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What is your opinion about AirDrops. Why there are so many and do you think this is the end for the ICOs

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Well, Airdrops are great before the ICO, but if you want o get more Token/Coins you have the possibility to buy them more cheaper in pre-ICO and ICO time ... when the Token/Coin is on the Exchange, it can be late to buy them cheaper... 

Airdrop doesn't compete with ICO, because generally airdrops are the step before an ICO to make the coin become popular.

Airdrop is not a bad thing for user if you don't have to download anything. It's free money, but generally very low value at start.
Some of them might become famous, but as Vitalik said, 95% of the altcoin will fail at the end, so imagine for the airdrop of unkown coins...

better than ico but no where near as good as POW as a method of initial distribution to start a trustless decentralised project.

still open to collusion and market making

POW was how satoshi went for a reason. Anything else requires trust at the start and this is where the issue is.

airdrops are a great contribution for rookie trader like myself to climb up the chain 8)

Airdrops are premined scams nothing more than that but it does give people the chance to earn some quick bucks.

danke schon fur die airdrops ich bin an ihrem project sehr interesiert und würde gerne mehr darüber wissen

Airdrop is not a bad thing for user. i like

As airdrops are free there is no harm in it and if the project is good then its like people got gold as their passive income.But yes lots of scams are done through these airdrops very few coins are geniune.....I believe Ethereum Blue is on of the geniune coin which was distributed through airdrop,though i wasnt the participant for airdrop but still invested when it was cheap(Thank God i was in ontime)....So like every coin two sides similarly airdrops can be amazing and on other side it can be big disastrous thing to happen as lot of new investors get scammed.

So i believe before investing one should be convinced then only go for it.

Airdrops are great. ICOs will have to be good to be successful  now.


I love airdrops

I don't see airdrops being the end of ICOs in any way, they are mostly used as a quick and cost effective way to gather a lot of attention for a particular coin before their ICO stage begins. They are great for those with little to invest to get some coins in projects they are interested in.

Airdrops are means of introducing new coins to the community. It is a way of advertisement with out spending much.People get coins with out spending a dime. Airdrop coins has no much value in the beginning but might  be a good investment over time.

You have nothing to lose by joining airdrop

Airdrop gives us money

Airdrops is one way of promoting digital currency around the world it is good thing that we are one of the members who are promoting digital currency and propagating information that the future is on digital currency.

i think airdrop is free money..

Best way  to make more attract token! Because token verry easy to creat! Only PR will help coin grown up in short time! All of token die affter somes times!

I think it is an opportunity to appeal to more people more quickly.
It is a good means of spreading and spreading their thoughts.

Aerdrop is an excellent marketing move! Almost always this acquaintance of people with a coin. This is a good advertisement for little money! And most often in the beginning, coins do not cost anything at all. After paying a little coin, the campaign makes you pay attention! People are more interested in the project. Because after receiving a small number of coins, they "hang out" in the wallet and "callose" eyes ;D. And a large number of people have the thought: "Do not buy me these coins, and then in the wallet they are very small? ..."

Pretty much seems like this for most.

Airdrops paves the way for new coins. It is a strategy to draw in investors by giving out free coins before the pre-sale. These coins may have very little value at first, but will have potential increase after inclusion in exchanges.

airdrop = free money

I think airdrop present the project to the people without investing any money on it. Also, this gives the opportunity to create the hype without spending too much money on marketing.

Dont think it will be end of ICO

because Airdrops is consider ICO but it is through action, like register, promote the coin or something

ICO basically gave you coins for paying it

in past few weeks is the time of airdrops, but those airdrop that we join, we don't know if we are the one who listed on their spreadsheets to be distibuted. and now a days ICO will rise again 😀

Airdrops are very beneficial but that all depends on your luck whether you receives the altcoins or not. But saying that these airdrops could lead to end of the ICO's then you are wrong . Both have different benefits and both are collectively good. So, don't think that airdrops can lead to end of the ICO's.

