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Bounty section on this forum is now very quiet compare to last year, why is that? Now that bull run is in motion what is stopping new developers from releasing their project? Or maybe they don't have any more idea? Even scam projects are greatly reduced

You can't expect all new projects release bounty campaign as they release their platform. The market is recovering now but I dont think we can see a lot of new projects with bounty. That is actually good, only few campaign are being launch which reduced those scam projects. I think hunters should look for a legit way to earn crypto and trust only campaign handle by legit bounty manager or at least be cautious when joining campaign if they are noticed to be scam already leave it without any hesitation. Tagged and report.

Not every project has bounty nowadays, they just go for BTC paying signature campaign. The good thing is scam project has been reduced incredibly because to make people fool, scammers need to spend money, but as people are not falling in trap anymore, so, scammers are losing their money instead of collecting, lol! I never saw a bad time in bounties than recent time, I hope in the coming months, there will have good bounties.

So far i've been satisfied with the bounties i promoted since 2019, honestly we can't keep seeing good bounties every time because creating nice projects takes time, some takes months, some even takes years, this very first month of the year i started promoting cartesi too, it's really not that quiet

I am not active in bounty ICO campaign anymore but I do notice the big reduction of a new product, the big reason is investors have had enough of these ICO or new project where the dev just run away with investors money or projects that move very slowly in development.

Scammers are tired of worse result trying to steal from innocent investors and developers are tired of not raising expected funds, this space is wiping itself clean, screaming out loud that 'only capable projects from capable developers' is what we want, lol it's good it's been reduced, at least we will know those who are ready for something very serious now

Bounty is silent now because their are no or fewer ICO/IEO. In the last 200 days no IEO on the top 5 exchanges but I believe they could resume this late January to February. It is not difficult to identify scam project now and most longtime campaign are resuming the crowdsale soon. I am only worried on the low reward, I just expect the campaign to be capped to reduce the dilution of reward. If the sentiment is right and positive crowdfund will be very successful, investors will easily put fund..

There is no more new promising projects, not even on binance the best exchange for IEO projects, many new projects are complaining about bear market and now that market is taking a new turn i hope things will start changing for the better, very soon new bounties will show up, just try to play safe by doing research very well

Scam greatly reduced? How sure you are? Its not really that surprising for Bounties is slowly dying. Bull run in motion doesnt mean that it will revive things up just like what happened on 2017.It wont happen ever again
if we do talk about bounties.It would still remain as sh%t  just like on what we are currently seeing.I dont know if it would recover but by look of it and the current demand then it would be hard.ICO bounty golden days is over and we should not stress out or do hope too much about feasibility and worth of our time.Better quit than to waste up your effort into these things yet there are still some alternatives.

It's largely due to the death of ICOs/IEOs so definite there are not so many scammers looking to promote their scam here. I also believe most members are now enlightened about scam project in that they don't just join to promote them anyhow like they used to do in 2017 and 2018.

The new bump rule in the forum also seems to have hidden many spammy threads and so we can't see them that often

It will change when the market will change, it maybe quite until now but when the bull run is finally here, that would also be use as the timing for those who like to raise money through IEO now. Let's just be patient, as the altcoins recover, the bounty campaign will also recover, so it's profit time for us, but hopefully people would not quit their day job again because bounty campaign has no assurance,  ;D

Maybe the biggest reason is that the market (or the people) are not anymore that receptive to new projects (especially those with red flags all over them) because we have been already into an avalanche of scams before, and we don't want to be losing money again and again. We have already learned the big lessons...and only insane people who are closing their eyes to this truth. However, it does not mean that there are no more good projects because we can still pick a few which got real potential to really make it.

I am very happy to see conditions like this rather than many unclear projects always appearing and deceiving many prize hunters because it is very detrimental to the time of the prize hunters. yes as you said scammers can no longer commit fraud because people at this time are smarter at choosing so they decide not to release a new project again.

i agree when you said they may not have idea new idea because look at the market , it was now full of coins  and most of the coins are only repeating or have same purpose   . i guess this was enough  . bull run wont also do anything about the new coins from getting a demand because bull run is only for btc and some other major altcoins  .  this is good when bounties became quite so that hunters can rest for a while  and the congestion on the forum can somehow be reduced .

Bounty before compare to the current has a big difference, just like the altcoins in general before compared today.
There is a correlation between the two, if altcoins season will arrive, that would probably ignite the investors to put their money in old and new projects and that would surely increase the chance of a crowdsale to be successful, right now we can't do anything but to wait until the market will eventually turn to real bullish.

