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I became a bounty hunter after being introduced to bitcointalk by a friend who only showed me how to participate in bounty campaigns. For the bulk of my time here, I worked as a bounty hunter, merely tapping on bounty links from Telegram groups to participate in campaigns; it was all I was taught to do. After a few weeks of boredom, I decided to investigate the forum. That day, I came across a lot of intriguing subjects and posts, and I realized there's a lot to learn here, and the site isn't just about bounties.
I take it back to start a new life in this forum, hoping to get proper guide on where to start from so that I can learn and contribute to the forum too as others.

Joining bounties from new projects doesn't have a good image as many bounty hunters only spam this forum just to meet the required posts needed to get stakes and receive reward after the campaign ends. It's good that you take your time to investigate what the Bitcointalk really is. Bitcointalk forum is not all about bounties but all about sharing, learning and helping other people. Some business owners use the Bitcointalk platform to promote their projects with a reward and that's where the campaign comes.

bounties activity can provide an initial profit, but we are really far from the past years in which it was possible to earn interesting figures with extreme simplicity. Now basically it's all about spam and visibility ... and a considerable effort in terms of time and effort required.

the forum is above all a "mine" of information, many interesting users with their ideas, and it is easy to find useful sections for your knowledge and a way to maximize your knowledge of this sector. I think that what you can learn here it's more valuable respect. what you earn with bounties.

@OP you already said your mistake and now you are repeating it again by being spoonfeed you’re already in the proper board to browse topics that you want including pinned thread here in Beginner's and Help. You can use search function to find the specific answer to your question and always explore for yourself because you will need the most if you want to improve your forum experience.

You can start reading this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5275357.0 that compiles all the newbie guides in the forum.

Well, nobody said bounty is a crime, the board was added for reason and your friend showed you what you wanted to know at that time but now that you learned the etiquette of the forum, it is not too late to do the needful.
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I'm just getting to find out the meaning of bounty and bounty hunters, I didn't know of the existence of such here in this forum. Truthfully we have been drawn to this forum for various reasons, but I think the most important thing and what should be the aim of everyone here should be to learn. Since you have realised that you have started on the wrong foot, it is the first step in making amends, change your objective here and in no time certainly there will be better opportunities for you in the crypto space that you will discover from learning.

good for you! I remember reading that we have some members or perhaps a member who used to focus on bounty hunting but did change and started joining discussions in the forum instead of doing bounty campaigns. and I remember correctly that member is now a legendary rank(or maybe a hero member, I am not sure). if that member can do it, I am sure you can do it too.

I played around with Telegram bounties and airdrops for some weeks, and came to finding it tremendously boring, on the verge of being demeaning. It was right at the beginning, when I experimented here and there with ICOs, some airdrops, and a few bounties as mentioned. All pretty much a waste of time, and it didn’t take long for me to move away from all that. Part of the learning curve when landing on a new terrain …

Yeah, one could even say: There is a lot more to this forum than meets the eye. You just have to keep exploring and reading. ;)

Anyway, you've taken a step in the right direction by exploring the forum more deeply than what your friend showed you. And now it's your turn to show your friend something new.

Glad to hear that you understood there is more than bounties in this forum. Almost everyone that joins the forum for the first time was either introduced by a friend or family for doing bounties. Those who realize that bounties are just a small part of this forum are very less. I also initially started with bounties and at a very late stage realized that there is more to do in the forum.

You are in the right section already. B&H is your friend and a good place to hang out and learn more about forum and any interesting idea on bitcoin and blockchain. Being a bounty hunter isnt a crime, but we must uphold the very mission here on forum, to provide discussion and meaningful topics. I am the same initial as yours when I landed here, my purpose is for bounty and Ive changed that, and realized it far more longer than you actually but I glad Ive did, so its not really too late for you, I understand you and hoping yoi could transform than into a contributor here. Good luck.

As a visual and auditory learner, I find Andreas Antonopolous youtube channel to be useful for getting your bitcoin education starting from the basic to advance level. You can binge watch his videos if you have some free time to spare  ;)
- https://youtube.com/c/aantonop

Another great resource you can start reading is Jameson Lopp's website. The articles he made contains a lot of tools and resources that you can use in experimenting and learning the fundamental behind bitcoin. Just make sure to read them on a habitual basis to learn more effectively.
- https://www.lopp.net/

Are you still making money with telegram campaign? I mean bounty campaign that pays token with no value yet?
Dude almost all bounty campaign in altcoin section are scam unlike years ago. The only paying campaign here are campaign that pays in Bitcoin.

