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I look backward and see a lot of challenge facing bounty hunters and I can only see that things will get harder. The mental stress of looking for the right bounty to promote, waking up in the middle of the night for several hours to complete tasks for months just to realized you won't get $1 for all your time.

It is another scenario when you discover that the project you promoted is doing great at the exchange market but you realized the team are refusing to give the reward of your labour or change the rules regarding the campaign just to make it hard for you to get your reward.

I think most of this project team see hunters as being toothless because they know the worst you can do cannot affect their project. They name you different names just to make you look like a fool in the eyes of investors.

Until there is a way to deal honorably with these team, hunters will continue to suffer

That explains what bounty hunting really is, if it's a stable way of making money it should be called something else not bounty hunting, the word hunting means you have to thrive to kill a game or hit some valuable assets in the ground, it's never going to be a straight road judging from the name

Your point of view is reasonable, I have participated in lot of bounties from the last couple of years but only few of them were worthy and mostly of them ended up with nothing so I have changed my way to participate in bounties now I always find those bounties in which bounty reward is escrowed.

I share in the pain.....
Tho its just been 3 months since I started taking part in it.... sometimes the bounty manager should play a role in checking up the project in question... until now its only one bounty manager I really trust, there are more I know ( you can even help recommend some)....
BOUNTY DETECTIVE (I dunno how to mention someone, bear with me) always make sure to do a back check....

I have done bounties for projects from other managers, thats ended.. and up till now I haven't heard anything on the thread.... its really discouraging, considering I really put in the effort!

Bounty hunters are the oppressed class of the crypto world.They work hard and got few tokens having less value.Most bounties ran away without giving any penny.Now the charm in Bounty has finished.

What are you talking about, speak clearly, don't be afraid to reveal something that is detrimental to many people in this forum.

Are you talking about Bounty managers who don't pay for participants or the company, managers cheat on Bounty participants, who suffer.

OP.
If you have valid evidence of your complaint, Reputation places it for your complaint.
If you have anything that leads to fraud from the Bounty campaign, Make allegations about it at Reputation to let people know about your complaint, bounty, which manager is scamming.

Or you present the evidence here, I will take action against them in Reputation, so that you do not suffer.

I know that dude lol i guess when the bounty is not even using escrow as the party who can ensure the payment is safe and the hunters will be always in the worst position.
That being said when you are using escrow and anything will be guaranteed. The bounty hunters just need the team to escrow the funds to the manager.
The bounty detective has been doing it and it can decrease the risk that will be received by the hunters.

We all know it is not a stable source of income and my post didn't state it either. It is bounty hunting with rules. Rules that are not made by the hunters but the team. It obvious that is the reason why some hunters call some project scam when they don't get pay because they don't follow the rules. Someone has talked about escrow which I think it is a great idea only if all the managers will accept to be doing that, however I'm looking toward to seen a workable solution thorough which hunters get fair reward of their  hard work especially when the project is successful

thank you for introducing that term "escrow"
exactly what I was saying.... Bounty detective always got us covered....... I don't mind if its just one bounty I participate ina a whole year , as long as he's the source....

Escrow doesn't change anything, I haven't joined any bounty campaign before that's escrowed, those days when I still join two bounties from bounty detective they don't really care about using escrow but the issue is escrow still don't safe you from scam projects, they raise their funds and exit the market and your escrowed tokens becomes useless either ways

Its all a risk anyways.... and like the person above commented.... its not a stable source of income.... at least when I started it I thought I would be "living off it" but its not that easy... nowadays I just do them for the fun... and to explore my skill as a blogger....

I do make living out of crypto though but not entirely focus on bounties, I have my mining farm and I'm also a trader too, I find my mining to be more effective and live saving because electricity costs is very cheap in my country, don't rely on bounties, they don't always work out

To be honest, the tasks you have to do are only promotional for the project. The projects don't get any real use from it, other than a little attention. In the past, when every project was pumped, bounties for such tasks were perfectly profitable, but the days are over. Really serious projects today have to submit to regulation and only distribute a small part of the tokens via bounties for free, so you only get a few cents or dollars out of it. In addition, the market is now flooded with bounty hunters from many poorer countries. That is why you should specialize and stand out from the crowd, e.g. by doing translations or otherwise working on a project. This increases the chance to get big bounties enormously.

If we will choose the right project, we will not suffer.

Its a tough task for us to find good projects but we should still do that as we don't want to waste our time promoting a project that will still not succeed.
There are good projects with small reward, I think we should choose them as they ensure a higher percentage of success.

Time will come that bounty hunting will be great again, but this time, we have to be patient.

Since 2019 only Stobox team have shown some real appreciation towards bounty hunters for Helping them., yes you heard me right, this team feels helped for talking and sharing awareness about their projects on social media and on this forum, they even instantly pay bounty hunters but the appreciation was noticed that I said to myself, if every project team can be like STOBOX team bounties will worth more

I support, bounty hunters sometimes resemble robots that do the same job every day and sometimes annually.
You yourself create inconveniences for yourself. Who makes you participate in the bounty, the outcome of which is obvious? If you do not initially check all the red flags that promise you deception, there is no one to blame for the fraud.
Bounty is a niche where there are very few normal projects. And it's not for me to teach you, you know all this better than me.
There is only one way out. If you stop participating in all bounty campaigns in a row and demand an escrow before you start promoting, perhaps this will somehow prevent your future disappointments.

I feel you because I was also experienced that from the project called DigitalBits they don't pay its participants and the worst part was they have our data from the KYC they invented accusation against us participants to justify their purpose on not paying us they owed us a 28 Million XDB tokens and they are proud of it. they have a scam accusation thread but only a few high-ranking members of the BitcoinTalk forum were Tag them. Thats why nowadays I'm not joining any more in the bounties that have no guaranteed payment or escrow payment just like the Bounty Detective has done.

That's what almost of us have been struggling to in past 3 years. Before 2018, it was really pleasant to actually working on bounty campaigns where almost all of the campaigns were almost legit and they paid what we supposed to get. And what is the result then? Almost all of the projects that paid us are successful until know. Look at Monaco and LUNYR these are my favorite coins on that era.

Either they have no budget to pay us or just make an empty scam ass projects to lure the projects for some easy advertisements on this entire forum.

To be precise, same roadmaps, same teams, same scheme etc. People should have recognized this long ass time ago.

That's true, and that is the reason why projects are always eager to run because they know they can use the bounty hunters to fool the investors. When a project resulted to a scam, it doesn't look good to the reputation of the bounty hunters as they become the accessories of the crime for promoting the project, and though we have some good bounty hunters who really study the project before they promote, but because of the majority are not doing that, it has ruined the reputation of the bounty hunters in general.

Feels the disappointments when are seriously doing our task, promoting something but never paid off. Every bounty hunters experience the same but wondering why they are still joining bounties even they know that possibly they won't receive any from the company. I don't know if there are tired of doing this or they never find another way to make money in here.

There is no realization happening around, if they don't give up participating bounties, they will still become a victim to a no-pay campaign (again and again). It might be the time to open up our minds and stop doing this.

This is much easier in the past.

I am not saying about what we are doing because it is still the same in the past. What I am saying is identifying a great project and also, most of that cryptocurrencies right now are so popular or successful. These days, there is a lot of competition so you never know which is which. Also, there are these scam projects that go around.

the worst part is to hear the following argument: "we can't pay the Bounty hunters because that could create a dump of the coin..." and then months go by and they make the same argument again to the point of making the Bounty hunters  frustrated . are pitiful and shameful things that you see in this cryptocurrency market. it seems to me that the only way to be fair is on the day that this market will be regulated

This scenario can be prevented if every bounty hunters are taking time to do their own research about the project before deciding to participate. Although we cant totally take away the risk of not getting paid or fooled by dev for not paying the hunters even the project succeed, somehow we can minimize the chance of ending up in scam or shitty projects.

It might not easy to find a good project especially nowadays that only few are genuine but its our responsibility to dig deeper in order to spot a worthy project to advertise.

I don't want to Blame anyone , either the Hunters being victimized or they intended to be a victim because for how many years now that scams are rampantly happening in side Bounty section yet there are still many of them are willing to participate so what we can call them ? a "Willing Victim"?
i know this is hard and frustrating but that is the reality , when you already know something that may happen soon but you are continuing to do.

There is nothing to be done about it, because cryptocurrency companies that conduct bounties knows that if something will go wrong, then bounty hunters will not be able to do anything, and therefore a lot of cryptocurrency companies that conduct bounties deceive bounty hunters and it is very difficult to deal with this, therefore, you need to get used to it and try to study each bounty project in which you want to participate in as much detail as possible.

The hardest thing is not giving you your rewards when you deserved them because they think that you will dump your rewards, in the first place it's none of their business, if they do not want to dump their token better pay their bounty hunters with Bitcoin or other tradeable coins, they worked hard on their shares, these developers can be considered as scammers, they scam bounty hunters they will do the same with investors.

Apparently, most projects look so promising which makes us undecided or even not sure if the project is truly promising till the end.

A lot of bounty hunters wasting their time doing this, crying for not being paid. As the market keeps growing many projects have been created almost every day but only a few of them succeed, which means that majority did not, and of course, the majority of these projects give nothing to their promoters, even the Bounty manager can't escape from this.

It has always been that way. as a rule, people who are engaged in bounty projects know that in 9 out of 10 projects they will not earn anything. but 1 in 10 can bring them a lot of profit and it's impossible to guess which one. Luck plays a role here, as well as the skill to select and find good projects.

It is like repeating the situation in 2017 when the market experienced quite good growth. more and more new projects are growing and offering new ideas or interesting developments. but we ended up seeing so many projects that were just ideas without the reality of the products developing on the market. which clearly makes regret even though we are waiting for the results of the bounty payment that we get, it turns out that it doesn't give us anything for us to enjoy.
looks like this year will be like that too. we must be wiser in choosing projects to promote it.

