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This is exactly the life that we are experiencing as bounty hunters. I remember the time that when my colleagues introduced me to airdrops and bounty programs, it changed my life until today. Bounties may not be perfect for full-time work or career, but it did give us extra funds no matter if small, average or big if lucky enough.

But what are the realities that we're facing right now:

- Most of the seeds are not growing at all (failed projects and exit scams)
- Some seeds are not watered properly (tokens distributed but not able to be listed on exchanges)
- Some seeds start growing into small plants slowly, but eventually die down (tokens listed on exchanges but dumped after a short while)
- Only a small handful of plants are actually growing into trees but not bearing continuous fruits (tokens grew in value but only on a short-term basis)
- Only a very small handful of plants are growing into trees and bearing fruits continuously (token's price stable growth and strong liquidity)

It's better not to stick on one type of seed (token) to participate and promote. Diversification is very important by participating in more bounty programs. The more seeds you plant, the better chance you'll get a full-grown tree that would bear fruits (price pump and exchanged it to BTC, ETH, USDT, etc.).

Happy hunting everyone!

Bounty hunting after 2017  and now is more like a hit or miss, and you really need to diversified if you want your motivation not to weaken I have experienced 20 bounties in two years and I only made profit on one bounty, just enough to keep me going but it's understandable, back then the market is suffering and so many projects are struggling,
I remember one thread here that says bounty hunting is like a box of chocolate you never know what you'll going to get, it's very true until now.

Plant wisely and don’t just plant more seed, you also need to pick a plant that can bear a fruit because not all plants are worth it some of them are just a waste of time. Tokens from bounties are great if you participated on good projects, so keep on working wisely and time will come that you will get the fruit of your labor.

To become a successful bounty hunter you must not rely on a single project, join many others and make sure they are worth giving a time, you can find that out by doing good research on the projects first

I also noticed that. I hold some token from bounty payments by hoping the price will be increased in the future. It seems holding bounty payments is not a good idea for most of the bounty projects.

for 2017 and now it is very different, in 2017 we can follow social media bouties for more than 100 bounty programs because there is no weekly report that is different from now we have to do our social media bounty reports, and of the many bounties that are followed, only 5 - 10% are successful and earn.

Bounties are now about how lucky you are and how hardworking you are, to get good rewards from bounties you need to promote more than one project every month, hopefully a single good project can pay you for all your hardwork combined, I know it's tough to accept but many projects are still paying good rewards. Don't give up

I'm really wondering, is there anyone out here who's had a great success with bounties and airdrops? I have never heard of anyone who's earned a lot of profit in the end off those, and all those hours people waste over assets worth nothing are surely not worth it in the end. Change my mind.

but it is very difficult to get seeds at the same time, in my opinion you don't need to get a lot of seeds (tokens), the most important thing is how to choose super seeds (tokens) so that we can always produce fruit continuously

i don't think success and bounties go hand in hand mainly because of the small rewards.

But i do remember reading a thread a few years ago about an user who claimed to have a full time job here in btctalk and some other sites where you could also apply in bounty programs (don't know if they exist anymore), and this user allegedly was making like 3 digits a month or something like that, which i guess could be a lot money in some countries...too bad, i can't find the thread, maybe it was nuked or something

I was introduced into airdrop in 2018 and I could remember the first token I earned. It was about $32 worth of Revain Tokens after making few reviews on their decentralized platform. That was the first time I earned in $$, I was happy and proud of my self. As a student who isn't really financially buoyant enough to sort out bills, I have decided to dedicate little of my time to Bounty. One of the great projects I have work and paid was Tokoin, almost $3k at that time. It really changed my life.
This space has benefits many people across the globe and I am one the people. You don't really know which project that will pay, but do personal research and participate on the ones that worth your time, there should be a successful one that will pay.

More like collecting only those quality tokens,

It is better than collecting more tokens as much as we can, since as you have said, it is very difficult to collect tokens coming from bounty programs because it will take a lot of time that's why it is better to choose the quality tokens than any token we can see.