Now that you've realized you started on a wrong footing with bounties, it's about time you moved on and away from it. You can start by deleting your bounty reports and posts if you've claimed your rewards from them. That will tidy up your post history. I don't think most of the community members like going through profiles that are taken up by bounty reports. For me, I don't. Even when I want to merit a user's other posts and I discover it has a lot of bounty reports and posts it pisses me off. Look at how easily you've received 4 merits for the short OP you've made and that's the highest you've got since you registered here in 2021. It goes to show how the community is ready to reward genuine users. So, buckle up and keep soaring henceforth.

I think the next step for you is learn more and talk less, when you're already know you're step in the wrong way, you need to spend more time to read any thread to gain knowledge, explore the forum and improve your posting quality. How bounties isn't boring when you're just like, share and working like a robot that doesn't interact with the others. Probably you will get constructive criticism when you want to start a discussion, but that's the important part.

Good for you that you realized that there are better ways to spend your time on Bitcointalk. There is greater earning potential outside of bounty campaigns, and the best of all is you surround yourself with very knowledgeable people that you can learn from just be reading what they are writing. Take a look at the Bitcoin technical boards if you want to know more.

If you are looking for a collection of the best threads and discussions started on Bitcointalk, I would recommend taking a look at and bookmarking Beginners & Help Encyclopedia [UPD: +Electrum Board]. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364418.0) You can find everything you could possible need there.     

This happened to me also. I came to the forum in March by accident, and also accidentally found out about the bounty. But my patience was enough for five months. I desperately believed in these scam projects that promised great prospects for investors and also for those who advertised them. Realizing that I was wasting my time, I began to expose these scams.

But indeed, a lot of people came to the forum, as the OP puts it, from the wrong step, and we had to "sober up" for a while.

The OP spent about nine months, which can also be said, he got good experience so that he would no longer return to the bounty advertising classes.

I'm happy for you, OP. You have made the right decision.

There is never a wrong timing to getting knowledgable. People work with what they first experienced and got introduced to. Although bounty hunting isn't bad but it comes with lots of distraction and less of knowledge. It's cool you had to explore further to see more the forum could offer other than mere bounty hunt

Congratulations mate for realizing you need to make a Turn around, well I would say you aren’t the first to have a wrong start to this Journey many has even the more popular big names has also been their, but it’s a good thing you see it for what it is, now I believe you may by now have mentor, you can pick up useful knowledge from, you should also do more now than you were doing, read more and in no distance time you would be excelling.

Someone is reborn, give this man a round of applause.
Only few got that realization after becoming a full time bounty hunter lol.

So yeah, try reading what you need to learn first, google some keywords with "bitcointalk.org" or use the search feature of the forum. You can still do bounties and yet participate discussions/questions here, ofc reading too. Don't forget to read the forum rules too
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

I wouldn't really say a wrong foot, rather a diferent path, and there's something to take away from that experience. Your starting point can lend much needed perspective to new people because it's a diferent angle that may or may not be the right approach for people.

This right here is what I was hoping into the other use that posted about his intention here which was to primarily get money off the forum. Many newbies are introduced in the wrong way in this forum and that is quite saddening to be honest, but it is not too late to change someone's way anyway once they saw the big picture on what is the forum all about. This is a forum not an earning platform. I see this forum as like a subreddit for cryptos but with more active community and engagements if you're asking.

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I am still going to watch your posts, OP.  If I had seen an actual changes by couple of weeks or so, I'll award you a couple of merits exactly in this thread. I already bookmarked it just in case.

For most of us here, bitcointalk is important because the works of the bounty hunters are done in the forum, so whether we like it or not, we should be active in the forum. However, if you go deeply to what the forum is all about, its not only for bounty hunters. Its for all the newbies and not so newbies to keep gaining insights on the crypto market itself particularly with bitcoin, which is the target in the forum. If you want to improve your knowledge and skills related to cryptocurrency, bitcointalk could be the best answer to that. Not only for business promotions, bitcointalk is also the best outlet if you want to exchange ideas with some of the best posters and legends residing in the forum.