And that is the sad truth. Personally, I've used to participate in bounty campaigns a lot way back in 2017 and I'd say that the rewards at that time were absolutely worth but right now only a few of them are able to provide a decent amount because most of the campaigns now are likely a scam. The odds of getting a worth bounty campaign right now is very low and it is hard for them to spot, you need to scrutinize every each of them for you to tell if they are good or not. And that is one of the reasons why I don't pay attention much to the bounty campaign, it's better to work hard on your account so that you could participate in signature campaigns, I'd say they are really worth your time.

It only means that being a bounty hunter is not an easy job as it will take your time and effort without knowing if how much you will get at the end. And what is worst as there are campaigns that will easily change their terms in their favor and the bounty hunters will be in vain.

So as a fellow bounty hunter, it will be better that we should be wise also on what project to support and to join so we will not end up getting upset in the end. Take time to do some background research before you will join any bounty campaign and other bounty hunters are asking for an escrow to the rewards in order to eliminate this kind of happenings but until now there are very few projects who are willing to escrow their bounty rewards.

Gone are those days when you can easily make a $100 of dollars promoting a single project with Ethereum small fee, life was not perfect but I was happy with the situation of bounty even though sometimes, we end up promoting scam projects but the encouragement is always there and there is ginger to promote the next promising one.
Today is just different, Ethereum network is just not for me that's why I have decided to join projects that aren't hosted in another blockchain or preferably tron network.
Sending $20 to an exchange for $10 fee is not feasible for me.

It's still a gambling dude however you are getting the legit project and it doesn't mean that will give guarantee for your payment.
I remember there are lots of legit project that refuse to pay the reward like token pay and many more.
These garbage projects raised a lot of money but they refuse to pay a very small amounts of tokens to the hunters
You luck will determine how success you are. Your effort will play less than your luck.

That's already a part of a bounty hunter's life and to be honest, we're used to it. It's just a good thing that there are still promising projects these days that value the bounty hunters' effort to promote and advertise their projects.
It's just unfortunate that we can't get rid of projects that don't pay their participants accordingly but it's still our responsibility to do a series of research first before joining because joining bounty campaigns has a big risk.

Actually bounty hunters are quite helping Cryptocurrency growth by helping to promote new projects for the growth of Cryptocurrency, indeed at this time bounty hunters do not get anything from their work, because we know that all projects are based on Ethereum which at the moment the gas costs are quite high. , that's why all payments are delayed, so we won't know in the future. Hopefully there is a solution for bounty hunters' payments ..

For almost 2 years, I feel that the bounty is progressively decreasing, from the perspective of project quality, income earned, and unclear distribution. I am grateful that I still have income that I earned from the bounty, in 2017.

Lol, just stop working for these projects until their standards change and reward bounty hunters decently for their work.
Bounty hunter activity isn't a gambling game where you click a roll button and are rewarded over your initial bet in milliseconds, but a marketing job which demands time and effort from your side to promote it through different platforms with personal content you have to create by yourself to promote the project. And it takes days, weeks or months until you finish the tasks in order to be paid. What makes totally useless and frustrating to see in the end you are going to earn 1$ or less, as OP said... But it will never change because there is abundant labor force willing to do this even for free.

I think all projects are not like four  years ago, many bounty hunters are very easy to get or choose a good project and are always in a safe point when completing their assignments..
and vice versa at this time, I am a little surprised whether because of the widespread public view of crypto and the various ways those with bad intentions fool bounty hunters by showing a good design in every project that will be followed..

Have you reported these kind of team? What's their reasoning of not giving you the appropriate and deserving reward?
I know that there are many bounty scams, but are you sure that they didn't really set a time to distribute the tokens/coins?
Bounty hunting in this forum shouldn't be taken like full-time anyway, since these kinds of issues happen a lot,judging from the complaints in threads I managed to stumble upon quite often.

Several times I participated in bounties from projects that were quite successful in achieving their sales targets but did not pay bounty hunters fairly. Most recently, one of the projects (I keep it a secret) plans to distribute rewards every 6 months with a percentage of 20%, meaning that it will take 2.5 years for the rewards to be distributed, of course, the bounty hunters object and protest. After a few days later due to intense pressure due to injustice, the project team decided to change the rules and would finish it in 10 months (10% per month).

As a bounty hunter, we must be ready to accept such risks, even a quality project does not necessarily treat hunters fairly, even seems to underestimate. I don't know, even though we have given the best support, and the project team has allocated funds for promotion through bounties, but there is always drama.

In my opinion, a year or two ago it was even more difficult. Nowadays, bounty hunters are no longer faced with KYC checks, which the ICO team could suddenly introduce after the bounty hunters' work was finished. In order not to accidentally miss such a check, we had to periodically look through the telegram groups in which we previously participated in the bounty companies. In turn, ICO teams often tried to create obstacles in the passage of KYC in order not to pay the earned tokens. Nowadays the problems for bounty hunters are much less. Everything is relative.

in fact doing the bounty hunter is more difficult than you might think, the earnings are no longer the same as before, now you write a lot of posts for a few dollars, and often you don't even get paid / rewarded, but basically it's all part of the game they are called bounty for this

The team always have the upper hand in all these, thus the reason bounty hunters are facing a lot. Once the bounty ends, excuses will keep coming up, and in many cases they might even slash the reward without any tangible reasons, they can also implement rules which was not there from the onset just to reduce the number of people that will get the reward, and if bounty hunters complains too much, they will be reminded of the rules which states that the team and the bounty manger can change the rules and of course they always change it to their own favour.
Nevertheless, there will always be a good team which will appreciate the work and always pay when its time, but they are always few, hence we only have to look harder.

Participation in bounty programs. most of them assume that you will receive mountains of gold from the project if you help the project in its development - it will become more popular and you will get your own share.

But, not always everything is as sweet as you already said, most projects do not pay honestly earned money for the work done to bounty hunters, how to deal with this?

It is in no way impossible to fight this, this has been and will be all the time, you need to carefully approach the search for a worthy project to participate in its development (Bounty), having familiarized yourself with the project, you can already understand whether you should participate in the bounty there or not.

The only way we can deal with these scumbag honorably is through managers, enforcing some self made rules in this regard will yield result, example: if a bounty manager can't escrow bounty rewards then no bounty hunter should visit such campaign for any reason. In light of this, the project team won't play hard on hunters rewards becasue the reward were secure before the campaign kick-off.

This is the right thing to do "If" you think you're getting cheated on in terms of reward distribution. There's a right board to post this accusations.
Though there were also abusive bounty hunters that only spam all over the forum just to get the reward, and these people might be the reason why some of the managers or the team behind it disqualified them or reduce the reward. This is Case to case basis.
Now, that you're aware about this situation. You could either save a screenshot of the rules or never participate again.

It is very rare to see a bounty with escrow, many bounty programs without escrow, but they use the best bounty manager,
yes and that is quite helpful, there is only one bounty manager that I know using Escrow, is Bounty Detective,
yes I always follow their bounties because The bounty they are handling is a good project, of course don't forget to make DYOR!

I worked on some bounties before and yes I feel so disappointed every time they do things like this because for me, they don’t appreciate the hunters that much.

I don’t know why, many successful projects find a hard time to pay the hunters, it looks like they regret to pay the hunters that much and i saw this one on the previous bounty of Poolz where the team adjusted the distribution of the reward, its frustrating on the side of the hunters.

if a project doesnt want to pay their hunters, this is one signal that they are not a serious project and more then likely they just want to rip money as much as they can from naive investors. with hundreds of bounty programs running, you will only see few of them that will respect their agreements to their hunters. and even few those that really hit their target price in the market. so if you are a bounty hunter, you really need to avoid trash projects but i guess, it is better to join btc paying campaigns under a reputable bm. that for sure, you will get paid.

This is a problem that I really don't like in the bounty program. All developer project has full power to make unilateral decisions. They have the right to make a decision that every bounty hunter really doesn't like and they can just change that decision whenever they want.

Like distribution issue, yeah all bounty hunter will be irritated by this problem. Recently I see there is a developer project who will distribute their token to bounty hunter once every six months, this is so crazy. They only think about the benefits they get without knowing the situation every bounty hunter feels, and yeah this is the worst project developer I have ever encountered.

I hope to see a profitable years for bounty hunters but with more solid projects, people have learned from their mistakes, they have matured now so they will not easily invest on projects, but who knows if there's a new platform that could attract a lot of investors, we might again enjoy the bounty hunting like we usually do in the past.

Agreed, this should be the main concern. There must be a good negotiation for the whole of things before the developers wanna try to run the bounty campaign just like the distribution date must be decided and the funds must be escrowed. If this will be happening and whole of hunters will be very happy caused by that.
The rules if the dev can change it anytime based on the situation is a very bad rules for sure. This gives the developers a power to control or deceive the hunters as they are the party who has been holding the reward.
Such rules must be removed and there could be a fixed rules that can't be changed by either hunters or developers.

This is exactly what bounty hunters don't understand in the forum, as long as you are a promoter, you have every right to ask any questions because you are wasting your time, data, energy, and electricity in promoting projects that wouldn't pay you at the end. Its never compulsory to participate in tons of bounties meanwhile at end meets you got nothing, simple choosing two out of hundred with four weeks downwards would be a good option for a bounty hunter to avoid disappoinment.

You either get used to the often failures in bounties or stop joining bounty projects, the choice is yours and moreover it's never going to be easy to make money, my advice is be picky and carefully do good research on projects before deciding to promote the project, there are still high quality projects

indeed, because thats the risk for joining any bounty campaign right now
so, people must ready for that and learn carefully how to pick a good bounty campaign project
regards

There are some project teams who are not paying for their various reasons. it's kind of inconsistent, and I always tag the project team to my portfolio so I don't get stuck on their projects later on. because usually the project team always builds another project and ends up with a scam or does not pay bounty participants

Most confused when joining bounty exactly with bounty campaign have listed on exchange like last campaign manage by detective, maybe any one who joined with moonbase bounty but still not any information yet when distribution begin. When you asking on telegram channel bounty group always not get good answer and reply with waiting always, I think looks scam maybe without any payment getting with coin price above $2, how ever when coin have good price very hard to get payment and spreadsheet final have been update early with many coin getting bu bounty participants.

