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I run a media company, and deal with a lot of ICOs. What I noticed was that all these ICOs want top-notch articles & videos about them but they insist on paying in their token or want it for free. They think they are doing a service by giving bounties. What they don't realize is that their token is useless most of the time. Most of the bounties done by ICOs are bad.

Like:

1) Write 500-1000 words article on us for 300 of my useless tokens (which won't be coming on an exchange and will be used only on our platfrom. And you won't get free service but 25% discount :) )
2) Or make a 5 min video for us and post it on your YouTube. You need to have 5000+ subscribers and praise us to get our useless tokens.

I am not making fun of any ICO, just pointing a fact out on how these tokens are just polluting the market.

If you are an ICO or running an ICO, please pay the right price in a currency that works (Eth, BTC, Euro etc). Your tokens are useless for agencies. They take out their time and resources to make a good campaign for you.

Secondly, if your ICO does not have money..it should be red flagged for a potential scam.

What are your thoughts? Are bounties good or bad?

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The way you put your statement is bad, bounties are not force to anyone, that is why it is open for interested individual, and yes you are right an ICO who will raise a fund with out fund themselves is scam since all businesses started all their business with a big capital to ensure that the project will surely bloom after its opening.

In my opinion, bounties are not forced any anyone. So, you either u choose to participate or not

Absolutely agree with you!
I've been thinking about this for a long time, at first there were such ICO who gave a good profit and now a lot of scams!

First of all, projects in top 100 of CMC were ICOs in the past. They had bounties and those who held bounty tokens up to January 2018 had a huge profit. Start checking ICO before participating in bounty. Take responsibility for yourself and your decisions.

Second, most of articles and videos submitted to a bounty are as scammy as ICO. People just post highlights from whitepaper on their blog with like 50 subscribers. Why anyone should pay for that?

There are many low-paying projects and scammers, but nobody forces you to help them promote the project by participating in the bounty. You choose the bounty in which you are interested to participate.

Well there are really shitty ICO's to begin with but most of them paid, but the problem is that most of the time, their tokens become 0 value overtime so if you choose to hold, then you might be end up losing the tokens that they have paid you in your work.

Also, you can work with them and ask you to pay in fiat instead of token. And you also have the right to not accept ICO if you deemed that their tokens could potentially have 0 value.

This market is arranged so, You want to do, do not want to do not do it. If you refuse, there are 10 other people who will do your job. At the moment there is a boom in this market. I'm very interested in what will happen in early 2019.

It is a freelancing work. It is not by force to do publicity or participate in the bounty campaign. I have participated in so many bounty campaign and I have make a reasonable amount of money through the campaign. Have in mine that it is not all that will be successful and promising in the market.

well, its crypto equivalent of designer work vs "publicity" :D

Why u say about bounty,that?Not all bounty is bad and if u dont like dont partcipate thats easy,but if u want to get nice reward for ur work just check information first for that project where u participate!First check idea about project,names,surnames where the base office is,bounty pool im doing bounty where is bounty pool 300k to 500k in tokens!

My main job is connected with the production of medicines, it's the same thing that if I were paid a salary with pills! But this market is so arranged that we get only tokens. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully select the bounty campaign.

There are plenty of ICOs that pay in Bitcoins or Ether and it can be found right here on this forum. No ICOs, beg any one  to do advert for them, they request applicant to apply and they agreed to be payed in tokens which will be used in either their platform or be sold on an exchange, if it get listed.

Unfortunately, the ICO is already over. Now, very rarely, we see really high-quality projects, and investing in these projects is very difficult because they have hardcaps in a very short period of time. But bounty programs are just another way to earn an income. If the project is taken, it is paid for, but if not, all the labor is gone. For that reason, I take the risk and support all transactions and investments.

It is good idea, but I think that many companies don't support this idea, and a lot of people will participate in! And the only thing that will change is that you won't earn even useless tokens!

Something of a pretty generalized statement, maybe you just haven't encountered well run campaigns or good ICOs.