It's kinda too early to start saying this forum is quiet in 2020 when the year have just started, I think it's a matter of time before new bounty projects start showing up, the perfect time that many have been waiting for is finally here so don't let your guide down

Finally here, I think it's also too early to conclude, the market maybe quite bullish right now but we are not in the bull market yet, it takes times and more significant increase on BTC then let's see if Altcoins would follow.

Bull market pushed some vaporware, that is correct and the craze was big at that time. Currently the market is in a slow phase of movements and that is attributable to the less activity in bounty section. Added to this is the fact that many ICOs towards the later part of the 2017-18 failed to reach any good financial support level.

They never actually did have any. It was mostly hype. Dont think that people have learnt a lesson. They will be back like dogs again when market becomes bullish to commit the same mistakes and lose more money.

This I disagree. Scammers are always there since time immemorial.

That's normal, after the bull run, slowly the market has become quite, so as the bounty campaigns.
We may find a lot of bounty campaigns in the bounty section but the rate of success is very low, maybe of the total 100%, there's only 5% are successful and when you fall for the failure, that's another waste of time and effort on your side.

if you are not in a hurry, you better wait for the market to improve, probably the bull run comes, bounty campaigns will be starts to be lively again.

Am at the moment enjoying the position of the token am carrying the campaign. I cant really say if the bounty campaign has any influence in the project's pump but recently the project coin had made good turn around since the campaign starts. With over 6000 tokens in the market, they can also engage bounty campaign not necessarily new project or IEO/ICO should do campaign. Manager should go for campaign with existing project, a smaller budget can be encouraged (maybe around $50k) and cap the participants.

There are fewer and fewer signature campaign based on ICO some ICO are not even doing a signature campaign and just prepare social media and article and video campaign, if the trust on ICO did not comeback we won't see any more bounty campaign based on ICO.

its hard to getting it back , mostly people only want to participate in bounty but not interested to invest anymore in any project making it.
The trust given of the ICO is too much that more of the investors disappointed with thier lost.  There is no way that ico will be profitable again to investors so the trend of ICO is now ended.

Indeed but there's another option for us bounty hunter to still earn even though there's no profitable bounty camp right now and that is trading nor doing some skilled works here but expect those area is saturated by job hunter so make yourself unique to get the job and we should not be choosy for now but make sure they pay in BTC or eth and not in tokens so that we will make sure we will be compensated.

I am also looking outside of this forum in order to try and find bounties or paid work for projects by directly following them on telegram. Some newer projects only make advertisement for campaigns to their own communities in their telegram channels instead of the masses here on bitcointalk. When I find interesting ones I share them in a channel I just started. You can read more about it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5221587.0

Thanks for picking out that point, why are many bounty projects excluding signature campaigns? This doesn't make any sense, since 2018 i was unable to promote some bounties because they have no signature campaigns

You may see how the culture of the project that have popped up until now. I mean, many of them just have a good popularitas when it will be launched by some exchange but after we have seen the project has launched then we can't known how the potential project again because its price just decreased a lot in the exchange.

So, what does that mean? Almost all project will meet that sitaution and you can count one by one to me. This is why the developer should make another strategy to avoid this situation. I hope many people there or bounty hunter especially can hold the token when they got from bounty event, so at least we can still look the price project is stable and never meet an excessive dump.

Bounty hunters hardly cares about what happened to a project after they start trading, what they care about is the profit they will make from projects once the list on exchange, they will instantly dump and leave with better coins like Ethereum or bitcoin

Good day every bounty hunters, I went to bounties section today I a spotted two new fake projects, I'm not going to say their names but they are very easy to get, the teams have blurry pictures of themselves on the websites, tell me,how hard can snapping pictures be that teams decide to use blurry images? be wise

Then archived everything, and put it in the  Scam Accusations (http://hhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0) board so that many can be given the warnings about this project so that no one can fall for their trap. Well that's one trick in their bags, to blur their picture and hopefully no one will notice about it. But guys like you are quick to spot it, so better exposed them as early as you can on that board.

The only reason that I can think of why it is quiet its because of the bearish trend. The market is at a stand still although we have seen some movement at the start of the year, it's not enough to gather momentum. Maybe some projects are just waiting for the perfect time to enter the market.

One answer = People already learnt their lesson in the past. New bounties that would be launched today onwards doesnt really deliver something new but rather keeps on repeating the same idea
that had been seen in the past.Even the market is mooning or booming, it cant be helped and bounty would still stuck into its current situation which is actually a good thing.