I think situations like this will not come to an end until bounty hunters are ready to unite and fight for their right, by doing the things they are meant to do. Bounty hunters can come together and decide that every project manager must demand for escrow for any project they are going to be committing their time and hard work to, if it’s not going to be that way then they should all leave the project. And if the managers are not going to do what is right as it pleases the hunters, then they should be abandoned until they are ready to do the right thing. Because it seems most of the managers only care about collecting their own pay.

It happens several times with most of the bounty hunters but can not do anything and its very disappointing when we receive rewards worth just some pennies. I remember late 2017 time was golden time that time bounty pays good reward but after that things changes and most of the bounties scammed hunters. I must say Dev should also take care the hunters who helps him in promoting the project.

but do you have like a laid down criteria for picking them...
like green lights to look out for e.g is the token in question listed on an exchange or something like that??

Well, those are the joys and sorrows of bounty hunters. one thing I can say from that statement is that a truly professional team would not do anything as mentioned, and think that bounty hunters are also part of the project they are developing. however, there are many projects that make bounty hunters suffer, and in fact many of these projects will lose their trust, because sometimes bounty hunters are also part of the investors. however, a professional team would never do that.

this will be bounty hunter job and they already know it, although now many porject coming everyday.
but it doesn't matter they will still doit, and for the payment wealready know how this job work.
soi i dont take it seriously and enjoy the job  :)

ok i will share my experience. Since I first joined around 2017, I felt a very good bounty and I didn't care who the bounty manager was, I would pay on time and the exchange rate was good, even though in mid-2017 the market was not as big as it is now. It was only in 2018 that I started to feel that bounties were getting tougher.
1. tokens have been distributed but not listed, even for token swaps, until now there has been no follow-up. even if it is already listed, the exchange rate is very low, even though from a market point of view, it is getting better now.

2. Start looking for a good manager, follow the advice of the seniors here. but the result is still the same, the main problem is the listing process on the market exchange.

there are also some who pay on time and the exchange rate is good, but it is very difficult to find it like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I think this must be resolved immediately so that participants and investors can feel the same profit in this forum, especially the bounty.

It was much more difficult, and it also gave us more experience in this field, making money from bounty was not easy, but I am satisfied with what I can help with bounty campaigns. If all the payments were to be profitable for the hunters then perhaps everyone would be more comfortable and gentle.

In some circumstances this is actually true. Bounty hunters include many types:
- Full time
- Part-time
For the most part, they do not receive satisfactory rewards for the nature of their work. although there are other exceptions. I personally don't choose to be a full-time bounty hunter, I have my job and bounty is essentially earning and consulting knowledge for investing and trading. Bounty hunter is the type that you decide, try to do it scientifically and effectively.

Hunters getting axed harder because they join every available bounty in search for quick and easy money. They are lazy or unexperienced to do their own research. They'd better be called bounty gatherers, but not hunters. Instead of complaining, they would better recheck all the campaigns they are in; ask representatives about development achievements, check roadmap and etc. Or at least check if projects has signs of plagiarism, fake team, templated webpage and its registration date.

I don’t treat this as a full-time job anymore (except for most of 2018 and 2019) where I was just lucky in some of the tokens I hold that made me travel at least once or few times a month by plane locally or overseas until the pandemic struck.

It’s much better that you need to have a job that could give you stable income rather than just relying on bounty hunting to make a living. I just treat bounty hunting as a bonus regardless on how little or big I receive after converting it to BTC, ETH, USDT, etc.

Try to be more than just a bounty hunter at least. Once you have agreed to promote the project, you must always understand and accept the risks even if the value goes down or turned into shitcoin (or even ended up exit scammed). This is what I have in my mind, and if that project failed, it’s a lesson learn for me instead of whining and complaining all day.

This is the reality nowadays in bounty hunting where it cannot repeat like in 2017.

Just pray that the projects you promote are from teams that knows the worth of bounty hunters, even if they failed to meet their target they will sti respect bounty hunters and keep their promise, promoting scam projects isn't he only problem with bounties but also promoting quality projects and still been denied of your reward

The situation with the Bounty can hardly be changed. Giveaways generate very little profit. A lot of participants have appeared and they almost immediately sell their tokens as soon as they receive them. Because of this, the bidding price is very low, because no one wants to buy these coins.

have always wanted to own a mining farm.... because electricity bills in my country are not calculated, they just make assumptions at their office and bring you a big amount.... sometimes I feel it would be like a punishment for them, cos the price they do give is always too high.... but anyways I wish someone can teach me "mining 101"

The things have not improved for bounty hunters even after  almost 3 years of which i am observing the market. It seems like the era of bounty campaigns with good rewards lasted till 2017 only and after that this segment of crypto market is just going down and no signs of improvement yet  although market is doing very well now.

Yeah, almost every night hunters wake up in the middle of the night to work on many projects just to get paid. But when the project is successful, there are still many teams who treat bounty hunters cunningly not to get paid, for their various reasons and styles. But there is indeed a team that treats bounty hunters as human beings as well. But for those who are cunning, the project will not develop well, because of course they will not be honest and work well against their own projects. How can someone who is greedy will work well, because he will also surely be greedy with investor money.

Welcome to the reality, the pennies are the reward for doing all the tasks by bounty managers. The cold side of the things can happen frequently than you imagine, even some bounty participants are ripped with aksing the KYC or other useless requirements. Of course, the purpose is to get rid of the as possible as many bounty participants in order to pay less.

Greed is the name of the game, some team members are generous to share while other project teams can't even throw away the mentioned bounty distribution on the expected timeframe. The reality is hard to accept but it is what it is, unfortunately.

As a hunter you have to be picky in participating in any bounty bounty campaign out of the numerous ones, you have do your own research, of course there are real bounties that pays but unfortunately many hunters are tricked by huge rewards to be earned at the end of the  so-called campaign, whereas some bounties also pays ETH weekly via an exchange due small amount of the reward a lot of  hunters shun it for some bogus campaigns, thus a lot of them (hunters) have themselves to blame at the end.

That's why we should not make this bounty as a source of income because it is really not guaranteed that the team will pay us. If the project is successful then good they surely pay us but if the project is failed then we gonna move on to the another project to work, this is the fate of bounty hunters.

Every year and so many times people have been hearing about that dude. The only way to fix it is escrow. No escrow and you will not get insurance.
So many developers are taking the hunters like they are not doing the promotion from the bounty campaign. We have heard that so many campaigns have been deceiving the hunters and that's the problem that must be solved. We have no choice other than trying to talk with the manager about the escrow for the funds.

Escrow makes lot of of sense but many new projects dont want to use Escrow and this doesn't mean they have bad plans in mind, DIA project was supposed to use escrow but the team said no and the project was very successful yet they paid all bounty hunters

Currently, bounty hunters really have to be careful to choose a bounty that pays because many who use bounty hunters for free promotions don't want to pay a penny, which makes bounty hunters disappointed and they feel a loss that is felt by bounty hunters that are wasted time- pointless without any clear payment this has happened over and over again which frustrates bounty hunters.

Don't expect all projects you promote to turn out well, that's why it doesn't make sense to promote one or two projects and expect good rewards from both, for better result you have to get rid of laziness and promote more projects, and make sure they are worth promoting too

it's very hard found project that really worth time for completing bounty. most of them are just here to get free promotion and pay just a penny for a lot of efforts.
I think also that after 2017-2018 isn't worth anymore participate on that promotions.

The situation is not just bad, it is catastrophic.
Those who know how to work efficiently have either already left or will soon leave.
I finish the last bounty and leave.
Moral freaks from Poolz were the last straw, and the talentless manager of Fatemablabla is the worst manager of the year!!!
Here only beginners will remain, those who do not yet know that they are being used as slaves.

That's right, it's a struggle. Many hunters find it  thrilling to do a job not knowing how much they'll get in the end. It can be only a few dollars but it can be much more if the coin pumps.

I feel like OP wants his job to come with certain status and prestige and instead he's ridiculed and laughed at. Maybe because many bounty hunters join every single project without knowing anything about it?

USDT payment or escrow is the best process to solve this problem. The Injective protocol was a good campaign and payment was USDT ERC-20 tokens. Injective protocol was charged the rules several times, finally they distributed in the same address as their plans. We can advise that those projects aren't good for investors. Although I think here must be rules about the "changing rules limitations".

I doubt if there is any veteran member here who doesn't understand the way things are with bounty campaigns either from their own direct experiences or lessons from stories told. I have also tasted all that too. The annoying part of all this is that most of these bounties have very stringent rules that make one stay online for a stipulated number of days whether one likes it or not. Otherwise, one loses one's stakes. This has to be looked into by veteran members and I think a measure found to safeguard against projects hoodwinking hunters into working without pay.

She or he is not talantless, she is just busy and tries to sit on two chair simultaneously. I've seen somewhere int bounty group, that Fatemablabla has a IRL job and bounty management is her hobby and Fatemablabla could check results and manage campaign only on free time. That is ok with me, Fatemablabla could organize her work as she/he wants. But just dont manage several campaigns simultaneously, concentrate on something one.

It's really unfortunate I must say, cause I know how difficult I find it at times to pick up my phone or turn on my computer to do my tasks, it's really discouraging I must say, from October to December, I participated in about 2 or 3 different bounties and surprisingly, only 1 paid, but the tokens were absolutely shit cus before the bounties were paid, the price of the token has already dumped massively, the other two bounties didn't even pay at all.
But we must not give up cus of this issues, I believe not everyone is bad or greedy, luckily, we will on the way jam a project and will make the bounty participants and investors millionaires.

It has been that way for many years now, that many simply gave up on bounty hunting and gave up cryptocurrency altogether. I have known close people who have made a few dollars over a few months worth of work. The decentralization of crypto ensures that there would be no central authority to govern on crypto, and that includes how companies do bounties. I don't think much will change for a long time, I'm afraid.

