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This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

It is a bounty campaign for me,

We all know that airdrops are sending their tokens for free so everyone will be aware of that new cryptocurrency. But these people who are running airdrops are just taking advantage of the people, requiring tasks like to become part of their social media or what.

I don't know since when that term appeared. But the point as an Airdrop / Bounty hunter is how to get coins / tokens for free and the risk is just a waste of time. the difference is, Airdrop only carries out one task and waits for distribution, while Bounty requires daily consistency with the rules or conditions until it's finished and waiting for distribution.

it seems to me like a bounty since there is a limited spot for a certain coin people should fill-up the form, and once a certain number of people is reach, the form will be close, but I'm more curious where is all the information like of a member goes, for example, a fake airdrop or bounty disappears
is it deleted or given to someone?

Basically they are giving away altcoins to the people who registered for it, probably the term airdrop is not really fit for this but bounty or airdrop there is no difference since we are receiving something which doesn't have any value yet on most of the occasions.

Should not be called airdrop because when there is a task to be done it is considered as a bounty. Maybe because the task are few and it will be done for a few minutes so they call it airdrop. But for me this is still a bounty, better term to use is a mini bounty than an airdrop.

You can call it a giveaway with little work. Even in airdrop participants needs to do a certain task like join a group, like, follow and retweet or share. Actually, airdrop bounty all of these are some kind of giveaway but just their way is different. Some projects giving away other alts but no matter what both are money and can be exchanged. So the giveaway is the right terms.

They are just using the word "AIRDROP" to make people believe that its a total free money but in reality, they are just using it to lure more people and to ask people to follow their social media accounts and sometimes ask for the personal details of the participants.

Airdrop should be a total free money, all you have to do is to input your wallet address and you'll get the reward, if they ask for something then that is a bounty work for me.

Its a task in exchange in tokens so its almost bounty. But If you only need to follow social media account then its the same as airdrop you will also follow it even they don't ask you because you have thier tokens so you need to know any latest news on the project.

In my understanding airdrop and bounty campaigns were different. Airdrops are separately allocated funds for the purpose of spreading the cryptocurrency on different social media platforms. In simple to be part of airdrop participants are requested to spread about the particular token/project on Facebook, twitter and so on. This will be paid based on the proof the participant provides.

This has always been a confusion here in the forum since the beginning of referral campaigns (around 2018). Just look back in 2017 and you'll see that some projects prepared airdrop campaigns that actually give free coins/tokens without the need of work. Now, referral campaigns and some bounty campaigns are disguising themselves as "airdrops" even though it's not free as you have to actually work for it and you'll most likely waste your time.

If a project ask for you to do things besides asking for your wallets (not keys), then it's not airdrop. Airdrop is suppose to be free and people shouldn't work for it because giving free coins/tokens to people is actually an advertisement itself to the project.

In the end, as long as the user doesn't have to pay and the user gets tokens for free, that's an airdrop for me.

Sure, if they do tasks or similar, then that's bounty.

Most of the Airdrops don't worth it, because a lot of people get into it and when there is no rank between them all of them can just get a few stakes, That is why I choose bounties better, where it is different and we can try for bigger stakes, usually airdrop just come with a small task that you can do in a few minutes but in bounties, you should do it for some weeks, maybe.

Many Airdrop requires a lot of information and you need to do many task just to receive a cent of $, its not worth it if you're planning to participate. Looking for many comments here, it looks like the we mislead Airdrop especially the hunters who are looking for more airdrop, it become a bounty now. Well, some big airdrop didn't ask for anything at all just like on UNISWAP, maybe a surprise airdrop is a lot more worth it than to those new projects who keep on asking for your personal information and asked you to follow their social accounts, that's a bounty job.

These day6s I think the Airdrops are the biggest scam. While they are going to distribute the free coin so why they need some data of the participants also they are seeking many personal data of the participant in their form. Everybody knows that only the address is enough to get the coin. So, I never participate in any kind of airdrop which is seeking personal data other than the address and the Telegram user ID.

I find it funny that it "just" came into your mind. This problem is here for years.
Yes, most so-called airdrops are actually bounty campaigns.
Yes, most give worthless coins or tokens.

Will this continue to go on? Yes, until something really big is done forum-wise, but I don't think that'll ever happen. There's freedom of speech which includes misusing terms (whether it's for misleading or not).
From what I see newbies are still eager to join, no matter they call it airdrop or bounty, no matter how many and how difficult are the tasks, no matter how useful (not) is the coin/token.
I guess that they need to get burned a couple of times to start learning/understanding. (Quite sad).

All in all I don't see it a breakthrough. I guess that people are not so strict with the words, especially as for many English is not the first language and it doesn't matter you call is airdrop, bounty or supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supercalifragilisticexpialidocious).

You are correct. that term was specifically for giving people incentive without any work involved. This was done so to bring popularity to the project. However, it has changed its meaning overtime and now people don't really understand what it means and they use it in return of social media marketing and share private information. From what I have learned these so called airdrops ask for very private information and god knows who they are selling it to. I advice people to be careful and don't sell your private information for few $.

Ever since I follow some airdrops, it always require something to do like following a twitter page, Facebook page, instagram, and etc. I find it easy so in my opinion it is quite okay to have those tasks before they send coins.

I've been into Airdrops since 2018 I guess but only 1% of projects asked people for their wallet address without doing anything other than submitting the address, almost all Airdrops will ask you do join their twitter accounts, facebook accounts and other social media accounts before qualified for payment

Airdrops are getting more scams and confusing people the projects bring airdrop to the market to improve but airdrop wants personal data which has reduced the demand a lot from before no one believes in airdrops hacking id with personal data No project is able to give anything without interest. That's why it's best to stay away from airdrops most participants are vulnerable to airdrop.