Bounties way back 2017 were mostly successful. In the same year, many bounty hunters earned huge profit from bounties which made it more interesting than to invest. Way back, tokens are more likely to be the payment at the end of the campaign period to the users. Those tokens will have a value upon the release in exchanges. I have this friend who was able to earn $500usd from a single campaign before, which ran for a month only. Unlike today wherein oayments are more based on usd per week.

Reality check: Bounties are no longer as profitable as before. I have experienced earning huge amount of profit from doing bounties before which usually runs within two to three months, weekly campaigns were taken lightly before because there are more opportunities in the bounty campaigns, which is different from now because signature campaigns are being avoided since there are more expectations of projects not being successful in their campaign period, and it is weekly campaigns to which bounty hunters do more benefit at this moment. There are many dead coins in my wallet which i cannot make use of at this moment since selling would be a waste of time because fees are higher than the profit to be earned from doing so.

I have no idea what kind of fruit here

I have a friend who had a successfully made story and great success with the following bounty and bought a car and house. But it's an old story along time ago in 2017. I think it's never happening again.

The odds of getting into a good airdrop or bounties after the last bull-market is slim. I had some airdrops and bounty a few years back that I was able to sell at a decent price, most projects eventually died. I am not saying that bounties and airdrops are dead, just imagine the last uniswap airdrop a while back. There are still hidden gems out there, but you must be willing to gamble and be patient.

That's right we have to work wisely always and don't waste our time on a shit project where everything is just a hype and no real product at all. We can earn a lot from the good bounties but we should also expect some bad project since we cannot always win in this market. Keep on working until you achieved your dreams, our small work today will become big in the future only if we are consistent on everything, spend wisely as well.

Back in 2017 I have become a translator for EIDOO aka PnT.

I got 100k EIDOO tokens from there and I have sold all of my tokens @$4 each and I have gotten $400k in total from my bounty.

That's my biggest reward by participating in the bounty campaign. If you have ever seen JRT bounty and it's paying almost 10k USD for some signature participants for 1 - 2 months of campaign. I meant each person got almost 10k USD

I have also become a WP translator for MCO Aka Crypto.com and I got also 10k USD from there.

I have ever participated in so many good campaigns.

No matter what you said, bounty hunters will lose their interest in continuing what they are doing because their efforts and time that they spent in advertising the campaign isn't being paid.

I'm not saying that you're wrong here and in fact you're right. Joining in different bounty campaigns will have a higher chance to get some tokens. What I'm trying to say here is that, bounty campaigns aren't as fruitful as it is in 2017 - early 2018. Instead of focusing much on bounty campaign, better to find another thing that will give you better rewards or better chances of getting money in general.

That's the risk of a farmer, if you plant a few seeds in his field, not all seeds grow well and not all plants produce a lot of fruit, some rot and some are eaten by pests.

OP, if you plant and store the tokens that you get from the bounty, I can only advise you to be patient, eI hope the results of your crops / tokens can reach the highest price in the market, even then if many buy and it depends on the quality of the fruit you plant.

For the future, try to find and plant the plants that are looking for in the market and people need them, I am sure you will get big results and profits.

Until the plant still alive (project) and the roots are continuously spreading dip into the soil (team, community, and developers  not stop working) there is always hope that one day the plant will become a big tree with bountiful fruits. Never give up those seeds you planted on 2017 that still alive today because this is the sign that the plants is strong and healthy plants.

There are several reasons bounty hunting do not pay like before, most people here are just here for the free tokens and are not investors unlike 2016/2017. If you invest into a project and you carry their signature, you have a skin in the game and won't want your investment to go the drain, you promote and shill it to others, now people are here for the tokens and once they have it, dump on the exchange and they continue with this cycle, this is why bounty hunters are sometime treated the this way now and the returns is not as before.

As a bounty hunter you should be ready for any possiblity, bounties are full of good and bad endings, if you don't try you won't know what you will gain or lose in the end, looking at what others are saying about bounties will only discourage you, instead encourage yourself with many projects that paid this year and ask yourself where your ass at when these projects campaigns are running.

