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I received an email today from probit exchange (screenshot 1) and I went to verify this authenticity from their website (screenshot 2). To my amazement, the 100% IEO is true and valid. If this particular project launches a bounty, what will be the expectation of participants? They will not distribute the token to those who make the awareness until it is worthless and useless. Interestingly, all blame is always shifted to the bounty hunters for dumping. How could you run an IEO with 100% bonus and not except a dump when it commences trading, that is double of investment in a short time most often within the same week or month.

IEO is just another tag name to represent ICO and it will worst more than the experience we had during the ICO mania in 2017. Those projects that launch IEO and those who were initiated by Binance launchpad are still counting their losses, most of them are down with more than 150% and same applied to other exchanges. Where would someone run into in this crypto space? Would STO be the option and correct all these anomalies?

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As i understand Bounty is kind of marketing, if there have no IEO or ICO, projects still can do Bounty for their project publicity. So, Bounty will alive till project owners findout another easy or low cost way to publicity their product and project.

Those who blame bounty hunters for the dumping and prize crash - they probably don't know much about bounties. Usually 3% - 5% of total coin supply is distributed to bounty hunters. If dumping of that minuscule amount of tokens drags down the price of the token and never comes back to track, then you have to understand that this is the fate of the token.

Just one pro tip- don't invest in any IEOs for a long term. Just invest and get out as soon as the trading commences. You will usually see profit.

I can't believe someone is still running those things. I was excited about altcoins and ICOs back in 2017 because it seemed like a good chance for companies with attractive ideas to find investors. Indeed, I've seen many projects that looked promising to me. However, with terrible sums going to scammers and even successful ICOs barely delivering what they've offered, I don't think they have a future. And then came various 'rebranding' options allegedly offering something different but in essence not being much different from ICOs. The era of altcoins and raising money via offerings seems over to me.

The early birds of Binance IEO made pretty well.
They've made a decent profit out of its newness but after that, nothing new is about to be offered anymore. And for the bounty hunters, I think it's already attached to them that they're always blamed for the dumping because they have to dump the token for their profit.
That part is hard to change for the devs and investors.

It will last long as long as project owner still get enough money from investors than they use for marketing.


It Will  only stop if there is no people want to invest anymore in any project instead they are buying a coins directly in exchange. It will also open another opportunity  If that's happen another way of advertising   will come out surely .

IEO is a failed business model. It also doesn't make sense for projects with huge upside to do an IEO, because they have to spend a large portion of what they raised for market-making activities to provide liquidity. Also, they have to obey a certain token-lock schedule which distracts long term investors and causes a non-stop selling pressure for a couple of years. 

Recently also!

Few friends of mine made some good Profit. It was the Cartesi IEO. They were running a bounty program prior to getting listed on Binance Launchpad. That is one reason why they were successfully. Plus the project is also promising. So, yes if Binance list a decent project on their launchpad platform it can be a successful.

Sucess of any IEO or ICO depends a lot on marketing, product and team. If you have all the three it will earn you profit.

This is similar to the ICO, when early or private investors are bought with huge bonuses, when the coin is sold off and bounty hunters will be blamed.

Not every IEO is worth to invest, they just launch on random exchange and also will run bounty to make more money, even if they legit they will become useless once they get dumped by the investors and project team so I hope people will not waste their time on promoting such shit projects anymore.

Dont compared the Binance IEO to the OP's example cause their level of competence has a huge difference. Most IEO held on Binance usually skyrocket unlike these low exchanges that even give 100% bonus. Of course price will tend to dump cause investors will probably takr advantage of their bonuses. So whats more will be left on hunters right? When distribution arrives the price is already at the bottom and the value of it is not as promised like on the bounty budget. But that's a consequence on the life of hunters, what is worse is the blame when the price dump is on hunters that for me is wrong. Only few percentage they allocate to those hunters and yet they complained everytime it happens. It will never end so better ignore those guys.