As for me, airdrops are one of those works that you are not going to fulfill every week. it is a one time job and after you've done all of that, you only need to wait for its distribution in its given time. Bounties are not like that, you need to work every week to secure your stakes and work until the campaign is finished. As for the term "Airdrop", I understand it this way and prepare to join it than bounty because of the less work you need to do.

I've also seen that in some of their projects there is also an airdrop bounty, even in my email many people have come offering to join Airdrop and have to fill out the form for the project but they don't give any assignments, but I just think positively about this, maybe they just want to hand out free coins to let everyone know the project exists. So in essence Aidrop is actually the same as other bounty campaigns, it's just that they don't give any task to this Aidrop bounty but the prizes we get from Airdrop are only slightly different from other campaign prizes.

Many of New Project Run Paid Airdrop Program is Because They are is a Poor Project with no budget for distribute the token for Airdrop Participant, or i think they want to scam the Participant and stole Money.

Be quit when receiving airdrop form sending to your email because I have check many fake form giving to take back our wallet data, every day I received many time email for joining an airdrop project with fill form, but I check is correct website or not and some of email I delete from my inbox, I think many people wanna get scam us because our email connected with some bounty project and airdrop project, next time always use not exchange email when joining bounty campaign, airdrop and subcribe netletr because will give impact with your email hacked and your wallet exchange is stole.

not many airdrops really pay, almost I see full telegram group bounty many users spam airdrop scam there, usually their mode attracts a lot of users after many of their users ask users to pay gas fees to claim their prizes, that's still a lot outside there, to be honest right now I'm not interested in the airdrops that come if not from a big project

We could really consider them as a bounty with a lesser work than a regular one.
But they are still kind of a bounty for me since we need to work to earn their token and not to mention that most of them are also scam so they are really similar  ;D .

So, if those tokens are worth nothing, then you effectively are getting what you invested, which is nothing. So, you end with Nothing for Nothing lol!

If the duration of the airdrop is short, I think thats under airdrop. Ive been participating with a lot of these before and normal airdrop is just filling up form with very simple one time task to get or eligble for reward. Buy if its a social media with weekly task and earning stake, we could say that its a bounty campaigning and prize will be depends on the pool of the program.

Same purpose but the duration it is launch what differs thr airdrop from campaign.

There are still airdrops where you only need to specify your Ethereum or some other wallet, but usually such airdrops are just scams, and of course, airdrops now are like mini bounties, where you need to complete various tasks to get an airdrop, but all these airdrops take little time, so you can spend time on them and maybe they will send something.

Yes, there is some confusion in terminology. Many projects call this - airdrop, but its something that looks more like a bounty campaign, since it implies active action on the part of the participants. But often this substitution of terms is done deliberately in order to manipulate people. For this reason, you need to look at which requirements in airdrop, you may not even want to participate in it.

"In the cryptocurrency world, airdrop refers to a procedure through which a blockchain project distributes a free coin or tokens to the wallets of active members of the blockchain community"

That was the meaning of a "cryptocurrency airdrop" According to Google, so thats true it is confusing because if you are going to fulfill any task in exchange for tokens thats not called "free tokens" anymore because you already fulfilled the task thats why you paid with tokens. IMO, it's more like a Bounty payment in exchange for your work or simple task that you've done. I believe that the true airdrop was the UNISWAP UNI token airdrop because you didn't do anything and then you can claim the 400 UNI tokens for free because using the UNISWAP DEX is a normal thing to do so it is not considered as a task.

Sorry bro, there is nothing absolutely free even in free town. ;D
Airdrop is way of marketing and promotion by this projects as awareness, you do a task and in return, they give you a penny mostly range in between $3 to $10 ( that's was how it used to be in the past during ICO boom ) for your time. Though, I don't see them as anything as it something you do once and forget.
However, I don't think we still have trusted airdrops, they turned out to be scam after collection of users data in the form and gaining thousands of followers on their Facebook, Twitter and Telegram channels. Nevertheless, don't do kyc for any airdrop, we have seen how Clipx collected users data and deleted their website and Telegram group.

Recently, the conditions for airdrops are becoming more complex and they are already becoming like a bounty program, in which you need to perform certain actions. And now it's not enough just to send your address for distribution, you also need to join various telegram groups and social networks. And it is possible that the main goal of airdrops is to increase the number of subscribers to the channel.

To the best of my knowledge and considering the happenings all these years, I will say airdrop gradually lost its meaning.
Yes, you are right, airdrop is giving away free tokens to addresses but then some projects now came up with different ideas of airdropping those free tokens to wallets or users which are supporting their platform. This is where the idea of bots comes to play in telegram, thus with telegram bots and by doing one or two tasks, then adding your wallet you will be eligible for it. Also, Google forms came up as well, where wallet address will be collected after performing some tasks. So indirectly, the whole idea changed because project team now use it as an opportunity to grow their social media accounts while getting attention as well.
Therefore, this idea of filling forms and telegram bots now gave rise to scams where people who are meant to be sent free tokens are now ask to either put their private keys, or send ETH for gas fees etc.
So I would say, airdrop lost its meaning because the whole idea changed, maybe it can be likened to a lesser form of bounty; to make it worst some airdrops nowadays are not even worth it.

That is the right definition of airdrop. you don't need to do anything you just received I don't know how this started working for an airdrop it should not be label as airdrop but bounty campaign, because they worked the same, I read that in the early days of Bitcointalk you just need to paste your address in a thread and you will get your free coins.

Its always been like this as far as I can remember.
I mean even latest big example of uniswap - they didn't ask anything for it except being a user of their service which is already something (you paid fees).
So I don't think there will be any airdrop that won't require one thing, but your wallet address, company wants to get value for the coins.

