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Long time ago in this history of crypto currency, the community behind most successful project are been rewarded for their commitment and dedication toward a project by joining their social platform. they contribute on way forward on how the project is been designed and how it will look attractive. Most project rewards the community tru Airdrops and so many other options like stake drop, luckdrop.

These days crypto project attracts members to increase the size of the social media platform by creating FAKE Airdrops with out any plan of distribution but a means to lurk individuals seeking for airdrops and nothing to offer to the platform. this step has improvise scammers these days. they create group, claim Airdrops and allow gullible members to flock their groups. which after, they conduct pre-sales. and then close shop. shut down accounts and prepare for another round.

Summary of the current thrend scammers are using nowadays to steal from gullible and greedy crypto Lovers.
OPEN new social media accounts.
claim airdrops and listing on uniswap.
conduct fake pre sales with little contribution.
then shut down accounts disappear.

Reappear again after rebranding their platform.

Uniswap ,a free listing decentralized exchange. it cost them nothing to dump their token even if it get listed.

Stay awake. make sure you research properly any project you intend to send money to claim anything. they migh dissappear and make sure you send what you can afford to loose even if you want to give it a shot.  ;D ;D

Last before i leave. imagine 3000 people sending 0.001eth to a wallet. it looks cheap but someone is about to become a millionaire within seconds.
Just think before you send that money. 0.001eth  could worth hundreds of dollars in the future.

Everything you say is  true, here if we talk about airdrops, we need to pay attention not only to the promise of the token value that we have to look for. But, caution in registering for airdrops must also be considered. Especially if we have social media friends who are investors. Those who see what we share then invest, so this can result in losses for our friends.

Airdrops that have to pay, whatever the value is not airdrops, everyone must remember that. Do not because of the promise of a high token value, then we are accepted to send with the excuse that "we only have little value to spend".

We are currently in a period of Yield Farming hype, be careful to claim airdrops by connecting your wallets. Because, there are cases that have occurred recently, the access permission from wallet to platform makes it easy for scammers to steal assets in our wallets.

"Airdrop is a token giveaway", that's the saying.
For beginners, you can simply understand it at the distribution of 400 UNI airdrops from Uniswap and it is purely given to the community for free as a token of appreciation for supporting their exchange. If the airdrop asks for payment regardless of the nominal, then mark it red because the team is preparing to run after the donation has been collected.

Airdrops have been useless for years. The big time of the Airdrops was 2016 to 2018. Today's Airdrops are only there to get some attention. Accordingly, the values are low. There are only a very few good airdrops like Uniswap where everyone recently got almost $2000 for free. The Airdrop was not announced but distributed to those who had recently traded on the decentralized stock exchange.

This is just true, airdrops nowadays are not worth it in any way, or better still those that are worth it are just few in number and hardly comes out like others. The current thread you described is right as well, this is because by checking the twitter page, you will realized that the date of creation is just recent, also checking the telegram group, you will also realize that, the group is just new and lacks any tangible Information about the proposed project. Another thread I want to add is, creating of token with limited supply so as to make it look catchy, this of course will attract people who believes the token will pump easily on listing thus participating in the pre sale.
Therefore, in my own opinion, it is right time to be careful of most airdrops nowadays, some asks for ETH as gas fees and some might even ask for private keys.

why can you say that? From my point of view now Airdrop is more valuable, did you miss the airdrop from UNI? and other Defi tokens? It is very unfortunate, now there are many airdrops from the Defi project, but indeed many are scams, you can follow all the airdrops, and wait for distribution,
all the information is on telegram, there are many channels about the latest airdrop.

I didn't know about Uniswap. That is an amazing value for an airdrop.

But I disagree that airdrops are useless. They are mostly useless for bounty hunters, but they are very useful for those companies.

Airdrops are mostly used to inflate companies database with customers. They will just collect all your data and give a worthless token in return. Then they will sell that data or just inflate their numbers with customers and investors.

I never take part in any airdrop. unless if it is very easy to do and kyc-free and paying with some instant tradeable token.

Maybe only for few tokens and in particular UNI, but all the rest, not worth your time and effort.
Unless, you have nothing to do all day but look for these airdrops.
One should also be careful if some of them are asking for your KYC.
Most of them will end up pennies and you just sent your vital info to them, where you don't know will end up with.
And when the time comes of trading your free coins, you will find out that the tx fees is higher than what you can actually get.

yeah, they just want to boosting their social media with a cheap prices, even for free (for giving worthless tokens). there are some airdrops that require us to submit KYC too. they give us the reason that the KYC is to avoid some cheater in the airdrops. but i think KYC is not the only the solutions. submitting KYC in airdrops is too dangerous.
i can say that Uniswap airdrop is the best airdrop for this year. they didn't require you to submit the KYC, but it gives you a big money for free. now, so many airdrop plagiarize the uniswap airdrop methods, but they become a worthless and scam tokens in the end.

I've wasted a lot of time in airdrops before, can't forget it. I feel that was a stupid thing to do waiting for the glory that it becomes listed to exchanges, having a market value but somehow, nothing it happens. How pity is that?

And after that time, I keep ignoring them. It makes no sense listening to them, following in telegram in order to get updated. It is just like we've been fooled, like a hungry dog waiting for his owner to feed him.

I don't stop people participating in airdrops but I have to say this, DON"T expect something from them as well. It is just like a souvenir from their fake project.

Today's airdrop is not profitable at all, fraudulent schemes have been around since the ICO trend in 2018,
it's better not to follow the airdrop at all, especially airdrops that require KYC, even if the airdrop pays are you sure the value is in accordance with your personal data?
whatever the reason today, airdrops are no longer profitable,
exceptions for airdrops on well-known platforms and not needing KYC can be followed, because it guarantees big profits like UNISWAP.

Very good analysis and summary this is what actually happening now, they are abusing the system and they always find a way to scam people, if one project using the same method suddenly vanish, you should make sure that all the similar projects are not going to do this to you be alarm read a lot check out the report in the scam sections and here in altcoins, don't be the last to know, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.

Free money is no longer available in the crypto space. :)

Never ever look for free money when there is a lot of other easy ways in the crypto space, each new projects were created with the purpose of dumping their tokens once it reaches good value so there is no point of trusting them for the long term and also investing on short term holds more risk that returns from it.

Airdrops don't last long now most of the airdrops are being scammed due to which their man has gone down a lot if the airdrop lasts too long it is at risk the value of the tokens is greatly reduced to keep them for too long and throw away personal information and data by kyc. That's why it's best to stay away from airdrops there are many platforms for working in crypto and it is a good way to look for them.

Just remember if any airdrop that has forced the participants to send a small amount of money can be considered as a scam, I know what you meant about the scammers were trying to make the participants to send small amount of ethereum but the scammers were calculating it based on the quantity.
This strategy used by a lot of scammers too but it's very sad there will always be the airdrop participants who have been getting plunged into this trap.

If a project demands anything besides your wallet address then it's not airdrop anymore but a bounty campaign. Immediately stay away from this kind of things. It's pretty common sense at this point that we shouldn't just send away our money to something claiming to give something more valuable. Airdrop is a form of marketing, they should shoulder the gas fee if they want people to use their coin/token.