That is my experience on joing airdrops that is found inside forum, a lot of them had red tags and needs more steps before sending little tokens into your wallet so now I don't participate any airdrops because it's too technical and will take a lot of time and afterwards you'll get a little value. Useless isn't it?
Not I'll take my chances on joining Bounty campaigns for sure bounty and payouts.

There is nothing in common between Airdrops and ICOs.

ICOs are used to collect funds as a crowd fund from investors to start up an upcoming project. These investors are rewarded with tokens that have value and use later on in the market and the project itself.

Airdrops are a joke really. There's nothing serious about them. Just start a token and give 1k-2k people this token.
Market it for a week.
Hit exchanges.
Boom dev makes a lot of money.
All sell and the token is dead.
Repeat.

This is literally what goes in it. Airdrops are not to be taken into consideration in any way. Although they can be a funny way to get some extra free cash.

And yes I participated in a few during October and got about $130 out of them as a total. So yeah. Not bad.
I guess it should vivid and clear right now that one should never invest or buy into these airdropped tokens as once they go down, they keep going that way.

I think air drops is the best way to enter the crypto world, with out investing, you can get a couple of tokens,

Some airdrops are totally legit, but others are total scam coins. Just be safe investing additional money and if you do, make sure you research first! I could say the same thing about ICOs though... Be careful investing and research first so you don't get burned.

Seems like ICO hype is over and we see the airdrop hype now.

So many airdropped scam tokens are flying to moon. This is not good for crypto business in general.

I feel that airdrops can be done quite effective it is given out in moderate. A lot of coins are hard to retain its value after airdrops. However, there are a few examples that prove otherwise. One good example is omg, they did drop 5% of the supply as airdrops and it does not affect the price of the tokens.

A way to distribute a certain amount of coins to the public for free.  It's one way to get a project popular or to build hype for it.  When the coin becomes noticeable, real buyers will join in and invest to that coin.
There's a lot of airdrop scam out there so be careful filling up forms and such.  Thank you.

Airdrop Is  great  idea for  marketing strategy to  make  anonymous altcoins  known and  Ico's should not be  ended due to this.  it  very small amount  given to  some  people  who  interested on it.  Airdrop are excellent  opportunity for those  who  are starting to  crypto world.

I think airdrop is a risky business and There are many scam events in this area.
I think this is an unnecessary job.

Not all airdrops are worth joining. Carefully select the airdrops you subscribe to. I do know a few people who make money out of airdrops so yeah, they are indeed for real once their coins get listed on exchanges.

Before these airdops become a trend, MGO airdops are really a good one like the value in the market is pretty good and people who had it are lucky enough to have those.

Airdops now are like mushroom in the forest that pops up every where and it's actually quite alarming as some people use this as a way to scam and take advantage to people. Yeah there are some that really promising once they got listed in exchanges and some are just all pure hype of its devs. So better be picky in joining as you're inputting yout email address that can be use for their personal interests.

I love airdrops. It's easy, doesn't take too much time, and you can get free money. Of course most of them made of air and have no future, but who cares if you have a chance to get an easy tokens?

Has there ever been a 100& airdropped project that's actually gone anywhere and done what they set out to?

pow .. what is it.
please show me ib.

I certainly do not see them being the end of ICOs, airdrops raise awareness and distribute coins freely whereas ICOs are used as a way to raise funds so that teams can work on their projects. Without ICOs they would not be able to exist.

Hopefully vand token can to the moon

Joined you thanks

Airdrop for me is an example of how it feels to be lazy. :) But that doesn't mean the end for the ICO because airdrop is given free in order to attract new investors to invest on the said token. I have joined so many airdrops but only 30% of these airdrops seems to be legit and have given me the tokens so far.

i love airdrops.i hate bounties.Icos wont stop , but filtered.