The words Airdrop are easier to understand in the world of Cryptocurrency in exchange for prizes for doing fairly simple tasks.  The word Airdrop is quite popular, almost all crypto projects call it Airdrop when distributing tokens to their community by implementing very easy rules.  The discussion about Airdrop is indeed quite interesting because in 2017 and 2018 the income from Airdrop is quite satisfying.

It's nice to go back to the past and the income from the airdrop in those days, I remember I earn 0.1 BTC in just one airdrop so I tried harder to join another airdrop and earn more but sadly the hype in the airdrops did not last long and ended immediately because many scams came out.

As I remembered during 2017 it was not actually airdrops but a giveaways to anyone who will participate in it. And by that time you will only fill up or sign-up the form then you wait for the free coins to be send in the wallet they will give. But now it became an Airdrops from giveaways before where it has a lot of task before you receive the free rewards, therefore this is not a free coin anymore because there is a task you need to comply first then if you didn't comply it no rewards to be given after the program, just as simple as that.

99 percent of the airdrops are now scam, absolutely nothing worthwhile. And people are already tired of this, so now only few people participate in them. Therefore, the conclusion is that most airdrops are created by scammers, and most scammers participate in them.

Actually with an Airdrop it doesn't mean we will get income easily, actually if you think that Airdrop is just a diversion for the project to find many communities in it, and coupled with a prize campaign to further improve the project community, actually Airdrop is not like before. where the number of airdrops that actually make money, in contrast to airdrops at this point have no value at all, because over time with the existence of a prize campaign making airdrops forgotten by many people, especially old players, because there is no new concept provided by the project to hold an Airdrop, if there is a new concept there will likely be more and more people interest in the Airdrop ...

Either Airdrops or bounties you still have to do something, join social media channels or other, nothing is for free, Airdrops aren't entirely free even if that's what you keep hearing, do not be fooled, you have to give something to get something back, new projects are getting exposure in exchange for free tokens 

i think thats no a big issue my friend, if we have to fill out the form and follow some social media accounts except KYC
at least we help the project grow and we get rewards for doing that without giving money to the project wich mean its still free

Except KYC? Few Airdrop campaigns still demand for KYC to get paid or qualified for the Airdrop, I think I understand what OP is trying to say, Airdrop sounds like free giveaway but that's not it, in the end you have to fill form, do some retweeting and follow channels too

Many airdrop campaign it hard to end well with the hunter without no complain about the fees charged. Some hunter saw that the token program for the campaign is not go to be okay with the people that apply for the campaign.
Bounty campaign  that carry free altcoin bonus sometimes is look as if the airdrop is free during the campaign until you do some research concerning the token that is trending in the market. I think every bounty campaign that carry so much hunter find it difficult  to earn more in the campaign.

Something to just sell your identity because most "airdrops" do KYC verification. It's still a bounty campaign in the end, but with lesser task to do and you aren't entirely bind to do something every week, well I guess checking out the announcement of team when the airdrop goes live. Aside from it, it's still a token to be given away for free and that free made me trust airdrops less. Nobody would give random people free money even if that was for marketing purposes.

I agree with the OP the term airdrop has been greatly abuse, and all these bounty manager should stop using the terms to deceive people from joining their bounty. A good example of what Airdrop is, is the Uniswap airdrops for everyone that has used their platform before, not string attached just follow basic steps and you have your tokens, not that you would be require to join telegram, make tweets and retweets and some of these other funny task.

I understand OP very well, i want to say airdrop was not like what we have now then, people have now mistaken bounty for airdrop, airdrop was supposed to be a form of free tokens distributed to people's wallet without any engagement but what we have now is totally different, you have to spend 1 hour filling some google form and carrying out some task on the social media to be eligible for a reward.

 ;D that shouldn't be a confusion because the two are just same IMO. They all accept information from participants in various degrees and with different mode of operation. Sincerely speaking, this will continue as nothing can be done to Savage this happenings around the system. What I would advise on this two is: don't give out your information to expect good coins or tokens from these projects because thousands of them are just spam tokens use by hackers.

You can finish participating in Airdrop within a few minutes by doing some simple tasks such as liking their Facebook page, retweeting a tweet ... etc, and I do not advise you to spend your time on this nonsense because it is difficult to find honest airdrop, so you should participate in the bounty campaigns are better for you, after well reviewed.

For me personally - if it requires a minimum of effort-airdrop. If airdrop is "encouraging", then all you need to do is one repost or registration on some resource. If the airdrop is "automatic", then you do not have to do anything at all — the essence of the" automatic " airdrop is that some tokens are awarded for the fact that you have a certain amount of other tokens. And even more so if this is an "encouraging" airdrop, and the project has its own blockchain, and it is not yet very popular in society, you will 100% have to fill out something, or subscribe to social networks.
But you need to perform some additional actions, monitor something, and periodically write that this is a bounty campaign.

Actually, no one will give you a free coin without doing nothing, even in airdrop, To get coin/money people must do something and it applies to all also in an airdrop, should be beneficial to 2 parties. So in airdrop, you get your coin, and developers of the project get the followers
And airdrop is an easy task, right??

I also wonder why they tend to have investment wherein fact, it should be free to the community. If there is an investment to the airdrops, we should not join to it. They promised to give a certain amount before when you invest? It seems like you invest and not do the airdrops. Most of airdrops right now are not good. They just giving cents to the public. Unlike before, we can get 5-20 usd or even more for just a piece of airdrop.

If the task required for earning an airdrop is just filling a form or doing some little bounty job that wouldn't take much of my time then I don't I have any problem with it, however if it involve filling of KYC that is no-area for me I can never summit my identity in the name of doing such a task that might be worthless at the end of the day.

