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I participated in many bounty campaigns in 2018
maybe 200+ projects I participate, and I work honestly and professionally. but until now I have only received a few rewards, and many project managers do not send payments whether what happens, whether because of the low rank /or the reason is forgotten,

I have not participated in the bounty campaign for a long time, because of my hard work I feel unappreciated, can I claim a bounty reward that has been going on for a long time, because now I really need these rewards with value in exchange.

My rank in this forum is newbe, but I have registered in this forum for a very long time, maybe if I could make a useful article I could have a high rank.

I can see that you registered on here since 2016 but it seems you don't understand how or what bounties are all about, there is no guarantee of payment unless the bounty manager use escrow, many bounties won't pay bounty hunters that's just the bitter truth, if you want to be a bounty hunter you have to be ready for the bad side too

Your rank has nothing to do with not getting bounty payment. There are very few bounties where bounty managers distribute rewards. In most cases the project team distributes rewards.
Bounty campaign payments are largely uncertain. You will get 15% rewards for all the campaigns you work on. And those which sent tokens, 5% will not be listed in exchange. Then you will actually get a 10% bounty reward. Because most projects fail.
You can start working again. Because now there is some payment available in Bounty.

Ranks doesnt really able to raise up if you dont able to reach or attained sufficient merit and activity required and it doesnt really correlate to any external bounties or tasks to affect on ones rank.

The thing here is that if you do really plan nor tend to raise up your forum rank then make out quality and relevant post which would really be helpful into the community.If you do get some recognition
then that would be the start of gaining up those merits, it might sound simple but its not, you would really be needing to work hard for this.

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Towards those common bounty hunter situation then thats why lots of people leave on bounty hunting due to this very reason.Lots of projects becomes shit and doesnt pay off or simply we called a scam.

It isnt really worth for you to spend out your efforts and time on just for you not to receive nothing in the end of the program.Lucky for those who get paid up and unfortunate to those who were not.

Maybe bounty hunting isn't for you. It's not an actual job that you have to feel appreciated because many of the projects don't really care if you want to be appreciated or not. As long as you're be taking your reward and payment or stakes, that's all that matters to them while helping them get a lot of exposure for their project.  There is no guarantee in bounty even you join a bounty that has a good manager, they are only for managing but the rewards after the project's done, the success is not in their hands.

2018 is the worse year to be a bounty hunter. I have been joining campaigns as well during that time and have no been paid many times as well. There are projects that you could be tempted to gamble and invest in it because it seems very legit but still end up a scam and you as a bounty hunter experience the nightmare. I was lucky enough to have kept projects that I can receive dividends all the time while doing my day job. But for some who just rely to bounty and signature campaign, it's a struggle really.

I think it's about time you started developing yourself and learn new things. You aren't going to use Bounty hunting as a source of income all your life, are you?
Bounties are a thing of the past where one could earn so valuable tokens but not anymore so what you need to do is to adapt and learn or look for something else that can earn you meaningful amounts of money like trading or else you are going to waste your time and resource earning valueless shitcoins.

Why not start all over again? It's not too late for you to start from square one. Just make sure that you follow the rules and always be alert when is the distribution of bounty (to follow-up etc). Goodluck.

200+ bounties ? damn that's too much stupidity .. You had not been paid from the start and yet continue joining? you are the one who make your own grave.
You did not even bother claiming for years so what do you think you can do now?
Work for it to Become high rank and you won't get it just by joining bounties forever.

It's caused by you are thinking only about the quantity over quality and that's why you were getting very small reward from the campaigns.
TBH there have been lots of good bounty campaigns since 2018 just like JRT, POOLZ, and many more.

Your ranks don't matter a lot dude. The only problem if you didn't wanna spend all of your effort analyzing the campaign. I got decent amounts of money from bounty since 2018 and it's all good because i was doing deep research. You can participate in various bounties like youtube, social media, and many more.