It would be more good if this one would totally die so that there would be no investors would lost up their money into these crap or fake projects.There were actually some few numbers
which are legitimate but finding them would really like finding a needle on a haystack or simply means its would still act as a gamble if you do still pursue on engaging with bounties.

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Few days ago few bounty projects have shown up in bounty section on this forum but not all if them are good, few ones aren't well organized, guess that's bounty manager's fault, just take your time to do research on them and pick the good ones

In my opinion, if the bullrun is long, there will be many more projects coming up soon, but it's not certain either.
Many projects have failed to get funding so the project is currently very quiet and this is because investors are still diverting funds in other sectors.

It is true for any day not just a few days ago. It has been ongoing since a long time now. If bounty hunters are going to depend on bounties then they are mistaken as it is very clear now. The problem lies with the hunters because they were the ones who abused the bounties at one time to get paid in bigger amounts by cheating with multiple accounts and this lead to the forced KYC thing.

It was good at one time when they would do bounties as a method of showing appreciation and support for the project. It went down from there to literally scraping away for tokens. But not all of the hunters are bad, still the ones who were honest have to suffer.

Most likely because new projects do not receive the attention of investors. Although bull run is coming, but new projects are constantly frustrating investors because too many scammer project, if they want to bounty to operate as excitingly as a few years ago, then the new projects must be legit and profitable for the investors

Yeah I know it, and I think that is a bad idea. You just give an empty hope for those projects. I mean, you only use new project as an intermediary even though you don't like it at all.

Those things only make the crypto industry will be dissapear slowly. Because when the developer have a useful idea but you don't even use its function then the project will be dead eventually.

Should you sell the profit that you get all? If I suggest you, you shouldn't do it. Devide the money, like 50% to buy ETH and the rest keep them on your wallet. At least, You have no role to subvert the project.

No, it does not only need that, it needs to be in a good market like the bull market and they'll have a greater chance of success if bitcoin will at least reach close to its ATH and the altcoins season will start which would result to the rise legit altcoins, or probably some shitcoins... that's based on the past performance of the market which we will likely to see again as long as bitcoin will stay bullish this year.

Less ICO/IEO == Less bounty, it's not a rocket science dude...
The previous (2017) bull run scammed many of newbies and made available capital for investment significantly less. I don't think it (free capital) would recover in 2020. Therefore, the bounty would still quiet as well.

I'll be surprised if a bull run (like in 2017) would occur in 2020.

Now its a different story entirely, we are still in February 2020 and many new bounty projects already laying around in bounty section on this forum, this doesn't mean anything because there are bad projects among the bounties, I hope people will look beyond the projects appearances

Yeah, we don't know what will happen with the bounty this year. But I guess the project still trying to search the right time to release their project to the public because they saw what was happening after 2017, and they learn from that year until now. Maybe we will see the bounties will rise again and succeed like 2017, but we need to wait for more. The bull run is not coming yet, so the project that still runs until now are waiting for more.

No legit projects were doing bounty these days so hunters also realize that they are not going to make money by promoting useless shit projects and stopped their bounty activities so 2020 becomes quiet years for bounty but I can see some of bitcoin paying ICO bounties so this is the another beginning of glory days because this is how everything started in the year 2017 as well.

I wont believe that it would come back just like what happened on 2017.Trust on projects cant be retrieved yet we have seen on how these things being stained by scam
and shady things thats why investors wont easily give or support projects even if theres upcoming bull run.For IEO? possible but for ICO? its still impossible for recovery.
Who knows but that what just my own view and maybe we can see some new crowdfunding which would differ to ICO.

It is safer to just assume all these projects as bad projects. You would not get anything good out of them other than bad memories of having to hold on to these shitcoins while the owners go on a road trip to Monaco and Las Vegas to spend investors money. Yup that is the truth with these scams since people have no authorities to complain to.

To be honest, I and many others in this forum do too. But the change comes from the hunters themselves. If they dont wish to take in the truth then nobody can help them.

Not so quiet anymore, its better to join those projects that are already listed on exchanges, beware though because some are scam for example GLDS bounty that claims they are backed by real gold but got exposed, one of the pictures they used is stolen from a old website

Because the current investors are very smart, they are aware of scam projects so no project can fool them during this time. That's why we've seen few new projects come out because they know that these are useless actions, and I'm expecting good and quality projects to be created in 2020.

There are some but its very low and the payment is very little if you would compare to other projects before. Hunters have choice to quit if they cant earn much profits from these campaign then join another one, its just a try and try scenario. There are plenty of campaign even paid in btc so I doubt they can complain about being scam.


So this new project GLDS is a scam project? Or just a speculation you just heard or open up? I tend to check whether this campaign is true or not, and knoqing that is to check with their team.

