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I see that there is still a big rush on bounty programs. I wonder if it's worth the effort.
spamming the forum, creating multi accounts, buying merits... is it really worth that much?

as far as I've seen, most of all "projects" are mostly worthless and their tokens most often never reach any value. that's why they're called shitcoins for a reason.
I would like some of the bounty hunters to share their personal experiences and state publicly how much real (tangible) money they managed to earn from participating in these campaigns. Of course, using only one account and following the rules of the campaign.

I am not referring to tokens that have value only in the whitepaper, so only what has been converted or can now be converted into Fiat, Bitcoin or some stablecoin. also, earnings from bitcoin signature campaigns are not the subject of this discussion.

Hard to tell and hard to announce. But I'd say it is not as high as with the rewards way back 2017 from campaigns. Most projects are now paying on a weekly and usd based so it is somehow fixed. Way back years before, payments were in the projects's token which makes the pay out or reqards bigger especially once the token they are promoting is released in the market. Quite unfortunate as well for those who has low ranks in this forum because rewards are a bit small and sometimes they do not qualify to the campaign. On the other hand, I am stillthankful for the payong projects nowadays because it gives participants something to be greatful of despite of the bad market situation.

It's still a thing and profitable venture? I think participating on new token airdrops and grinding to get that whitelist on NFT then flip it later on when it get listed was more profitable than this. I think some are worth it for those that are managed by well known managers but I'd say 90% of what we see on bounty board are not.

I say it's very declining. when compared in 2017 and 2018 I can even easily hundreds of dollars in one project but since 2020 until now maybe even just once a year earn hundreds of dollars. But whatever it is we should be able to be grateful and continue to work.

I was attempting bounty hunting back in 2016-2017 in 20 something number of projects after which I stopped participating in them. Till date those shitcoins are in my ethereum wallet and only one of those projects have given me decent returns, that is BCDiploma token/EvidenZ (BCDT). I was able to sell a stash of them at the all time high and have been holding to the other half of the stash for even more gains in future. The second one would be Viberate (VIB) which was an additional payment on a signature campaign, but have performed much better previously after launch and then went to dumps only to reincarnate a few months back.

To be honest, these are needles in a haystack and I therefore dont recommend and neither do I myself participate in these campaigns. But I doubt any of those bounty hunters are actually going to read this and write a comment.

Yes still does. But if it about signature I think the campaign should be limited to such higher rank who can do a proper posting. I dont know, but I think that managers should discourage the participants of newbies and lower rank since they might spam a lot on the forum. Leaving the threads with spam post and signature quota.

Some of them are worth it but i wouldn't recommend anyone saying how much they made especially lately. I've seen enough hacks using social engineering to hack emails and clear accounts. Projects that pay with liquid altcoins like btc or eth are worth it, but when they pay with their own tokens it's a gamble. I mean i have made a lot in the past with those too (all gone now). Sometimes you can even hit the jackpot when there are for some reason not enough participants and your stake can be worth a lot. And after that you just hope that the project will get picked by a whale.

Also i have seen how many bounty program just out right lies. That they have a $200k usdt budget without escrow, or that $200k usdt is actually in worth of their own token. Or even that they will pay after they get the money after ico, which obviously wouldn't happen even if they raised money.

This was among the mistakes made by bounty managers, as they do not set a limit on the number of participants. There can be a $2,000 budget, and more than 10,000 members participate in the signature campaign and other campaigns. In the end, each participant gets project tokens and their value is not equal to a dollar. Unfortunately, the idea of participating in bounties these days is useless and a waste of time. There are even bounties that last for many weeks, and in the end, they do not pay the hunters, or the hunters get shitcoins by promoting these scams and failed projects, so before you work in one of the bounties, you must review the project first and details of the bounty and the allocated budget, because not every bounty will be profitable for those who work on it.

Back around late 2017 when I tried a bounty specifically signature campaign bounties since I do not have a lot of followers in my social media profile that time, I think I only earned around <$20 when I sold my tokens from a bounty in here, not that I did care anyway since it was like trying get my feet wet on how much do altcoins usually get worth after ICO ends. I believe I was a Member rank that time. It ain't worth it. $20 might be have a bit of more value here in my country considering that I live in a 3rd world country, but I would rather just freelance than doing that.

Can't imagine that there would be users going really far to break the rules like you mentioned on the first part just to pursue those while plenty of opportunity awaits outside.

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Instead of pursuing bounties further early 2018, I just invested my time to learn web dev. Way more fun! :D

Yes, there are many bounty campaigns right now but that doesn't mean that it's profitable for bounty hunters it's not, I have friends who are active in bounty campaigns and they earned $10 to $50 for two to three months from the so many campaigns that they've participated in.
Some of the reasons are the project failed to get funded and the developers abandon the project, the project gets funded and gets in the market but the participant's shares are peanuts because they accept thousands of participants and their allocation is a few thousand worth of their token and when you trade it on the market you are still at loss with the transaction fees.
Altcoins bounty hunting is already dead.

If this is 2017 - 2018, a lot of people here probably made tons if they are consistently doing the bounties. If it's in 2020 to present, obviously there will be little to none. Most bounties switched to USD in paying their bounty hunters which kinda diminished the potential earnings of bounty hunters. Switching the pay to fixed rate kinda destroyed the bounty hunters' economy and gigs, and those who remained are those who do not do much for work really because the pay became awful and is no longer something worthwhile for most people.