You should stop being the bots in the bounty campaign.

 wow you registered on 2016 , your 1 year older than me . i comend you for realizing of posting useful article , actually you dont really need to post an article but posting useful replies is enough to get a merrit  . its only sad that ranking up now is hard but if you didnt waste so much time in the past , your rank can be higher than on mine now .

  are you sure that you applied properly and you saw your name in the spreedsheet ? because many newbies are only carrying a signature and working in a campaign without a confirmation from the manager and they wonder why they arent getting paid  .

No you can't.
You can't claim bounty rewards after that it exceeds the deadline, because usually every project has a time limit for the distribution of prizes because it is impossible for them to just stick about the distribution of bounty prizes over a long period. Should be when you have not received a rewards immediately ask this to BM and immediately meet all the requirements including KYC if you really have to.

Obviously He had Joined Scam projects mate because there is no need to claim for your bounties if the team is legit because for sure it will drop on your wallet .

the problem with those projects is they don't ask for KYC at first but after the projects done then they will ask for KYC pretending you to be paid but in the end ? will scam your KYC as well as your Payments from their bounty .

Sorry for all the time wasted on those projects, the truth is you've wasted your time and effort on scam projects only, there are many rewarding projects last year and before, I'm surprised you keep missing them, you have to judge projects base on what they are trying to offer

You have Joined more than 200 bounties mate , when i only Joined 2 if I'm not mistaken and those are Scams as well lol.

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The problem here is that you are now claiming after several years and i believe that the claims from the distribution has already expired so in short you cannot ask the team or manager to pay you while you are the one who has left them with your Money.

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Better start changing views now and stop Joining Bounties instead make valuable posts for you to rank up by accepting merits if you deserve.

That's right,a lots of bounty projects in 2018 have ended in scams
I waste a lot of the time in vain

but:
yahoo62278, lauda , wapinter
they are the best managers, and always appreciate the work of bounty hunters, I always get the best pay from them, because they know I work honestly and professionally.

Now I'm even more confused, your original posts talked about not getting paid from bounties and now you said you get best pay from yahoo66278,lauda and wapinter ? What should we believe right? You can't be in this space since 2018 without a single luck in bounties, its near impossible

I joined more than 200 bounty campaigns, yahoo62278, lauda, wapinter only 20%.
while 50% / etc no payment or scam . very sadly

Well, that was a risk of participating in bounty campaigns, I guess most of the hunters on this forum also have experienced the same as you. By the way, it seems you have been inactive for years and start to be active again on the forum to participate in bounties again, isn't it? I don't have a problem with that, I just want to say be more selective in your bounty hunting and should not repeat the same mistakes that you did in the past.

Trying to compare those days when it comes to successful bounty programs then i can say that we do have much lesser compared into those previous years
thats why its a little bit off or nonsense to do some bounties as of this years or even in 2018 start until now but surprisingly there are still people
who do get engaged with these stuffs.Those unfortunate events or situations are common for a bounty hunter thats why i do really believe on sometime
that luck does really get involved when you do jump into this venture, neither you do get paid or not.

I now want to try to get up, by following several bounty campaigns, but i didn't take much because the events would repeat itself
where 2018 was the worst year for bounty hunters!

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Yes, that's a part of what I experienced

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I never been a bot in the bounty campaign. twitter account, facebook account,.. etc
still the same a following all the bounty campaign.


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If you're participating in that many campaigns you are going to come across some scams. It might also be difficult for you to keep track of what you're owed and you might forget to claim your reward. Some bounties don't pay you directly and you have to create an account on their website. Each bounty is handled differently and it would be easy to make a mistake if you're getting involved in too many.

Somehow I agree that luck was involved in this case but personally I do not fully believe it will determine the ends, what I mean is it all depends on your diligence in observing the campaign and the project itself from the various perspective and not only follow what the other people say.