Now a day, people are very selective in choosing for investment. Yes, everyone is expecting something positive this year, but we don't know what is going to happen exactly. Once the market is recovering we might see more companies will start launching. There is always a demand for a quality project.

Well there's still a legit project but only few, majority are scams so if you'll try to join in bounties you might end up to scam project since most of them are not worth our effort.

Bounty hunters are aware what to expect if they join in bounties therefore they chose not to participate, its a waste of time. This might be one of the reason why bounties are not as popular like before, hunters learned through their experience in the past.

Things are starting to look good in this forum pertaining new bounty projects but do not expect good times like in 2017, gone are those days and they ain't coming back, remember scammers are still on here, do research on projects before promoting, goodluck

starting to look good in terms of bounty becoming quite  . less bloated for the forum and people can now foccus on better projects but not good because there are still who complain from thier previous bounty experience. they say bad stuffs about this and that  .

 your tip is okay , never expect too much because this is now a new era or a new start but you cant confidently say that good ol days are never coming back . you dont hold thier faith  man . lets just be positive , if crypto prices can recover then why not the state of the bounties

While I appreciate that some users attempt o expose these scams, end of the day the scammers are the winners. They will fool some noob everyday using newer methods and they will never stop. While this needs a lot of effort, the scammers keep doing it and thus you have to assume that they are having a good time doing so. What is needed is awareness and a strict bitcoin only investment portfolio management.

You will not be able to expose and conclude every project to be a scam or not scam, even a blanket scam or a legit but failed project. Sometimes you are just taking a risk and you have to accept that if you want to go in for their bounty.

Scams becomes better and better as years goes by which if a certain method is already been busted then they would make a new one which havent known and the cycle continues.
Even veterans or experienced ones do really still get victimized specially to those projects which do really looks legit but in the end on it become scam.There are legit ones but do end up on
on failing because theyve been dragged down on the negative effects of lots of scams on the market but im surprised that there are still who do keep hanging on and believing that they
can still make some serious bucks with this.

Even scam projects are easier to succeed than real projects in this market. Over the years I have seen thousands of successful ICO-calling scam projects in the market and it makes many investors lose and fear ICOs, besides real projects that cannot raise ICO capital and they died at the first stage. Apparently scam projects are a lot more sophisticated and they promote their projects better

The basic concept behind them remains same always. A method of using fear, greed or uncertainity to bluff the victim's logical modality and then lure them give money.

They are not qualified to be called "experienced" if they are getting scammed everywhere. Probably they are making similar mistakes and not learning from them. If they expect to give a 100$ to every cloud mining "scam" and expect to get 1000$ in return then they are fools.

They can make money because someone will always get fooled by the scam methods. Just take these bounty hunters who are not getting paid because they actually promoting scams. They could have done some research and understood but they chose not to and now go for another campaign to get their wallets filled with shitcoins.

New bounty projects keeps appearing since last week but most of them are crap and the few good ones have low allocations, to make a 1000$ in bounty hunting this days now seem impossible, all that's left now is how lucky one can get

New bounties are still here but the budget compared to 2017 campaign is different. More campaign now are focusing on more social campaign instead of signature. I am bit of signature guy and less of a social campaign so I prefer btc paid even though sometime the payment is quite low still more secure.

Thats becausr there is not much liquidity. I see the launch of hydax an exchange platform. I cant blame them to offer such small amount of rewards with a three week campaign. I think the amount is pretty small but for a starter project thats a lot of helo to them. Imagine its price if the project go to moon. Dont expect, projects will allocate big to hunters as if its a priority in a crypto business.

Every single bounty project that I like to promote exclude signature campaign and I don't like social media campaigns excluding telegram only, few bounty manager still takes signature campaign very seriously..

It's better to do better research on projects before promoting because I can easily spot some scam projects already in bounty section

All of them are crap. If you want to make money you should start trading the coins you already have. Bounties were never supposed to make the participant rich. They are a giveaway for the ones who are willing to promote the project and the team would appreciate that by paying them some of their tokens. They also promoted the project and got the price to increase and made a profit. But it went away from that core ideology to a method to defrauding the project with more than one account and trying to dump the coins as soon as possible to get a good return.

Its about time you all forget about bounties. There are so many methods to make money nowadays if you have the skills.

Actually there are indeed lots of ways on making money but there are still people whom do stick with bounty hunting no matter how negative we do see about these bounties but there are still who do succeed or making money on this one which it isnt surprising that there are still people who do deal with it in spite of the current situation of bounty hunting which turns out to be shit in all times where participants end up on receiving worthless coins in the end which would totally waste up your time and effort.So it isnt surprising that lots of people do leave out this thing compared into those golden days of 2017 where everyone is happy on making money out of this one.