Bounties that are paying tokens doesn’t care that much about the rank as long as they can comply with the rules then it can be good. Quality managers will always choose the best participants to represent the project. For the past 2 years I was not able to participate on many bounties but I can still say that profit is still good and I’m hoping for more profitable years because bear market also affects the reward of the bounties.

I believed there are projects that are still worth it during the last 2 years but we really need to hear some feedback from those active bounty hunters themselves. Or maybe those popular bounty managers have information on whether their hold projects began to establish a good run when listed on the market.

But one thing is for sure, gone are those days when even a project has no good use case always reaching its hard-cap targets.

However, it's a good thing that their hype is gone since it also lessens the activities of those sh*t owners and developers.

Those days won't come again. The ICO days, because projects came up without any use case, but they gave good return on the investment. The adoption and the usage of cryptocurrency increased all of the sudden and the market getting exposed made the way for the new projects existence in a perfect way.

Not even 10% would've been earned by the bounty hunters compared to the year 2017. During those days people used to show much interest on bounties than bitcoin paid signature campaigns and now things have changed completely.

Remembering those year 2016-2017 years where everything is really on hype from ICO and into those bounties and to those airdrops and everything on which prices are really soaring up like crazy.
Lots had made out huge money out of those free coins but in the end, lots had lost their money into those ICO investment.I dont know if there are still people who do bounty hunting nowadays
because if you do look into the bounty board or threads which there are lots still of new projects launching up their own bounties. Didnt check if those participants are real ones
or just simply those bots which im not really that surprised for those peoples dedication on hitting at least a good one, but i would  definitely say that it isnt
really worth nowadays.

Because of this question, I've now become curious about what are those projects that held a bounty campaign before here that becomes successful during their ICO but still kicking up today. Does someone know about some of these projects?

Not talking about those successful projects only on ICO but those projects that really becomes popular but are now nowhere to be seen today.

Really hard to trust a project that comes from only pure hype.

I've read some of the replies on the other thread that they did earn profit from a 4-6 weeks bounty campaign but I don't know the year or maybe it did happen in the past where bounty hunting was a thing. But for now, I think it's rare to find a worthy campaign for bounty hunting since most of them ended up as a shit coin on their wallet that has no value at all or no exchange's listing their token.

Since the scenario will always be like this: if you are an investor of this token (probably the dev) you will probably be the first one to dump everything you hold when the listing begun and all that's left in the market was for the bounty hunters waiting for their token to be sold because they can't sell it yet after receiving the token.

Maybe it's different now from what I know in the past.

I got disappointed by the previous bounty campaign I participated with that is why I stopped participating in the forum for more than a year and do things outside the blockchain community.  Prior to the latest bounty campaign I joined, I earn almost nothing making my time wasted in joining these bounty programs.  Some of the paid while some of the didn't.  And those that paid often do not get into listing in exchanges and become worthless overtime.

I agree with the post above me, there are still worthy project being launched from time to time but it is very difficult to tell since most project have the same approach strategy.

You are right, the bounty campaigns over the last two years have very low budgets and most of the campaigns are scams.
If this continues, bounty hunters will disappear from the forum.

Reading the whole posts, only @asyakashi is answering the question in this thread while the others only discuss about the 2017-2018 payment during ICO hype, I mean everyone already know it is? :D It's an irrelevant answer since we're not only compare the recent payment with the 2017-2018 payment, but the question is how much the bounties payment right now? as simple as that.

Also I will say users who answer this question while he's joined a signature campaign paid with Bitcoin is liar sine they're not join the bounties lol.

I will agree with you that the projects that started the bounty campaign are junk projects without any value. Nowadays, most good projects no longer use forms of marketing spam such as social network spam, it no longer works. Potential projects are now receiving great attention and investment from angel investors, and VCs... like the projects of Aptos or Sui, there is no need for marketing, but investors who want to make a profit have to find those projects themselves. Bounty campaigns became obsolete and died when the ICO died.

@examplens, I think this topic is going to be a rather useless topic, as far as I can see here, no one is actually a bounty hunter answering. This is reasonable. Why bounty hunters don't have discussions on this board? because it would be useless for them. They usually only participate in social media campaigns, and the mandatory thing they have to do is report their posts on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. But I will try to get them here to give their response to your question, hopefully they will share their experience.

Special Mention: @Shanta656, @oashim74, @main34, @munni1272, @Oppo100$


I've also PMed all five of them, I hope we get a good response from them and hopefully @examplens gets what he's hoping for.

I tried to be a bounty hunter in 2016 to 2017 and after that in 2018 many new projects came out and 80% scam and I decided to move into gambling.

in 2016-2017 at that time the bounties that I participated in were only a few and didn't make much money.
but after few years when i joined bounty in 2017 paid using NFT with amount of 5 NFT in 2021 it cost around $60000, for me it was a big amount.

so as long as I joined the bounty from 2016 to 2017 it didn't generate much.

I followed a few bounty since the last 3 months, I followed 2 bounty and everything from the signature campaign, at this time there was no payment and if 2 bounty was paid the possibility of getting around $ 50, this was because I saw the bounty session at this time was very difficult because there were many projects It is also difficult to collection of money from ICO so that payments to participant bounty are also very small.