As far as I know about airdrops, earning free coins by filling out a form then following project rules is like sharing their project via social media channels. on this forum There are no free coins, every bounty campaign requires effort. Even if they are called Airdrops, it doesn't mean free coins, because there will never be someone who will send coins to your wallet for free.

I think there is something wrong with the use of the words and the airdrop rules. Airdrop is sharing something without a task but the reality is not here, airdrop also has to do something. Like likes, comments, subscribe to their social media.

yes, i have some thought like you in the past. but now i know that airdrop need a little effort. they usually ask you to follow / retweet their social media or follow their telegram, but you just do it once. not like bounties that require you to do it 3 times every week. just like a video games, when there is an "airdrops", you need a little effort, you must run to chase it and fight with other player to get it.

Men, i missed those airdrops that really gave free tokens to participants without doing so much work or tasks successfully just to get qualified. Projects now are just stubborn and very clever that wanted so much tasks like doing more likely bounty tasks and i am okay with like, follow and retweet stuff but to the extent beyond that is not airdrop anymore. Asking fees to claim airdrop tokens are just not good at all, more likely it's all "fee-drop" if a project does that then better to think twice and it will only give you regret.

Airdrop nowadays have changed their requirements. But before, like in 2017, most airdrops will just ask your eth address or coin address to receive their coins without doing anything. But now, most of them will require you to tweet or like their social media channels to be eligible for airdrop. And the problem these days, is that when you finally receive those supposedly free coins, they are not worth sending to the exchange as you may incur higher tx fee than its actual value. So basically, you just wasted effort.


And sometimes, some projects will ask for gas fees from their participants in order to get their share.  ;D

And it is no longer free as some current airdrops ask you to send some funds for gas. previously it was legit and worth what was obtained, but lately it has become a means of committing fraud and then leaving. It is better if we are not careless, especially those who ask for large enough funds, immediately leave it. I miss airdrops in 2017 that only really asked for the ETH address by filling out the form, that's all, no other tasks. Lol.

For now, the airdrop system is mostly through a form and even has to send some crypto. I give an example for aidrop that is currently being carried out is an airdrop on the Binance smart chain. Which is where we have to send 0.001 BNB or 0.003 BNB to the address given. after that the token will enter. but the airdrop limit like this is limited. only 5 thousand people can participate.

This is good if after filling out various forms and performing actions on social networks, the bounty hunter receives tokens to his wallet. But we know that such tokens usually cost nothing and will never have a price. But even more often it happens that bounty hunters do not get anything for the work done, and this brings more negativity towards airdrops.

Actually this is how they are scamming airdroppers and Bountyhunters mate,they trying to tell people that it is airdrop or bounty but required the KYC to be
fill up and that is the only reason why they are running such thing.

because after getting the details of each people then the work is done and won't paid even a penny to the participants.

People should understand this first before joinig any so if they become a victim at least they already knew the risk and wont claim anything from the team or anyone else.

That is why I am also quite confused by these two.

As you've said, in the past you will just fill up a google sheet and after that, you will just need to wait before it was sent, then it happened that an airdrop needed you to share on social media and other stuff too which makes me think that it is quite of a bounty rather than an airdrop. Still, they have their own definition of airdrop, as long as people are recieving it for free, it is an airdrop then there's those managers that ask for gas fees  ;D

agree
biggest airdrop scam, you have to invest some money in them, I followed a lot of airdrops and did not receive what they promised with coins, except 'eGLD' big thanks to them :)

What this means?a bounty Hunter need to fill a  form pay crypto before receiving their payments?
Lol you should not go through that stupid idea,you are the one who supposed to be paid why need to send even small amount first?
this is a pure example of how desperate bounty hunters in the eye of those scammer company.

Bounty means doing tasks in a set of periods of time like for example doing tasks for around 4 weeks or so, and after that, you will get a reward according to the tasks you've done. While airdrop is just doing one time tasks and just wait for the distribution of the reward. Just one thing in common both are being rewarded with token/coin of the project and it is both free, no investment needed.

There are both, and they are different. Bounty campaign is the one you will have to be writing posts in this forum for sometime and then get paid for it, you do the work as a way to promote the token, it’s a campaign. Then airdrop, as you have said, is meant to be tokens given out freely to people, and of course there are airdrops that are doing just that and giving it out free without you having to do any work, just like the BCH when they gave equivalent of BTC stored in our wallets.

As for airdrops that requires you drop your email, and social media links, it’s a way for them to verify those that have received the token, because if it’s not done that way some people will be coming back to collect more free tokens. But we still have to be careful the kind of information we give, and when it’s all about airdrop I don’t think we have to share it.

In fact, airdrops can be said to be part of an existing bounty company or a company that will launch after a while. And filling out Google forms, subscription requirements at the official groups bounty companies and other - formalism, more suitable for reporting and analytics of the correct or not path of development of the bounty company.

The OP is right. A trend has established between crypto projects to disguise bounty campaigns under the word "airdrop" indicates that it is easier to get the coins than in the "traditional" campaigns.

The truth is 90% or more of the airdrop and bounty tokens are worthless or worth an extremely low value. Is it really worth the hustle?

In my understanding:

AIRDROP = distribution of tokens based on address holdings
Bounties = performing tasks to receive coins/tokens in return

What happens here is clearly spelt out as Bounty Campaigns and they run for a few weeks repeatedly with participants doing weekly tasks. Airdrops are quite different and they're one time off tasks carried out by participants on social media. Now, most of the airdrops coerce participants to remain in their telegram groups to ensure they keep discussions on. It doesn't go beyond that. Just joining social media groups and submitting ERC/or other wallet address and then wait out for distribution. Airdrop rewards are often tiny bits that often don't worth much when sent. I think the other scenario where tokens are sent to wallets without receivers' sending any address to the sender is a fork situation.