When will these guys realize that participating in a bounty is not the only way to get your hands on some cryptocurrency? There are dozens of options out there, and all that you need to do is to take out some research. I feel bad when guys claim that they have worked hard for 100-200 hours and even after that the bounty campaign never paid them.. That's how the things work with bounties. Well.. you guys can check these options... in case you don't want to do bounties anymore:

1. Promote advertisements from A-ads or Cointraffic, if you have a website or a blog. If you don't have a blog, then create one. It doesn't take much time.
2. Do freelancing and earn BTC or ETH. Check websites such as Crypto Jobs List or even the services section of Bitcointalk for jobs which are suitable for you
3. To start with very small amounts, you can try microjobs and some PTC websites. adBTC, Coinpayu are examples.
4. If can't find a good job that pays you in BTC, then do freelancing for fiat and then convert the earnings to BTC. You can try Elance or freelancer.com. If you are having very basic skills, then you can try sites such as Mircoworkers and Cloudfactory.
5. The last option is to participate in faucets and giveaways. Check the Micro Earnings section of this forum for more details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=212.0

It took the trouble of posting all this, because I was in a similar position 9 years ago. I want to help the inexperienced users. But if you guys don't have the patience to read all this, then it is of no use.

Maybe you're right, I can't know 100%, but that's no excuse, as people who have spent time on their work suffer. And they have to wait a long time for the results, it's irresponsible.  ::)

The bounty hunters got louder.
This opinion is true, starting from the project rules to the rules in this forum.
the difficulty in my opinion is due to the large number of competitors in the project.

Indeed, this should only be used as a side job. some points that I think are taken into consideration if you want to make the bounty your main job

• There is no certainty of payment
• Prone to fraud / Project Fail
• Payment Delayed

There are still quite a lot of risks from this job if it is used as a permanent job. You better find a real job for your needs every month. doing bounty tasks only for the side

Yes stobox did fulfil their promise and pay hunters at the specified time, something you hardly see I'm bounty of this days, it appears the team of some project are more greedier than some hunters,  all they want is to have free advertisement without any intention for payment,  I have promote more than 4 campaigns that didn't pay, some for selfish reasons why others on the claim the project is still developing, it is quite frustrating to ne in that situation.

Bounty campaigns and the last fifth point, participation in many giveaways, will be the easiest ways to earn cryptocurrency. But, in the distribution, the chance is much less to get tokens, because many projects simply do not pay, and in the bounty, you can still somehow earn money.

This is really some kind of degradation, people should not stop at one thing and not look for new ways to earn money, not develop in any way. I also do not want to support this, we need to show people that you can make money not only on the Bounty, but for this we need to literally change ourselves.

There is no certain of getting paid that's why you shouldn't put all hopes on a project you promote, diversify your chance of getting something out of bounties by promoting promising projects only, since anything can happen I advice not to get too attached

I agree that this is irresponsible. But what should Fatemablabla do or how can influence on the situation? Fatemablabla is the same hired person do to tasks. She/he cant force Poolz to distribute rewards, nor dictate own terms of distribution. It is even impossible to write an ultimatum that will cause Poolz have a negative reputation, as Fatemablabla is the projects representative here...

It's a risk for bounty hunters,it takes time to complete tasks..
the main key is just being patient and always trying hard to get results that don't necessarily pay off.

Yes, I agree and all we want to get is to get paid after many weeks of promoting their project. There's some times that you can't really paid by the team. Good to know that there are some bounty managers that try to get the payment first before managing the campaign. Its also good for their end before of sure payment that they get. I salute for those managers that have good feedback about them because of sure payment once they been get the opportunity to manage. If they really paid the bounty hunters, I'm sure bounty hunters will also promote their goals after the campaing.

yes before joining any project, of course you have to do a detailed research be it team, developer, product, partner etc. There are all kinds of projects they offer out there that seem real and not easy to find really viable projects. So it's no wonder, if most of the social media bounty slot hunters follow every new project that comes up and don't even care even though they know that the project they are participating in turns out to have a red reputation.

I heard about the distribution issue from Poolz team, this isn't the bounty manager's fault, even if the BM try to use escrow the team might not agreed to it and look for another BM that won't ask them for escrow, joining bounties is like entering the gambling den where you can leave with a smile on your face or leave with unhappiness written over your face

yes, currently the reward as a bounty hunter aren't worth it, but we must never give up, now most of the rewards don't match our work.
Moreover, the reward program from project based on ethereum, we can't sell it directly because the price of gas is higher than the price of the token.
we just enjoy it, I am sure of the many bounty programs that we participate in, there are those who can give us a huge rewards.

In my opinion, our work as a bounty hunter began to pay, although not too high, but more stable. Now we have much less problems with KYC checks, agencies such as bounty detective have appeared, which practically guarantee the payment of new tokens. Fraudulent projects also, in my opinion, much less. Problems. of course, there is still, but you can still work.

Who guys working hard for a lot of bounty projects then definitely will be benefited. I am here since 2016 and i have seen when i got rewards from randomly though i joined without any research. but now weather is totally changes, getting payment is very difficult even from promising/successful, projects team denied about distribution after end of the promotion.

Escrow and limited participants are a necessity in bounty hunting this days, the lower the participants the better your reward and also only bounty detective use escrow, majority of new bounties still don't use escrow, we got to keep having some faith that they will get paid, there is no solution around this, that's just the way things are

I don't attribute the meanness of the Poolz team to her, I am talking about her work. Bounty Poolz ended on 17/11/20 and she just recently finished checking, a week ago. The check lasted more than two months. In addition, she does not like criticism, and throws out those who disagree with her from the chat.

"Another deception of bounty payments to hunters POOLZ"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5312242.0

in my opinion there is no word difficult in my opinion as a bounty hunter. I will continue to do whatever it takes to be able to receive the wages of my work for a few months. and I don't care what investors think of bounty hunters. because I work to promote their project through the media that I have and hope to get a reward according to my work. so don't find it difficult if there are additional rules that apply to bounty hunters.

I found a way out for myself, now I launch the nodes and do testnet, a bounty has outlived its usefulness.
Many refer to Bitcointalk as a platform where you can hire workers and even slaves for a penny.  >:(

Just get used to bounties disappointments, there is nothing that can change the problems affecting bounties this days because you can't tell which project has good hearted team members, some team will be greedy to the core and some will have a good kind heart, you just have to keep moving forward

I think KYC is not a problem, it will reduce violations for participants who registered with multiple accounts, but KYC is a problem for someone who doesn't want to have their identity exposed.

bounty hunter smart can destroy the project's reputation by showing evidence that the project is fraudulent if the project is still running and is on the market, but if from the beginning the intention was only to seize investors' money, then nothing more can be done for bounty participants.

It is part of the risk each of us takes when we join bounties. This usually happens on Altcoin bounties since some rewards are paid through the team's token which value is uncertain. Some bounties gave generous rewards but it is difficult to find projects that are honest in paying their bounty participants. This kind of risk can be eliminated if bounty hunters are reviewing projects they are planning to join before doing any tasks. This extra task can somehow lessen the risk of getting scammed.

Well, this is a risk that has always existed. I have also participated in a lot of bounty programs, and quite a number of projects that until now have disappeared with the promises they mentioned. After all, I'm used to it, but there are many bounty hunters who still ask for their reward. well, it's their hard work, I can only see that as a lesson to really choose a quality project.

Bounty hunters can't do anything to tackle projects that deny them of their payments, you can only share proofs on their social media which will be deleted straight away and also it won't have any effect, teams can easily say that bounty hunters are cheaters, criminals and all other sorts of words, I've seen this happened before

There is nothing we can do to stop bounty scams, broken promises, evading of payments etc, you just have to get used to all this if you still want to keep joining bounties, to lessen all this bad results I'm now more careful around new bounty projects, I always make sure they are good people, I take PM to the team themselves and see through them from how they reply

Yes, this often happens, but this is because there are indeed many scammers among bounty hunters who cheat projects for personal monetary profit, perhaps this is why this happens.

But, as I wrote above, you need to participate in Bounty projects from popular, proven projects, this will be the best solution. There are many projects that have been running a bounty program for a long time and so far all bounty hunters have received their rewards.

Always there is a problem in the bounty. When the price goes up there will be many reasons for the manager and dev to delay or reduce the amount they previously set. or when the price drops dramatically, the participant must pay their gas fee to get paid. This is ridiculous. I don't care about the credibility of a manager, but in fact nowadays so many managers do not comply with the initial bounty provisions they made

Indeed, those are the delights and distresses of being a bounty hunters. one thing I can say from that assertion is that a really proficient team would do nothing as referenced, and feel that bounty hunters are likewise important for the project they are creating. notwithstanding, there are numerous projects that make bounty hunters suffer, and truth be told a large number of these projects will lose their trust, in light of the fact that occasionally bounty hunters are additionally important for the investors. in any case, an expert team could never do that.

First of all, you are not obliged to wake up in the middle of the night finishing tasks. There is 24 hours in a day and finishing tasks especially in social media campaigns takes only minutes to finish. Unless you are a translator or a blogger then it can take longer. What I'm trying to say is as a hunter, you don't need to stress yourself knowing that the one you are promoting isn't 100% sure that they will pay you.

The problem with some of the bounty hunters right now is that they are thinking that they will be paid hugely in the campaigns that they are paying and that is enough for them to just spend their time doing bounty campaigns and not finding another income source. Is Bounty Campaign an income source?? No for me since there is no assurance that you will get paid so why make yourself stressful in campaigns?? Why waking up in the middle of the night just to finish tasks??

This might sound harsh but for those bounty hunters out there who are hoping that they will get huge money in bounty campaigns, wake up already and don't expect too much on it. Find another income source and don't focus on bounty campaigns only.

if you dont care of the credibility of the manager you will end up in any bounty that is managed by random manager  with random status and most of these dont have high standard and wont care to the participant . no wonder why your always fail in your bounty hunting journey .

reducing payments happen also on my campaign or on any campaign but the changes are going to be made only after the payment or before another round starts just to be fair to all but paying gas fee ? thats inhuman anymore . bounty hunters work to earn and not to spend any cent .