From my experience(without spamming the forum, without creating multiple accounts and without buying the merits(see my merits, lol)), it's possible to earn thousands.
The thing is, it's not up to what amount we get but it's up to how much it got converted later. For example, I had received $125 worth tokens for one the project. When I hold it for one year, it became $4000 worth tokens.
So it's how project behaves in project.
Summary, I still see every effort worthy for any bounty programs.

I have been participating in nearly all bounties by julerz12, and some other reputed managers, which means I havent participated in much bounties this year, and I could say that totally I have earned around $100, maybe $150 this year from participating in twitter and facebook bounty campaigns. Not much, previous year was definitely much better.

Become bounty hunter nowadays is not running well actually with payment reward, many participants seems try their lucky with signature service and have forget joining with Altcoin bounties. I think many bounties campaign don't have expected payment reward after distributing.
I ever checked with las bounty campaign have payment under $3 for signature campaign participants and lower than $1 for social media campaign.

After era 2017 all bounties campaign not running well and have lower payment received, I think waste time have to create multiple account for joining bounties campaign with reward like this.

https://i.imgur.com/VqmqzB9.png

2017 was a bounty with a large prize of up to thousands of dollars that I had received at that time, entering 2019 very few projects have succeeded in turning into money. and at the end of 2020 another bounty started which was quite interesting and successful, such as the DIA project, the CARTESI bounty which was developed by a bounty manager with a good reputation. can develop long term until now

even some of my friend's friends have started to leave crypto. Those who were originally with me on this bounty hunter forum actually prefer to work outside because the bounty has a very low fee. not only that, in fact we sometimes have to accept scams when the project disappears.

2016 to 2018 are the best years to be in a bounty campaign, all projects are good the allocation equals your one month's salary or even more in your country I have 8 campaigns back then where I managed to build our house through my rewards and set up a store but now with so many bounty hunters coming and just joined just any bounty with no good projects to promote bounty hunters can hardly earn $100 a month, the altcoins are saturated and many investors lose and continue to lose money.
Their confidence in altcoins has to diminish, it's only a matter of time before we see the end of bounty hunting.

Why do many use multiple accounts because bounty hunters believe that this method can allow them to get more prizes which is very much the opposite to those who only have one account.
I'm sure this has gone down a lot from what they got when the ICO was still booming, maybe from The 10 bounties they participated in were only 1 or even none of them produced so it's really gone down very far, but because new projects are still popping up, some of the existing projects are still holding bounties, so the job as bounty hunters in this forum is still in demand.

It always depends on which bounty you are part of obviously. I know people here in this forums that made like 3-4 bitcoins with the Chipmixer bounty campaign before they changed the term during the bullrun of 2020/2021. This means those people made like 200k $+ in they have sold those BTC when they were at the ATH. Of course this is a very rare exception and only a handful of people very this lucky. Now the chipmixer campaign is still the best paying in this forum as far as i know. They are payign 6$ in BTC per post for a maximum of 50 posts each week. This means you can make 300$ each week or 1200$ a month in this campaign. This is more than most people earn with a full time job in 3rd world countries.
Of course it is almost impossible to get into that campaign.

although it is much different from the previous era, what I hope is that when the bull season comes, we must start to change. 2020 has started projects that are not clear that they can generate dollars just because of the effect of the bull season. and conversely bear season comes a project literally turning to ashes rarely being the project's success

It's significantly lower than what we had in 2016-2017 era where ICO was first announced. You could had gotten more than 10X than the initial value of those tokens/coins when they were getting listed at exchanges and the bounty rewards were incredibly high at that moment. But in this year, you can still get money from bounties but it's really low and if you see the value of those tokens currently, they are laughable.

Correct and they ended up scamming the investors and steal their money most of the time.

For the past two years, doing bounty has been so hard but some still get a lucky shot and being able to participate on a good projects that gave a huge airdrop. My earnings is not that big, maybe around a thousand since I was able to secure some spot on a good bounty and I was able to win some in the contest. Even if the market is still on a bear market right now, I will continue to do bounty hunting because I know good projects will still come in this market, we just need to be more patient for that.

As @examplens said, participation in signature campaigns is not discussed. Can you tell me which altcoin bounty campaign in the last 2 years has brought you big profits? I also regularly follow the bounty campaigns on the forum but to be honest, I have never seen a project as good and profitable as you said. As I said: good projects don't work on the forum, and they don't want spam marketing anymore. Only junk projects with no money to build use this marketing, but at the same time, scammers don't pay hunters.

And that money that you earned was for a whole year of work? Because that seems like a lot of work for not much money, there was a time when bounty campaigns were very profitable for bounty hunters, but since then things have changed dramatically, as not only finding a good bounty campaign is getting harder every day, but at the same time even if you could select a good bounty there is no guarantee that you are going to be paid for your efforts, as developers could always refuse to pay you for whatever reason.

As long as they dont spam actually its fine. But nevertheless we cant categorize everybody right? Some lower rank and even newbie who have sincere approach to posting can be seen also. But I am pertainign to those who are obviously posting for signature requirements. Sometime its on the manager as well the problem. Might as well only hired managers that responsible for campaign if I were the project owner.