LOL kinda true, i did some bounty few months ago, tweet, article, etc 2 months of work, got around 375 tokens, which current value in the market is $5. Like seriously? 2 months of tweets, wrote 500 words articles, all those for $5 token?

ICO really has too many deception. Some projects have only one goal to get into the exchange. Such projects usually describe the white paper perfectly. Now the market is very low. At this time we should be more careful about the ICO and the bad team will waste a lot of our time.

I also think that ICO is really very little. most ICOs are fraudulent and they only seek profit from investors and they make bounty participants their weapons to attract investors.
I think something like this should be a filter that does allow the correct ICO in this forum.

Don't blame us if you pick a shitty bounty. Yes, there are really some bounty out here that don't pay or has 0 value token but if you are lucky you can get profit from your bounty. you just need to analysis well what campaign you are going to participate in.

Be selective in joining a bounty campaign or don't join at all!
It is a free market out there. If your work is so good I am sure you have the bargaining power to negotiate for payment in ETH or Fiat.
Otherwise, it is how it is.

Some promising projects paying high amount of tokens to their hunters, Most of bounties are scam and not paying reasonable amount of tokes.
When we starting new bounty, should consider their team, project vision and white papers

I found something more than bounty how to earn real ETH!
See details here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3263877.new#new

Bounty is still a good way to earn, if you join a good project, some of the project migth take a while for there  token to pump, with diligence and good research sure to earn well from bounties

Iäve participate in many bounties that brought me a good profit. Right now sign up to Nagricoin bounty

There are always two sides to a coin, bad or good and I grow to learn that everything in life have both its good and bad moment, to be candid there are some bounty that you will engage in and at the end when you get paid for the part you played you will smile and some you just hiss. I still believe in quite a number of them though not all.

As far as I know every single bounty campaign that I have participate into warned the participants that if the ICO's will not have succes , you won't be paid so I assume you took a risk like this and the ICO failed so don't generalize to all the ICO's please and just be more carefull when you choose you're bounty campaign.

I'm thinking soon to open my personal thread about my bounty experience. I only get involved in trusted and legit projects so I could give some advices for the new comers.

well bounty was free for everyone to join or not and i think it's fine to join in bounty since we really got paid for what we done.
as for the token we got either it will hit big exchange or not we don't know it before it reach the market. we can't judge that all bounty are suck since it didn't compel us to join in it. we join with the consent to help promote the project and get reward from it.

this is true.  .so OP don't ever complain if there's no distribution of stake or token 'cause sometimes ICO project on bounty section didn't success and always end to scam because of some reason.. So must join if you want to join and accept the fact that sometimes it's wasting time .but honestly it is worth it especially if you earn some token or stake from it but the sad things is it takes months before they distribute the payment . so must wait before you complain . Or next time make some research first before you join in any different projects what i mean seek some feedback about it to avoid wasting time.

It's up to you to join bounties or not. Just make sure their project is legit and they pay somewhat that will compensate your time for your effort of their project. Just like any kind of business, there will always be scams so always proceed with caution when doing bounties.

Sounds like you, perhaps, picked a wrong bounty or two, so if that's the case I'm sorry to hear it. But, there are some really good ones out there - it's worth spending some time checking them out to see if they are legit and have a possible future. Some bounties are run really well, and are transparent, others are somewhat dubious and run very badly and are taken over by other bounty managers.

NOt all bounties are bad. You must check very well the project and if you are interested, then hop in. But if not, then don't.
Yes, they are paying using their tokens, but so far in my experience, it was not bad.
Well, today's market is not that good, so I'm just holding my token and waiting for the moment that the market will boom again, then sell them. :-D

How can you said that ?
Thousands of people of this forum is earning thousand dollars from bounties.
So, you're totally wrong

Would agree to this mate. The bounty programs held by the ICOs are not forced upon anybody. They are open for everyone and if a person is interested in it only then he should be taking part in it.
Thw worth of tokens may or may not be useless until their ICO is over. I accept that most of those tokens are useless and worth nothing but at least some of them are good and might give you enough amount of money which you lost on the other useless tokens.