Sad but that's what happened, the longer it takes to find a bounty that really appreciates the results of the bounty hunters' efforts, it's very difficult. But don't give up. being a bounty hounter is not a goal. bounty hunter is the process of learning to understand and understand cryptocurrency through this forum. until one day you find an ability that allows you to be rewarded with something big.

Well that is true, but you can limit the risk to run into a scam. There are often so many indicators that a new projects is a scam. I always wonder why many bounty hunters participating in campaigns where it is known that most parts of whitepapers is plagarism or where it was researched that the "team members" are nothing else than sockpuppets. There are also other hints but most do not seem to care about. Such scams would not have a chance if people would not be so greedy and headless.

Research is a must since you will be promoting that project for some time. And the research is the one that pays off. Mostly you wont join a really good project but having a good one once a year is enough. Me personally keep all tokens and hope for some projects to success. It's a hobby which can pay off big in future.

It was always difficult for hunters, especially in those frantic times of ICOs, when almost 80% of projects in which I took part did not pay their hunters. This continues now, but the problem is that there are much fewer projects now.

Exactly if we consider the bounty as a goal, a full-time job, it will be really difficult at this stage, even in the near future when many projects will suddenly disappear or halted operations due to the very high value of the top coin, profits make creators flee with the money we invest and the project cost is not enough to provide the reward for the participant, the results are clear that the bounty hunter will be hit hard. To ease our mentality and avoid the pressure in this regard, considering bounty hunter as a learning path would be better as you say

This is very serious issue for many bounty hunters but sadly no on can stop this all as its all about project team and bounty manager I know few members those was complaining about this as they done hard work but they never receive any thing from few projects because these was scams so its bounty hunters own duty to check this all.

Much better treating that way instead of leaning on it to provide you your needs, bounty hunting is for advertisement it's been used by the developers to attract potential investors.

If there's none consider the project to failed and you won't recieved anything from the team, you need to move forward and learn those previous mistake particiapting with project that don't have clear visions of success.

From time to time you'll be able to learn how to pick good project/potential project  from those
who are just hiding the real intension of scamming potential investors.

Unfortunately this is something no one can find cure for, the moment you decide to be a bounty hunter you should understand that you may end up wasting your time and energy too, it's just the way it is with bounty projects, you can't tell if this will be successful or not and you can't tell if you will get paid or not, you just have to accept things the way they are, that is if you still want to be a bounty hunter

It requires bounty hunters to work harder, and even many bounty hunters who follow almost all bounties projects expect from so many
 that some are paying fairly and honestly, even very lucky if anyone pays big, although almost none at the moment.
But sometimes everything we do becomes futile, when the project is unwilling to pay participants for many reasons. It’s a risk to be a bounty hunter.

Research is a must but not always enough, don't believe that research will always safe you from bounties that will disappoint you later, scan isn't the only reason why bounty hunters don't get paid, even successful projects can deny you your payment so research won't always safe you

This is actually one of the things where people should really realize first on the things that they can possibly experience when they do plan to go with bounty hunting career.

You would definitely experience these unfortunate  events that a bounty hunter that can possibly meet up along the way.This is the sad reality that's why lots of people had

quitted bounty hunting a long time ago after that 2017 bull run.It isn't really worth off for your time and effort that you had put in just for you to receive some peanuts
or ending up on not getting paid.

But still got surprised that there are still people whom do still accept this kind of fate and continue to hope that they can hit up a good project and make
some serious money with it.

Bounty hunters working harder? That is a strange thing to hear about;) Projects are paying peanuts for work that is peanuts,,, so that sounds fair to me. I mean, majority bounty activities are RT and repost and copy paste.

What is the hard work about that? No offense but even many hunters I knew admit it.

Now bounty hunter faced big problem when getting reward they need to pay for bounty campaign manager to received coin, I think is very bad rule because not all bounty participants know with announcement to received coins have to pay fees for bounty campaign manager, when coin have listed on exchange market I sure bounty campaign manager will sell coin as bounty participants and distribution later after coin have lower price,

The major problem is 99% of Ethereum Projects are tokens and now that eth gas fee is very high it won't make sense to get paid in tokens because there will be many who won't be able to sell due to their tokens to high gas, Ethereum network fee need to be fix or update

That risk should be in your mind prior to joining the bounties.

And it just becomes hard work since you are joining multiple bounties at a time. Projects owners have nothing to do with your hard work as in general, bounty works are simple tasks. In the span of the week, for Twitter or Facebook bounties, it only needs a few minutes to be done.

But project owners should be responsible. Right now, some ERC20 based projects are halting withdrawals due to high gas fees. Depends on the project, there are respective plans on how to solve this.

It is not the way to make money, in gambling you have better odds to make money rather than hunting pennies on the bounty section of the forum. The suffer will not stop until the bounty managers will stop agreeing with teams regarding the late bounty distribution. The insurance option sounds crazy but it is not impossible though.

The problem is not an only Gas fee, the bounty scams are not going to stop soon. Even if a bounty hunter pays less than a $1 fee, the scammers will suck the profit with trading on exchanges. The high fees are not ok too but it still nothing compared to the obvious bounty scam problem.

In my handled campaign right now and even before, there are participants complaining about less stake received wherein they claimed they are doing hard work but if you will look into their submitted output (article), it was just a plain and simple copy-paste on the site's introduction. Where's the hard work for that?

The reason is, like others also mentioned here, they work on different bounties that's why they end up in several tasks at the same time. It's too much work if you joined 10 bounties at the same time.

Ever since the rise of the bounties here in the forum, it was always suggested that always do your own research when choosing a bounty to join.

The topic of escrow for bounty campaigns has been discussed for years. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen. The only way to reduce the risk of losing time is to thoroughly check the project and, above all, the people behind it. If the dev team are not random people, but experienced professionals, there is a big hint that the project will be successful and the distribution of rewards will be fair.

yep there were bounty managers who also ask to escrow the tokens but it still not enough since the team can easily create another ERC20 token. a nonvaluable token will always be worthless until it will be listed to a market. Its always going to be risky for bounty hunters and nothing can be changed.

there was a suggestion that the team should just deposit some BTC instead. but i doubt a team will do that.

If the project had BTC or other funds for the deposit, it probably would not need a fundraising and promotion through a bounty campaign.
You wrote about bounty managers - a lot depends on them, because they should be the first to check the project and dev team thoroughly. Of course, it's always possible to miss something, but they should be the first to eliminate scams. That is why if someone have no skill to review the project, I recommend everyone to join only campaigns managed by experienced bounty managers.

Yes escrow won't get rid of scams in bounty space, the risk of not getting paid, the risk of projects not raising enough funds and other will always be present, if you aren't fully ready for such risk then bounty thing isn't for you, you have to be willing to take risks

Bounty detective team are the only one using escrow till this day, another project that pays weekly is Amepay token but unfortunately the price have gone down and not worth is anymore, the only advice I can give you is to keep doing good research, without research you will do more mistakes when choosing bounty projects to promote

This year very hard for bounty campaign participants, look last three years almost bounty campaign payment on time there are not have reason with delay distribution, now check what happen with last campaign cyclop manage by bounty detective, price is good because one coin have value above $270 but bounty campaign manager distribution on April with third phase, do you think we are playing by bounty campaign campaign manager after project paid them and payment delay?

I've promoted two projects since December 2020 till January 2021 and they aren't from any bounty manager, the teams managed their campaign themselves and they paid bounty hunters as they promised, Stobox is one and base protocol is another, bounty can be very tricky, even popular bounty managers can bring bad projects to bounty hunters

I have to agree. I noticed that the campaigns run by experienced managers have smaller and smaller rewards (per participant). Those bounty that are led directly by the project have much bigger rewards per participant. However, if someone has no experience in researching projects, a better solution to reduce the risk is to participate in those campaigns that are checked by experienced bounty managers.

You're so on points. The reasons you have stated above and with other reasons are why I find it difficult till date to participate in promoting projects.

Many experience bounty campaign manager delay payment coins distribution and check with last several manager campaign almost delay payment, I think they wanna make transaction by selling first and buy back later when price dump, so they have bigger chance for bounty campaign reward to trade and get much profit. I have get several bounty campaign make like this and almost manage by experience bounty campaign manager.

I know that managers who run campaigns paid in BTC often also provide escrow and they also make distribution of rewards to participants.
I haven't seen a situation where a manager provides an escrow for a bounty campaign. Could you give an example please?

There are already few campaigns here who escrowed the bounty campaign rewards since they are not that popular in terms of management or new in bounty management.  Thou it’s somehow not effective since there’s a need for the project to be listed first in exchanges to have some value.

Can you give an example of a bounty campaign that the manager provides an escrow for?
With such a huge fee for transactions on the Ethereum platform (I'm thinking about ERC20 token, which probably is used in all DeFi projects),  bouny manager would go bankrupt if he did an escrow and have to make distribution now.

So many projects did it, ignoring bounty rewards or finding a way to reject more bounty hunters. Still, I can remember that "injective protocol" bounty campaign. They distributed USDT in the same address but rejected so bounty hunters by applying different new rules. Honorable bounty campaigns are very rare, although they are defense of bounty managers.

You cant particularly or directly asking out on the current bounties at the moment, for sure they are pertaining about those bounties before on where the network fee on eth platform isnt really high yet.

Escrowed funds on a bounty is really a rare thing to happen.Most of the time the team itself would really be the ones to decide neither they would do it or not since in the beginning.

Most of the time they will really hold of those funds and this is what risk even way more higher.You cant be sure if you would be get paid after the bounty program or would just simply those people
ran off and wont pay on what they owe.

This had been a typical scenario or cases on where bounty hunters could normally experience.

Experience bounty campaign manager make difficult right now after bounty ended and distribution process, last bounty campaign I have sent eth as payment fees and coin distribution after have lower price, looks this good or not and my bounty joined manage by experience bounty campaign manager, how ever now look very hard for bounty hunter where payment delay looks many bounty campaign manager make us difficulty how to get our payment.