Right now bounty programs are not that worth it since a lot of fake accounts join in and low rewards compare to years ago, Also many new projects end up scams when their bounty program ends so we got trash tokens from the project. For the last two years I have collected more than 150+ trash tokens. Well, since the bounty program only fills my spare time besides my real work then it's not a big deal.

This has long been of no value and the time spent will never pay off. All projects have long since moved beyond such bounties and moved to various services that support web3. All activity and promotion has long been concentrated there. I don't understand those people who in 2022 are looking for their 2016, hoping to go back in time and make money the same way it was fashionable in 2016 or 2017, spending hours of their lives to get 10 miserable dollars six months later.

Well, Actually will depend on how much allocation and how much member who joined the campaign. From my last campaign, for 6 weeks, member can get $400, Of course this is not good amount if compared to current signature campaign with BTC. but if member can filter the campaign I believe it can be more than $400. Unfortunately, current bounty hunter just trying to join any campaign without considering how much money they get with total participants since most of bounty campaign calculate the reward with stake system not fixed rate. So, i believe if they can find a good campaign, in last 2 years someone can get over $1500.

I saw on the forum today that 120,000 fraudulent tokens have been issued this year. I wonder how many of them tried to advertise here on our forum? I think it's a sufficient number. The market has become very crowded with all sorts of garbage, and more often than not, such garbage is tried to advertise through the most accessible ways. The form of bounty that is common on this forum is just right for such cheap and quick distribution.

In my opinion, Bounty performance in terms of budget and payment to hunters has been on the decline for the past 10 months. Out of many campaigns that I have participated in (for the past 10 months), only about 5 campaigns made payment in the range of $10 to $40, while two campaigns paid in the range of $200. Most of the payments are less than $1. On the average, for every ten projects that I have participated in, five ends up being scam, or will have one issue or the other despite doing some research on the project before participating.

I observed that project owners are the most free entities, because it seems there is nothing to hold them. I have participated in over 15 campaigns that ends up with the project owners refusing to pay, or simply refusing to communicate and that is it. Many campaigns end up just after one week, and no payment. Bounty hunters, in my opinion are really being exploited. Sometimes I wonder if bounty hunting has become a charity of some sort because they end up not getting rewarded in many instances. There is hardly any payment being made. I have observed two scenarios: Listed tokens either pay peanuts (usually less than 5 USDT worth of tokens) or they will keep holding the tokens for several months, even though they are listed; the other scenario is to pay tokens that are yet to be listed.

My other observation includes: Some projects hold on to listing for many months waiting for the bull market; Some escrow projects end up paying worthless amount of tokens some not even up to $1. In my opinion, bounty hunting is dying and even participants are declining. Hunters only look out for few campaigns by some managers that may fetch some fair campaigns. I will suggest publishing scam campaigns in this forum so as to serve as a caution to project owners who now have freedom to do as hey want and nothing holds them. They waste people time and go freely. Secondly, why is it not possible to make all campaigns escrow? Unlisted tokens should pay in USDT - on a fair budget. Hunters must not wait for years to get their rewards because the token they promoted have not been listed. IMO, I think hunters task is more to promote the project than an investor so why won't they be rewarded timely?

Nowadays have many bounties campaign increasing drop bounty budget payment for participants, usually each bounty allocated about 2% until 5% from their coin supply distributing to bounty participants. Last two years all bounties have allocation budget for bounty reward with stable coin values under $10,000 but distributing trough altcoin bounty project, when price listing in the market drastically drop reward and each participants get not higher above $10.

Beside many project not reach their goals with pre sale become problem why less budget or reward distributing for bounty participants, I think most important with project advertising become success and get higher reward later with bounties campaign.

I believe that most bounty hunters don't even go beyond that section, many have difficulty communicating in English so I accept that as an explanation for why we did not get an answer to the question from the first post. honestly, I can't even say that I'm particularly surprised.

the majority of people on this topic don't provide relevant responses according to what you want to know, some share old experiences (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), some provide predictions regarding how much bounty hunter earnings have been in recent years. Even so, it looks like we have 1 relevant response from @bakasabo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5429719.msg61461103#msg61461103), hopefully we'll get more bounty hunters sharing their experiences.

They're just totally not worth it and most of the bounties are in drought unless they'll give the rewards into more rewarding coin like bitcoin, ethereum or any other coins that has liquidity. But if it is their tokens, then the fate of it is most likely known because of the bear market.

There are people that have treated it as their full time commitment and they're wrong on doing that because the glory days of bounties are done. And if they'll earn some on it, it's very minimal so, just as you've said it's only an incentive and has to be done with spare time.

If I am going to compared it into 2017 it was very far, due to mots of the bounties at the moment are not really good in terms of the seriousness to their projects. Aside from that their token as well has no sense at all they are only good for the hype and promises.

Moreover, if ever there is a project will give the rewards to their participants the distribution coin was very minimal and worst the value is very low.

120k? Hory Sh8t that's a lot. We obviously don't need much of that tokens but we already have most of our need in the existing tokens that we see today. The numbers grow so fast because those devs didn't think hard anymore but they just plagiarize other projects and do a little modification in the code, name and some details.