Yeah ???

Many bounty and ICO fail.
Usually they dont have a good idea and briliant concept.
And make investor not to interested about that project.

I have a good and bad experience in bounties. The good is i joined APPCOINS bounty campaign. This bounty is one of the best. And i got a huge payout when i sell their tokens. But i joined some bounties that until now we have not receive any payment.

I can't agree. Many good project ICOs become successful and you earn a lot of money from their bounty tokens.

I am shocked after reading your analyse on ICO and bounty. I agree with you that payment should be made in ETH, BTC, EURO etc. I am working in bounties since last one year and earn a lot of token but its worth to $4000.  So many tokens have no value till now. Some improvement required. I support you.

that's your fault too. you Joined the wrong projects that don't have a good future.
be more careful before dedicate to join some ico bounty, you should make some research first and read whitepaper. same like you want to invest.

Most of the ICOs are useless and just pure scam. They raise money from people and end up giving nothing they promised to the people. Those are the failed(and scamming) ICOs i am talking about. But there are some ICOs which are legit and are trying hard to deliver what they promised. Tokens issued by those ICOs actually do have some real values. Its just you have to choose the right ICO to work for.

I can say, not of all them is sucks. I’ve experienced several bounties that paid with good rate. Even I am only a member rank. So, I suggest you analyze first the project before join.

I believe in market forces, if something works, people will continue doing it, if it doesn't they ultimately won't. That's how it is in every new space.

Why would I as a company give random bounty hunters 'real' money? Instead, I'll pay them in tokens, that way they really have an incentive to make the project work. else they have zero value. There needs to be a good mix though, a good campaign is only as good as the tools it utilizes. If the marketing material is crappy, you can have a legion of twitter and facebook bounty hunters and it won't work. If you have professional material (paid for with e.g. fiat) but lack the means of deploying it, then it's also bad for your project.

Yes, I agree with you, but since I don't have a twitter or facebook account, I generally only participant in signature campaign.
And I think it's fair to pay the token of project's as a reward.

I agree with you as a content creator because most of the time they ask for too much, some of them want us to do high quality stuff, but they do not pay very well. I think you are not forced to join the bounty you don't like since they are a lot of bounties that's is great too.

I guess that's because there are so many bounty hunters out there that do a crappy job. They're in for the money and do as little as possible, either not seeing the whole picture or not fearing the consequences. Reputation is hard to come by. It would help if Bounty Mangers would ask Content creators for previous jobs, just like Translators. That way they could weed out a lot of cheap players.

Agree with you, before joining necessarily analyze project, because now a large number of scams.

i don't agree with you as well,well is like saying everybody who is alive is bad lol  was chuckling about what u said .

Regardless of which project, put yourself in the position of devs. Do you want low-quality content for yourself? And as for scammers, it has already been said above.

you really should have put "most" in front of it. not all ico bounties are not good. there are still good ones too if you dount just rush into bounties you will always join good ones

I think that participation in bounty companies is profitable for many people. But unfortunately in recent years, more and more complaints are received about the fact that the ICO in which someone participated is a Scam, or just the company has not entered the exchange.

A really detailed, although petulant write up, how does one protest a choice. You got to do some hard work here and choose wisely.

Look the Official DIW ICO Program ........Is a good project .......It's an honest rewards program and it's paying well.

Ann Thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2682890.0

Website : https://diwtoken.com

You are right to some extent but not absolutely right. We know there are ICOs which exist for the bellies of the developers and some that exist to bring a change. We can not put all of them in the same basket and call them rogue. The problem is that must of them are scams. So, it is a buyer beware kind of condition while indulging any ICO.

I agree with you. Now there are a lot of shitty projects that want bounty hunters to do free advertising for them. It is now quite difficult to choose a good bounty campaign.

To be a successful bounty hunter a person must be not just a pragmatist, but an enthusiast. Crypto is about believe in general. so you should choose a good project and believe in it, them you will be paid fine and the token will be listed on major exchanges.