Around this time the number of good bounties has decreased and the number of strong projects has also decreased. Moreover many good managers have retired from their jobs. However it is a dangerous time for bounty hunters so any new steps should be introduced to make money.

I think the number of projects remained the same, but they have chosen other way of advertisement. Running bounty campaign now cost a lot. Not only you must allocate budget for rewards, but also a decent amount must be spend on transaction fees. It is like double spending to get same result. Which is usually lower than expected or other ways of advertisement. We all know how most hunters advertise. Click like/retweet > next. Make a quick 1-2 line post, based on what was written in 1 post above and move to other topic. Most of hunters work is low quality. For a projects it is often is identical to throwing money away.

Many good campaign manager before have retired from their job because they found many bounty campaign scam, delay payment and not have escrow for ICO and bounty campaign manager, so they try keep out reputation without manage with scam bounty campaign project, look now how many bounties campaign manager not trusted and we have not choose without joining with their rule exactly payment distribution, they try how to delay distribution and never give chance for us sell all coin and now sent payment few phase.

If that's true, then you haven't done their job right. A bounty manager should ensure that there is an escrow for the bounties. And if the tokens to spread have not yet been generated at the time of the campaign, other coins such as BTC and ETH must be made available as collateral.

Escrow discussion again, I would like to ask you about how many escrow bounties have you joined around 2020 till now? Because 98% of all bounty projects don't care about escrow and it doesn't stop them from paying bounty hunters either, the only bounty manager that takes escrow serious is bounty detective, others simply don't care

Even escrowed tokens wont really be guarantying profits on the task that you had done but at least you would really be paid up with those coins because you wouldn't
know if those would be getting some value or would still end up on a shitcoin later on but hey, its better than have nothing at all or not being paid up.
When it comes to escrow matters then I do heavily agree that 99% of them doesn't really consider this set-up.They are the ones who do make the rules
on how people would be paid and when they should be paid.So bounty hunters wont really have any other choice but to deal with it.

Right now why we need escrow because many bounty manager campaign wanna play by self like sell coin from bounty campaign reward and then delay distribution to participants, almost worth bounty campaign ended last few weeks and have good price on exchaneg but distribution begin two months later and sending few phase, but when coin have on escrow hand we can know when distribution and where is coin still holding.

Then why still do bounties if you think you are getting axed harder than before?

Simply, if you don't want the rule, stay away. If you accept the risk even to the point that you won't be paid or less payment, then go ahead.

We are the one who decides here. We aren't forced to join a bounty.

I don’t understand at all why a person is indignant, before starting to participate in the bounty program, each person should familiarize himself with the project in more detail, at least understand if there are any risks not to receive a reward for the work performed.

If he agrees and goes to fulfill the bounty program, then he must still be prepared that he may not receive his reward.

We are in for a new greenish market this time around so I believe that bounties will be a bit better than 2020 so I think it's worth risking any bounty project right now, better to your own research first before joining any, about bounty disappointments be ready for anything, even the best looking bounties can give nothing in return

It is because of this that many of them do not receive their awards, each person must carefully consider each project to which he joins, he himself must consider all the risks and prospects of the project.

If he does so, then most likely he will find a normal bounty campaign.

The reason is that people also do not care if the bounty has escrow or not. As soon as the bounty is announced, every one jumps in to join and therefore it give the admin of the project to get free advertisement of the project in case he tends to scam in the end.
I will propose that the bounty distribution should be weekly/monthly and not after the bounty ends which may takes several months.

Before joining a bounty campaign take your time to check their team members, their twitter account, I believe that twitter accounts used to have better information about a project than any other media platforms I know, also apply your knowledge and ask yourself if the project utility could work or not, this will limit bounty disappointments

Actually even checking the legitimacy of team members and they have an active social media platform, it's no assurance that the project will be successful.

As I mentioned above, while checking those important things behind the project as a factor of choosing a good bounty, always prepare for the worst once you join a bounty as sometimes, it was market-related. Like the status today wherein even some investors want to put money on a project startup, they are having a hard time because of the fees.

Checking all this, the social networks of the project can give a better chance that the project is normal and will not deceive its users, but so, absolutely any project can deceive, sometimes even the most stable projects, which were trusted by millions to deceive their users for money.

Simply, if the project is worthwhile, it has any prospects in the future, then why should he deceive his clients, on whom this project will be able to earn money in the future.

When it comes to that deceiving or scamming intent then this is usually had already planned since from the start.There are even legit projects tends out to end up to be scam or running
away all of investors money and there are projects which turns out to be a garbage but do end up successful.

Its been a typical thing that do happen on this market thats why as a bounty hunter you should really be careful on dealing up with things. Research all the possible information
that you can get on a project.

Then decisions will come after basing on what you had concluded.Of course it wont be precise but doing this is much better rather than on blind selecting.

actually it is not about the success but about the legitimacy meaning if they will be not running the money of the investors and if they will going to pay the bounty hunters for their jobs.
If you are joining Bounty , expect that they are at some point will not pay you or even bring back your investments .

Because we already Knew how scammy the investing and new projects here so most chances that you will be Axed .

Scam projects will always be on here, they will keep coming in different colors and shapes, this is why we we can't always escape some bad results when promoting bounty projects, just accept the fact that bounties isn't for your if you can't accept some failures

According to your advises if you check everything from team management also their social media i think that's not enough i mean not guaranteed to receive your rewards because here another difficulties as like Poolz is perfect example. This project are very promising from all sides but their team members treated worst behaviour with bounty hunters.  

this is damn 100% true they keep popping up token mostly from rugpull and missing dev or just simply falling price, different colors and shapes maybe is just same person right and do it again and again and again.  :'(   i do some bounty and there's many not yet paid

After all, social media channels and articles are written and run by external companies that are simply paid for it. The quality of texts and how social media is run depends on the quality of the service the project employs, so it really has nothing to do with the quality of the project itself. It only shows how much money the project has for marketing.

The real and most important information can be found by checking the experience of the dev team and the Whitepaper.

People are actively performing research before joining the bounty,  fundraising team members are very active in social media in order to get more awareness about the project and they will high issue amount of coins to bounty hunters and at last, they will blame the bounty hunters.

That is why you should pay attention to how many tokens are allocated to the bounty campaign. I've noticed that scam projects is allocating huge amounts of tokens ($1M and more) to bounty hunters. They do this because it doesn't matter to them what happens to the price when they finish raising the money. Because they just want to disappear as soon as they are collected. That is why it is also important how the dev team prepares tokenomics. Unfortunately, often bounty hunters only look at the fact that they can earn a lot and do not think that it might be just a trick to encourage them.

That is not always an indicator of being scam. What about altcoins that have low price. They allocate millions for bounty campaigns. For example YOUengine - they had 4 round of bounty campaigns, with 7,500,000 YOUC pool each. Now, with token price of a bit more than 3 cents, their total bounty pool equals almost $1,000,000.

Even on the bounty start, they have already mentioned, that their tokens is already traded at the price of 10 cents and they allocate 30,000,000 tokens. $3,000,000 bounty pool. Can you image someone would give such a huge amount of money as a bounty reward on April 2020, when due to covid-19 world economy was feeling bad? That time, this sound like a total scam.

Very good mate, i promoted YOUc too but with the mindset that I won't get anything in return because the amount of tokens they plan to give away is way too big, after distribution the price do dumped big and that got over me, I dumped my tokens and move on but later the value recovers very fast, something that could take projects a year or months, YOUC is the most surprising bounty project of 2020

I can also share a negative experience of huge bounty pools. There are some true words in Yurkov post.

This is example shows that bounty was not scam (as he said, huge amount allocated = scam), but how huge bounty pools can ruin a project.
In 2019 there was such project as Moozicore. I dont remember exactly how huge their bounty pool was, but I remember it was almost as big as the amount of token they have sold during 3-4 IEO rounds. They have honestly distributed rewards to dashboards, but that does not help them. When they unlocked tokens, millions of tokens were thrown in the market and dumped token price 15-20 times.

Come on!
Where did you read that huge allocation of tokens = scam?
I wrote that scam projects make huge allocation because they dont care about what happen later. I have not written that these are all projects which make huge allocation!
Yet another thing is that I find allocation of huge amount of tokens is bad, because it cause of huge price drop right after listing on exchange.
The example of YOUC is an exception, and I don't know of any other similar example.
If someone likes the risk, go ahead and take part in bounty campaigns that give even $100M
Anyway, this is a big mistake in my opinion, but as we know everyone take decisions by himself.

YOUc campaign is good because distribution on time and coin have good progress every time and last month I see have break to higher price, maybe any prediction bad reputation with YOUc coin because when first time listing have lower price, but several week after listing coin break to higher price and most lucky for participants joining on their bounty campaign, they have several campaign running phase but always distribution after bounty ended without delay.

I say bounty hunters are mostly responsible for how they're treated and how much they earn from a project's campaign. It surprises me to see huge number of people still joining social media campaigns of an already overcrowded campaigns making it difficult for them to make an earning of $5 at the end of two or three months campaigns.
I just don't know may be they do not read about the bounty pool or calculate their possible earnings before joining a campaign.

Also seems more and more participants are joining, the sharing is getting increased while rewards are getting decreased. For projects it's good because with the same funds they get more reach but for bounty hunters, it is not. Many projects are failing after the initial push and thus feeling like bounty hunters' efforts are wasted and worthless.

I very sad with many bounties campaign manager not respect with bounty campaign participant, they do not have any attitude how to appreciated with bounty campaign participants promoted their project and success with ICO or IEO selling, but whey payment coming always delay and looking thousand reason from team busy for distribution until classic reason with giving higher fees transaction and payment will done when gas down.

But can you blame the company ? it is the Bounty Hunters greediness that made things difficult , they even know the consequences of their action that will affect the income of each others yet they continue to Join as too much accounts.
of course the company will take advantage of the situation because this reallyfavors them .
Better that Each Bounty hunters must have their own disposition in life to respect each other and not just Joining while there are already plenty of participants listed in the sheet.