Some bounty hunters in our forum said that the numbers of bounties are declining, I think that tells that only a few percent of that 120k tokens are being promoted in the forum. They know that they will get busted here easily because we have a lot of scam busters here. I bet most of those have landed in telegram and in twitter since they are less regulated there.

@Oneandpure I have not participated in bounty before but statistically what you are saying is right, if a project without solid stability plans has the token listed on the exchange before rewarding their market which percentage of reward received during the counties duration is 2% or above let say up to 5% of total token supply the team will likely not pay since their know the impact that will have on their market value since there already have an exit plan, so the bounty hunter will get a relatively low payment equivalent in US dollar that is the reason you see lower pay as reward some as low as 10$-15$ this is bad but since bounty requires little efforts from the hunters and the shitcoin scammer's project team members, already are aware of the high rate of cheating via multiple accounts, bot/fake social media followers in their bounty program will not want to reward for a job not done and since the project team already know this the treat bounty hunter with high disdain.

The reward that was in the last year two years was much more than now, some of them are due to the bear market, some of them are due to the scam projects and some of them are due to the shit coin etc. But in the previous year I had earned a lot from just one id and that was more than I expected. Point is that , through bounties we can earn a lot.

I'm probably the least paying attention to the bounty campaign since 2020. To be honest, let alone joining and viewing the bounty-specific thread, it feels like there's no interest anymore. Bounties nowadays are always close to fraud or indeed 90% fraud, not like before. For now, it's hard to say it's worth it, let alone make a profit. The bounty era seems to no longer be a lucrative hunting sector. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, most of the famous Bounty Managers on this forum have sunk somewhere.

Some bounty hunters claimed to have made 100$-150$ yearly with bounties recently, but to reach a more precise conclusion, how long do they work to earn that sum of money? I guess it doesn't take an entire year to earn 100$-150$, right? Probably just few months. If that is really the case, these workers are still in a good position, because those amounts are really expressive and helpful for micro earners from poor countries.

On the other hand, if it really takes an entire year to earn only 100$, it's definitely going to be a waste of time, as it gives an average of less than 0,30$ daily for an intensive category of job.

The situation of last two years are so down compare to 2017 to 2020 because the last two years many projects are come but they still scam with us and many mangers can't distribute the reward in the end of Compaign .
And many projects are fail according the situation of market so i simply said that last two years some projects give him profit but many are scam with us.

Currently bounty campaigns are not profitable anymore. And who do I blame for this, now most of the projects are scam projects, and spam of bounty hunters, or those project managers who come up with campaigns for these projects? If I say these three categories are the reasons for the destruction of the Bounty sector. If we go back two or three years we can see that the authentic campaigns were profitable for the campaigners. But in the current situation it will be better to not waste your time in this bounty campaign.

Sometimes bounty hunters still get more or less good payouts. But they are already valued much lower than a few years ago. Now, I see quite often a $1,000-2,000 signing pool. And before it was several hundred thousand dollars. Considering that there are much fewer new useful ideas, often you don’t even want to participate in this.
Being on this forum, we will learn how the cryptocurrency develops and use this development for practical purposes. But in general, participation in bounty campaigns already largely depends on the availability of free time.

If we do say that bounty hunting is 100% shit then we wont be seeing some people who are engaging to it,although real users (not bots) are less in numbers comparable into those
 early ICO years where there are lots whom do consider on making some bounty hunting because of huge profitability probability which we do really target on.
In speaking about my own experience on doing bounties back in the past, then i had earned $1000-2000 as far as i remember and that was my last one and the
rest are just receiving peanuts or do even have still those trash tokens inside my wallet even up to now.

This could be a habit, a hope that "one day it will...", lack of alternative. I have noticed how my earning bounty has decreased from thousands, to hundreds, and are now tens of dollars. I keep on participating in bounties just by a habit. Now there are not so many projects that run bounties, and I have become more selective. So instead of participating 20 bounties, I participate in one or two. It takes just few minutes per day. I can allow to spend few minutes per day to participate in such lottery as bounty. I lose only few minutes; can get nice profit during next bull run, can get a zero. I dont know any alternative, where I can basically play lottery for free. Doing micro tasks can be an alternative, but take to much time to get a decent reward. In addition, that reward is constant, it wont multiply in case crypto market flies to the moon.

It has happened, you can see for yourself that many people have started not opening their accounts or being active to view this forum. the sheer amount of work and the strict rules that were made might make it difficult for people to make a small profit for themselves. but some people take advantage if it's too easy. I'm starting to get dizzy what to do.

I had the same reaction when I read that figure, it is simply incredible but at the same time the greed of scammers is so out of control that it would not surprise me if this is in fact an accurate number, at this rate the number of altcoins released in a single year will be higher than all the fiat currencies that have ever existed, but that should show us how much of a joke the altcoin market has become during the last years.

From my own side here, I still make something reasonable from few bounty campaigns out there, just many of these campaigns end up being a waste of time. The last one whose signature I made over $2,000 from, was neglected by high rank members of the forum and I took advantage of it. It ended up being the second best of my bounty campaign ever. Some campaigns still worth the time.

It seems that with the greed carried out by these fraudsters we can take advantage by buying these tokens and when the price increases we must be able to sell them quickly before the whales sell all the tokens.
That way we don't have to worry about experiencing big losses as a result of the actions taken by fraudsters.