Bounties means they will pay us at the end of the ICO sale in their token,I never seen any ICO projects paying in other currencies which already has value.So it is your responsibility to pick the right boumty which have better future value.

I don't know about that but there are lots of ICO that have made their investors super rich. The market is oversaturated with several tokens and ico projects making it hard for us to know which ones are viable and which are not but that should not make us generalize that all ico and their bounties are bad

I have participated in several bounties that did not pay or the price of tokens in the market was very cheap, from there I learned to be more careful in participating in a bounty, researching the ico project first, and how much token allocation we will get, it will be more helpful so that we avoid fraudulent projects

Nope, it's best.
Give us (bounty hunter) a lot of profits without spending capital.
The most important thing is how you choose what bounty you want to join

I like to quote this, i am not a greedy person but paying using eth,btc etc in ICO campaigning is good one. To me all ICO are not guaranteed to success but with paying the latter it will helps us a lot make's are work done beautifully.

The way you talk is something like you had an experience with this nonsense ICO's and at the end of the day, it will gone and scam. Well i agree on your statement, they must be true to their words, as being a bounty hunter or bounty management., we are promoting their business and running a capital for them.,and it turns back that they are not a real business. This type of ICO must be stop, and otherwise we will lose the momentum.

Well, good for you guys who made a lot of earnings from bounty campaign which is being paid with their tokens. My friends were also a bounty hunters but not all the time they get what they deserved. Some of you didnt understand what the OP was trying to relay. What he meant was, any person who knows his capability in delivering good service to such a shitty ICO or even the legit one's thats being paid by an unsure token (whether it fails or a total scam) is unfair. As the OP said, ICO's supposed to have enough capital to pay for those who they want to promote their project.
Bounty campaign is different, compared to writting a blog or making a 5 min. video and post it on youtube. Bounty campaign only needs minimal effort by just posting 10 constructive post that is helpful to the community (not even everyone can do the task properly) I think its fair for you guys being paid with their tokens. Unlike promoting such project that requires maximum effort to help them succeed, I guess its unfair if they dont pay you with a currency that has been accepted in the market.

I agree with you on the part, but on the other hand, so this is a bounty company. You do it on your own, and if you believe in the project, then you won't feel that way.

You made some good points, I have some tokens that I still don't know what to do with them. It will best if most ICOs pay bounties in one of the major currencies but on the other hand getting paid in the ICO token makes room for further growth of the ICO is really a promising gone.

Previously, when the market rate was low, most ICOs had very low pay rates due to low exchange rates. There are ICOs I participated in from the beginning, working over 2 months but only received rewards under 300 dollars. But at the Q4 2018, when the exchange rate of BTC increased high, the ICOs projects will be very potential.

Some information that i have rathered here in bitcoin forum saying that most of the ICO are scam. But some of them says that when you find a best ICO it will be a jackpot.

This is freelancing work. No one forces you to help them promote the project by participating in the gift. Not all bounty is bad and if you do not like not sharing easy, but if you want to get a nice gift for your work just check the information in advance for the project in which you participate

Signature bounty isn't a joke...believe me you can get a big profits from signature bounties if the entire bounty program isn't scam

The OP standard is too high to be a bounty hunter. I think being a bounty hunter and keeping up the project through social media campaigns and signature campaigns is the easiest way to join even if ICO project rewards have been determined, but this is a really worthy way to get a token.

I think you missed something so important. What was it? It is your right to choose good or bad projects. I mean making your own due diligence in choosing the right ICO project won't make you cry if it failed or succeed and we all know that bounties are sometimes risky because we end up like unpaid or scammed if something went wrong with it but is also profitable if successful. There is noreason to blame them beacuse it is all the matter of luck being here in this crypto so better luck next time for your bounty hunting. ;D

Maybe you just participated in a bad bounty campaign you don't have to generalize every single bounty campaign out there. Yes with the number of bounty campaigns increasing everyday there will always be bad ones out there. It is jist a matter of how well you do your research first before participating in to one.

According to me, being a bounty hunter and keeping projects through social media campaigns and signature campaigns is the easiest way to join even if ICO project rewards have been determined, but this is the way it really deserves to get a token.