Bounty durations are mostly from 4weeks higher so if you are busy promoting a bounty project now before it ends another good project will show up, it's really not something to complain about, it's better to see good projects than bunch of fake projects

LOL well said. I hope some of the bounty hunters who have spammed the forum till date actually read these posts. They should bring their eyes out from deep underground to the reality that bounty hunting days are long gone. But with a place where free money is being promoted or was promoted at one time, it is normal for them to think there is some free money still left.

Actually the concept of free money is a flawed one. The more people fall for it the more their data is being sold off to shady companies. Still who cares to read these topics?

There is a lot of sincerity in this your post. A spot on.

Agreed. I always joined campaign in that section, some I got lucky and some are purely wasted time. The best one is to join campaign that has leverage profit such as btc paid. We know that it decrease in value but one thing is for sure, it will always recover no matter what.

Maybe they cant just move on with the previous christmas season of airdrop and bounty. I hate to admit but bounty isnt the same anymore and hence use our free time to do more beneficial to our self development like trading and reading stuff that increases our knowledge.

Actually, one more thing has happened since 2017.
Bumping of threads has been less and less effective due to changes introduced to forum.
So less projects jump to the top nowadays, which looks less chaotic than it was before

There are still people who do read up these kind of topics but excluding to those people who are still doing some bounty stuff.
They do proceed on things on whats into their minds and you are right they are still hoping for that free money after all these
years where they do treat it up that it was just like wayback in 2017.


I agree to this one. Going back to those days where restriction or new rules havent been added yet where most projects
do always try to bump up their threads into the top for more exposure.You can really see the competition between projects
but now its totally different.

Previously when these changes were not there the first page of bounty section used to be filled with new posts. Now it is only 75% of the last bumped threads. Truely the craze for bounty has reduced but there are still some fools going for them. This is a side effect of the low income countries who have bots and alt accounts to spam the forum and get paid for such transgressions.

Good bounty managers like you keep the spam in check which I appreciate a lot as well as reporting alt accounts.

scam projects greatly reduced ? no i dont think so but the scams are actually growing more stronger the popular cryptos became . a scam projects does not run out of idea but they can just copy paste other existing project. legit projects are the one that are having a hard time to create a new quality one because many projects are now released and almost every idea are now already used up .

 also there is no bull run yet . the price increase happen this year was not yet breath taking , that is also the reason on why bounties were still quite .

Scams are always there. They are a part and parcel of life and though one can be careful to invest or not scams will not reduce ever. A project can be good but it may fail due to other reasons because developing a projects needs strength in finances, marketing and token economics. Every project that failed started with a motto and a roadmap to follow but did they manage to make enough money always?

The thing is that speculation drew a crowd at one time but it was not based on anything concrete which is why they all failed. From the bounty hunters perspective a failed project and a scam are one and the same.

Let's try to promote projects that will be easier to become successful so we can get paid when promoting them, you can use GitHub to confirm how serious a project team are, so many new projects stole their idea from old or dead projects

That is because the news rule of the forum itself, 2017 hadn't been applied for merit system right? If we compare now, bounty hunter who have a lot of alt account will be reduced.

As you can see on reputation thread as well, there are some user who report alt account and I got suprised that one person can hold at least 10 alt account to promote one project. This is way there is no bump poster anymore.

This is true.
Merit has also reduced participation by over 50%, as many many hunters had multiple accounts.
I believe coinlocket found one guy with over 1000 alt accounts

Well you forget to mention how long before you will get the payment and there are also project that have a locking period which is make it more difficult to hunter's .
The campaign is not the problem but payment duration you will get and how long you will wait to get it.

It's easy, if you are busy promoting a bounty project and another one shows up you can still participate unless you are lazy, you can join a signature campaign here and do social media campaign for another

Thousands of accounts were being used as alt account from a single human owner to farm the bounty rewards. Thats why the DT members decide to negative trust every account which was detected to be cheating campaigns of being sold accounts. However merit did make it a stalemate for many such cheaters. Unable to rank up these account by shitposting they are now of no use since it is tough to earn merits just like that.

I think it is better this way. But the ICOs may find out new methods to kep bounty hunters still the forum is less plagued by such users.

I still see a lot of good bounty running, and I also agree that in 2020 the market will be a lot harder because the corona virus has caused this market to crash. But I still believe that if you work hard and participate in bounty then I believe that you will get some good bounty