Indeed, on average those who intend to commit crimes prefer to use altcoins which are relatively cheap and have a lot of enthusiasts as their infrastructure to deceive investors and traders

Wow, you surprise me, while most people, including the legends on the forums, admit that bounty campaigns have become useless and are no longer bringing any return worthy of the effort hunters put in, you say you made $2k in a signature campaign. I am inquisitive about the name of this project because I have been following it continuously since 2020. Until now, there has been no bounty campaign that can bring such big profits. Did I miss something?

According to his posting history, the last bounty campaign he was was Kuwa.io. Spreadsheet shows that he has got 950 tokens. The highest token prices was in the middle of November and it was about $0.0068. Users wallet shows that his token value is about 4 cents right now (he did not sell them). Either he was talking about some other campaign, but definitely not about his "last".

I stopped to work with non escrow campaigns, even i will join only those are already trading on the exchanges otherwise there are no guarantee to get payment end of the campaign. I heard this (KUOR) is rugged pull so that it’s going worthless, payment was escrowed but hunters got payments with no value on the market.

As a high rank forum member, I believe you should be able to do beyond shoddy research before making a conclusion. If you did research my past campaigns, you will see the KUWA campaign was left in just ⅓ participation when I saw it would amount to a waste of time like mentioned above.
One more thing you didn't consider in your research is that I said the campaign from whose signature I make over $2k was ignored by high rank forum members like you but on KUWA campaign, there were so many high rank members on the signature campaign.
Just like I said before, let's do more than shoddy research before drawing a conclusion, and I assure you that you'll find a worthy project to earn big from

1. No forum or organization is perfect or flawless. Spam and buying merit is one of the drawbacks of this forum, but at least with merit it can reduce the amount of spam.
2. An altcoin that doesn't have a price doesn't mean it's a scam or the team can't work. crypto market is very unpredictable, especially for new projects. it could be that the team has worked professionally and according to the road map but the unexpected market response has made the coin price drop or even worthless.
Crypto is full of risk guys...

Your account was created in 2020, which means you didn't participate in bounty campaigns at their most glorious time in 2017. If it's not the KUWA project @bakasabo is referring to, then you still haven't answered to tell us which project has brought you $2k since you joined the forum. I'm also really curious about that as I also haven't found another project that can bring such huge profits to bounty hunters, especially from 2020 till now.

Every bounty hunter has their own choice, and those you've mentioned are like the common denominators for most bounty hunters.
Escrow funds or tokens to make sure that you'll get paid no matter what happens to the project, there's the allocation ready to be there.
And at the same time, a good bounty manager is a good indicator but not guaranteed that the project or token is good.

We've seen though throughout the last couple of years that even having a good bounty manager doesn't mean that you will be paid. Even the experience one are getting scam as well and it did affect the reputation of some of the bounty managers that their good name was tainted with negative trust and even disappear already from this community.

I'm not sure how much bounty hunters are earning now, but with the way the landscape has change since 2017, not that big though. It's better to learn from this community first and learn how to trade or just join bitcoin paying campaign, just saying.

$2000 is a lot of money for signature campaign work for rank members. and for campaign projects that appear in 2021-2022 I am quite surprised if you get $ 2000 from signature campaigns.
because in the 2021-2022 era, almost several bounty projects only allocate prizes with very small amounts and if you get $ 2k from signature I'm really shocked.
many other members almost can't believe it because of the poor bounty project a few years ago it was so bad the payment was so small.
if you give permission, please list the project. so that all of us here can believe in something you say here

I am a bounty Hunter and I most say that in all honesty, it has been a frustrating experience participating in bounties these days. Sometimes you work for weeks and then the project ends up not paying, and even when some pay, the token never gets listed and when they manage to list, the price pool at the end of the bounty campaign become so meagre that it almost worth nothing.

This is the exact thing I'm seeing on the current altcoin bounty projects. There should be a sort of bounty management alliance that makes project owners required to put an escrowed stable coin that is calculated over the expected or planned bounty joiners. This is a good measure if ever the project flops or the owner run away which commonly happen nowadays. I think that publishing scam campaigns isn't that much helpful given that the project owners can easily make a project and make bounty hunters promote it again. We can see how easy to create an account here and make the things they are doing repeatedly. Though we can't control bounty hunters on joining potential flop campaigns knowing that some of them are doing it full time by having multiple accounts *I've been a bounty manager before that's why I know it. Also those managers who accepts potential flop projects since they make money there but I see it as a solution on current bounty campaign reward problems.

People love those campaign who pays surely that's why those campaign who have an escrowed amount of funds in bounty campaigns are filled so fast. People rushing participating in those kind of project because they see value in it, compared to those project that offers their native tokens that has the potential of having no value.

I don't see a good future on current altcoin bounty projects as a bounty hunter perspective. Too many project flops and some of them run away leaving bounty hunters no pay. It is too far from 2016-2017 bounty experience where majority of hunters are making quite reward from campaigns.

Most bounty rewards are actually not worth the effort nowadays. Majority of projects just give shit tokens that will never get to the market as rewards for bounty hunters efforts. And the ones that do get to the market are not as profitable as there is no limits to how many participants is reasonable for such bounty budget.