As far as I am concerned, Airdrops were dead since 2018. 2017 was the best years for small airdrops as good traders were able to sell their assets and many were able to earn so much during the time. But come 2018 the year after the bullrun and the bubble burst for Bitcoin, many of the airdrops were merely scams and some of them just give plain shitcoins with little or no value. That affected the investors trust with Airdrops and since then we have been seeing many threads about this, being discussed over and over, like your post. Maybe this is to remind people about being careful investors.

airdrop but you have to pay, or airdrop that requires KYC, all of that is not an airdrop. it was clearly a scam. After all, airdrops are irrelevant now. token or coin from airdrop has no value, so why should we pay attention to airdrop again. currently there are no airdrops that can provide benefits, airdrops are just a waste of time.

Unfortunately, many are still deceived by them thinking it is not a big deal to send just a few cent's to get a bigger one, looks like a gambling but in fact not,
and this is many done via the Telegram platform, the method is very easy, just by submit the wallet and referring other people.
The high fee network is also the reason scammers often use this to say it's for network fees
Like what OP said just a few cent but can be thousands who send it then will be of significant amount what a scammer get.

Airdrop is supposed to be free. I stopped joining airdrops since the number of scam projects increased gigantically. But, I am not saying all airdrops are worthless, there are still hidden gems out there. There are thousands of airdrop spammers out there, so no wonder scammers are taking advantage of it to promote/advertise a project since they have nothing to lose. Just make sure to do your research before supporting a project or even just joining airdrops.

Thats right, and there's no so much effort to be done. It has no fee just to participate or to claim the airdrop coin. If any airdrops are asking for fees to claim expect it to be scam because there's no such thing.

Its not a reliable way to get free coins/tokens nowadays so dont expect to find a good project because its kinda rare now. Though uniswap had an airdrop recently and those able to be qualified to get uni tokens were made good profit.

 He is saying about the FAKE airdrops that they are creating. Rebranding their platform after exit scam and conduct again another fake airdrops.
 
 Anyway, since we are aware that such airdrops are just created to scam investors and participants, we should determine whether it is fake or not by looking at the coin progress and updates, the structure and purpose of the coin itself. Because we can easily spot if that coin that they are airdropping is just made for lame objectives.

quite difficult to find airdrops that really pay, some are legit but (1: 1000). like looking for a needle in a haystack. Sometimes legit airdrops are attacked by people, while allocations are small and only get a few cents. So airdrops are just a waste of time. My advice is to avoid airdrops that ask for personal data information and use a different gmail or social media account specifically for doing airdrop tasks.

You are so positive about that and yes I agree that a small amount of eth being transferred could make you reach in the future but not likely 0.001 ETH it should be more than that like havinf 5 ETH would be good.

If ETH market could increase like bitcoin did like having 13,000 $ per ETH then you have good profit already with that but still not enough to make you rich. I guess other altcoins could do like the Yearn.finance that has relatively small amount of supply and can be easily pump up by whales. Chosing those type or investing those type of coins might get one so rich one day. Imagine the market of YFI coins that reach more than 30k$ per YFI. It really had a great pump by whales.

The best Airdrops this year happened around January to March 2020, since that time all the airdrops I've joined haven't pay up, there is something I've learned here though, never join any project that's not of good quality, be very picky to avoid joining crappy Airdrops, also airdrops should be 100% free, if not it's a scam

I think airdrops with payment with such low amount could be considered as scam. Why? Simply put the idea of airdrop to be a reward for everyone, why the hell the promoter will asked for any form of money? Im not judging but they even not pay for the fees means they are not serious on building their own project. Why would you like an airdrop that has a messed up financial problem. Sharing their proejct as requirement such as retweet is already form of marketing, now if they got no funds to spare, its conclusive that he aims only to give a shot either it fail or success in the end.

The best Airdrop this year was UNISWAP and the rest is just a small airdrop for me who requires a lot of information. The real airdrop doesn't require any details from your or asked you to follow their social account, if they asked too much then its not worth it for sure. Airdrop right now is not worth it to participate, the bounty reward is too small that can't even pay the fees if you are going to trade it so if you are going to participate on any airdrop, think again.

I'm starting to dislike uniswap, if all a dex exchange can do is to allow any project or tokens to list on the platform then decentralized exchanges are bad, the freedom of listing coins no matter who you are is what's giving scammers more space to steal, cheat and scam people with fake coins

Perhaps, nowadays Airdrops mostly are not profitable probably out of 100% only 1% is legit that's what I've been thinking about
it now. Therefore, it is not good to participate at this moment in any of the airdrops arise here in crypcurrency. So, let's be wise in choosing among them.

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Unfortunately, most airdrops are, of course, scams, but there are airdrops that also bring some kind of profit and sometimes there are airdrops that bring great profit, but there are very few such airdrops and therefore, in order not to miss a good airdrop, you have to participate in all airdrops.

Airdrops aren't entirely rewarding anymore but now that crypto market is showing sign of bullish I think it might be a good move to start joining few good ones, I've made over 400$ from Airdrops only this year but that's the beginning of 2020 when few good projects introduced Airdrops, stay away from any Airdrops that tell you to make deposits

Can you please give me some examples, because I've already lost hope in earning from airdrops. All I've got is STX from Binance for holding cryptocurrency, but that barely can be named as an airdrop.

Frankly it is hard to believe that you got 400$ from year 2020 airdrops. I've never heard there profitable airdrops this year. I've heard about uniswap airdrop, but to me it is more like a reward for "doing things" on the exchange, than just free cryptocurrency you receive for nothing.

It's really not a must to join Airdrops, unless you come across very good projects that are ready to do Airdrops, you have to do research on the projects yourself and make sure they are serious with the project, it's just that the hard work doesn't fit the rewards, the choice is yours though

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It has always been :D. Airdrops are already useless for a long time.
From my perspective though, maybe it is still viable as long as you don't spend any money to get the tokens since the definition of airdrop in general is "Free tokens". I'm just saying that Airdrops are useless but still there are some who can give you free money by just joining to it but the chances of it is very low to zero.

At the moment, most of the aridrop are scams and it only takes people time to do it. Aridrop usually do not pay or only pay a very small amount to everyone, even many aridrop are never listed on an exchange.
It is best to stay away from aridrop, if you intend to do an aridrop it is best to learn it carefully.

Aridrop Uniswap has been a rare aridrop program for the past two years, each member can be rewarded with over $ 1000. However, such aridrop is extremely rare, mostly scams. In the event that an aridrop accepts payments, you will receive a garbage coin in your wallet.

Airdrop means getting a free token from a certain project by doing some tasks, it says FREE you don't need to pay anything. But with the hype of DEFI projects now most participants of airdrop send some eth to pay for their gas. This is not advisable but participants use to do it hoping the value of their token will reward them a lot. Just be careful in joining such airdrop.