Your projects look's good great work dev's , keep up the good work.
Joined airdrop. :)

Airdrops is one way to promote new coins. They are giving it free so others will spread it to all of there groups. Then the project will become popular. Also Airdrops are using by those hackers/scammers to do bad things. So better be cautious in joining those airdrops.

airdrop in my opinion, a very simple but very helpful for the owner, and ico is already starting to decrease but not end.

Is just best

people say most of them are scam but my airdrops worth at least 400-500 usd now. who gives that much money to anyone?
also I’m a big fan of hodling and waiting. I believe some of these airdrops will worth much more. then I’ll quit my job, travel the world  ::)

Like any other crypto project, it needs to be reliable to gain recognition.

ICO will prevail because so far it's been the best way for crowdfunding and it's the kick off to put down-earth your project.

I appreciate efforts of developers who do that. Because they try to realize the idea and try to contribute in form airdrop. Airdrops also be regarded as an easy and inexpensive promotion (although some take cost small money). However, what isn't fun is they just launch it and don't manage it for long term so they actually lose the best chance for their efforts.

Airdrop is like zero budget marketing so that community will aware about coin . For me airdrop is a free money i grab them where ever i am getting . Some were successfull some were worthless even i could able to get some ether because of airdrop.

Recently participated in the airdrop. After I sent them an application, I do not know if it's connected to it or not, the computer began to slow down and complain about the lack of RAM. Antivirus revealed that the computer is spinning a miner, which I did not install. Therefore, I was very skeptical about these distributions, especially when they offer to download and install a purse.

Airdrops are good, It bring community alive, and it helps to put the eyes of the community on any project. I think I will personally advice any ICO to use this technique. Airdrop first then bounty second.

Most of the airdrops are scam trying to steal your coins instead of giving you. Never install any wallet from an unestablished source. Who knows what they inject into the software.

This may be the wrong place to put this, but I have a question.  As a Newbie i don't get to participate in a lot of Airdrops, but recently I participate in two.  When I checked the spreadsheet someone had used my ID, but it had a different (fake) webb address and a different ETH address.

How do i prevent this, or do I have to create a new ID and start over again.

Thanks for your insite.

You have to send a pm to the developer or people in charge when you found such condition. Let them know that someone or more try to cheat their airdrop. They will fix the spreadsheet with the information you give. I found some people used my ID to participate on airdrop too sometimes.

Well many of them are scams but if you check good enough you will find some good airdrops. Also never register into an airdrop wich requieres your private key or anything like this. Another info would be that make sure you register only on airdrops with erc20.

haha. Airdrop and ICOs are different. Tokens in ICOs are released with a clear project which solve problems in life. Tokens in airdrop just released free without clear purpose.

Free money, isn't it?

Thanks for the reply's.  I will report to the Dev.  And, I have not been dumb enough, yet, to provide my private address.  Thanks again.

It looks like the owners of coins are also achieving  the same goal with Airdrops as what they would have achieved with ICO and that is why we are having so many Airdrops and less ICO these days. It will surely affect the number of ICO that will be coming out in the near future. With Airdrops cost will be cut and fewer coins will be given out compare much that will be given out during ICO

I think airdrop doesnt effect on ico's. Because they give a Little amount of tokens through airdrop. And when they launch ico there is chance to buy more at cheap price. From my point of view airdrop is just a tiny bit welcome bonus.😋

Free tokens convertible to real cash

Well,  I think Airdrop is one way of promoting digital currency around the globe.

way on promoting new coin but suddenly 1 out of 5 is the only airdrop that can be a good and can survive so choosing and joining for airdrop we have to be careful on it we can join as many as we want but always check your privacy of the wallet you provided. and read before you click .

Its free and nothing will be lost if you take it, maybe they'll pay you back.

good luck

I like Airdrops and participate in many of them. It is a great way to promote projects from a project team side. Also it is a great way for airdrop participants to earn some extra money. Unfortunatelly, nowdays there are so many Airdrops and from some of them you will never see coins, and from others of them they will never have any value. But also some of them can be very profitable. For example from one of recent Airdrops I earned equivalent of 83 dolars. So I will continue to apply for Airdrops and hopefully earn some amount of money from them.

its free and nothing will be lost if just take it and i think airdrop is a one way of promoting digital currency around world.