Well, this time different from the first time i knew about bounty or airdrop, it was mostly scam and pointless projects. Thanks for 2017, this is a job that i really love. It gives me money that i can cover my current life and with that job i also gain knowledge about the market. We may not be in favor now, but i find bonuses or airdrops still bring money to cover our lives now, though not much, but i think it's acceptable.

You said it all. I want to add that, it is very important to be selective of the bounty you participate in, yes it is necessary to spread your wings but also very important to study the project before participating. It is also true that many team now comes up with different unworthy attitude when bounty ends but that shouldn't deter us from trying out the best ones out there. But the good side of it is (although not all the time) if you participate in a good bounty from a good project, and the team delays distribution, although it will be disheartening at the initial stage but since it is a good project, then it means one you will get your reward and then decide to sell or hold. Also, most times patience is necessary, there are bounties you will participate in, in which the delay might turn out to be good. In the same way, there are others that will distribute when the price is low, and you decides to hold because of the projects idea and at the end, get a good reward.

When we are participating or joining in a bounty project there's always no assurance if you will get your rewards after the bounty ends because some other projects did not succeed after all, I think the best thing we can do is choose the best bounty that you were joining in. Don't loose hope just work hard and continue to join in promoting projects as you will also get your sweet fruitful reward after your perseverance in joining.

this is verry creative . you use seeds as a replacement for those crypto terms . growing a plant/flower/tree outside can be done simply by planting a seed but growing a coin on here isnt only done by planting a seed/coin but you can also plant your time and effort if your a bounty hunter that doesnt have a money to invest .

planting more seeds is great but you need to have a wider lot to be able to do that , lot can be mean patience ,time, money on here . thats not easy but thats the only way if you really wanted to earn better .

If that's the reason, it is quite sad to know.
Well, even before, bounty hunters are being blamed whenever the market price of newly listed coins in exchanges are falling because upon receiving their rewards, they will immediately sell all out which is believed to be killing the project for a long run. At first I thought it is just because the market price of cryptos fell in 2018 is the reason why bounty projects are not as profitable as before but I also think that there could be other factors than that. Hold for now with the situation and hope that things will be better in this industry.

It does feel fascinatingly great with this bounty strategy but the reality is that the bounty market is facing worst times in the history and there are even threats of survival for this market due to so many scam and fake campaigns. May be the market will get better but i do not see any decent paying campaigns currently.

because its hard to find a good and serious project that run a bounty campaign mate
especially if the project doing an IEO on Top exchange such as binance, but we still have a chance to get a good rewards if we can choose the right bounty campaign of course with deep learn and research first before joining buddy

I will definitely try to follow your advice as you are an experienced member here but i think it depends on how much time one can spare for these campaigns and tasks everyday because most of the people have day jobs then family and other rotine things to look daily so i think no one should do more than he can do justice to.

I would have to agree to the fact that bounty hunting is not the same like iy used to be some years ago where we were sure of decent reward for work performed all campaigns or most of the campaigns and nowadays most of the campaigns either do not pay or pay small amount which definitely should stop.
Hunters deserve decent reward for their work as they are doing quality work by following the rules and marketing the project in a targetted way.

Great saying by you. This needs to be considered and we should have diversification in bounty participation also. I would like to highlight one point: some seeds are in our hands but we cant plant  ;) i.e. swap or change of contract if we don't pay attention to project updates.

I am hoping my seeds will be grown to a tree with plenty of fruits and that to sweet  :)

It is great to earn and plant more seeds but you must see to it that what you are trying to plant will really bear a fruit and will not just be withered as time goes by. There is nothing wrong on earning more seeds from different bounty campaigns. You just have to be picky to earn only those that are worthy or else you will be just earning trashes instead of fruits. There is nothing wrong on long term waiting as long as you do know that what you are waiting is really worth a time and effort. Avoid earning those unworthy ones for you will just leave yourself full of disappointment once those have not bear even for a very long period of time.