Because too many scam projects in the name of airdrops, like Op said; luring people to contribute fulfilling their terms and condition to get free tokens but in the end, it is a scam or worthless compared to time and effort from participants. indeed, there are some valuable projects but the main problem is to distinguish between a good project and a scam one. Here a way to learn more about a scam or fake project > 🌍 Guidelines, how to spot a scam ICO & report effectively. ✔ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5004397.0) and 🌍[Guide] Prevent scam!!! Some useful tools for find scam / fake ICO team 🌍 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4586576.0)
However, after doing research and finding that a project is not a scam does not guarantee that a project will be successful in the future.

It's the same thing over and over again anyway and people still think that the scammer season is now over. It's never over.
They just go in and gamble their way for just another shitcoin in their disposal. It's not worth it even if it is a side earning for a minimal promotion of the proejct.
For your example, I couldn't imagine someone throwing that amount of ETH even if it is just a small equivalent to my local currency.
It's like asking for a quarter to the whole population of your country, it's small but can lead to a massive collections as what you had mentioned as well.

Uniswap wasn’t open for all of the users only who guys used their exchange they got opportunity to claimed. But i think it was too worthy airdrop in this year personally i haven’t seen any such big rewards airdrop. In generally i can't judge by only few good DeFi project airdrop. You know mostly DeFi is going exit scams.

Airdrops that require participants to pay are no longer an airdrop in its own right. In addition, the majority of the token value airdrops received are quite small, only a few dollars (except for a very small lucky number like UNI). So it encourages cheaters, who have the ability to program tools to generate thousands of clones.

How could you call it an airdrop if it's requiring you to send money to claim your token? Just by that, you would know that it is a scam. Only dumb would fall for this kind of tricks. Airdrop means free token. If it's requiring you to send money, keep away from it. Also, Airdrops nowadays are not rewarding anymore, the only airdrop that i think worthy this year is probably the Uniswap but still, I guess it is not an airdrop because they only rewarded their early adopters.

I always see new airdrop do this. A Project create fast airdrop limit to 100-500 participant, then list their token to Uniswap,Justswap or other swap exchange and add liquidity to their token.
But, to claim token from airdrop, they must send many fee to dev's wallet. After disteibution, dev remove the liquidity.

It's a complete scam if project ask you for any payment in return, the meaning of crypto airdrops is sending out free tokens to those who subscribe to a project email or do other small tasks, anything different from these are complete scam

It's true that a lot of scammers are using "airdrop" to gather support from the community and suddenly dropping the project I also see some projects asking a certain amount of money from the bounty hunters which is typically a one trick using by the scammers. So I could really say that airdrops are no longer profitable and safe.

In my opinion, the worst thing is that those criminals collect our identities easily through fake airdrops that they make, with KYC regulations that usually happen often it will allow the perpetrator to get our identity and can be used for crimes and what becomes worse is with identity who have collected a lot, fake airdroppers can sell the identity at a low price.

Nothing is free, even with aridrop you need to spend time working on it. Usually aridrop participants will have to follow tw and join the telegram group.
And with the aridrops at this point of time being wasted on them, we can use that time to do more useful things.

Airdrop is just a waste of time , earning a small amount of token free. Also ,there are only few good airdrop now, mostly are scam, so be careful those who always want a free token.

In any case, doing the airdrop is fine. It doesn't matter the project pays or the scam, the most important thing is every time you have free time try to join the airdrop campaign as much as possible. No one knows for sure there will be one that will make money. The most important thing and should be remembered is never to send funds to them, which you say is true, because even if it is a little they will still benefit from many people.

Uniswap is a free listing decentralized exchange but they have implemented a TOS fee for every token sales done on their platform which i believe aomehow reduce scam ERC2.0 token sales on their platform. However, crypto investors need to stay awake as you said because theres no way fake airdrop project etc wont operate.

The issue is not peculiar to Airdrops alone, it has eating into bounty campaigns also, with all these default in payment for Airdrop tokens and bounty tokens, I think Escrow payment needs to be brought back, I don't understand why these was thrown aside, if these is implemented it will help eliminate these

People should just stop joining Airdrops that aren't from top rated projects, it won't worth your time because you will end up in pennies, if he Airdrops from from quality projects then you can make some hundreds of dollars, it's even more harder to get paid as promised from bounties, I think we need escrow payment from now on

I don't see it bad idea to join in airdrop if you know you can earn from it. I see many people that continue earning in airdrop in social media today and since there are defi hype even new project with aidrop use that trend and make their own then distribute it to many users.

There are aidrop that still give high rewards ,not all airdrop will only give you penny if thats true then no one will support that kind of promotion today it's still working because there are people continues earning large amount by just doing simple task.

This problem is directly related to the quality of projects that airdrops and bounty companies launch. This is what determines whether you receive your rewards or not.
If the project is bad, then it does not matter if you participate in an airdrop or in a bounty company, most likely you will not get anything, and vice versa, good projects always pay.

Obviously, only if you get lucky and find some high reward airdrop otherwise most airdrops are low quality projects and even some that pay their reward value is below $10. So what would you do of such low reward when the transaction fee and comissions are high you end up making nothing so it is not suggested anymore.

Airdrops were a nice form of promotion back in the days of the ICO bubble. When the entire cryptocurrency market was booming, the prices of tokens distributed in airdrops also went up and everyone could collect nice profit doing almost nothing. It was enough to register by entering your ETH address and confirm your willingness to receive tokens. Unfortunately, but later (during bear market) only few of the projects using this form of promotion succeeded in the market. Most simply fell and the price of their token dropped to zero. Till now it looks like that. Collecting tokens from airdrops is, in my opinion, making your address a regular junkyard. Earning from collecting airdrops for long time is not profitable. For me it is a thing of the past.

Its already indeed thing in the past and I don't see any relevance in todays situation where majority of those airdrops do end up on being shit and if not they do require much of work for those
free tokens that would be given which it isn't really worth for the effort to be made.

But still there are some which can really give out some still profits but chances for you to hit the pot is less compared to those old days where most likely you will really make out
money into those free tokens but now its total garbage.

Its not a bad idea to receive but be sure that you aren't risking something like your time and effort on making some task for you to be eligible or even the worst where the
team do ask out for some gas fee? that's bullshit.

Lately there have been a lot of airdrops asking participants to send gas. If you can be sure that it is legitimate and reliable, and the gas requested is not too big (<3 $ for me is fair) I don't think it is a problem if you want to try it, because some are legit. mostly hit and run, will usually dump immediately.

well, the current airdrop is always a burden, related to social media and gas usually. if it's really not burdensome then just try, who knows you're lucky, even if it's a scam, at least the nominal lost isn't too big.

Beware that there are lots of airdrops from new websites asking to link it to your wallet. don't use your main wallet, provide a special wallet for airdrop, for security.

This was just a waste of time and effort upon collecting those bunch of shit tokens. Some friends shared me a lot of airdrop links but deep in my heart, there's no confidence to do it. Maybe in time of bullrun days, everything is accountable compared nowadays that ico legacy was over. If somebody who's a whale would capitalize an airdrop, should use his money wisely that he should take back a good profit.