Since 2018 I've promoted so many projects and very few brings insane profits for bounty hunters, I guess bounty hunting isn't about making money every turn, it's about finding the real gold among the stones and we all know that gold worths more, before I finally make good money from projects like Cartesi, DIA, STOBOX, Ferrum, AMEPAY, I've promoted more that wasn't satisfying at all, get used to it or quit bounty hunting.

many coins I get now are inactive: zixx, konios,depaero, romad,... and more
and it doesn't generate a sale value,few coins that have value, but suffer losses due to high fee gas.
maybe expect mb8coin and wpp to make a pump in the market

The main mistake that many bounty hunter make, especially for those who only participate in social media campaign (Twitter, Facebook, Telegram or any), is joining blindly. Not many of them did the analysis before joining, maybe they never even read the WP of every project they promote. It just makes you waste time, although some of it will give you something nice. Are you aware of that ?

You seem to be a very enthusiastic bounty hunter and in fact you seem to be consistently doing well. You have neglected the potential you might get with your account as your forum time focuses a lot on the bounty report. There's no need to complain why you don't have a higher ranking if you don't want to change your habit. You have to be a good poster with the knowledge and experience you have gained. It's quite simple and even you can still do it between your time.

This is the reason why you shouldn't join the bounty blindly. Do some analysis and it will leave you only joining in project that have visible potential in the future. Whether you realize it or not, you must know what the consequences of being a bounty hunter are.

Why didn't you ask the bounty managers of those campaigns about your payment.
If those campaigns ended successfully and did distribution, there is no reason only you didn't get paid.
You said you took part in nearly 200 campaigns, even half of them must have distributed.
Also not all campaigns end at the same time so to complete all of them, you need to stay on forum long time.

To know that 200 campaigns doesnt only talk about signature solely but also with some social media and other messaging bounties as well.

which you can sum it up to reach out those numbers.200 involvement in count with bounties does signify that op did really make some full time with it.

Also, not all managers are responsible with the distribution of rewards but totally be depending on the team itself. If they had given out those coins
to manager then thats the time you would be asking out regarding that manner.

Guys stop disturbing yourselves I believe that 2021 will be a different year for bounty hunters because market as a whole is different right now, crypto market is very very bullish right now so every bounties that bounty hunters promote will be profitable as far as it's not a scam Project

many have asked, about the bounty campaign accept in exchange market, but i did not accept the token ,
example : ubex
until now I did not receive the token, due to a  litle mistake, I was to late for KYC. at the start campaign  no such requirement
and in this thread I only discuss the bounty campaign in 2018

And why just compalin now? where have you been for three years ago? Did you do something?

Become a bounty hunter is not about clicking a project and do some work depend on the campaign that choose (social media, signature or article) but you need to do all the rule that your bounty manager commanded.

Like, there are some cases about telegram group, the bounty manager has ordered to join the telegram group but if you not join it you will not get the reward. I found many times like this problem, so can you remember the forgoten part when you promote some bounties?

People need to stop joining projects blindly without proper investigation on the project first, you will end up wasting your time for nothing, it's a different story for me since I started bounties in 2020 and I've already make 1000$ from bounties, the fact is put your energy on good projects only

Your account has been registered a 5 years ago and you should know the luck factor in the bounty campaigns. It is %10 work and %90 luck to get a decent bounty reward at the end of the bounty campaign. Project managers and the expensive listing fees charged by exchanges killed this sector, unfortunately. The scammers have won millions on this game.

I don't think that it is that Luck who will manage you to be paid and not scammed.

If you will be not desperate to seek for fast bounty and will be choosy in joining one ? then surely safety will come to your way.

If the manager you will be hunting are those legit and choosy manager also like Yahoo that make sure that funds will be in His Escrow? then scam won't come your way.

I Salute to your dedication and passion in Joining too many bounty campaigns in the past even if you are receiving nothing in return yet you continue to Join .
But even if you are busy yet you should have visited the projects you joined back for updates .
because you know the rules of each bounties that the deadline must be there and claim your payments or else you will lose them all.
Be an active again , and be responsible poster from that you may Gain merit and soon will rank up though this is a very tough work now.
as i am still sitting in Full member rank up to now.