The part what I like the OP is the suggestion that he is making to pay the bounty hunters with usable money like ETH, USD or EURO etc. I have some experiences about receiving useless tokens for long bounty campaigns. One time I received tokens that is worth just $7 for a campaign that ran for 12 weeks  ;D

I agree with what you wrote above.
there were so many ICOs that gave me a good profit, and that made me addicted to the ICO project, but now there are many scams!
either their project fails or they just take advantage for personal, then run away with some money from investors. this is not good because if left too long will result in the loss of investors to the ICO project.

I really like your opinion. I also do not have a Twitter or Facebook account, instead, I often follow or join in a signature campaign. Because they are really a good campaign and there are lots of prizes that we have to get. So I do not regret participating in it.

Indeed, there are bounties that suck. But not all bounties are not good. There are still some good bounties that are introduce in the market. And i joined some good bounties. And i got huge profit in the end.

you can always choose which bounty to join and they are no mandatory to join. if you don't want to be paid in this "useless token" then don't join them. bounties are good because we don't have to invest to earn money.

Everyone decides for himself whether he should take part in the bounty companies or not. Bounty hunters are getting bigger, so the rules are also starting to get complicated. Project managers just see that they can do almost free company and people will still go to them.

The freedom is yours to choose from different kinds of bounties and their respective rewards, I don't know why you always come across with some projects that pay a low amount of tokens, I saw some ICO offers a high amount of bounty pools to its content creation participants and their projects ended up successful from paying to releasing to an exchange you should only worry about the content quality and audience other than that you need to filter all those bounties to join a legitimate one.

It simple dude, if you not wanna paid in token you promote, simply dont do that, almost all icos is selling an idea, they have limited money to spend, thats why they do an ico :)

Mate, I understand your frustration,because not all ICOs list on exchange andworth the same amount as it used to be during tokensale, BUT ...come on, bounty is launched by team which don't want to waste money in ETH, they want to make community around project and without giving out tokens it impossible

Well, firstly - if you are so scrupulous - there are projects that pay in the ethereum for the work. Secondly, no one forces you to participate in bounty companies. This is my personal opinion, without insults and claims

My thought is that ICO bounties did not force anyone to join, you join freely at your own willing, after reading their rules, So since you join freely which ever out come you see, you should take it in a good faith, there is a VIP campaign maybe you should join that because it pays well.

Bounty hunters always know this, the tokens are useless until they are listed on the exchanges. Your opinion about the bounty campaign is not right. But I think ICOs that pay for other services with their tokens are wrong. If they want to use the outside service , they should pay cash or common cryptocurrency.

You should not generalise and group all ICOs in the same pot. As you are very aware, marketing is the key for the dissemination of the project and it is a necessary step to undertake. Obviously there are lots of fake and scam ICOs which will not reward you are they should. And you should fight them making bad advertimsement. In a blink of an eye, you will be surprised about the change. The community will just follow the example.

You have a good point op. I think it's high time bounty hunters are paid with BTC or ETH value and not their token. Some ICOs token are just as useless as anything even when they get listed.

You might have gotten into scam ICO's all the time I believe and thats the reason you hate them so much. But to be honest you are not wrong with whatever experience you have got. Many times it happens that we never end up having good ICO's and only see scams everywhere. In ordinary time also crypto currencies projects are dangerous one to trust them completely and out of 50 you may have only 3-5 projects getting success and sometime in them also the values of the tokens are either below expected one or it may never recover for moths. So yeah there is problem with them but for those who wants to try they never stop.

Unfortunately, there is some truth in this. Of course, not all ISOs are bad, but nevertheless there are a lot of useless tokens that hang in wallet without price.

for bounty hunters it is really good but for the projects it is not,because bounty are quite useless nowadays

What do you mean by " ICo does not have money then it should be flagged as scam" ? In most cases if they have not money , they failed as ICO that is it.