Due to risk of being scam thru airdrops  and from campaigns that up to now still didn't paid their participants people lose interest in airdrops even its easy to do by just filling up some details. There are airdrops that still good to be when we invested in a project and was able to meet certain standards like time frame of holding such coin companies will gives us reward thru airdrop, I'm not sure if there are still companies who still do it but It encourages me before just to hold onto my altcoins longer.

It has been proven fact for many years, there is no one who considers the airdrop is a way for passive income. It is a 100% waste of time and bounty hunters should find another way for getting free tokens. The given timeframe for distributing the tokens are delayed intentionally in order to scam more and more hunters. Airdrops are controlled by advertisement groups too, they know how to create the ad web which has such juicy methods for attracting new hunters. Thinking outside of the box will help you to find the right answers, just don't give up after the first failure.

The days of good airdrops are over, we repeat that over and over again to those who always say that you can still get rich by joining airdrops. A means to earn coins and tokens, yes, but a way to reach the moon? No. I don't believe that one can get really rich by participating in scams. Only the scammers get rich and it is always those who invest will end up losers. You need to take every airdrops claim of fortune with a grain of salt.

I don't think so the moment or airdrop have over because right now many airdrop form few second have booming with worth value after list on exchange market, last week many airdrop form announce on telegram channel just give few minute for filling form and if you late you will miss chance how to get their coin. Some of airdrop have good value for selling and could earn more than $30 each from do you fill, some time I got airdrop with sending fee but using BNB as value to get our address and lucky or not depend how faster we are when sending fund to their address, just wait maybe next week will have new airdrop form and always have value for selling their coin.

Actually, I was also introduced to cryptocurrency through an airdrop. I was doing airdrop heavily and after some days project were asking for ETH for claiming token. I sent some token to some project but they didn't send our token to us. So after that, I stop doing it and focus on other things. Airdrop still runs in the crypto space and I think it's a great way of marketing but right now it's not worth it.

Exactly. You have noticed one more important thing. As I wrote in an earlier post, in the past you only had to apply for Airdrop - and this is a REAL Airdrop.
Now you get tokens for completing tasks, which is not Airdrop. Developers use this name incorrectly to get the attention of "Airdrop Hunters". These are not really "Airdrops" but normal rewards for completing tasks - in other words, thats are bounty but for less work.

Joining airdrops were my favourite pass time before when I started in cryptocurrency specially in this forum. I had joined a lot of airdrops but only few gave me the tokens they promised to be given. Almost all of my airdrops were failed to give the certain amount of tokens at the end of campaign. And if there are tokens, most of them were worthless. Since i was not lucky in airdrops, I never joined it over again because it was a waste of time.

They were never viable in my opinion, if a few campaigns have paid good via airdrops that does not mean all airdrops would be like that the hard fact is that almost 99% airdrops are either scam or have no value.

Most of the time airdrops are just being pump at the beginning and most of them would be useless after that pump or be priceless.
Airdrops are only good at the beginning they wouldn't survive for long so if you are planning on earning through airdrop I think you should take profit while you can don't wait till the price drops down or there aren't any buyers at all.

Yes, you are right. At present there is no profit in airdrop, Bounty. Airdrop, bounty some profit comes and all scam project comes just a waste of time.

The era of airdrop is fast phasing out. As it stands now, if 100 airdrops are been conducted, the legit ones might not even be up to 10. Airdrop has had it best times. But with the recent surge in scam projects now, airdrop is no longer worth it as before. Some projects even trick users into sending a little amount if token before they can be entitled to the so called airdrop reward. The last airdrop i participated in was the keybase airdrop which was conducted around december last year. And the reward was quite good though.

Airdrops are no longer how they are been conducted in the past. Then, you can joined a Telegram group, make a tweet and retweet, filled a Google for with necessary information and your ERC-20 wallet address, if the project is legit, you can easily make $20-$100 but seems project are becoming stiff and wise since ICO collapsed.

Its now done by most top exchanges inform of trading competition, deposit and get a % shares, though airdrop (.) io is still viable but not all listed project is guaranteed with payment. The token may even be worthless if you aren't lucky.

totally agree with you , in the past there was just sign up with your erc2 wallet and wait for the money to come , good money but now i think almost all of the airdrops either scam or worthless and only waste of time and effort.

That's wrong. There were phases where you could have made a couple of thousands of Dollars a week just through bounties. This sounds unbelievable but it was the case in 2017. Simple airdrops brought you $100,$300,$500 each, sometimes a lot more. Those times are over but you can not claim there were not such times.

On the contrary, the time when airdrops pay a good fund are still existence but the problem started from newbies and bounty spammers. Mind you, if bounty hunters elevate their knowledge about crypto and also know how to choose a good project while the bounty manager also have bounty participants restrictions there will be enough rewards for bounty hunters.
Second, there are huge airdrop giveaway organised for Dev and people C++ knowledge.

Defi tokens doing airdrops is the most ridiculous thing. They create token, create telegram group and conduct airdrop. Then they go on and edit their contract address to uniswap and then they listed for trading. After little volume, they dump all they have. It's lose for those that provided liquidity and those that bought the coin. No team, no whitepaper, just Uniswap and liquidity.

I also think the same. These days airdrop worth nothing. They are just waste of time. In 2017 airdrop was a good source of earning. But in 2020 it's not the same. Also the terms of joining a airdrop also changed, people also have been advanced. Many uses bots to register thousands of entry in a airdrop. So, if that airdrop turns legit, maximum participants will not get anything for that bot entry.

1. Don't send any penny to any airdrop project asking you to pay first, even if it's just 0.5$ do not send, imagine if thousands of people send 0.50$ per one head for tokens that's Definitely going to be worthless, that's huge money

2. Airdrops is not necessary most times, that's why majority of top projects don't bother using Airdrops, only very few people are interested in Airdrops now because most times they are complete waste of time.

i remember the airdrops in 2017 and 2018. my wallet were full of crap erc20 tokens. No possibility to exchange. And some of these airdrops were requesting KYC. funny thing.

This is true, there are so many airdrops these days and not worth joining because a lot of fake project. Once found scam and collected huge money from investors they will open another one with a different account, social media, and a lot more. This is a great post you have as awareness to anyone especially to the noob in this industry.

So far I have not participated in Airdrops anymore because the results from Airdrops are not as good as before, I turn to AMA session events in various projects as the best step to get a little income, Yes this certainly works because every AMA session event if we come out as winners we can  get a huge reward of $ 100 dollars.

For the current airdrop, I am more silent and don't follow it because there are many valuable,
many of all the existing drops are fake, only taking data from the participants who follow them,
now more airdrops are worthless which only waste a lot of time.

As I always check my wallet are lots of token came from AirDrop and they are worth nothing. Airdrops are no longer worthy to joined these days but you will still see new project pop up and still many who joined. Fraud project still existing so people should do diligence before joining it.