The year 2018,2019 weren't good time for crypto industry and i assume that bitcoin was responsible for that.because the incredible downfall of bitcoin, made people panic.it forced to lequid assests and get people out of crypto industry by talking their est of available fund.that's why a lots of good project got flop due to lack of investor.so projects team run away the with the fund they collected.and that's the reason why hunters like you work so hard but get nothing from bounty.

Bounty hunting is not "work" - it is a method of rewarding people who make efforts to promote a project's funding by the owners of that project. It draws in influence and therefore "was" a method to market the ICOs.

Sadly, it has gone down from there to a group of cheaters who have cheated projects and projects which have been failures or scams.

The bounty hunter does not have any legal route of claiming the project tokens if the project is a failure or a scam. It is a messed up situation and often there are different levels of conflict. Maybe the team had an internal takeover, maybe the manager and the team got into wrong grounds.

You might be able to claim them after contacting the owners. But honestly, getting a bunch of dust tokens - is it worth your time? The cumulative token sell value might not be even worth any bitcoins.

Forum ranks will advance after you have received enough merits and activity. Writing articles will not get you merit but participating in community discussions might. But that is a topic for another discussion.

That's a lot of projects you participated, OP but I guess your only fault is you did not bother to search a legitimate project for your own self. And it's impossible to think that all of those projects you had participated you never get a good one or maybe you get a good one but the project did stop because of the lack of funding.

A lot of bounties from the past isn't really giving something because almost everyone knew what was their main reason why did they exist. It is for the sake of pump and dump then disappear or stop after gaining a good profit from their investors. Almost all of them are considered shitcoins so real investors doesn't bother to fund or invest on them.

To those coins that had in the past on having their bounties which did able to survive the market even up to now.Then lucky into those bounty hunters that did really risk up on promoting them

It did paid off thats if they do able to held it up for years that had past.Bounty hunting is a gamble because even if you do choose up the best possible project which seems does have potential

for you but doesnt mean that it will guarantee for it to succeed.It all matters with the demand and in that case, making money will be depending
on projects success in the first place.

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if you worked for them HONESTLY and PROFESSIONALLY like you said. If they at first place planned not to pay you hunters then that is what they will do and vice versa.
If you got paid with what you are doing, good for you. As on my part when I'm still on bounty campaigns (altcoins), I don't expect too much from it. If they will pay me good if not then find another one and move on. That is the job of the bounty hunter.

Restart and find another bounty campaign. You know that bounty tokens that you are getting as a reward doesn't have any value at the start right?? Although there are some who has at the start, most of them doesn't so rewards that already has value in exchange seems almost impossible.

With your rank as a Jr. Member, you can still find some campaigns out there that needs Jr. Member.

Feel your pain I do for all of you. I actually never got into any bounty that didn't pay me, but that's because I was lucky I guess, always found something long term to promote and only left when the service closed down:)

I HAVE been in a bounty for a project that scammed though so that's a worse story. I actually helped promote a scam, lost money in ICO, and taught myself a valuable lesson about trusting "reputable" people.

The majority of hunters prefer to join in the project based on the quantity instead of quality and this will be a very difficult thing to be solved. Even when you were creating thousands of awareness and so many social media hunters were always blindly joining in the campaign. We have discussed this so many times and there have been lots of awareness thread but that's useless.

Well said, and the other sad part about some of these bounties is some of these projects don't or didn't even see daylight even if they paid their bounty hunters because they had nothing to offer apart from speculating about the project and waiting for investors to invest,but thanks to time these bounties have evolved though not rewarding as they were back in the day.
My advice if you are to get into bounty hunting today ensure the project has a strong profile or already listed on an exchange(IEO) this way not only are you likely to get paid but also avoid shitcoins.

Glad to hear that you learnt your lesson with that event. You know the bad thing is that many bounty hunters never learnt and they keep on doing the same mistakes over and over again. They still think that bounties are going to profitable which is possible but a remote and late dream.

ICOs have been shady as anything. They are not legal securities and not considerable anything to a equity share. They are speculative assets and a worse asset class than what bitcoin has been.