You have some truth in this post, if you think of what is happening. They are collecting something with value and emitting tokens which are valued only by potential buyers. For example, if people already invested in big ICo like 25 mil worth of ETH, when token goes out the market cap is valued on money they raised ( if the exchange price is right) but in reality, this is BS! There is not enough liquidity for this kind of real marketcap.

I see your point, however, I think we have the choice not participating in an ICO, where we feel their token will be worthless. I know it takes time to research, and find the nice ICO-s, but it worth the time.

You have a point unless when an ICO is paying Bitcoin or Ethereum in every campaign, but writing blogs making videos and if the project ended up as a scam then your efforts will turn into nothing. try to find a project that is worth the risk.

Seems you have been scammed by lots of icos hence your anger but I have done some really awesome icos in the past that pay with their tokens and it ended up been useful. Most bounties last year paid in ethereum and in bitcoin but there is a new development now where you are only rewarded with their tokens.

If your going to do much more than fill out a google form for an airdrop you need to do a lot of research on the company your about to work for.  The chances of getting scammed or given a useless token are very high.

This post made my day! It is of a few months ago but every word here is totally actual and should be engraved in marble!

Very correct point of view, absolutely agree with you.
I believe that the bountie compaign should be rewarded in BTC or Ethereum. Moreover, the company must pass with ESCROW to ensure compliance with rules and rewards.
Unfortunately there are companies that manipulate the spreadsheet lists, at the end of the company they enter the KYC, etc. in any way not to pay for the work done.
It looks pathetic. What is the future of such a project?

So many useless token bounty hunters do received, i so my friend wallet and saw all the bounty he has received without no value.

I understand where you are going from and the point you are trying to state, but I must say that I do not totally agree with your ideologies. Reason being that, why it is true that some ICO bounties and airdrops are a total waste of time and are mainly scams, there are still some few good ones out there. People just need to be more careful of what they are involving themselves with, and be sure it is worth their time.

You are absolutely right. They think that they are doing us a favor and I understand why they make think that but bounties fail to take into account that there is always a possibility that their project will crash and burn and we will be left with useless coins after all of our hard work. I think it is time that bounties start paying out in eth and btc again.

A very bold statement. ICO is now developing and after the introduction of regulation everything will become more reliable and easy for investors.

I believe that soon we will get rid of scammers

I know there's a lot of scams in ICO but still there's also a legit one as far as you read there platform and details of the members who are involve, this is too risks but of it will success there's a good returned on it.

I agree with you, bounties are not forced any anyone. So, you either u choose to participate or not. It's your choice not anyone. If i follow scidex it's my opinion not anyone else. so, be cool and take your own decision.

There are too many problems in the bounty activities. Most projects do not have a real goal to achieve. This led to a lot of reward work can not get a good return.

Always you can leave ;). I am doing bounty campaigns because it is a easy way how to earn some tokens and also help project to grow.
If you hate bounties, than leave because we need positive people here.

I don't understand why many people try to prevent others from participating in the bounty campaign. Bounty campaign is not a bad activity, there are still many people make money from it. If you don't earn anything, you aren't lucky, that's not bounties fault.

That's right, there are lots of non-paying ICO out there. But, not all of them. There are still good ICO that pay participants of bounty campaigns. And their correspinding tokens are in the exchange. So don't just join in any available bounty campaigns. Make a bit of research.

We all understand about that, you know. I felt the same way too that most of them have gone down in value. The moral lesson here is that never put all of your eggs in a single basket and keep your options open. Bounties are not for everyone, and it is entirely up to you if you want to participate or not. I usually do bounty part-time while working full-time as a PR marketer of a crypto project. Bounty is not a replacement of your full-time job. Treat it like a booster for your needs and wants. Just my two sats.

Yes I agree with you.  Sometimes ICOs bounties suck but not all the time. I remember I used to feel the same way when I realized that after participating. I felt like have lost but some are also good projects.

The way you talk is something like you had an involvement with this drivel ICO's and by the day's end, it will gone and trick. Well I concur on your announcement, they should be consistent with their words, similar to an abundance seeker or abundance administration., we are advancing their business and running a capital for them.,and it turns back that they are not a genuine business. This kind of ICO must be stop, and else we will lose the force.