Yeah you have some point but as what I notice here, the term airdrop is being use to those campaign that requires only few minutes to complete then you can already participate the airdrop. Airdrop is free with the exchange of your little work compare to bounties that requires few months of hard work before you can earn.

Though there are airdrops that we can say that are giving some free coins without giving some works to do like what happened to UNI airdrop where they give it only  to those who have use their platform only in that specific date and no other works to do in order to be part of it.

For me, and for what I know, airdrops supposedly are free. I mean, you don't need to do anything just give your wallet address. And if it says, airdrop that needs to like, share or follow, it is not an airdrop but a bounty campaign for social media.

I suggest not wasting the time you have only for airdrops that have lots of fake airdrops, even though there are airdrops that really pay the participants but there are also scams and we should note in what airdrop you participate so that they can be replaced by reminders.

Are Airdrops still paying? YES they are but 99 percent of Airdrops won't worth your time, I Know it doesn't cost a thing to join Airdrops, you are only going to spend very few minutes on each Airdrop campaigns but why? For few pennies or a 1$ ? I'd rather take that chances with bounties instead.

That's right, if we look at the rewards given through the airdrop program, it is not really worth the time used by each participant especially if the gas costs at this time can sometimes be expensive suddenly, so joining the airdrop doesn't mean it's not good, it's just only the results are not commensurate.

Most of the purpose of airdrops is for marketing, so I don't think there will be any project that requires you to just enter your wallet address, but you need to do some extra tasks. As it is said, no meals are free.

It has changed a little bit over the years now. Previously airdrop used to be a just simple tasks like saying hello or joint telegram bit now they are getting more out but I would say it isn't very tough work.

So true, airdrops now are very frustrating to deal with because they ask too much conditions like need to buy their tokens first before they give your airdrop shares you worked for. Mostly newbies will only fall for that kind of scheme and now its still blatant acts wherein there are many fake airdrops circulating online right now. I have seen also airdrops asking private keys thru forms which is more severe case of fooling newbie participants.

It's not hard work to join Airdrops I guess that's why many refer to them as free money, you just need to follow the project social media accounts like facebook and twitter and do some retweeting, this won't take much of your time, can't be compare to bounties that takes weeks and months

that is why there are so many people who cheat and an unreasonable number of participants with a not so large allocation. many have joined the airdrop campaign just to try their luck with the tokens they will get.

Even some airdrops take a long time to send and I have filled so many forms and applied for so many airdrops but I don't think I get all of them maybe because most of the airdrops are cancelled and some change their mind.

Most of the good and decent airdrops now do KYC for the same reason and make sure there is no way the same person can claim the airdrop multiple times. I have seen even guys submitting fake identity proof and claiming more coins so there is not much that can be done about it but at least a single guy cannot claim the airdrop 100 times because making an email and claiming is way simpler than arranging fake IDs.

This is the main point for involving the maximum number of participants through the airdrop system: obtaining benefits with the minimum of effort. Most often, tokens received through airdrops add to your crypto portfolio numerically and at the same time will have no value - they will remain just garbage. But in general, airdrops as marketing - working well.

Different airdrops have different requirements and the basic aim of an airdrop is to send some free coins to interested people but they require some work to be done like one may give out coins for just posting your coin address and name while some may ask you to link your social media and this is also done to ensure that participants are not cheating because abusing of an airdrop is common.

I call them bounty if they require you to fulfill a particular task. Campaigns and airdrops are similar actually but the only difference is that while campaigns have a strict task you need to perform but airdrops are usually only to connect your social accounts or fill a small form and get your coins. Also airdrop coins are fixed but bounty campaigns payment usually varies from user to user based on how well they perform the task given to them.

you think it's just a name or meaning, but the authenticity of the airdrop is that no token goes into your wallet by itself. All airdrops at least have their own rules. and what I often encounter, especially promotions via social media, twitter and there are other ways such as sending gas fees for claiming airdrop tokens.

If you say so, it means that it doesn't deserve to be called an Airdrop, because it has done the job. Same is the case with Bounty. Bounty in the sense of the word is a gift. Meanwhile we do many tasks to get tokens. This means that this is not a bounty, but a work wage (salary).  ;D

Everyone does have a different perception. Personal experience regarding airdrops. I get a little altcoin by the way and conditions that have been made, for example is by creating an altcoin wallet they provide or other orders. Meanwhile, if we want to get more altcoins, in my opinion, it's better to join the bounty.

actually bounty or airdrop is included in the type of airdrop because we get coins for free, even though in bounties sometimes the task is a little complicated.
but still, both including airdrop are indeed confused when you think about it.
but it is the same as their goal to promote their respective projects in different ways.

They have changed the meaning of airdrop into something related to bounty campaign, an airdrop is you just give your address and they will send you the token or they will hit claim and you will get the token, this is the airdrop that I learned when I was active in airdrop, now you have to do many things sometimes you have to undergo KYC.

Though Airdrop and bounty campaigns can both get a free token as a reward they are still different from each other as for the mechanic's condition. For airdrop, you will only have one specific task and most of the time they have referrals, while bounty you need to finish a certain period of time to do tasks, and sometimes you also need to submit a report every week. They will check your stake according to what you reported.

Unfortunately at this time, the airdrop and bounty campaign has nothing to make it different, everyone has a task and it looks like more and more people are participating in the airdrop and of course that will make the results obtained less, different like a few years ago which could still get results lots of airdrops.

That's why I started to avoid some bounties back in the days. The bounty reports just craps down your post history and you'll just look like a spammer from the eyes of many, hindering you to apply for future campaigns although you shouldn't just be here for those as this ain't earning platform.