That has been the case and the scenario IEO and ICO are not helping investors in the long run, but only on short term profit, investors are doing great on stable coins than these new projects on IEO and ICO, and about the future of bounty hunters, I'm still wishing that these new bounty campaign will pay people with trade able coins in the market like Bitcoin or Eth.

Unfortunately, just like the ICO process, the IEO process has started to move towards the period of collapse. The fact that almost all projects that have bounty campaigns recently will sell with IEO helps us to have an idea about this situation. I remember very well that when the IEO craze first started, everyone was formally competing with each other to participate in the bounty campaigns of IEO projects. Why is that? Because these projects would definitely win and everyone wanted to get their share of this cake. Today, we see that almost all campaigns will be sold with IEO, and many still fail. Let's see what happens next craze.

Yes, thank you.
The Cartesi project. This was also a successful project that's being talked about lately. I didn't invest in it and didn't follow the whole thing but I'm aware of the success that they've met.

STO dead and you should not mention again. There was no even a single project that being a successful project from STO. It's dead forever. You should not take any IEO that runs on the crap exchange site as a serious thing to determine the future of the hunters.

A lot of early investors are still getting huge profits from their investment.

This is just another type of creating fomo for more investors and sure to see a huge dump after listing this coin in probit. Even it's look like , IEO is also going to vanish. As most of the binance Launchpad's project did great after the listing, but most of that projects are now in not a great ROI. So it's time to find out some real projects , not just reputated IEO platforms.

I did not experience investing in STO, but been in ICO a lot, we definitely need to adjust on crypto activities. Thru Trading many were still able to earn, we should not focus on one thing alone like as bounty hunter, there is always need to research and to determinine which exchange fits us well.

the idea of raising funds form IEO has been a decisive one. the early stage was successful and many projects thrived from IEO but currently, money rules everything. when you can afford binance IEO launchpad, you are made and also you can get a little boost of your project. publicity and funds at the first stage but if you mange your resources well, you will create a well deserve project.

it actually depends on the project because IEO or ICO is a place to raise funds, so nothing is exaggerated, IEO has the advantage because there is already a guarantee that the currency will be listed on their market, while your ICO can buy directly without having to register an exchange account.
but for now, IEO is more favorite than ICO.

ICO has now been abandoned because a lot has happened when ICO is sold out, investors' money is always taken away, therefore IEO is now turning into a trend now, therefore it is a guarantee that tokens will be listed on the exchange, on average, projects are now selling IEO.

why do you say that ieo is worse than ico, from 2019 beginning until now IEO has become a project trend for fundraising.
whereas ico has decreased interest.
maybe in the next year there will be a new method for fundraising.

HYIP for IEO is already over so new projects from the exchanges may not have enough community support, they will only get short term investors which is the reason why tokens and coins are getting dumped when it listed on exchanges.So as a bounty hunter they can't do anything other than stop involving in the bounty promotion projects.

Well honestly i know most the community is disappointed at how icos and even ieos have performed in last few months and bounty campaigns have proven to be worst but i will suggest to not lose hope and keep working because i am expecting market to improve as soon as we are in a bull run. Lets wait for new ATHs for bitcoin and ethereum and then we will see all good new projects will also moon.

This is why I hate the Probit exchange and I ignored the Sheng Global bounty campaign! Because Sheng Global IEO was in Probit and there was a 60% bonus! So, it's your choice, man! Those guys always will try to manipulate the crypto investors and bounty hunters, but if you are aware enough what you doing, then you won't fall in their trap! If they launch a bounty campaign, you will have option to join in another bounty campaign and that's the smart people does!

I am sure bounties will be back do not loose hope, if you work then you deserve the reward just believe in this and you may end up receiving huge reward or a campaign that you have done and reward token received that may surge 100 to 1000x in next bull run making up for all your losses and time wastage from scam and failed campaigns so stay positive.