There was some good airdrop like eBTC, but from it to now i haven't seen any good one. And i don't understand why they effort like that, some of them is only trying to stole wallet private keys so be carefull when you participate.

i participate in some airdrop before but i already forgoten the coin that i get because some of it dont have exchange
the dev dont have fund to support the project and more likely dev is just waiting for it to hit the exchange and sell some of their coin

I think that Airdrops have to be done correctly and have a lot of thought and effort put into them from the dev team to work out; just because a coin has an airdrop doesn't mean it's going to be successful, it requires a lot of effort from the community to participate and trust in the team to make it successful as well.

One problem with airdrops is that it has a high number of pump and dumpers; if a team does what Deeponion has, then all the airdrop members follow through to the end and the price stays relatively stable. It's already recovered in the past few weeks, so I'm proud of this airdrop I'm currently a part of.

It's very good that you are sure of the Project you are participating in. To date, This is quite a rarity. I would like to see how the rule will promote its coins on the exchange and how the pricing of the token will be carried out.

I don't think so that it is end of ios.AirDrop is a feature that lets Macs and iOS devices share files wirelessly with a minimum of fuss.

AirDrop is extremely cool and useful, but is one of those features most people don't know about. Not because it is hard to use (it isn't) but because most people don't think to look for it. Most of the time when we want to share a photo with someone, we just send it to them in a text message. Which is easy enough, but when that someone is standing right beside you, it is even easier to simply use AirDrop.

AirDrop isn't just for photos, of course. You can use it to transfer almost anything that you can share. For example, you can AirDrop a website from your iPad to your friend's phone, which is great if they want to bookmark to read later. Or what about a grocery list? You can Airdrop text from Notes to someone else's iPad or iPhone. You can AirDrop anything from a playlist to a location you've pinned in Apple Maps.

I think it is better to not expect something from this kind of coins. And also I think many of them have no future in the cryptocurrency world.

I have one airdrop coin,current value is lower that gas fee even,it is better to find some good alts faucets with big rewards

I think that all airdrops this is scam. They give you coins just like that, and then Ampat prices on the exchanges to raise the hype and after inflating the prices merge their tokens.

I do not participate in most of the airdrops because it does not make money. I usually agree with bounty campaigns, that's good.

Yep, I agree.

I'm participating in more than 30 Airdrops right now.

airdrop is giveaway coin or tokens with certain conditions aimed to
promoting a new coin or token of a project, in addition to make
many investors interested to invest in the project and increase token or coin price 
on the marketplace and this will not affect ico's because some airdrop coin or token 
doesn't necessarily have a good price on the market

no its not the end of ICO's, Yes there are so many airdrops some airdrops are scam they want to input your information like your eth address and you forgot that you put a private key some members are mistakenly put their address, some of wallets that they want you to download and you don't know there is a trojan virus, but some airdrops are legit that I earned much money, but we should be careful what we put information.

You are right xD, and like almost every one know, we have to read carefully, to check what we download (if we have to), and most of the times you can be scammed, sometimes you can get good value for the airdrop, some times the coin can be forgotten after..., everything depend how the distribution is made, how the ICO work, how many participants it get, and how strong is the community behind. But for me, the most important is what type is the project, how the DEVs work about, and the support to be always good enough and rdy to do all them best for the community, to bring everything on front of you, and you to be happy with that crypto/project etc ...
Almost every one is here for profit.., some for short one.., but some people like and support the others project, because they have good cause, which can help to others or to bring something verry well to the world ;)
And I don't thing with the airdrop free/or non free the game is finished xD

Regards: SHNICI - Georgi

Airdrop is made to make a project popular. It is the best way to spread the news about the token. And it gives us a bit of money that we can use especially as transaction fees when converted to a currency.