Imagine a project offering $2k as their bounty budget and the manager never closes registration till the end of the whole campaign and we have about 1000 participants on twitter category, over 500 article entries, how much would each hunter get at the end of the day. Not much I'd say. So, it's really not worth it anymore.

As a newbie, what people say hear as regards bounty earnings in the past few years is no longer encouraging. I doubt a time of earning good pay will ever come again as the number of hunters increase everyday.

Also, consider the market condition. Because as I remember before, there are a lot of bounty hunters becoming instant rich during bull market because most of their campaigns even shitcoins projects, are making a good amount of money. But when the bear market started, you can't earn the same during the bull market, and also a big lose for those hunters who tend to hold their bounty coins instead of selling them.

I open bounty forums every day, but I don't think I can start, I don't know how to choose the right one. I have very little experience and am still learning. I hope that the projects I find can last for a long time. See everyone discussing that the bounty campaign was the peak six or seven years ago...

You can do any campaign you want. There are not so many bounty campaign right now to be extra selective. Only few new campaign appear every day, so test your luck with each and every of them.
Just plain numbers - I have earned few hundreds during 2022, but I was selective and probably participated in 15 or 20 campaigns only. I have earned several thousands in 2021, but I think I took part in 50+ social media campaigns. In 2023 - you should join every single bounty to get any significant result.

You sound like a real newbie, completely unaware that the number of bounty hunters is by no means an indicator of the success of the projects in which these hunters participate. You can even say that today, people have become more pessimistic, and few people are willing to advertise every second project that appears in which these hunters participate. And that is, only those who somehow poorly or well understand how to check out new companies remain.
Also, many understand that the time of the bounty has already passed, having occurred five years ago, and there is absolutely no hope for a return. People do bounties out of inertia, showing that they are not able to do anything else. And this is very sad.

I stopped supporting them years ago because of the fact said by OP. It's worthless, they don't even pay most of the times, they do shitty projects that has no future, they just run a scam project and run whenever they want. All the efforts in promoting them is just trash and worse, you are the one who will blamed by investors who believed about it.
In the past, there are legit developers who seeks a good future in cryptocurrencies, now, its all just about the money and it's sad.

Majority of us here think it's not that worthy the time to join these campaigns. Most of them are just scam campaigns and we see how bounty hunters reacts on threads like this but why do people still join on campaigns like that. I hope future bounty hunter realize how campaigns are running today and hope that they will not attend such crowded space. There are so many multi account users in bounty campaigns that I feel that they are doing the job of bots. I hope that the situation will change and also the quality of the campaign also.

The thing is, it is pretty difficult, highly improbably and almost impossible to choose the right bounty project, quite a lot of them are scam projects built on fake promises that would never come to fruition, thus people waste their time promoting and investing in them and in the end they only enrich the project owners whilst they are left with only wasted time, effort and worthless coins.

Having said that, if you are a regular in the forum you must have read bounty hunters complain that more often than not they work for free, in that they advertise for a project for months, only for the project manager to refuse them payment in the last minute due to one weak excuse/reason or the other. If you still choose to start bounty campaigns after all you've read people say about it, then it is up to you, but you'd be better off doing something more productive in the network.

The difference between 2021 and 2022 is clear to everyone, this year has been shitty for me and I haven't made much, hundreds as a total for contributing to maybe two dozen different ones, back in the day I would make hundreds from each I contributed and right now it is not like that at all.

I believe that the best thing to do about the current situation is just to focus on how we could fix these things, and how we could just participate in crypto as a way to make money by working, and if they do not pay us well then we should not participate at all and when they see this, they will have to offer more or just don't do it, we would at least save our efforts.

I see a lot of bounty users and bounty managers on the forum. Many forum accounts are new, there are no high-quality posts, and they are purely for completing various bounty programs. What I want to say is that this kind of bounty activity is too watery, and there is no gold content. Regardless of whether the bounty manager makes more money, it makes me feel like this is not the place for project marketing and publicity. This is a pure content discussion platform. It is better to spend time discussing project quality and code quality. According to everyone's contribution, get the corresponding reward.

I also looked through his past bounty hunts and I saw a particular one for tdox token https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5407009.msg60624060#msg60624060.

He was literarily the only person that completed the first round from which he got 80% of the allocation for signature bounty. He also earned from the 2nd and 3rd round and that token is currently trading at $0.00000051. He truly earned that. I wish I can also be that lucky someday.

I don't think spamming and creating multiple accounts is a good idea to earn because we in this community are helping both the users and this community to grow and to have a healthy environment with fewer spam posts. When it comes to bounty, there are only a few real projects that pay well right now, and you are more than lucky if you happened to land on a single one because the others are a bunch of scams and frauds because they don't pay you after you promote their project especially when they sense you will just gonna dump their coins.

Have been three years faced bad moment with Bounties campaign during 2019 until 2022 not any Bounties campaign worth and received payment above $500 each campaign. Have chance or not in this year 2023 with Bounties campaign back to era 2017 where many campaign worth and have higher payment for participants.

Lately, many user move their habit from Bounties Altcoin campaign and active with signature campaign service, seems they want earn stable earning with service campaign than joining with bounties altcoin campaign without guarantee about payment worth. I think have another opportunity looking for altcoin bounties campaign worth at the future and participant can earn payment than their expectation.