I o not think ICOs will become better than IEOs, because IEOs solves a crucial part of fundraising that bothers on incessant scams by the project developers, they collect the funds under zero supervision and make do with it the way they please. This was how trust started leaving the industry until IEO came calling

I think the whole point of non-profit of these type of IEO is the fact that you are helping someone, even if the price falls it doesn't mean anything, you shouldn't expect to make money, you are just helping a situation. Also there are so many IEO right now that not really all of them makes sense anymore, I mean I could start an IEO right now and definitely will find a place to list as well. There is no way all the IEO's could make a profit for you, some of them will be worthless and you will lose money from it.

It made sense when it was rare and when only the really good ones got listed, nowadays it became like ICO where anyone can do it. And exchanges realized that they could list as much as they can and make more money so they are not picky anymore.

The IEO will be no worse than the ICO because the IE ensures that the token or project is listed in its market, so it is an advantage in this market condition.
whereas the ICO will be less desirable because the IEO is more promising.
anything that comes out later should be better than the current IEO system.

But after being listed, the price dropped many times compared to IEO price, so it's no different from ICO. If you join IEO at large exchanges, the token collapse rate will decrease and you will have a better chance of getting profits.

Bounty season will still return but no one knows when, that's why it's not always good to give up, scam projects are many than good projects for sure but it doesn't make sense to give up

this is the reason why IEO is fading its popularity among crypto users except for some big projects in top exchanges. the fate is still the same, decline of price after few weeks or months in trading. the only assurance that it gives to investors is the listing right after the IEO stage. for those bounty hunters, you should prepare yourself that you will not receive your allotment based on the specified period of distribution. they are always late up until the value is not good anymore. sometimes if you will see a promising project, better buy it after being traded for few weeks, because the chance that the price is much cheaper than IEO price is very high.

Bounty will only be good if the altcoin season returns like 2017, where many new projects were created and received investors' attention. But due to the aftermath of having too many scam projects, bounty collapsed like ICOs collapsed. And I think it's too hard for the past to happen again

Your OP has two questions that need to be answered, first question "Is IEO not becoming to be worst than ICO" I think it's not! because IEO is more secure compare to an ICO since the transaction was done inside the crypto-exchange that acts like escrow service. While in ICO the funding transaction was directly sent to the founder's position and without any third party Audit, it is prone to corruption that later on becomes an exit scam. The second question "Any future for bounty hunters?" I think bounty campaigns are here to stay because it is the cheapest form of marketing and advertising strategy. where on earth you can find any advertising agency that accepts a native token without value as a form of payment? all of it was only exists in the forums and other bounty and marketing platforms etc. But we must admit that the budget or allocation in the most bounties nowadays are sinking and also we must face the new normal in our payments scheme because bounty tokens are locked in different periods but depend on the project. ranging from 2-,6 months up to a year.

STO not really that interesting, there is reason why IEO could succeed when it first got introduced you know  ::) which is certainty that the token will be listed to that exchange and to be frank there are many STO out there already and they perform just like ICO or IEO. I'm not putting too much hope to STO.

Usually the 70% allocation is for investors, but the bounty only gets the smallest distribution of 1% -5% of the total of all token allocations, if the bounty allocation dumps on the market will not have any effect if the real trading volume, but will affect when the team manipulates the token sale with reached very high and usually low-volume demand.

not all losses are caused by the Bounty hunter, when the project enters exchange there are certain losses and benefits, but there are times when the Bounty hunter has not been paid but the price on the project entering the Exchange is down 50% from the price of IEO and ICO Is this the Bounty hunter's fault? Of course not, it was the fault of their project that didn't want to buy back the tokens to raise prices again

But bounty is the only low fee publicity that they could have in just a low investment they would have so many people who would promote their project in so many ways like social media , Youtube and even here on the forum where there are so many crypto enthusiast.
So what more they could wish for? it is only a low investment for a huge publicity unless they really want to invest big time for their projects publicity then they wouldn't go out for bounty and would go directly for other types of marketing strategy.