I think its just a misconception at this point because most drop bounty conditions for what the term “Airdrop “ which shouldn’t be so, airdrop is supposed to be an easy task to get free tokens and not do all the work they ask people to do this days... and Apart for the Term Airdrop, i dont think it makes sense to participate in the so called airdrop anymore because the token are mostly worthless and you cant even send them out of your wallet expect you had buck token before the airdrop

There's no perfect airdrop, nowadays because every airdrop requires you to do something, at least you need to fill the form and carry out some simple task like following their social media handles and joining the project telegram group. Airdrop are usually meant for the community and one needs to identify with the projects community Inorder to get the tokens.

But that's still free money. I remember my first Airdrop was not worth so much but its value blew up after a week. Its quite true that it might take your time but these opportunities are open and we must take them as we see them available. We also need to keep in mind that some airdrops are just phishing baits so we need to be aware on how to check legitimate Airdrops.

It's true as you say. Usually Airdrops are obtained without doing anything.
Suppose an Airdrop from an exchange. If someone ever trades on the exchange, they will get free coins. Example of a UNI Airdrop. If someone has to do a job, it deserves to be called a bounty, giveaway, or something else.
Another example that deserves to be called an Airdrop is on a blockchain exchange, they give XLM to exchange users who have passed KYC.

I think that kind is the typical airdrops nowadays, they are requiring some registration process or something with referral activities.
Airdrop should be the same with faucet or at least only need to join the telegram group or follow social medias.
My point is, airdrop should be created without bothersome requirements so everyone have fair chance to get free coins and tokens.

airdrop now, most of them give the task first to get the results because until now there are too many airdrop users so they have to be well chosen who have done their work will get an allocated airdrop, because if you share it without a task it will make too many participants.

Its kinda confusing to differentiate what is the true meaning of airdrop and bounty campaign TBH because some airdrops required the things you do in bounty campaign.

I think the only difference between the 2 is that:
Airdrop = you register, you follow their social media pages then you will get tokens for free.
Bounty campaign = You register, you advertise their project in different social media then you will be rewarded for your work.

Maybe this isn't the real difference but that is what I know IMO.

due to hype in defi trend in the crypto world now most of the airdrops are based on defi project, so now it is difficult to research whether this project is legit or fake. but 90% of airdrops are a scam in the market. better to research about the project before joining any airdrop.

Yes, it becomes the common scenario nowadays compared to what airdrops that we have experienced before. Old airdrops are just really giving away their coins without asking the participants to do anything like sharing in social media or what. But right now, airdrop campaigns are taking advantage of the bounty hunters, requiring them to do a certain task in exchange of a valueless airdrop coin.

We can consider it as a bounty campaign. Airdrop should be distributed to all of the participants as free without asking them any requirements and to do tasks. However, on these days they need to sign up or follow on their social media to become part of their community to become eligible of receiving the airdrop. On this kind of scenario, this is clearly a bounty campaign and not just an airdrop that they give for free.

Yes the procedure to participate in airdrops is something similar like participating in bounties you have to do some task to be get rewarded anyway these days mostly project owners are very clever they understand that if they add some task in their airdrop like asking to follow their social media channels and sharing posts so it will be more worthy for their project.

Some project just misinterpret that word or they just deliberately use it to confuse gullible users to fall for their airdrop shenanigans, instead of doing the usual airdrop which we all know, some will request you follow their social media, do some certain task fill form and post link as evidence of task being done before you are qualify for the airdrop ;D  tell me how is it still an airdrop when you have done certain task already!

Airdrops don't cost a thing, joining social media accounts that won't take you less than few seconds isn't work, it's something we do almost everyday when we are on Twitter and Facebook, on airdrop side you are getting paid for it, don't take things too serious when it comes to Airdrops because even if you don't get paid you lose nothing but 10 second of your time

same when i was a newb but i have a different approach , when i search the word airdrop it gives me different results on google ( not the typical crypto airdrop ) . moving on , airdrops are not really meant to be taskless if that was your concern because i never see one that you will only hand out your wallet address and they will just send the coins  without doing any extra  work . filling out the form by supplying the wallet address is still a task but how can they send the coins if you dont do this ?  those that are ask for investment are not airdrops but they can be scam or already called as an investment .

I think they change the way of giving airdrop in which what we mostly knew is giving free token without doing or even investing anything into for you to get a free or a percentage of free token you need to give out by investing some fund. I think it is a new marketing strategy that project developers are now doing to earn and gain as well.

They used the word to encourage people to participate by doing small things instead of distributing it without any works, it's been change and many people already forget about the true meaning of the word itself.

It should be free for all without any task just maybe your receiving wallet to get the free tokens for you.

Its Bounty dude, Airdrop is difference with bounty. Airdrop need to do task too, but there are only follow or share in social media. Bounty need do task, but there is long time (2-12 week )/ depending of the bounty itself.

A lot of airdrop spreading these days, actually they called it airdrop just to attract more joiners to their project. There are many tasks to follow just to received their token like you will follow them in their FB page, twitter account, medium page, subscribe to their YouTube channel and must join in their telegram group. A lot of tasks yet it might end up scam.

Yes, quite a lot of new projects have Airdrop programs to strengthen their community through a few tasks assigned to participants such as following Twitter and joining telegram.  but some of the Airdrops I participated in ended up being a scam because they had no value when listed on the exchange.

yes airdrop is currently very much and they make the work to the hunter airdrop very easily this way is easy and free, but few are actually selling value uniswap be a listing of coin-coin airdrop lately many are scam not pay and the coin does not have a sale value.

I don't have any problem to complete some tasks when applying for some airdrop. The biggest problem is that some scammers are inviting people to register for an airdrop and then when the time comes to send tokens, they require some payment to be made to "compensate for transaction cost". But I have solution for those - I report them and they quickly get marked as spam or scam.

