirit i will hit the jackpot one day

The confidence faded a long time ago because most of the ICO is just a scam, promising big things but no commitment updating or expanding the project at all. There were certain times ICO was hot which was way before and the recent craze was IEO but it still didn't result into anything positive, i think crypto investors should just invest in STO rather than ICO/IEO because of the government regulation.

Hunters available for the project to hire without paying any money initially show bounty projects taking advantage of this made bounty campaigns look uncertainty most of the time. So bounty hunters actually need to be e changed before asking about it team about their behaviour while running bounty campaigns.