Not just bounty hunters but many bounty managers' reputation also have been ruined by scam bounties and red-pilled hunters who act like kids.

Last night I received a reward from Ubex. it has been more than two years but the ubex team was very generous in giving the reward. I believe UBEX will get great success now and in the future, because it has a good Kindly and professional team. I'm waiting for UBEX to be listed on the Binance exchange. Thanks UBEX

Currently still making claims on Verasity , MetaHash and more
because I have a lot of coins that I haven't received. ( may be a little difficult to get)

Until now I never sold coins that I received in the 2018 bounty campaign,  because I believe with a little patience it will make I'm Rich.

Dont hope too much because not all of those hopes or wishes could really come true.Imagine 2 years time before they pay isnt really something that you should brag on but at least
they do really pay at the end up of the line but waiting for 2 years? I would consider it to be dead or had been forgotten and consider yourself lucky to receive those which is really
vary unusual but not impossible.If i were you then if you do find out that those coins does have value then better to sell off those coins while its still early because you might
really be missing out that particular chance since not all would  really have that situation on pumping out just like into those good projects but if you can risk up on
holding it than on selling it right away then its your choice.

^ Definitely right, they are looking after the allocation reward but not on the legitimacy of the project, this is very common on every bounty hunter and we have all experienced that problem here. I think not only us as bounty hunters did not get profit, but also managers that paid token are probably a victim. I consider that joining bounty or as bounty participants, it seems like playing gambling and it matters based on luck. Once you are lucky and the project that you promote listed on a big exchange, you are very lucky to get your profit but if not, let's accept the fact.

Good luck with your plan. Maybe you haven't found your fortune in bounty hunting because it isn't really a thing that you should rely on but just for spending free time.
I've seen stories that made them fortunate by having an unexpected surge with the altcoins that they've held through the bounty rewards that they have received. I wish that you'll be having to enjoy the profit that you'll take there someday.

There is no guarantee in participating in bounties but there are things that you can follow so that your chance of receiving your bounty payments will be high.

: Follow bounty managers that know how to choose a good project
: Escrow the bounty payments
: Payments are in popular Coins/Tokens

I rarely seen the bounty managers who have been escrowing the funds and this time BD is the only manager that is doing it.
As far as i know you can't peg with analization that already made by the manager consider sometime it can be wrong as well.

Only a few campaigns that were accepting the native coins to be used as a payment to the hunters and i rarely seen this too.

wanna show my respect to you , a Bounty hunter that had Joined more than 200 projects is an achievements and if you only participated back in 2016 or 2015 ? you must be a Millionaire by now.
if the team is willing to PAY YOU ? THEN WHY NOT but i doubt they will still offers you payments for that long.
congrats you are a JR , Member now.

Many have suggested things like this but still some managers don't implement a system like this so I think they will only wait for the end of the sale when the success is distributed to the hunters so I guess it won't be on time until whenever even though the plan has been set beforehand.

Now the problem is when the hunters take so long even though the tokens can be traded, but this problem is difficult to solve and the team or trying to run away with subtle words, so we will not be fully that the bounty will be paid on time.

About 95% of the campaigns that took place in 2018 and 2019 did not pay. Because most of the projects failed then. Payment for low rank is never withheld. You can now participate in the bounty if you want. Because now the amount of scam bounty is comparatively a little less. Now some campaigns have got good payments like YOUC, DEGO, AME, CLVA, STC etc.

You may be surprised that bounty hunters are the most poorest investors in the crypto space, Lol, there are various project that failed during the 2017 till now, bounty hunters aren't not profiting from doing bounty, rather they are given peanuts for their hard work, I was a bounty Hunter that had up to 250 tokens in my wallet, till today only one coin I could witness about that I withdrew.

They didnt start out as investors though. Rather as collectors of coins that they supposed were to become second to bitcoin. In reality they wasted their time and effort in promoting projects that were either failures of scams or cashgrabs.