Sometimes airdrops can be profitable because you are not working hard. I think that most of them are not scam you can easily make money with a trusted airdrops but you must be early.

Because sometimes the airdrop is full so you can't get your tokens with it.

Free cheese, only in a mousetrap. It is possible that when downloading their purse, you can bring a virus or a miner program that will exploit your computer in the interests of others.

I like learning by doing, so I'm joining some now to find out, but yes: when it's free... you are the product

Airdrops just just for token distribution not so bad. This is not the end of ICO's bounty and airdrops do not cross each other.

nowadays I thinks the same, maybe earlier the idea of doing advertising, so that they learned about the project, now only speculation

Promising coins in airdrop no. They need to be immediately drained. It's mostly junk coins. ;)

Only tried once, get nothing. Lots of people complaining about how did they ended up nothing after over 20+ airdrop applications. Some lucky man earned money but nowadays its using for identity theft.

it is a good way to distribute cryptocurrency into the community and to get the coin going and start trading. i approve of them, free money in most cases

Airdrops is a way of promoting the project as well. Airdops may not actually signal the end of ICO but rather markets the ICO. Though they may not be as profitable as bounties but i guess they are not bad as the task required (one-time filling up of forms and probably posting airdrop announcement) in participating compensates to the token given.

I never participate in airdrops of tokens based on the purses of the etherium.
Only if the original coins are distributed in the airship and it is very good, if these coins are already on the stock exchange.

I think that Airdrops are a good thing to grow awareness of a coin and simultaniously build a community of true supporters. Not all airdropparticipants are goint to sell their coins for a quick buck. Its also a great opportunity to buy cheap on etherdelta from all those who want to sell fast. On the other hand airdrops are a way of creating a lot of shitcoins, and nowadays there is a lot of those.
The dark side of ICO's is that it can be a money grab for some projects that are shit, but still conduct an ICO.
You may check out WIND coin, thats a great way of distribution in my opinion. Its just great to buld a community like them. Its a serious project, but dont wants to raise an ignorant amount of money, so they give most of their coins out for free, airdropped.

Free money

Airdrops are free and as such, they can give you the opportunity that your free token that you got through airdrop gives you something in return in a long run. It doesn't have to be that this token; future coin will rise in value but that is the good pre-ICO starter for future coin. It also drives investors towards it cause it promises something, and that something is free. You cant lose anything with joining the airdrop so feel free to join and hope for future value profit.

easy money that doesn't have future at 99%

It can be useful to promote the use of emerging cryptocurrencies, but we must be very cautious when registering massively in the different campaigns to receive these airdrops. It is obvious that only a small proportion of them will have enough potential to grow in a significant way, and the others will only imply a waste of time and the possibility of suffering phishing.

In my opinion Airdrop is a form of marketing where Dev distributes tokens in exchange for disclosure and sharing. A way to stimulate good view of the currency and especially the project.

Airdrops is a kind of advertising.
Offcourse their's a lot of scam beneith it but overall taken, it is the same as a advertisment on tv....
People see something new and just want to have some....
Intime their will be some regulation in this field but i think it will take a long time.

I have never owned an airdrop coin before. I think a big part of this type of coins are useless. In my opinion, learning more about the training is better than searching for new airdrops.

airdrops they are only giving free altcoins , but most of them are scams , i have been receiving altcoins in airdrops and most of my tokens came from airdrops that i participated , as i said most of them are scams and their tokens is just fo display and nothing to do in cryptoworld . And i think ICO's will not ended because of this airdrops. ICO will be there to continue , and it is better to join in an ICO than in airdrops if you want to have a altcoins that has great value.

I would personally feel odd if I saw a token in my wallet that I did not buy. To me, it seems that the team is trying too hard to attract any attention they can.

Airdrop is a free token. It is distributed during pre-ICO. A user must register before the ICO start or within the token distribution. It's not bad actually, it is good because it is free money. It is better to hold the tokens that you receive when there is an exchange rate for the token.