The result is obviously as you say, IEO is just following the initial stages of the ICO, reaping a lot of success with the first projects but this ratio will start to decline with a not so good market condition, combined with people's needs and many other factors but the most fortunate thing is that we won't lose all our assets for a bad IEO project, it's just a part of the assets. The future of the hunter may only change with the trends of the projects, if the project offers good methods in the future, bounty hunters will receive corresponding benefits and vice versa

as I said before that IEO is just a project trend and not much different from ICO. it's just that some developers do IEO as a new strategy to attract ICO investors. but to be honest, I personally don't like the IEO listed on shady exchanges, they always manipulate the volume of coins or prices to attract investors.

Truthfully, the way I see it, there is no much difference between ICO and IEO because a team working for themselves alone will always show up; its just that IEO gives that assurance that once the sale is over trading starts which isn't seen in ICO. Also, for IEO, one can easily invest in whichever project he finds worthy although that is not always the case after the trading starts.
Now for projects having 100% bonuses shows how desperate they are to attract investors, that's how I see it and which is why many of them, the price doesn't stand for long. Bounty will always be needed but yet there is need to be careful of every bounty from most projects, a project with 100% bonus, who knows the value the token will be at when the bounty hunters receives it, yet when they sell, they will still be blamed even though the reward is now less due to low price.

as I know that both IEO and ICO are forms of project marketing, they launch a project through IEO & ICO as well as assistance from project promoters such as prize hunters. and the worst in a project when the product is not going well.

We can't blame IEO fundraising for everything that's happening around bounty hunters maltreatment, in fact it has nothing to do with IEOs, IEO is nothing but a project marketing strategy, scammers are to be blame for everything, they create fake projects and use bounty hunters to promote their fake projects

On a rather honest basis, the future of bounty hunters is not dependent on ieo or ico or any form of crowdfunding events.
The core problem faced by bounty hunters this days is from insincere, non transparent and scam project team/developers.

If you look across bounty programs this year from Hybrix, to Hydax, to Gold, to trading bounties, you will realize that marketers (bounty hunters) effort are needed for massive promotion of projects irrespective of crowdfunding status

Im not surw if there is a trivial season for bounty. Its like an on/off button, there are particular times when the bounty campaign are good and there is also a period where everything does not have any worth to promote. But majority is on the negative part cause we can see how those new process IEO depicts the picture of a unsucessful way to give hunters some precious rewards. Most of hunters doing campaign are not being paid even with the success of the project promoted means that team are just playing dumb on them. Example of this is the latest project of digital bits that dont pay the hunters and just keep delaying the promised payment.

that's why bitcoin paying campaigns are better than most token or coin paying campaigns. from those hundreds of projects in the bounties section running various bounty programs, you can only count on your fingers how many of them will be valuable in the market or projects that will make it to the exchange. IEOs fate are becoming like ICOs already. the only thing sure about IEOs is the listing in the exchange right after the sale.

These methods of fundraising are not legal securities and so even if they are scam there is no authority to punish them. People who never realized this have been fooled into buying them and so did the bounty hunters.

The idea of "maltreatment" comes from contempt of the hunters and is a wrong term. It is wrong because the hunter were never actually promised anything. It is a fundraising that too in a fake manner, do you expect to get paid if they fail? If you think yes, then you are also being fooled.

In other words, the days of bounty hunting is long gone. If you want to invest money, buy bitcoin and also invest in sectors other than cryptocurrency because the markets are bearish now. But of course if you have money at hand enough to spend and invest during the crisis.

Probit has became just another paid to list site. Probit did had a spectacular growth in the past and was a bit selective on hosting IEOs but with the increased volume, they are giving more and more unsuccessful IOEs. The IEO business might be good for porbit at the time but it's going to hurt the reputation of Probit for a long time if they don't stop promoting anything and everything that provides them money.

You should know that IEO and ICO are both capital calls but different forms. there will be no better one, we need to choose potential projects to invest, if we choose wrong we have to pay dearly.
Especially for IEO, if you choose to have one of the bad exchanges like Yobit, Latoken, P2PB2B, Vindex or Probit, you will definitely lose money. because the projects listed there are all shit projects and have no future.