As for the real airdrops, people often expect too much from airdrops. You can't expect to get the same value as people got from UNI. Few bucks and that's it.

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I think maybe it should be treated like bounty, because almost all the airdrops filled in google forms and tele bots are the program's form of calling people to join the community. Overall it is the bounty we are working on every day and I am starting to feel confused from your post ...  :P

It is only here in Cryptocurrency that the term airdrop becomes very much different from it's true meaning I participated on one airdrops and they ask me to do at least 5 task and do  KYC I did not push through it's not an airdrop to it's true meaning at all, it's more like a bounty campaign.
I don't know how this airdrop bounty campaign started but it has become the normal way of doing airdrop, so every time I see airdrop in the title of the thread I'm 100% sure it's more of a bounty and I'm always right.

Airdrops are free giveaway to the public to atleast have the taste of how the token works, it's another way to advertising too, it's suppose to be completely free, projects who ask people to make some deposit are scam projects, all they should ask is do some easy tasks to get qualified for the giveaways

Without a doubt, it is a scam. Airdrop is a free token that is distributed free of charge and without conditions. Be careful and don't be easily tempted by extraordinary gifts.

Airdrops these days are too different from the airdrops that we had before. Lots of airdrops these days are requiring us to do different tasks before they reward their participants. It's more likely to be bounties because of their requirements. Airdrops should be given free so they could attract more investors but most projects these days are also taking advantage of their participants through airdrop tasks. It's still for us to choose where to join but we better be wise and get rid of scam airdrops.

Airdrops currently only attract many members to raise their rating to attract investors,

but for the coins given sometimes don't exist or are fake,

As far as I remember, back then you didn't have to do anything for airdrops. Like you would receive airdrops if you registered your receiving wallet address to the airdrop. Or you would receive it based on the amount of bitcoin you held during a specific period of time. In that case all you had to do is sign a message from your bitcoin wallet to claim.
Now a days, I have heard they make you register for airdrops by signing up with personal details. They even require people to submit ID and go through KYC so they don't abuse the drops or something like that. They make you follow their social media accounts and even promote their coins. So, i  guess its no longer the same "free" coins.
They aren't worth it at all. Who know what those scam projects do with your ID documents.

For me, i define airdrop as a free giveaways, you could be rewarded just by doing simple tasks. But the real confusion for me was whenever i got new tokens send to my wallet, i am confused which airdrop i have joined since the token seems unique or different from what i have join. I know there are bunch of airdrops now and many would be unpromising and can't give rewards in the long run, however there are also some that can give us good profit, just think of uniswap airdrop where many participants got huge rewards, lucky for them, by that many crypto enthusiast doesn't lose hope from joining airdrop campaigns.

Even if you look at current airdrop projects it seems pretty hard to find a viable one,
because i feel it myself and sometimes the token has no value,
but apart from that airdrops still provide benefits and we also need to try harder to find promising airdrop projects

FIRST. 90% of most Airdrops we see these days are fake. the few authentic ones do not conduct sincere airdrop. they pick few address after registration and dump the rest into oblivion. guess what. they have grown their community. huge followers in twitter, massive telegram account and the rest. with that, they can plan their scam activities.
i think the rate at which people join airdrops will cause more scam project to raise.

it's just this simple. Airdrop is giving out free coins to people who fill out a form and follow a few rules given. The party who distributes the free coins, of course, wants other parties to know the most important information about the tokens given, of course in this case Social Media. if the bounty we have to do daily work for a few weeks.

I also think that 99% of the airdrops that are happening nowadays should not be called airdrops but, i don't know maybe "micro-bounties", as you have to join a telegram channel, follow on twitter, make a tweet give away data and so on. For real airdrops you only need to provide your address and that's it but you rarely see such airdrops anymore. It is also understandable because nowadays there are "professional" airdrop hunters out there that would create hundreds of adresses to participate in an airdrop and with the stricter requirements they can still participate multiple times but at least they have a harder time doing so.

Airdrop is one way for crypto project developers to introduce their project widely by sending a number of tokens to the recipient's wallet, the goal of developers holding an airdrop is to increase the number of their community, so that the project will be increasingly recognized by the crypto community, and of course the developer gives a few tasks for those who want to participate in the airdrop, such as following their official social media twitter, telegram and others, but there are also many fraudulent airdrops currently circulating and they usually ask participants to send a certain amount of money to a certain wallet address.

That's more or less true when talking about the difference between an airdrop and a bounty campaign,
and indeed sometimes there are some airdrops that give the free coins to limited participants and not everyone who fills out the form will get it

but if the project is not good it will also become a scam project,
yes, even though there are still many projects that pay for of course many airdrop hunters have already harvested,
don't be confused about airdrops, because the tasks given are also easy, for example follow twitter, retweet, and like, that's just one example

I'm also confused as to why it's like this now. Think of it as a gift, but it's a shame that there are so many scams now under the guise of an airdrop. It's clear that the airdrop will get us free coins after doing various series of following, retweeting, etc. But many now are lure - the lure of getting a big return by having to invest first. So analyzing an airdrop is important.. for me if I get a free reward for what we do, it's an airdrop

yes, airdrop as like bounty campaign because task is little bit similar
btw you can complete in a few minutes that is why it's so easy process
so it's not free tokens, you have to do tweet,like,share etc.














 

Last airdrop got from coinmarketcap side where participants get more than 50$ but random or 1000 participant got reward than joined more than 20k participant, I am lucky how ever joined on early or my wallet was lucky because got this coin. Maybe now many random airdrop where not all participants can get airdrop coin but I will join during free.

luck is greatest when following an airdrop and actually an airdrop is not a reliable thing to get free coins but because the work done is not too time-consuming, actually it is natural and there is no need to wait for the coins to come. sometimes the coins obtained can also indeed be increasing, so that's what we want.

airdrop cannot be a guarantee because sometimes there are also many who lie and it is a natural thing to happen and we cannot protest differently if we follow the bounty there may still be BM and we can protest which will also not guarantee, especially in situations where crypto is in the red.