I've had some sad experience in promoting bounties. After promoting a project for about 4 weeks, 8 weeks or more as the case may be on different social media platforms and the project turns out to be successful but the team refuses to pay bounty hunters. A good example is Digitalbits where the team refused to pay hunters. I'm still glad for some good bounty platforms in the space like Bounty Detective. In all, hunters should always do due diligence before promoting a project and bounty managers should also try as much as possible to get the funds for bounties escrowed.

Because he will starve to death if he Stopped Doing bounties  ;D ;D ;D
Exactly , no one forces them to do things and scamming in bounties are not regulated meaning this is your free will and at your own risk.
And the sad part is they already knew what will come yet they are continuing .

Crypto bounties = join at your own risk, since bounties are not regulated anything is bound to happen, every bounty hunters should understand that not all projects will do so well or keep their promises, always treat bounties as a side hustle because it's not a guaranteed way of making money, let this sink in

Now not any bounties campaign is free because using erc20 platform coin take higher fees and we need pay bounty manager to get coin, last payment from bounty campaign I have sent to bounty manager $10 to get my coin, I think if coin have higher price I will sent fees but if not any exchange better on bounty manager wallet.

The best way to make a maximum profit after the bounty campaign is to wait for the calm transaction fees, otherwise, the high fees will not worth spending GAS for sending the token to the listed exchange. I also hold more than 4 altcoins on my wallet and it will worth more if I can manage to send it with lower fees. There is no reason to pay high fees if the bounty token is not listed on another exchange. Some bounty managers even decided to freeze the tokens until the next bull market.

Ethereum transaction fee is pretty high right now and this is why it doesn't make sense to join bounties that are running on erc20 tokens, assuming you earned up to 50$ from bounty campaign that paid in token you won't have the gut to send to exchange because half or more will be used for gas fee

Yeah I agree with your opinion what for paying fees with less value coin, but have any coin have send by ICO project to bounty manager and have god value, why not coin selling and give USDT or trx as payment from bounty campaign, maybe you can check with last bounty manager received or coin bounty payment on his wallet but never sending to bounty participant and need to claim by sending ethereum.

Bounty hunters must Learn Give and Take for them to succeed , because if they will continue that attitude then for sure they will be going nowhere as their Bounty rewards are getting little while the Job to be done is the same as the high payments.

and also Bounty Hunters must try not to cheat , because the more entry they put is the less profit others taken.

This is a win win situation if they will only make things worth and fair.

Just bounty campaign manager not respect anymore for bounty participants, look how many bounties campaign not paid and delay for long time, why bounty never distribution on time and always trade coin by bounty manager first and send after have lower price, so far without any bounty participants how come bounty campaign manager can working and get commission with many bounties promotion.

Actually we cant blame to bounty manager if they didnt pay, maybe the one who have the project. Mostly bounty manager only provide their service such make data for every participants and making a thread for bounties after that the final sheet is deliver to person who have the project and about the rewards is the responsibility from them.

Was it your initiative to cover transaction fees to receive your bounty reward or bounty manager/project offered it?
Few years ago such offers were made usually by scam. Not only they made hunters work for free, but also forced to pay to get their rewards. You risked a lot by doing this.

Good example how to handle transaction fees issues is to make a platform, where users manually send themselves their tokens. Users can make their own decision, if they want bounty tokens quickly, or could wait for fees to get lower. Example - dego finance. You connect to their page by metamask (there were different option also), click withdraw and see how much it will cost. Wait for low fees and get your reward. But this works only if the token is traded already.

op said the truth, each line of his senstence.firstly team pretended as like they are supporting bounty hunters and going to give them huge reward.so they let hunters work hard for their project and later most of those project end with scam.legit project refuse payment, a few agree to pay but they let you in trouble. Like you need to claim token from website, or going to give you that token after months or monthly 10% something and samilar thing.even though hunters still working for something good

Accept the truth that Because those Managers doing this ? because of you Bounty Hunters are a Willing Victim , you are desperately Joining  BS Bounties just to earn Peanut.

Sad but true mate, I have been observing Bounty threads and claims , and what i see? those are a BS project but when i checked the Spreadsheet , You'll see tons of participants willing to become a victim without digging and researching what kind of company they are promoting.

My prediction is (if situation does not improve) that ERC20 token based bounties will disappear in half a year-1 year maximum. In the following situation, best solution is to participate in bounties which altcoin is not on Ethereum blockchain, or bounty reward is exchange token. Participating in bounties with erc20 token reward hunters risk to become long period holders.

It's not like that the Ethereum network is currently still in great demand, well it is constrained by a large cost problem but I feel that it will not disappear someday, I am just looking forward to how ETH 2.0 has happened maybe the problem will be absorbed and the project on the Ethereum base will be even stronger.
Look, dude, there are still many bounties with the status of the erc20 project, they are sure to believe that there are many investors who are interested in it even though the Binance chain is now a trend but this will not eliminate erc20 as the best smart contract.

I have read many complaint from bounty hunter and it is true that they feel wronged by the project team and campaign manager. Throughout 2020 until now, I know many bounty hunter who have made a lot of money from bounties but the problem remain because high transaction fee are used as the reason why participant are not paid on time. I never thought that was a reasonable excuse for bounty hunter to accept, but the truth is that they will still be in trouble like this indefinitely.

I agree with you, ERC20 will still exist even though BSC is currently a trending topic. As long as the transaction fee are high, a lot of people will choose BSC and so will the altcoin developer.

Until now, this problem still has an example of AME which is still constrained from the distribution being stopped due to high gas costs so it is not timely when the previous statement has been written, then if the cost is still expensive indefinitely, will this problem be resolved? or does the project just want to be more economical when it comes to sending tokens to hunters?
So this problem will still occur if Gwei is still high, but now the hunters will be expected to be anxious about uncertainty because in the future they will face this problem again.

Great example. The bounty hunter are only promised that the team will distribute the token when the price gas drop. But who can wait for fuel price to fall when hunter can see token price go up?
In my opinion, it is not certain when the gas will go down because people still want to use the current high fee. These are two things that continue to be a problem for all bounty hunter today. Apart from high gas price, they are also disadvantaged by delays in distribution.

It's understandable that projects are delaying the distribution. With thousands of participants, the project might spend up to $10,000 for the gas transactions which is not wise as it can be used on other expenses.

If you believed in the project and the team is doing great, trust them as you have no choice. The best proposal maybe is, they can ask their users to pay the gas instead which costs about $15-20 although not a good idea for those who have low rewards. Or maybe form an internal transfer within their platform.

Fees are just excuses and if they do really mind off with that thing then they should at least tell the public or the participants on having that kind of problem  for them to
understand the situation and wont really be making out some further fuss about or towards the project and also those project owners do need to show up some transparency.
You can eventually able to detect out to those teams which are really that paying off their participants compared to those who dont have any plan at all since from the beginning.
These had been a common problem of most bounty hunters  which you wouldnt even know if you get paid or not after all the work that you had done in months or more time.

You didn't read my whole statement and just focus on "fees". I'm talking about good projects in general, saying something about fees that's why rewards are delay. That's why I hope they consider internal transactions. Of course and obviously, it was an excuse by the project if the bounty ended several months prior to the rise of the gas price.

If you have some list of those projects that take fees as excuses and bounty ends prior to the rise of ETH gas price then better to list it here so that it will be flagged as untrustworthy by the community.

I've experienced being cheated by bounty campaigns few times, once project completely disappeared, another  time it refuses to pay bounty reward, yet another time they cut rewards a lot, contrary earlier promises, so I can say I completely understand your pain.
I've tried to group victims of one scam project, but it failed, seems to people don't want to fight for their rights :(

Investors really look down on the fate of bounty hunters because bounty hunters only receive 1 - 5% of all supplies and are distributed to all campaign participants. but bad luck was again received by bounty hunters when the price of the coin fell in various markets. even though the bounty campaign participants received only 1% of the total. but still bounty hunters are the scapegoats for investors to blame.

How many percent of total supply do you think bounty hunters should receive?
After all, ICO or IEO are made not so that bounty hunters have campaigns, but just to sell tokens to investors.
If bounty hunters were getting more percent of the total supply, I'm sure the price would drop much faster and a lot more.

There are some projects that are not successful so they can't pay Bounty Hunters. They cover the issue in their news channels in very nice polite language like Zappermint. I think it's okay.
But there are some projects which, even after being successful, start making excuses to pay Bounty Hunters and do not pay in the end, such as SudanGoldCoin, Bintex future etc. These are the real scammers. Bounty Hunters will get the value of their labor only if Bounty managers can find out and kick off these teams.

Its just nonsense for them to give out big percentage of tokens to bounty hunters knowing that this is just part of advertising or marketing thing then it isnt really just too big.Basing off on experience
then most bounties do give out 1-2% maximum in overall supply which we can say on how the hell bounty hunters being blamed off with price dump? Why not really blame off those
investors itself when it comes to price decrease on said project.This is a common problem on where bounty hunters do experience neither they do took the blame
or wont really be getting paid out in the end of the campaign.

You are lucky being promised of 1-5% because you are a Bounty Hunter and that clears everything HUNTING means there is no assurances .
You can be paid or you can be scammed and both are part of Bounty Hunting , if you don't want to be deceived and Scammed , then distance yourself from Bounty Hunting and just focus on other field of profiteering .
You are the one to blame if the project turn scam because to help them spread their scam operation , and if they did not pay you then that is your faith.

It is so disheartened to see that despite the ill treatment by many of these projects teams, you will still see people fighting for portions on a low budget bounty campaigns. I still presently saw a social media campaign which has a budget of $2,700 for 8 weeks with close to 1,000 participants.

I don't know why any sane hunter won't look at what possible reward he would get before joining a campaign. They join campaigns and end up not even earning up to gas fee and that's if the team dim it fit to pay

However, sometimes it happens that bounty hunters are responsible for the price drop. The truth is that preparation of the token allocation is the most important thing and it depends on it what will happen with the price after listing on exchange.
If the number of tokens allocated for bounty hunters is too large compared to the tokens sold, the price drop is certain. Similarly, if the bonuses and discounts for investors are too large, they will take advantage of the possibility of quick earnings and sell immediately after listing on exchange and also lead to a drop in the price.
Anyway, bounty hunters cannot demand higher rewards, because it will be bad for the price and they themselves will lose.