I have many kinds of airdrop coin in my wallet and keep existing until right now because many my coin assets is not have value and not listing on exchange market, I never give up for joining other airdrop project campaign although in my wallet have more twenty kinds of coin airdrop not have value. I think like playing dice some time we will get lucky and become the winner with jack pot and the same thing happen when you join airdrop project, more than ten airdrop project joining I think have one until three airdrop potential have higher price and listing with bigger exchange market, so never give for joining airdrop project but always check how their media social account for the firstly.

I remember that time very well.(2017) Then I was able to earn several tens of thousands of dollars. And since January 2018, approximately 95% have been scammers. There are few good projects right now. In addition to UNI, I also noticed Cartesi, they had good payouts. Also I expect something from JACS

Do people actually fall for these kinds of schemes? I mean come on. Airdrops were still like 2017 especially when ICO boomed and got plenty of reputation to the crypto community.
My trust to airdrops just went below the line when even ICOs started to fall back then.

I'm pretty sure that the majority of airdrop participants are not newbies, It is the abusers that saw the airdrop is profitable. Logically it is the right thing to do but abusers are just here in the crypto for easy money and not for the proper knowledge in crypto. There are few restrictions for bounty campaigns not to be abused but the bounty hunters are smart enough to find ways on how to bypass those restrictions. This is why most of the airdrops giveaways non-valued tokens because the token is distributed on profit chasing abusers.

The more and more fake airdrops like that will certainly harm many people.
Scammers are targeting people who are not familiar with what they are doing. Creating projects with new coins like the hype DeFi coins is really easy. They sell their coins for a fairly cheap price and then many are interested and then up to a few percent. However, when the price was getting high they suddenly disappeared. Incidents like that happened very often.

To avoid such incidents, it is better to do an analysis first. 0.001 ETH is not a big deal, but multiplied by the thousands of transactions made it will make the scam coin maker rich.

It reasonable that newbies are not the only airdrop participants cause 95% of all crypto enthusiast are into it for the profit involved and I am also aware that some crypto abuser sometimes sees airdrop and bounty as a way for them to make quick bucks which we have some forum users that expose some account. But, despite all this issue if bounty manager could hire someone who will act as investigators theres chance to limit bounty abusers.

Yes, that's why I said getting FREE tokens as a reward by doing some tasks for a certain project. I am referring to the reward that you will be getting in expense to the tasks that you will be doing and of course when you get the reward you need to spend some for the gas fee. The hype of DEFI project always requires to send some eth as a gas fee before they can receive their reward tokens and for me, that's a big NO, I have seen users who did that and in the end, they lose  only those fees they sent.

We should be careful of new projects that listed on uniswap.
Uniswap is a decentralized exchange, anyone can list token in decentralized exchange indeed.
Even scammers can make fake token of existing project, luring people to buy the fake token to steal their money.

Airdrop shouldn't really be a good source of income to begin with. Let's take a look at what you do with airdrops? I can find some right now on airdrop directories, it shows that I have to like their tweet, I have to like their facebook page, I have to follow their instagram, I have to join their telegram.

These are the most common ones and usually ends up with all of them being like this, you can have additions on top of this like bitcointalk signature bounty or maybe there is a tweet where you have to follow them, retweet them, like their tweet and reply with tagging 5 different people? That is an airdrop too. All of these are not that much work at all, these are things you can do in under 10 minutes, how much money did you think you could get for something so quick and easy to do? I think few dollars is more than enough.

This is absolutely true, I can't help but think quality airdrops are gone and gone for, life there is no way we can get back those quality airdrop like in 2016 and 2017, nowadays airdrops are overrunned by scammers with tons of scam projects everywhere, one of the most common one these days is that after the campaign ends and you have successfully completed the airdrop task, they will say they suspect some participants are cheating that each participant should send some amount of crypto to confirm, before they can be given the token, all this are scam techniques,lets just face it there are no longer good airdrops any more.

Should treat as extra extra source of income, treat as if they don't exist. And be grateful if in case they will get value in exchanges. Because most of the time, they are just wasting your resources and time, filter at least these projects before sending any info of yours. And for those which are asking KYC, don't be enticed by big promises because there's no free money these days. They may use your info for other purposes.

I think the rule is never pay for an airdrop sure you can claim it from a smart contract if and only if is worthy enough Dont waste your gas trying to get airdropped 2$ with potential to grow You will surprise the length people go to scam you so I think best thing is to be very careful

Now there are still many airdrops, and I really avoid airdrops that require KYC for the participants. Especially if we are required to send some eth to the manager.
I smell this is a scam. We must always be careful with very large airdrop reward. However, it is possible that there will be airdrops that give huge prizes, but this rarely happens.

Even if it's a legit one, you should not do KYC in the first place. Especially if it just gives you few bucks but risking your identity. Who knows your identity could be used for illegal crimes.

Well, I have seen people does fake KYC in order to bypass the KYC system but I don't know how it works, but it's better than risking your data right?

2017 and 2018 were golden years for airdrop and bounties, it was ICO hype times and every ICO even scam ones like bitconnect got pumped and they had big funding for airdrops and bounties, I don't think airdrop would worth it anymore, the new free money I can suggest you take a look at is yield farming by stable coins, You just need to lock your stable coins for a while and they give you the tokens after vesting time, Easyfi had such a program now APY.finance and OASIS protocol have the same programs, it is like airdrop, free and small money, but who knows may be their token price pumps after they got added to exchanges.

That is nothing new. How come people expect the price of the tokens/coins go skyrocket after thousands of people receive them for free? Yet, people still go after those airdrops and waste their time. And yeah, even most of the airdrops require you to send something like 0.001 ETH to be eligible for the airdrop and sadly people still does that thinking the amount is nothing. But like you said, if thousands of people sends those amount, it eventually builds up to something huge. No matter how small the amount is, just trying out your luck means you are encouraging the scammers to scam more.

These scammers are wise you know, how? They always make it look like you aren't spending much, that you are just spending what will be used to transfer your token, and as for the participants, some of them will feel 0.001eth is too small, then they will like to gamble, with their only backings being that, 0.001eth is too small for the reward that will be gotten after, but what if thousands send?.
But the main question is, who told them or what's the assurance that the anticipated reward will be worthy; they don't know rather they just gamble and the scammer is somewhere smiling at his wallet. People should understand that, a genuine airdrop will not ask people to send any form of payment for whatever reason, there is no other way around it. Yes, I agree with you again, by claiming the airdrop will list on Uniswap they succeeds in creating hype and attracting more people, thus more people to send 0.001eth.

Over the past few weeks there have been 3-4 airdrops requiring sending 0.02 Binance smart chain to get tokens for free. Some of them are still profitable, although some of them end up in scams.

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An airdrop is an airdrop it can never be any other meaning but free or giveaway, and I will never send any project that tell people that they need it as a gas to send their worthless token, it's obviously another way to scam people, scammers are always a step ahead in thinking the best way to scam people so you should always use common sense in dealing with this airdrops.

We are completely wasting time by joining those fake airdrops, even though we are getting a reward for those but failed to list those tokens in the exchanges. Instead of wasting our precious time in fake airdrops better follow Binance Launchpools and it will help us to make a decent profit.