Many of the hunters from that time have had ethereum wallets filled with tokens that one cannot keep track of anymore. Huge quality but low quality is what happened to the market of new altcoins.

DeFi came before that but became popular much later even then that also followed a similar demise. Too many projects but zero value in any of them.

Various project turns scam specially if you are dealing with tokens created last 2018 and I call it a year of shitcoins since almost all of the project are not paying their hunters a good pile of cash compare before. But don't lose hope since I see that bounty campaign are doing good since there are several people who earn at Defi and BSC  craze right now. Also don't call the bounty hunter  the poorest since that's not good word to call since time and efforts is a big contribution and investment for the project they promoted.

In fact, we will always go through times of difficulty and glory, well in 2018 many people are frustrated that they lose a lot of money, either from being subjected to fraud or decreasing trade because at that time the price of bitcoin has reached the lowest.
We used to be bounty hunters who always tasted bitter and sweet, even now we will continue to go through it together in this forum, with the advent of the defi and bsc trend which is getting more success, here we will know how to take advantage of the opportunities and the results of the bounty. .

Just what you have experience, I encountered the same situation, joning some bounty signature campaign but haven't received my payment until now, then I choose to dont mind all those bounty projects and keep in my mind that those projects are not successful that why they didn't send payment for their bounty participants.

In my own interpretation why many bounty campaign not pay for their bounty participants because they didn't already met their goals so that they not able to pay for their bounty,  because of that, I choose to join signature campaign with escrowed and  trusted manager who paying their participants weekly.

That is a good thing because most bounties have been a waste of time and money. For the hunter the only thing that matters is the payment and that is a narrow minded thought even though they are actually doing it for the money. So if they dont get paid they will blame the manager, the team and so on.

Again bounty payment are not salaries - they are a prize for the participation and thus most managers nowadays have a disclaimer about this so that they are not held responsible for the non-payment. In my opinion the bounty scene is messed up. Either you go for the signature campaigns set up by well known managers or dont participate at all.

This is completely normal in the crypto market in 2018.
At that point the market plunged and the majority of new projects failed to appeal to investors, when projects failed they would not pay the bounty hunters.

Gone are the days where most of projects do really pays off on that year 2017 and after that sudden crash in 2018 then the market starts to shift into the other side where projects do still
continue to launch up in spite of the situation but still ending up on not to get sufficient funding because investors had already lost up their confidence on supporting a particular project
even though there are project who get some funding or simply succeed on getting the minimum cap but still ending up on not paying the bounty hunters.

What can you do if they wont tend to pay up those advertisers? None.

This had been a common problem in ages where its part of being a bounty hunter on experiencing these kind of things for them to waste up all of their efforts and time on making exposure
on a particular project but ending up on getting nothing because they havent been paid up.Therefore, the best solution to this if you dont like to experience then better to
do your assignment on finding the best project as possible as you can.

That's the saddest part as a bounty hunter your chances of getting a profit for your investment is always at 50% stake. Welp, I guess they were hoping that the good old days would still continue these days but sadly, those are long gone. Investors now learned their mistakes from the past and is slowly moving on to the hyped one instead of an unknown projects because investors wouldn't put money on it unless it's something that they could make some profit.

And up to this day, I think a lot of them are thinking that by being a bounty hunter you could get rich quick but most of them didn't know the truth and struggle they have to suffer first before getting to what they think would bring them fortune.

You are not alone, most bounty hunters receive nothing in 2018.
The year 2018 was so bad that many bounty hunters had to leave their jobs in search of something better, and those remaining in bounty hunters were struggling a lot.

Most of those project back then really suffered as the market condition is not good.

For several reasons they unable to pay their hunters and the project totally scammed and runaway. You'll be lucky if some cameback
and pay you the rewards then continue the development, there's still chances that you'll be able to get a good amount of compensations.

This is really a problem for bounty hunters, no one will protect them from scammers.
If you want to take part in the bounty I think everyone should investigate carefully about that bounty program. Participating in campaigns run by reputable bounty managers is another way to avoid scams.