There's nothing much difference between ICO and IEO, the fact that if you end up in a legit project then you'll be rewarded otherwise its a lesson learned. Bounty hunters should not rely on their income in ieo or as a bounty hunter, there are other ways to earn decent money like investing in top coins, trading or getting a real job. Gone are the days when bounty hunting is still profitable.

Why would you participate in a bounty where bounty reward is not escrowed? If the rewards were escrowed, you would certainly got your rewards on due time. Most of the projects now lock some part of the bounty rewardstill a certain date and the project owner dump their bag during that time, for bounty hunters, nothing remain anymore.

for some of the IEOs I witnessed in the popular market, the prices actually went up very high. but, if it has decreased a few months after that, it looks like the project has experienced a downtrend. ICO / IEO is only a sales technique, not to make the project a success. however, when the project was running, it was successful, but to maintain it, it was not the effect of ICO, or IEO anymore. other than that, IEO sales techniques are pretty good at the moment, it's just that many use them for their personal needs.

I's very rare to see a bounty campaign that escrowed the reward. the majority of campaign didn't wanna use escrow to give guarantee to the hunters. It's not his fault but that's the developer's fault.
The result depends on our luck whether you get a trusted team or scammer.

You will receive it on time, but not necessarily listed in the exchange. I have been involved with several escrow projects, but in the end they were still not listed on the exchanges. Finally, there are junk and useless tokens, it's best to join the bounty listed at the exchange.

Funny how they justify the 100% bonus with bitcoin halving. ;D
In the end, those guys are snakes that will always shift the blames to someone else. I think bounty hunters today need to allocation their time and effort toward projects that really worth it.

Agree, there's no need to spend too much time on bounty because now there are no really good projects. Just doing research and selecting 1-2 campaigns is enough for the time being.

Initial exchange Offering cannot be over emphasized, it's much better that initial coin offering,reason being that with it, project that raise required fund needed easily but that will be dependent on the exchange used, also IEO doesn't put an end to creating jobs for bounty hunters, bounty hunters help in creating awareness which attracts more investor to the project so there is future for bounty hunters.

IEO is better than ICO, it's just that we have so many interested investors back in 2017 when ICO was good, I wish that IEO came first instead of ICO, once people knew that IEO success is on the exchange capability they will stay and trust tope exchanges instead

I'm just starting my bounty journey, coming across many bounties complains is not helping, I already start feeling like I'm wasting my time but thanks to few projects that still pays if not I won't be promoting any project today, it will be a different side of view if no single projects are paying again

If that's come true , altcoin market will be more centralized rather than decentralized because of the controls of the top exchanges and top exchanges also can manipulate the whole ecosystem of a token/coin by playing the pump-dump game. But your opinion is also right as we saw the worst market in 2019 and it's for both investors and bounty hunters. Now, all the crypto lovers are waiting for the bull runs. ;D Also, probit is just a shady one for IEOs.

 I was an investor in 2017 I am not goint to lie, I have spent a lot of time and money on investing into ICO's back in the day but I was lucky, even though there was like only 2 coins that I invested which became valuable and probably like 10 of them started to worth close to nothing almost instantly, the money I made from those 2 covered all the expenses I had with the other ones and basically that was the reason why everyone invested.

 If you could find like 2 or 3 good coins to invest you could invest into 15-20 coins and still make a profit, that was the mindset we all had and it actually worked as well, plus if the coin you invested became not so well, you got out quickly before it became nothing, you didn't hold it for years. So you lost a bit but you gained a lot since ICO's were famous for going x1000 without much trouble.

 That greed and thirst became the reason why ICO's went down as well.

Bounty will always be a thing for the companies who can't afford proper marketing. Its basically free marketing, you are giving away the made up money that you created out of thin air that worths zero unless those people market it, so you give them money to make it worth something. And bounty hunters knows that if they work hard and make it possible, the more they work and better they work, the more that money they will receive will worth as well.

At the end of the day bitcoin payments are gone, nowadays there are either no or very little amount of bitcoin payments on bounties, which is why to me it is almost over unless I find something very cool to my eye, but people will continue to do bounty hunting until there are not even a single cent to be made from it.