LOL. Because airdrops are getting larger and larger in numbers, you think that ICOs will come to an end? Definitely not. ICO may be full of scam, but airdrops are already catching up in terms of scams. Almost everyday, there are airdrops freely given away. These airdrops are 100% scam, without any proper objective and roadmap. They are simply exploiting the easy way to create tokens. But in terms of vision, they have nothing. They are simply raising some contributions for themselves.

They simply doesn't work.

Either you will get nothing or you will get some coins in your account, that you can't transfer into wallet.

It was my understanding that airdrops are sometimes done to people who did not necessarily register with the ICO. Just to wallets that are known to have participated in ICOs before.

not all have future
But airdrip better than ICO because didnt need investor money just need community for support project

Airprops are wonderful mechanisms for the newbies to become acquainted with hacking attempts, ascertain importance of private keys and information, to feel the difference between good projects, failures and scam. Overall that's sort of school... not the best one although.

Airdrops are good but ICO will not end because of them. Airdrops are just becoming famous because it became the trend to pump after they get listed on EtherDelta but it's over now. They are all scammy and not like the old airdrops that really counts.

That happens to me every other day, but without participating in airdrops. It just somehow happens because I'm holding some other tokens that make me eligible for some other tokens and so on...

In general, who ever received a large reward from airdrops?

  AirDrop, you can instantly share your photos, videos, documents, and more                                                                                            Airdrops are and great before the ICO, but if you want o get more ...

I haven't seen a single airdrop coin work out. They are mostly scams trying to get your personal info (or private keys) or worthless coins backed by a group of people just trying to grab quick profits and run.

For me they are free tokens from ICO's.Not yet getting a single token from airdrops.But I had join in some of the airdrops but did not have one.

airdrop is good if isn't make you download some unknown file although it name a games or some sort of files their might be a virus hidden on it and if the airdrop dont need you to download some file it is a free money

airdrop is a freecoin they say but we should keep our defense up because there some coin that very deceiving because some of them wants you to download some games or app that have a virus on it and make you pc hack or you tokens stolen so if i we're you do make some research first

maybe airdrops is any program that can allow us to join and to give us some to prefer their coin is good for our future. ICOS is also good cause it is legit and applicable to us. The of them is doing great we appreciated their reputation to bring us in the future

airdrop is good because it give you free money for those who are starters and they reason why they do this because this is the first step to make that certain coin to be popular so when it became popular the coin price will raise

Airdrops is a way of introducing coins to the market which allows developers to gain popularity/fame over a short period of time. It is like a form of making a noise about a certain coin for the investors to see/notice or get interested with. It helps the developer to attract investors, it also increases the number of their community. The main purpose of airdrops is to gain fame, increase the number of people who knows their project that leads to investors investing in them -- prior to their rules like liking a page, joining this and that. It s good that their are airdrops everywhere for us to take part of, but all should be very careful. There are scammers lurking in every corner so be very cautious in filling out forms. Double check and don't give any of your personal passwords.

I like airdrops and join many of them. But I haven't been earned money from them yet. That's because I'm a HODL'er,so whenever I get some free coins from an airdrop, I do not sell them. I always have a hope that one of these coin's price will go all the way up one day and I'll regret if I sell my free tokens from 200$. But then the coin's price drops and I get nothing :D So I have many shitcoins in my wallet. We'll see!

Airdrop is new things. When I joined bct forum earlier , it's seldom for me to see an airdrop.
So compare with current situation, there are a lot of airdrop that occur recently because many people interest on ICO project !

airdrops are just projects that release their coins free to all bitcointalk users, and it is a way advertising their project to the public, however we may think these free coin is easy money, but in fct we can not any thing with these coin unless we invest in them, you can sell them but they dont have much worthy, so inclusion,airdrops are just a way of advertising.