Still zero. hope to win Big bounty and at least cover my degree.

the reward has significantly reduced for sure, but I guess it's mainly because the current trend, if I recall correctly before this massive bearish many projects are giving out massive airdrops and then alone could already such worthwhile rewards for doing some simple tasks, but nowadays these airdrops are rather rare, so basically the trend matters in this case.
moreover if you see, in bullish the staking programs always offer tremendous rewards unlike nowadays.

Bounties earning are almost good as nothing these days. Gone were those days when bounty hunting was an average lucrative side-gig. Payouts are in BUSD which are very little at the end of the day

There is really so much more better ways to make money from crypto if you start to work on yourself. Bounty hunting is simple, it doesn't require you to be qualified for anything and you just need to have accounts in some places and that's it. Like if you have social media accounts, bitcointalk account and a telegram account then it's probably enough and you will just click some stuff and you get it.

How much you think you could get paid for that? But, if you work on yourself then from known things like designer and developer to less known things like voice acting to business registrar in certain nations, there are plenty of work you can find.

yes, definitely requires more than just following bounties in getting big rewards, nowadays even in bullish every project requires money to either stake and follow their programs in getting the big share of their rewards because nowadays, there are simply too many that follows bounties and airdrops I doubt it could ever be the same like in the past anymore.

For bounty paid in altcoins, it is true that they are no longer profitable. Most bounties are only scams, or they failed to develop and the tokens end up with zero prices or too low prices. I see there are many bounty hunters to stop working because they realize it is not worth it anymore. They prefer to develop their accounts and focus on campaigns that pay the participants in BTC or top coins. Although paid in BUSD or BTC is smaller, it is better than get nothing after working for months. No lucrative bounty anymore, it is only an old story.

Very few have gained good market among the bounties. Those bounties have got limited slots. So, the old days of earning isn't possible with bounties anymore. Those old days won't come again, because that is the initial point at which the spread about cryptocurrencies happened in large scale as well as we had good number of cryptocurrencies reaching the market. Many have disappeared and many that came into the market during those days are in the lead.

Bounty earning totally depends upon project that how this project progress. most of the project will give you Token for doing work and they are new project in market. If they success  then their token rise very high from initial price like Dego and many other.
I Earned more than 5k in 2 years but some bad trading down my portfolio so much

5k is a great result. Was that amount achieved only through signature campaigns participation from token/coin based bounties? As I see that you did only join them, and skip all the social media campaigns. I am trying to get rid from a habit of taking part in Twitter and Facebook bounties. I saw a lot of people post that testnets and running nodes are still profitable (yet it is also a lottery). Dont you happen to know about the earnings and success rate from participating in them?

I mean it makes sense that we want to have a stable income, these days it's as high as 100 dollars per week for some of them, meaning 400 dollars if you work for a month there. Have you seen anything that would pay 400 dollars for a months work in the bounty section? When was the last time you seen it?

I have to say I haven't seen something like that in over a year, nearly 1.5+ years ago was the last time it looked good enough, and probably over 2 years ago since it was amazing to join. Which shows the proof that services section provides better payment signature campaigns than bounty section could ever provide, and it will stay that way until the big bull run comes along.

Browsed the whole 5 pages and these are the only person that answered the question of the OP. Well, I might skip some of the answers but...yeah.

Some or most are saying "The earnings aren't that much anymore" or "The earnings from this year isn't the same as last year blah blah". I mean OP is asking for numbers and from bounty hunters only. Some of the answers are irrelevant.

Just basing with the 3 answers that I quoted, I guess we can say that you can still earn a few bucks from bounty programs and if you're lucky like the 3rd quote that I shared, you can earn 4 digits still from one campaign. AFAIK, bounty campaigns aren't worth it anymore at least for me and for others here. The time you are spending advertising them isn't paid or if it is, it's very low.

I was always curious about this too.I have been in a couple of bounties before,but that was about 3-4 years ago and not in the last 2 years,I remember that one token which I don't remember the name now and that the signature of that bounty ran for 4 weeks,the coins had a value which could have been exchanged to Bitcoin or FIAT in the likes of 52 dollars in total,I think it was 0.8 dollar for a coin as we used to get 60 at that time.

I still am interested to know because at that time 3-4 years ago some people by doing these bounties were earning much more than us who usually do the signature campaigns that pays in Bitcoin.

If you are pertaining to signature campaign, I agree to you. I can see that signature campaign members doesn't have any motivation to do a high quality post and it seems that they are not afraid of losing the campaign because of their low quality post since the campaign has a high chance of not paying well. It is the same on their social media campaign which is most likely braindead posts just to qualify for the task. Signature campaign on bounty campaign are significantly reduced since then, I believe that it cost the project owner a little bit of money to run even they are paying their native token to the campaign. Signature codes and profile avatar cost to make that's why most of the campaigns now doesn't have signature campaign. Overall Bounty campaign isn't that much worth it to join, Some bounty hunter just survive because they have multiple account.

Even it seems interesting when i heard for a few most reputed bounty managers didn’t get their payment which is their management fee. So where bounty hunters can't do anything to get payment if team will not pay. I participated in many signature campaigns and those are listed on the exchanges with good price but at the end of bounty, either project is scam or tokens worthless.