Maybe I call it Airdrop or Bounty Hunter, both are ways where we look to get coins or tokens for free, but there is a fundamental difference between the two, Airdrops tend to only have a few tasks to do after that just wait for distribution, while Bounty Hunter is more many tasks that must be completed within the time specified by a campaign manager. Both have the same risk, namely if we are not careful in choosing, we will only be faced with a scam and what we do is just in vain.

I am bit confused too isn't it a bit more like a bounty which have a smaller task.
But I think it is more like their way to know who would participate and who deserve a spot on their airdrop.
I just hate the "AIRDROPS" that requires KYC or even small deposit.

Airdrop is the new bounty now, you are right in saying that it should be free no obligation but to claim but they are being used by developers to market the project, and they use the word airdrop to attract more people, I have participated in a lot of airdrops in the past and all I have to do is to send them my address and there is no need to promote or do anything, and it's easy back then because they are not going to ask you your passport details.

There are different types of airdrops some are given to those who hold a particular coin, while 90% of the times you will have to perform a little tasks in order to be eligible for the airdrop, this little tasks includes following the project on social media and retweeting their pinned posts or sometimes you might be asked to make a tweet about the project,so it's not always tasks-free.
Airdrops aren't bounties, they are different its just that some projects organizing the airdrops prefer the airdrop participants to fill a form in order to make it easy for them to distribute the airdrop tokens.

Airdrops are helping new projects to raise the members in the short term. I'm impressed when I see some new altcoins have so many thousands of followers. Now we should know that those members aren't legit. Even some low social followers projects have a great team. Some investment must come from this hype. But yes, some airdrops help projects for a short time.

KYC later give only 0.5$ I think is very crazy and I will never join any more if exchange airdrop like this, how ever like blockchain market giving more than 30$ when pass KYC but have more than one years ago, lately with Tokocrypto giving about 150 TKO coin after pass KYC and must trade above $100, I see very worth because TKO have good price right now.

Oh, now a lot of projects use this word, but when it comes to the finale, it turns out they changed the conditions 100 times, and you need to perform an additional 100,500 actions to get 1 $, this is ridiculous.

In fact, airdrops is a way of earning some free coins as a return for participating in a promotional campaign of a new coin. What you get can be highly valuable as well as totally worthless. I have participated in hundreds of airdrops including both bots and filling forms, and received different a handful of tokens. Most of them do not have any value at all but in few occasions I found several gems. So, if you have time, just follow the steps mentioned in airdrops and submit your details. If you are lucky enough, you might find a gem among those. One thing you need to keep in your mind is that, all airdrops are absolutely free. Therefore, never ever send any coin to an unknown wallet if they ask to do so. If that happens, probably it would be a scam.

Most of the airdrops is related boot system.actuly boot system airdrop I don't like cuse it's totally feck.i have join lots of airdrop but I don't get any payment.

You talked with telegram bot airdrop and many kind I joined not get coin yet, just have many spam in my telegram channel so next time prefer joined with airdrop fill form or tweet on twitter only than bot telegram, not working any more after joined many telegram channel and coin not received yet in our wallet, bad thing if join again with telegram bot airdrop.

Airdrops only provide or need minimal requirements or instructions. It is just a way of spreading the coins through minimal promotion or advertisement. Bounties need a lot of work to do, such as a long-term promotion of the coin in social media like twitter, facebook, youtube, blogging, and even here in this forum. They give a relatively higher amount of reward, in the form of their coins or currency that can be exchanged in the future once the campaigns ended. It is very hard to find good finds on airdrops, and to earn more you need to go do bounties.

Airdrops currently only give out their Tokens to people who have already completed certain predefined tasks.
sometimes i miss airdrops like UNI which have fantastic value, not with some other big dex exchanges running on bsc such as pancakeswap until now they don't have airdrops even though the current volume is already very large than those on uniswap.

Airdrops were always have been giving some coins for small tasks. Be it just providing your address or doing some surveys or task. But nowadays, airdrop are being used as a synonym for bounty campaign. Surely they are overlapping concept but I categorize anything that takes less than an 15 mins to complete as an airdrop while anything over that is a bounty.

Indeed the true meaning of airdrop is any token to be given for free without any investment and airdrops are part of the allocations of every newly develop projects but its totally different once it is asking you to give any amount just to claim it, I think its a red-flag as indication of airdrop but instead its a fraud or scam airdrop.

The current airdrop is getting more and more confusing, even crazy things happened at coinmarketcap airdrop, for example 120k participants, but only 1000 winners, so 119k didn't get anything, airdrops are currently a cheap campaign tool.

The Airdrops and Bounties are ways of earning new cryptocurrency which hasn't still known. The team got promotion on their project by running an airdops or bounty. I think this is good way to get people know about any project. But Nowadays most of airdops and bounties are scam they get our work and don't pay us for our work.

Airdrops are the same as a new project introducing its own coin to potential investors by sending their tokens for free so that everyone will know the new cryptocurrency, so we can say it's free without having to work but only requires filling out a gmail table of contents and a wallet address, so it doesn't work. there is an order that we will get prizes, there are even airdrops that have never been paid for after filling out the form, because why do I also don't know, what is clear is that I have also experienced it

This airdrop has been around for a long time, even the tokens that are distributed can also be zero, be careful when filling out the Aridrop form, especially if you ask for a password and email. Many airdrops are popping up now just to attract us to join them.