I still don't quite understand why this is necessary and how to make money on it.
I think bounty is the best way to earn free tokens

Offcourse some the Airdrop is very interesting to make some free coin by doing the simple task but at last, when they list in the exchange there won't be any value to the free coins. Sometimes they ask to download the wallets but be careful while downloading those.

Why the end? This is the beginning for most of the ICOs. Airdrops like promotion campaign for new product. Here we are talking about tokens and investments in new product. Of course the safety of ICO this is another question to discuss.

I know of a team that did an airdrop in the middle of their ICO, just to raise publicity.

Some airdrops are just scams but some of them will earn you a few bucks.

I like airdrop cause they are giving away free coins just by filling up a form. But what i hate most is that almost 90% of airdrops are scam ,pump and dump coin.

First of all I have been unsure of this airdrop project, and now there is a lot of news that this airdrop is a lot of scam, so I never participated in

For me airdrops are blessings for those who needed money. But mostly than most don't have value but we can just keep it and maybe someday it will pump.

Ico market is definitely in thd bear market right now. People are finally waking up to realize these projects has raised millions of dollars based on a so called whtte paper. An idea printed out and nets millions for the public, really sick if you ask me. But anyways air drops has been nice, sometimes checking my mew and see some coins that i never heard of magically appearing. My best coins i recieved is omisego cor free. Was a great surprise

The problem with airdrops is that people can easily spam the distribution with fake addresses. However, there are a few exceptions. The Byteball airdrop, for exemple, is preventing that kind of thing by airdropping to BTC/Bytes holders.

Airdrops nowadays is just an avenue to steal money from people. The  devs are after money.

I think Aerdrop is an excellent marketing policy, one kind of great contribution for trader.
Airdrops send a massage to introducing new coins to the community.
I think it is an opportunity to appeal to more people more quickly.
I hope any one airdrop can change our life.

I think airdrop is great for them who want to earn money easily.

Yes, most of them are scams, because it costs nothing to create a token and distriibute it through airdrop campaign, real airdrops came from real projects such as OMG.

Airdrop is a good thing as long as you don't have to do much for it. I won't say that it is a threat against ICOs though. They're quite different

I don't like money that is distributed for free. I have not participated in any airdrop, and probably it will continue :)

Airdrops are free coins. Maybe they are giving it for promotion or advertisements or maybe they just want to but most of the airdrops are cheap, some are given by a small amount, and some are scams. I have joined lots of airdrops but it haven't given me wealth but becoming rich is not instant so it is ok. There is no wrong on trying, just be careful to the airdrops that you are going to join.

Yeap. That pretty much sums it up. But aside from what you have stated, another reason also is to make the tokens/coins circulate. Which really helps the project itself. This action also draws a lot of people into the project. Which makes a lot of bounty hunters read the platform and realize its good sides. Which then gets these people to participate in the project's bounties. it really is a great source of small income to get a newbie started ij the crypto world. Well, that is, if the person has common sense and can differentiate a scam from a legitimate project.

I think that they are pretty dangerous.... I just found a public google form with 17k entries....you can find there e-mails, twitter, public keys, private keys.....

Such a mess....

Most are trash and cease to exist within a few months of starting out yet they do pose a good way to conduct running a business from the outset. Take a look at deeponion airdrop they are active and alive after 4 months!

i join many air drop last month, and have a lot of token too, best i got 100.000 token from piggycoin  ;D, ithink its not end of ICO, a lot of airdrop need transfer ether to dev and you get token, its look like same like ICO but in different way..

It depends upon the type of tokens that an airdrop provide us.If the coin or token is listed in the coin market and have a specific value then we can consider it as a good airdrop otherwise it is merely a wastage of time because we are just filling our wallet with the coins that have a low value or zero value which is of no use.Their are so many of airdrops because every company wants to promote themselves and want that the demand for their coin increases.I don't think airdrops are an end to ICO's because ICO's provide us with coins in larger number than airdrops and if in future they got listed then more the number of coins, more the amount we will earn.