I can still see some airdrop but in different ways, like Binance learning or coinbase learning, It is small free money, Big airdrops like UNISWAP ones would happen a lot because that could be the reason for the token dump , but I think if you search more you can still find some small easy free money , in any name they call it these days!

The last and biggest airdrop was 400 UNISWAP tokens. Some lucky users had 2 million USD of UNI tokens. All are scam airdrops but some are listed exchange coins airdrops are legit. These types of airdrop rewards are very low 1-5 USD. So many legit airdrops we could see in the bounty detective telegram group. You are right that there is no way to get back in 2017 this airdrop time.

The belief in airdrop has increased since the airdrop of UNISWAP. Tokens are now being created in the name of DeFi and also listed on UNISWAP(even contract address listing). I haven't seen much telegram bots airdrops like before. Most of them are DeFi and I think it's because there's a high chance of making extra money from them

if calculated with the current Ethereum price it would be around $ 1327. (0.001ETH = $ 0.44 X 3000 = $ 1327.44) This is big money and within seconds the scamers are making big bucks with their scams program through an airdrop campaign. I always remind crypto users not to be easily tempted by high offers from airdrops, especially if they require to send gas to claim tokens.

uniswap airdrop was really legendary.  :D. But yes. for last 2 years, it was the only profitable airdrop that i have participated. Actually i stopped to join airdrops because they are usually crap.

I agree, sir. But I have this friend who got lucky and he even earned atleast 200$ on one airdrop last 2018. But as I have seen so far, legitimate airdrops are hard to find.

airdrop is fine if there's no KYC requirement otherwise don't even bother. Airdrop that's worthy always come from a project that's already succesfull. Last time the most worthy aidrop is uniswap but just that one that gives quite the amount of money. The rest of aidrops that scattered across the forum usually are just some useless token if i'm being honest here.

I think it will take a long time again to witness another airdrop like uniswap, participants are indeed lucky.

Nowadays airdrop is not reliable. Its fine to join but dont expect to get profit from it because most of them are just waste of time.

If you want to earn then do something by exerting an effort and improve your skills.

yes I often see there are those people send in that amount but results are not according to target and they coin are not even listed on any market ,airdrop that should be free without any fee ,and only by doing a few tasks and then getting it right! send smallest amount for whatever it has deviated from the airdrop criteria let plus have to include KYC for verification was already suspicious despite his intention to see authenticity of the hunter
think caution should take precedence right because scammers can easily copy them all

Your friend is lucky to received a decent amount in airdrops,

But that was already in the past when airdrops are still giving valuable coins unlike today, they only send shitcoins that has no value at all. Legit airdrops are really hard to find, almost every airdrops nowadays is just a waste of time.

You can even only find the same airdrop like uniswap one in every decade. That's the biggest airdrop that we have ever seen. More than 200 million dollars airdropped for so many people that have ever use uniswap.
This time airdrop was a crap otherwise the legit airdrop needs so many requirements like verification of our identity and many more.
That's too risky to participate when the price of coins worth nothing when airdrop will distributed.

Since 2019, in my opinion, airdrops are no longer profitable, even some airdrops require KYC and the tokens we get are invaluable.
2020 is also not much different, the few airdrops that I participated in, only a few actually gave decent rewards. Instead of wasting
time looking for good airdrops, we better spend our time analyzing the market. Because 2020 is great for cryptocurrency trading,
because the price of Bitcoin and some of its altcoins continues to go up.

Airdrops are not profitable and they are not long lasting currently most of the airdrops are scammed and their price in the market has come down a lot says to do kyc to scam but doesn't give any token of value even if you give tokens these do not come to the market. In that case there are many currencies in the crypto market without airdrop that can make a profit on long term investment coins are more profitable than tokens bitcoin and ethereum currency are best for investing.

Airdrops only make sense when they are from popular projects not new projects, what will you do if projects like Tron network, Electroneum, Starts, etc introduce Airdrop campaigns? Will you still hesitate to join? I doubt that, it's not a must to get involved with Airdrops every time, just choose the high quality airdrops

I still join Airdrops till today, it's not going to cost me money but just few clicks, I've made like 30$ to 100$ from some but why the complains ? Isn't Airdrops free money? You can only be suspicious if a Airdrop ask you to make deposit before receiving tokens, I don't have to tell you that it's scam

Beware of Uniswap, it's a goode dex exchange but it's a free exchange where anyone can cook up fake tokens and still be able to list them and make money out of the tokens, I've seen many Airdrops that aren't real and the projects are only listed on uniswap, this is scammers doing, open your eye very well and be very cautious

true, nowadays many airdrops are only registered on Uniswap, and they are just cheating, sometimes there are also those who have to buy some of their coins to get an airdrop from, so be more careful in choosing airdrops, lest you lose money

I still find it hard to believe that people are losing money through Airdrops because I've always been a full time airdrop hunter before getting on this forum, no airdrop ever asked me to make deposit first because I use good airdrop sources like airdroprating.io and airdropbob.com, they never introduce any scam projects

You can't really say they are not already viable unless you try joining it. There's a recent airdrop few months ago called UNI that give some thousand bucks(not sure how much exactly) to people. I've missed that airdrop since we have the same opinion but I get a little bit jealous when 2 of my friends got it.

When I have time now, I join some airdrops. If you have nothing to do then joining airdrops would not hurt. It's just gambling but the difference is you don't waste money but only time.

The problem with Airdrops is they are worthless most times, I don't see any reason joining in any Airdrops anymore, I guess the reason why airdrops are a thing in past years was because of 2017 ICO success but let's not forget that airdrop can still be a big deal if another bullrun season begin and presently it does look like it.

Uniswap is not the responsible party when it comes to fake projects getting listeed easily (doesn't require anything) and scam you, that is the projects responsibility. This is why we are in a decentralized economy, the only reason why we do not have regulations to prevent us from getting scammed is literally us trying to run our own economy without anyone not only doesn't interrupt us, but also can't change anything neither.

Uniswap covered a problem people had, it was getting listed or finding place for your worthless coins to be traded, there were too many small exchanges that scattered around online where people had to open accounts, use their KYC and many other stuff and deposited and hoped exchange doesn't scam them, uniswap fixed all of that and made it incredibly simple.

This is valid, there are endless airdrops nowadays and not worth joining in light of the fact that a great deal are fake project. When discovered scam and gathered enormous cash from investors they will open another with a new account and details, online media, and significantly more. This is an extraordinary post you have as attention to anybody particularly to the noob in this industry

All airdrops is absolutely random, I participated in more than 30 last time, but get nothing) only heard about uniswap, was the Uniswap the one and only from this year or someone get something more?

I just confused, why people sent an amount of Ethereum only for claim airdrop?? Doesn't he know that airdrops are free ??
If airdrop from the team itself, yes this is like testing your luck, they can send it out or no, but you can avoid this by joining a trusted bounty manager who handle airdrop

Remember airdrop is free don't send anything

indeed airdrops cannot always provide the best, if you participate in 30 airdrops within a period of 1 month or several months,
of course not all of them produce, we already know in the 70% airdrop scam,
if you cannot choose correctly then you will lose, and maybe your work is in vain.