I guess there isn't any other way that is cheaper than the bounty Campaigns as the bounty participants spreads the information about the project to more than a million of people worldwide and that too for a fraction of price what the companies would pay for advertising to a central authority on these social media platforms. And after this too the bounty hunters are paid at last, and this is very bad form of behaviour by the project owners.

Hunters season has gone into extinction because the entire cryptocurrency industry has been inflected with different types of scam projects around which these projects were or are be promoted or promote by these hunters. Sometimes ago, I did promote some bounties and got some good pays during the face of good project in place then compare to these days scam projects. Out of the bounties participated after the 2017, I never get the efforts of being a participants of these bounties. Bounties either through the ICO or through the IEO are more of scam than before.

Blaming the bounty hunter for allocations that are only around 1-5% is just defense from the dev team. If the project is good, the market power is strong, the small allocation will not easily make the price dump, so the dev team that always blames bounty hunters if the dump happens is a fool. Didn't they decide to hold a bounty campaign? they should know the right strategy, if they know the bounty hunter is the cause of the dump why hold a bounty campaign? very absurd.

IEO is one of the favorite choices to get profit now. The key is we have to find the right timing, coins or tokens from IEO are not good to hold in the long run. So sell immediately on the first listing, because that's usually the peak price.

Probit is a shady exchange, almost all projects that launch an IEO there is 90 percent dump and that exchange has many bots and fake volume. Only few projects that launch an IEO on top exchanges have bounty like Cartesi and Harmony they have an IEO on Binance. So most of the bounties are not really worth it because only few of them can launch an IEO on a reputable exchange. IEO on sh*t exchange does not make sense and no effect at all. I guess it is a good thing no sh*tcoin will be added on the market only genuine projects will succeed and remain.

How about staying away from IEOs and ICOs entirely?

They're both damaging to the cryptocurrency industry and are single handedly responsble for burning the hands of millions of noobs and retail investors.

There's no need to go chasing crazy gains, unless you're willing to waste a similarly crazy amount of time when you inevitably fail.

Bounties are for plebs with nothing better to do. learn a skill and earn some real money.

I think the bounty is not only to promote the sale of tokens/coins, but if to introduce more projects or products. So if one day the IEOs/ICOs are not used anymore or even the hypotension is gone I think the bounty will still be there because it's the wrong marketing. It's just that if that happens maybe it's very rare for a project to launch a bounty campaign.

why do you say your bounty campaign is the wrong marketing strategy ?? in my opinion the existence of a bounty campaign can have a good influence on the ongoing fundraising because certainly there will be many campaign participants who spread information about the projects developed by the platform that holds ICO / IEO.

This is the logical solution, i am not even investing in any projects because i lost the trust a long time ago.

Majority of the investors have an idea that these projects cannot be trusted for the long term and yet many like to gamble but the noobs always get burned.

Many hear about the crypto market and think that it is all about bounty hunting and there is the problem. Without any skills or finding a way to provide service no one is going to make any money.

AFAIK, IEO or ICO aims to get project development funds, and serves to form a strong community. This is needed by projects with limited funds. ICO once provided many benefits, but that was only temporary and now is the time of IEO. The best way to get big profits with IEO is to act immediately on the first day of trading, IEO is not good enough for the long term because prices often drop after a few days. of course we must choose a trusted exchange.

we need to realize that there is no instant wealth with a bounty campaign, it takes luck. The crypto world is full of unexpected surprises.

The future of the IEO once its successful in the crowdsale has nothing to do with the bounty hunters dumping their reward as before the start of the campaign, it was already budgeted by the team and they will know the effect once it will dump.

ICO is worst and IEO is the new way for crowdsale, but they are still part of the a crowdsale and it's just not selling this time because the market for altcoins is still is still not stable, remember that IEO is for new project, if it grows right away, its just due to the hype, but its long term performance is more necessary to determine if the project is going to success or fail.