-- Hunter means?

-- Bounty means?

Expect what comes worst mate because you are talking about BOUNTY HUNTING.

That's why you must act meaningful at any cost, when you find something fishy going on , best to create a reputation thread right away for the team to be alarmed and forced to pays you.

You said it right .

Bounty Hunters are Toothless and nothing can do, Unless you prove them wrong...

Your not the only one who noticed that, almost all of us Bounty hunters encountered the style of the team in the project were they will do everything to make the majority of the Bounty participants will not gonna receive their bounty rewards. I think this was already in the cycle of cryptocurrency, just all we need to do is be wise and aware of the project campaign that will arise in this field of business industry.

True, this problem isnt something that could really be getting rid of or completely resolved out as long those project owners that doesnt pay bounty hunters exist then this
main problem wont really be gone anytime soon.This is why the best thing to be done is to choose up the best project on which you do able to make out some verification
and in depth criterias for you do choose or engage with it.Even though it wont be precise on getting the best one but at least you had done your job on finding by means of
those criterias that had been set but still we cant really remove the probabilities on ending up on gaining nothing out of those hard work and time spent.

What's wrong with bounty hunting? Some people consider what they are doing as a job, so they are like "JOB HUNTING"...

There's nothing wrong really as long as they follow the rules and as long as they promote a legit project that would not scam investors.

I believe that it is not Bounty Hunters is he mentioning but the Hunting itself , Because according to His complete post he is supporting the Hunters though expected that they have no capacity to bring down the scammers project owners.

The intention is that those Hunting job turns scams most of the time for the reason they are being scammed by the project.
Better read the full context of the Post , it was supposed to be addressed to the Developers/teams and not specifically for the Bounty Hunters.

That good decision that you made, joining bounties is very risky and time consuming so we need to be sure that we can get our payment for doing bounty task, and those bounty with escrowed are sure legit and joining that bounties are not wasting time because its sure that all our effort shall be paid by them.

And this is what most bounty hunters been expecting for where they can really make out big money or profits if the project turns out to be a success.

I agree that this is really needing some sort of luck not only just depending on the research you have done because even good projects doesnt really get that success
from time to time.

Shit project does in most cases thats why finding out the best one is the toughest challenge as a bounty hunter.

that's what a bounty hunter can run into, not getting what he wanted, which is part of it i guess, i have seen lately some good bounties, mostly because the crypto market is getting crazy attention right now and everything is going up, not getting anything for our work is for sure not fair, and we can do nothing about it, except doing research about the projects we're about to promote, and just hope for the best.

Research and participate then wait and hope for the best! really nothing that hunters can do after participating and work with
the team.

Currently threre are many open projects where the token is already listed to exchange, some brings huge value afer
the market hypes up and together with bitcoin and other crypto assets.

Bounty participations needs time to do good research before spending your time working with the team.

Sometimes luck do really needed up aside from those in depth research that you do had made because lots of instances based on experience that everything seems to be legit but still it turns out  to be a scam
in the end.

This is why i already lost up my trust on dealing with projects due to this very reason.It even turns out that those projects looks like to be a scam did able to succeed and been listed on exchangers
aside into those project whom do look good but ending up on a scam.

Its really hard and really a waste of money and time if you have dealt yourself with fakes.

Deal with the risk, that's how crypto has to be treated, sometimes we make huge income in bounty hunting, sometimes we gain nothing, it's the same principle on people taking high risk with high reward, the only differece is we are not risking our money but our time and effort only.

Before, bounty hunting is not really attractive but if you have joined legit project before that has already pumped today, then for sure you'll enjoy the fruits of your labor if you did not dump, so the word "patience" still applies not only in investing but on bounty hunting as well.

In order to make this go away I have been suggesting to use USDT or BTC as payment because that is the only time it could be realistic, give that to escrow that bitcointalk forum believes in and you are golden. If one place does this, some others will follow and when they follow others will have to follow. Look at everything in crypto, usually things are not trustworhty and bad and suddenly one place makes it more trustworhty and better and all other places start to follow up on them, why? Because if they don't they will not be invested.

So, if one bounty does the bounty properly like I suggest others will follow because if they don't people will not apply to them. We have to make sure to pressure the bounty campaigns with this suggestion and our request in order to make them all realize we want this.

Sometimes it takes months or even years before you see the fruit of your labor, and you have to follow the development of the project, I'm ok with following the development of the project as long as the developers are very active in updating the development and the community is growing, and the platform that they are building will have usage for the community, the wait is going to worth it if they have all these.

Based on what I saw and observed here in cryptocurrency, the owner of the new projects thinking that most of the bounty hunters are willing to risk their effort to join in every campaign here in the bounty thread section. Meaning, the life of the bounty hunters here in the forum are come what may, in which is not supposed to be happen. Or even the projects run smoothly and the result is good sometimes the problem is with the team, or the owner(Developer). They keep on ignored the query every time there is a participants asking for their rewards in which is, poor bounty hunters. This is the reality actually.

Yes, you are totally right with this one and no one had anticipated that those projects did really make some take off on that 2017 time and even up to this 2020-2021 which the results of those
things that you had involved in the past did really make some serious profits if you did really held but i doubt that most of them had already dumped out.

Patience is really relevant when you do deal with bounty hunting but this is only applicable into those projects which does have real potential and you can actually count them via your fingers.

Its no surprise that there are still lots whom do get deal with this because they can see those kind of opportunities.

Everything about crypto is risky, either trading or investing or promoting a project, you have to take risk to get either negative or positive results, the future is Definitely what we can't see but we can only try and hope for the best

Bounty hunters belong to the less risk because they will never risk money to get a reward, and if you have a mindset of an investor, you will definitely find a great project that could be successful and that way you'll earn a good profit. If you don't put some effort on making a research what to promote, then most likely you'll be able to promote  a scam project that would only waste your time.

I think a quality manager doesn't guarantee bounty hunters get a reward.
Verasity, Metahash, kardiachain, howdoo,pledge camp and more all projects are handled by professionals manager, but I did not get any reward because I was a little late doing KYC,  at the beginning even though the main regulations did not ask for KYC.
 maybe if I collect all the rewards that are not given , it's worth value a  car.

Taking risk in crypto space is like a gems. Anyone who joins well know about the risk, they also know that if thing turn positive they can manage huge profits. At the moment, we have to trust the system but everything is controlled by our decision.

There's a little risk if we talk about bounty hunting, I've been there and all I waste is just an effort, not really a big thing as I make money during the last bull run, and though I had wasted some of my time, however, I'm still thankful I made a profit in overall.

Even sometimes when you are seeing a new manager that's so lucky getting the legit project and it can give you guarantee to get the reward.
The quality of manager will be helping the hunters avoid the scam campaign.
You must read if the team can add or change the rules anytime. If you have been missing so many campaign caused by you were not doing KYC and it's your fault dude. You can't blame the manager for this.

The one reason why bounty hunting is not that risky is because you're not investing any money on any project, all you have to give is your time and energy and if you are calm enough and you venture into doing more research about project want to promote then the chance of getting scam will reduce alot

It is not risky in terms of Losing funds but the problem is you are losing your time and effort meaning you already losses gold because time is gold right?
Not unless like you who cares nothing about your time so that is a different stories.
But mine> my time is very precious because i know that every second i spend is computable by Money.
I rather not join Bounty than not receiving anything in return.

That is not really the first prerogative of a quality manager. The first duty is to himself (to get paid) and to do this he has to prove to the project that the quality of the participants he chooses and the quality of the postings he oversees helps the projects.

Believe me,,, bounty hunters are the last priority UNLESS you are talking about super high end ones!

Though such post has been made before I came across this, actually bounty hunting is your obligations to do thorough reach before joining or partaking in any and I most say you haven't not joined a campaign from trusted managers and must refer you to towards trusted managers and enroll on Their campaign.

List of trusted managers is as follows:
1. Hhampuz
2. Bounty detective
3. Irfan_pak10
4. Torra
5. Wapinter
6. CryptopreneurBrainboss

Don't miss their campaign as they go extra mile to investigate about any project or campaign.
I most say I have benefited from those campaign managed by them.
Note: you also bear the risk to participate and do your research before investing time and energy.

Maybe you've been picking the wrong kind of campaigns, I hate to be the guy to say it, because I'm not gung ho on the merit system but it's the only way. Ranking up affords you the ability to participate in not only better campaigns, but also for better wages. There are a lot of scams out there, but the one thing I've learned here on this forum is that, patience is a virtue, if you just practice you're due diligence and research a project thoroughly before joining, you could save your self the time, energy, and stress from participating in shady projects or projects whose teams deal in shady practices.
  I' too, have participated in a bad campaign and have been scammed as well. The best way I myself combat the situation is by prevention, whereas by practicing my Due Diligence for every campaign I consider  participating in.  ;)

Bounty hunters don't invest money but time and the fact is time is a valuable thing as well, it will surely hurt to waste time on projects that in the end they won't appreciate your efforts, the thing is if you aren't ready for some disappointments bounties aren't for you

Yes, you are right, but you must understand that too many people have come to cryptocurrency, as well as these people create multi-accounts, thereby lowering the cost of time spent.

And that is why sometimes i felt thankful if they are being axed because they also Cheat in reality , they even intentionally violated rules by enrolling alt accounts and taking the funds that supposedly for other members.
so being scammed or denied of payments is a way for them to pay their greediness.
so accept it or not? this will happen continuously and will never be resolved.

now the duration of the bounty ends around 4 weeks at the earliest and of course this is not a short time for us to campaign for a bounty project, not to mention the long distribution of payments which certainly makes us even more bored waiting, that's why it's better before joining the bounty project, first for us to check every detail of the project both from the website, roadmap and also from the team that developed the project, because if we are too reckless in following a bounty without any checks and checks, it is likely that we will be caught in a scam project.