I'm not sure if there are members here who are still participating in airdrops. We knew already the sentiment in the past years, in fact, I have some airdrops but until now, I don't see exchanges where it listed.
Not to discourage people who want to join (as their choice) but this to give an open mind for them to see the reality about airdrops and that is only wasting our time. It was that last 2017 where airdrops are good but now, they are just nothing valuable and viable.

Most of them are just a waste of time completing the tasks required. So if you want to make your time worthwhile joining these airdrops, at least make a research if the project has good foundation and has the capability to hit in the market. Because if you will not at least make a brief study of the project, the chance that you are just wasting your effort is high.

The airdrop nowadays it totally different from the golden years of cryptos wherein this airdrops really gives a very good earning not like today where almost all airdrops tend to be fake or even scam. Also, there are plenty of airdrops whose asking for KYC which I think is a big NO-NO and a red flag for all of us. How I wish that we are still in 2017 where airdrops is really viable and they are really giving a good earnings.

Looks like You are Here even before i Enter this Community as your knowledge and i Think experience alaso about Airdrops are really deep and you Know what you are saying here.

When i was New here there are several Groups that I had joined encouraging me to Do Bounties and Airdrops But i am not interested as my Mentor Keeps telling me to Keep distance in Such invitation Because of the scams and waste of time.

Now that you have this thread It is clearer now that It's Good of Not spending my Time since then Though there are some Airdrops that i Believe is still True to their words but Only few compared to scammers.

This is the way original airdrops are done but most of them do not pay with tradeable tokens until after distribution before they get listed. You can never tell which will get listed at the end. Also not all airdrop asking for payment before distribution is a scam. I have one that did ask and it finally sent the reward to me. But I think there are few that can keep their word on this.

I certainly agree with you, Op. Based on my experience here in crypto, airdrops nowadays are too different from the airdrops that we have these days. New airdrops would require us to perform different tasks that sometimes include our personal information such as social media accounts and emails but it's all not worth it and you'll only be wasting your time.

Airdrop itself isn't the problem here, the problem here is new good projects don't use airdrop campaigns anymore, just imagine how profitable airdrops would have been today is project like Avalanche, Polkadot, Chainlink, and other new big projects are giving away free tokens to all Airdrop hunters, no one will dare complain right now

Airdrop nowadays has lost its spark, unlike 2017 airdrop hunters now always using dummies to earn more. I didnt see a project that done an airdrop that has value in it (except for the UNI) airdrop only used now to fake growth of groups like telegram and fake twitter followers. Earning free tokens now is only achieve by doing bounties and not airdrop.

It solely depends on the type of coins it will airdrop, but mostly it's a shit coins so people would not be interested on it anymore.
The lost of popularity of ICO made airdrop unpopular as well, airdrop is more like a free coin and people love it before as it has some value, but now it's almost nothing, you can't even make a good payday in bounty campaign that you worked hard on it with, how much more an airdrop which is easy to do.

personally I made some money in airdrop in the past, but I have accepted that its time is over.

I'm not really sure if there are still some airdrops going on right now, I'm referring to the legitimate airdrops. Most of the airdrops I've seen are just worthless tokens that would just be another worthless design to my wallet.

True, many Airdrop programs currently look like a waste of time and effort even though the duration is very short when compared to others, Airdrop hunters only get a fraction of the dollar through a simple task they do via telegram bot commands.

It's not true at all. The new projects are still using the airdrop but these projects are using the different scheme of airdrop through use the staking pool and everyone will be able to get the free token from staking their coins.
There are still lots of projects doing the common airdrop but the problem is it's very difficult to get the legit airdrop.
Avalanche was doing an airdrop through social mining.

It is actually very simple. Back in 2017, we had relatively few users vying for a large number of airdrops (many of which were successful upon their listing). There were some really good airdrops, such as eBTC. The number of users have grown manifold since then, but the number of successful projects have witnessed a sharp drop. So it is only natural for airdrop participants to contend with little or no rewards.

So how to choose good airdrops, do you use such channels as AirdropDetective or airdropinspector, I made airdrops from there

Participating in airdrops are not good anymore for me because they are not profitable unlike before where you can earn a grand in just 1 airdrop. There are still some airdrops that legit and giving huge reward but to find that kind of project is really rare because it is just the 0.1% of total airdrops in the market. Finding it required a lot of research and also choosing skill, that kind of airdrop is the big deal wherein your participation is really worth it unlike the majority of the airdrops are jokes wherein you can consider it as a waste of energy and effort if you allocate your time caring and participating in those shitty airdrops.

every day scammers are always looking for victims and what attracts the most attention of investors is airdrops because of that many fraudsters take advantage of an airdrop to get a lot of money, which most often people are attracted to because of fraudulent listings on exchanges so they are willing to transfer ethereum to make gas even though it is just a hoax They are for a lot collection of money. Skilled con artists are always thinking of ways to trick people into getting more victims and it's like their job.

I have seen a large number of "Scam-drops" recently. How can it be an airdrop if they ask you to send some ETH or other coin to a given address? Also the newest way of stealing your assets is blocking your earnings from the airdrop unless you participate in their scam-ICOs.

There's really a lot of scam Airdrops I've been hearing from the past few years before they are considered as one of the top things that users look at since it's a free coin but after some time a lot of scams attached to it such as asking KYC, asking to transfer small amount of ETH, etc.

In the past, an airdrop participant was even able to make tens of dollars and could even reach hundreds of dollars in participating an airdrop project, I remember that airdrop was the most awaited thing the participants had been waiting for because indeed airdrops in 2017 paid many participants and even many of the projects those who have a market and the price is quite high, of course this is different from what is happening now where we can't even get only $10 when joining an airdrop.

there are alot fake developer team steal our money or data by launching fake airdrop. its not worth anymore to join in any airdrop program since most of them was fake and wasting our time and effort. carefully and analize well to identify is it real project or just take advantages from market trend.

This is absolutely true, airdrops nowadays have nothing good to offer anymore, gone are those days when there were airdrops that could give someone $10, these days all the airdrops you come across are just scam airdrops with no real project, as you said after scamming they will go on to open another social media account to begin another scam airdrop, and listing on uniswap is what they usually promise, just to make more people to fomo and help them advertise their scam airdrop, I don't think airdrops are worth participating in anymore.

Airdrops are still viable if you ask me. The problem is, when some method gets famous, the early ones are the good ones and everyone makes money from it, when ICO's first came out everyone made money from it, however over time everyone did ICO's and of course only a few made profit while hundreds of them didn't. Same went with everything after that and right now goes with DEFI as well.

The early defi projects made people a ton of money, but the reality is that many people got into defi a bit too late, nowadays we have copy of the copy of the copy type of defi, like anyone who wants to steal money starts a new project with "uni" in the name or "yfi" in the name to get money from us, so obviously it is like 1/200 that pays well. However it is free, so you can still join all 200 of them and make few dollars without spending a dime.