Its not about you are in wrong foot but actually this is good step coming ahead because by introducing bounty campaign you learn a lot of things and if you are dedicated enough to stay and learn more things you will actually find more things here. There's actually new life but I call it moving on because you move in certain area to level up your skills so hopefully you learn something new which can help you earn as what you are trying to seek here.

Focus first on learnings because once you became more knowledgeable the earning phase follows to anyone who's eager to seek for more learnings about new things.

This forum is an excellent resource for learning and gaining knowledge about Bitcoin and other matters. I'm glad you recognized how bounty was wasting your time in the forum; most of the campaigns are worthless, and they almost always end up as scam projects, so why waste our time on them?

Back then (2017), it might profitable but now, I tend to agree with you, that most of them are worthless, there are a lot of tasks that you need to comply with, and lucky if you get profited from them but usually, most of them are scam.  

I have the same thought with the OP before when I was a newbie and I can't blame him, because this was the way they introduced the forum to me, making a profit.  Fortunately, I have been awake to that wrong perception, forum is a great community where you'll have everything that you need about crypto, a community where you can ask and discuss different topics.

I see myself as this newbie when I was there before, I will never be surprised if soon OP will rank up and become Legendary.

Bounty hunting is one aspect I won't advise any user to get involved except otherwise. Cause it's going to deprive you of so much other  benefits in the forum that 3x outweighs whatever you might seem to be getting as a bounty Hunter.

The knowlege acrued to the totality of the forum board's is one any meaningful investor in crypto wouldn't wanna miss.

There's no misstep from my point of view, you're just finding a valuable place to learn through a small hole that most people are still stuck in. Imagine if your friends didn't introduce this forum even though in a way that you think is wrong, maybe you will never be here.

And now it's time for you to repay your friend. I don't think there's anything wrong now that you turn around to show him that this forum is much broader than a place to collect less valuable "free money".

The thing is we all joined the forum at different times and we all were introduced to it in many context as per our requirements and most of us were bounty hunters if speak for myself also in the past but with time everything changed depending on how you want to see it.You have realised your mistake early and want to move towards learning on the forum and it's best decision you have made.

This forum is like a big library where abundant knowledge resources are available but you just need to look for them rising from these bounty campaign on the forum which will help you gain nothing.See i am saying from personal experience as well as from members here that most of these bounty are scams or will pay you some tokens that will get dump as soon as they get listed because owners and whales have dumped them so you have worthless tokens on your address which will be dead in few time.So it's better to leave them.

You are on the best learning forum about bitcoin and crypto market as whole and can learn lot if you are dedicated about it as there are many newbies who had made it possible are now high rank members on the forum in short span of time guiding others here and IRL also.So best is Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas and his  YouTube channel  (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPQwGV1aLnTuN6kdNWlElfr2tzigB9Nnj)

From here you will have plenty of idea about bitcoin working technically and forum is always there at your help like these threads by @fillippone  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5156874.0)

So best wishes you and will see how you progress on the forum.

The fast you realise this fact that bounties are just waste of time it's better for you and me personally can't handle submitting tonnes of reports for my weekly work on social media which will at end have no value.The airdrops were at one point of having your personal information and using them on dark web giving away you some fake tokens which are listed at zero value.So we all have also tried to investigate it though participation but realised it's waste and shit work to do.So instead do some productive work enhancing your knowledge on the forum and taking part in knowledgeable discussion is lot better for personal growth.

Most times, we tend to mark bounty hunters down and you can't blame forum users who do that as, bounty hunters tends to be spammers and often end up promoting scam projects, filling the cryptospace with pump and dump coins!
But the truth in bounty hunting is that,you get to see that shady side of the forum and how crewl your treated to have adopted to bounty hunting. You are completely disregarded by other forum users wo focus more on contributing and even at that, there is often nothing to show by bounty hunters after a long bounty hunting days. You still get to end up with nothing!
Sorry you weren't properly oriented but it's also good you've found the nothingness in bounty hunting and is up for a change. Don't stray the part and engage more time in reading, ensuring that you follow up on the discussions before you contribute. Do the work!

Quite alright some get away to make it really good on bounty hunt but what we needed to consider is the rate at which it benefit people compared with the rate of how its been use to scam people which totally renders it an illegitimate hunt that resulted in chasing after air at the long run, one common thing these bounties promise is a reasonable return that could be tempting enough to giving a try, but we shouldn't forget that when its too real to be true then its as not been truth at all, we are not to be entice or freak by their promises which later resulted into waste of time and efforts.

Op, your story is the reality that happens to so many newbies.
I know of some established members of this forum who also made such mistakes. They spent upto 6 months in the forum, only knowing the bounty section.

This kind of testimonies or posts are the reasons I appreciate a post made by me => Some avoidable forum mistakes of Newbies  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5379867.msg58900293#msg58900293). In the topic, I pointed out this point as a mistake.

The bitcointalk forum is here to offer you a lot of learning opportunities, you just have to explore the forum and eventually find some interesting and valuable topics that will make you more knowledgeable about bitcoin and the whole crypto market. If you are a bounty hunter, i believe you always learn on the topics you chose to discuss with but this isn't just about learning, it's all about sharing the valuable things you learned as they can help and encourage a lot of newbies out there.

Your story reminds me of Bill Gate's wonder quote which says "If you're born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor it's your fault". This means your first entry into the forum was misguided which is not your fault but if you continue on the path will be your fault.
In crypto, I want you to understand that the more you learn the more you earn.

Unfortunately, this is a very common happen where the first thing newbies come here is about joining bounties, which are sometimes worthless because they cannot choose the legit one. Moreover, right now, there are only a few bounties that really pay and legit. mostly they are shit projects without any value and cannot be listed in any exchanges, getting no rewards after working for months, and many others.

You are right, it is better to learn as much as possible at first here. So you can be more open minded and see every chance here to do what should do.

+1!

This is definitely the main weakness of our Bitcointalk forum. It's great in an overall sense, I love the community. But yeah, it seems really bad when you see a whole bunch of newbies joining bounties. It seems like they are mainly driven by greed. With a short amount of time they do not even realize their mistake and wonder why the karma is so low in their transactions. It's really sad that people come to such an active community to do that. They think they will earn a lot of money. But that is not how bounty programs work at all nowadays. Right now it's basically worse than it has ever been, it's a total mess. Thanks for pointing that out.

I don't see it as a weakness of the forum, it's a weakness of the users doing that. Bitcointalk allows you to take part in any activities you want as long as they don't break any forum rules. If you want to read and learn about Bitcoin, you have many ways to do that. If you want to join bounty campaigns just because they promise they will pay bounty hunters $10 million worth of unlisted and non-existing bounty tokens based on a price the developers have set in their heads, but will never be achieved, you can do that too. If you didn't learn the lesson after the first time, maybe you will after the 2nd or 10th.   

Well, In my opinion, the forum's weakness is that it attracts such users. But maybe it would be better to call it a "weak spot."
And, when it comes to learning a lesson, I've seen some accounts doing it since 2018 (maybe even earlier) so I'd say some don't learn even after the 1000th time. Although, I can imagine that the bounty "business" was much more lucrative back then, which may be why they do it now with dozens of their alt accounts. The law of large numbers, I guess.

It is very interesting to hear that a person is starting to choose the right path to increase his knowledge. OP, you deserve support from a lot of people here once you realize that bitcointalk forum is not just about money, but you should get a lot of knowledge about it. For some reason disagree if you say that you have made a wrong move just because you joined the bounty but I do agree that it is a mistake if you never manage to gain any knowledge here just because you are 100% focused on money.

I agree that each of us should be good at appreciating time on bitcointalk forums to gain various knowledge. You've gotten a lot of advice in several other users' posts before me, so try to maximize your time studying it. I hope you are really sincere about it.

As to know that this forum is not all about earning money but also a way to gain knowledge and market discussions. It also teaches us to manage our emotions and decision making especially when we do trading.
It is a great approach in crypto not just to think about money but rather to enjoy ourselves learning some new things that haven't yet encountered. As we explore the forum, the more it excites us to stay and the more we gain knowledge that can be applied in our daily activities.

Yeah, that's it. Some of them probably remember the good old days and expect those days will return, you just have to stay patient and keep posting those social media links. If you live in a third-world country where an extra $10 a month makes a big difference to your economic status, you can understand why some people do it. Multiple accounts signed up in dozens of bounty campaigns. If 99% of them scam, there will always be that one that will pay those $5-10 and people are satisfied with it. Even if none of them pay, there is always next month and the one after that...