If I'm to give my take on whether airdrop is still viable or not. I will say they are still to some extent, but just that we only have few of those airdrop now. Some projects will just come with fake social media accounts and fake ico and waste airdropper precious time. When I started cryptocurrencies few years ago, I started with airdrop and it pays a lot then. Imagine when a project pays as high as $100 that's fair right? I only which those time will come back again. Bounty have chance airdrop away. The owners of projects want hunters to work for the reward they will be giving out to them. That has made it more hard to get free token like it used to be with airdrop.

Would really be always like a hit or miss scenario but the chances of getting something on an airdrop is less rather than on owning a shitcoin in the end.

Airdrops tasks isnt really that hard to be done though for you to receive those coins but if the time comes when it already ask out some KYC and some bullshit deposit for transaction
then thats the time you do simply skip it out.

Airdrops arent really that time wasting if it do only get a very small portion of your time and very minimal effort but the fact that majority of them now
have much more harder task and just ending up on getting some shitcoin which doesnt guarantee if it would really be getting some value or not later on.

Is true no more good airdrops, the days of airdrop is far gone, days of hydro, Enu, nobs, apollo, fresco etc. Now most airdrops no longer worth it, I hope better days of airdrop comes back anything soon, probably after bull run.

I suggest not to rely too much on airdrops, you can participate in airdrops, it's just that the results are not what you expected, so you can get the results of the airdrop as a bonus without expecting results so it won't disappoint you.

I do not angry with you. We all know that there are lots and lots of scam airdrops, even those legit-looking airdrops still end up as a scam airdrop. In short, an airdrop is just a waste of time. from 1 out of 10 airdrops that we can participate in, all of them is a possible scam.

I think the problem here is the people who just join a bounty without even reading and making research who are these people,
I think a campaign or projects we have different people joining it let me give you who they are:

1. the first one is the investor they invest money when they believe in the project.
2. they are the bounty hunters who will join dump and leave the project
3. the believers they are the one who holds the coin even without value

at the end of the day, we must check research everything so that we will not be disappointed by the result
everything has risk,

I have been leaving airdrops since losing the ICO because after that the airdrops are no longer valuable, don't get your hopes up on airdrops and better continue as a bounty hunter.

He said so because that's how it is now, airdrops are no longer valuable, the uniswap airdrop was for people who have made use of uniswap, not like those airdrops on telegram where they will tell you to join their social media platforms then promise to pay you 50 bucks for it, at the end of the day they will ask the participants to send an eth fee of about 0.0001 so that they can be able to identify the people who cheated which is a lie, all those telegram airdrops tokens can never add any significant amount to your wallet its either a scam airdrop or the project is not serious meaning the tokens you receive won't be worth even a dollar.

I still believe airdrops are worth fighting for, because I still get profit from some of the airdrops that I participate in.
The key is we have to do research properly to be able to follow profitable airdrops. It is true that only 5% of the airdrops
that are currently appearing are indeed profitable. So you have to be selective in choosing airdrops, and never follow
airdrops that require KYC, because it is possible that the airdrops only want to get users personal data for personal gain.

Airdrops are good if it won't request for KYC and Investment. Even there are less chance in getting the reward, atleast there are no more requirements needed. Don't fight for airdrops because airdrops right now are currently useless. They just give small amount of rewards. I am just happy before because I got enough money in airdrop used to my trading nowadays.

True facts already discussed and I just want to share my perception on Airdrop nowadays after passing few years on forum. At the very beginning of my journey with cryptocurrency, I had got many airdrops and they care for their participants. Got some payments too for doing some simple tasks.
After almost 1 year later, I found that many scammers use this for their own interest like they want to promote their page or project without paying the participants. In this time, many scammers use the deposit systems and they won't pay the participants too. Sometimes valid projects do their airdrops for their promotion otherwise scammers use this widely.

For the longest time I did not earned in airdrops anymore. If I remember, year 2017 airdrop is profitable but these days it is hard to earned. A lot of airdrops these days and some are asking fees to send you their token.. Self drop also request from the project to send you token. Possible their is good to joined so lucky for those who really earned from joining.

Many airdrop project randomly for earn reward right now different when the first time airdrop launch to public, I think right now when joining more than 10 airdrop only can get about 1 or 2 airdrop have price and could sell on the market, in the early 2017 when joining 1 airdrop we can earn more than 1 eth and some time could received more than 5 ethereum. But now I always joining with new airdrop because I think when joining many airdrop will give many chance to get new airdrop.

Some airdrops nowadays demand so much from its participants, it might be considered a small task, but following all social media platforms is like allowing them to filtrate their feed with ads. Back in the day, it's all free, targeted, and distributed. You can get the airdrop without joining, all you have to do is to increase your eth account activity and make your address public.

We see most of the fake accounts joining airdrops through telegram and it's not easy to detect all the fake Acs because it takes too much time thus it shows a lack of confidence in Airdrops. Basically, through airdrops, they just attract a large no of people to their social media group to show the investor that they have a big supporting community but things not like as it look-like. Scammers are everywhere so we have to be more careful before choosing an Airdrop. After mid-2018 I see hardly any good Airdrop that pays you good money.

I don't remember when I joined the last airdrop and almost forgot that the "airdrop" is real, the last time UNI airdrop made history as the biggest paid airdrop. I am sure that among the hundreds of airdrops in the future there will be hidden airdrop gems and begin to analyze the potential airdrops.

What did you mean by increase the eth account activity? Whether it's something like to create more transactions with your eth wallet?

I don't ever know that we can receive airdrops even without joining/enrolling or doing some tasks first and I doubt this kind of airdrops are exist (unless Uniswap airdrop).

UniSwap is the current trend to scam newbies and unsuspecting users or I should call them by their perfect name "the greedy". Any airdrop that has no use cases, major concentration is on token sales, promised to be listed on the top 5 centralized exchanges, very loy supply, anonymous team ..... are all signs of entering into the den of a scammer. 

The airdrop method of getting investors to join a certain project, in my opinion has been tarnished by the ones who are obviously scams in nature. The scams happened in right almost before the Bitcoin "collapse" of 2018. So many of them in fact, that it really made an impact that even legit projects and companies can no longer trust using airdrops as a viable method of getting investors. I am not really sure how legit airdrop works but it worked in the past for some so it should work again, provided the stigma of the scams will disappear or the airdrop methods will change.

I personally don't believe that someone can get very rich by participating in airdrops. Only wealthy con artists and always those who invest will end up losing money. You need to take each airdrop lucky claim with a grain of salt. but maybe there was, even then, only once in crypto history like the UNI airdrop surprise at that time.

Airdrop are commonly used nowadays to have them many followers in their social media accounts such as facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, instagram and even in telegram communities. This are the main reason why airdrops were maid and majority of this airdrops aren't anymore legit and doesn't gives rewards in he long run. But there are also legit and its rare during this times. So we should join airdrop campaigns that are inly handled by trusted managers and teams.

That is the most precise way to put it because I do not think that one could "increase ETH activity" with just anything without transactions anyway.
It could also be meant by balance of the said wallet.