Existing ICOs tend to pay for Token services instead of cash. And after the ICO ends, the high rate will be the scam, Token not listed on the exchange floors, causing heavy losses to the support members of the project. Therefore, it should be more and more careful in selecting ICOs.

Getting paid with an ICO tokens is not really that bad. If you think that the ICO you are going to advertise have a future then why not accept them. I know you are already here in the cryptosphere for a long time and you already know that altcoins will give more ROI than coins that already in the market. Though it is very risky because if the project is sh*t or a scam project, your effort will gain nothing. Try to accept few project that looks promising, unique and has a potential to excel in cryptomarket. You will get more profit from them than receiving payment from ETH BTC or FIAT currency.

You're right.
I think that's why I'm going to join you with bounties because I'm going to join you with altcoin bounties. You really need to pick a good bounty that's not big enough to give you but you do not have to pay for it after ico ends.

To be an effective abundance seeker a man must be not only a practical person, but rather an aficionado. Crypto is about have confidence by and large. so you ought to pick a decent venture and have confidence in it, them you will be paid fine and the token will be recorded on real trades.

Some encouraging ventures paying high measure of tokens to their seekers, Most of bounties are trick and not paying sensible measure of tokes.

When we beginning new abundance, ought to think about their group, venture vision and white papers

I think it's a question that's pretty weird. the bounty it a destination where to market ICO and surely this will be quite useful for the sake of progress and success of the ICO. In addition to that of the bounty could also be made on the bounty hunter to start an investment without large capital. good and not it depends how you are addressing this.

The self-engine in the whole process is greed. Hunters want to get money without too much stress, and the project organizers want to pay very little, and the mosses do not pay anything at all. All honest. In the market, as they say, two fools - the seller and the buyer

These fraudsters are destroying the market, and both ICO projects and other encryption products are affected by these fraudsters!

You must choose bounty program wisely, just don't participate all bounty you see. Lot's of ICo won't get softcap so you will work for free.

The situation in the market is really very sad, especially with payments for bounty hunters, no one wants to pay anything this is a really big problem, because people are wasting their time in vain

Bounty is very hard for earn money. At first you think it's easy but you need monitor all your progress and chat with bounty managers if it need.

not all like that, now many ico are not successful, maybe the effect of the many bad news about cryptocurrency. Preferably before participating, researching the project first so as not to waste time, must be careful, it could also be a moment like this made for fraud

I surmise that support in abundance organizations is beneficial for some individuals. Yet, tragically as of late, an ever increasing number of protests are gotten about the way that the ICO in which somebody took an interest is a Scam, or simply the organization has not entered the trade.

Only some ICOS that are not interested on developing their project any further, I think that's the only scam ico that i know they only interested on peoples money and after they get what they want they just dissapear without a trace. so in the end of the day those legit icos are struggling to sell their coins because of this fake icos.

Exactly mate, the market is so down as we didn't expect that it gonna happen. As we here in crypto currency community as well as bitcoin community, we try our luck here by joining different bounties but somehow we can't assure that it may be successful or not. Also, I don't think all bounties is not legit since there are a lot of bounties become successful and those bounty hunters got a great amount of profit.

As we have so many ICO coming up everyday so identifying which is better is a real task. But at times when you know that this coin can perform well in coming years it is better to buy the coins during pre ico stage so that you can spend less and buy more.

I agree with you as a content creator because most of their time is too much, some of them want us to do high-quality things, but they don't pay very well. I have visited several good paid interest programs. So, I imagine you analyze the project first before joining.

Not all ICO bounties are scam. Yes a lot of them in the market make promises that they end up not fulfilling, but there are still a few good ones out there that one can benefit from.In addition, sometimes, one does not receive pay when one does not carry out tasks in the way they ought to. If you miss out any of the instructions, you most likely would not receive pay.

Now many scammers want to earn easy money and are looking for bounty hunters who are going to advertise their shitty ICO for pennies. But you still cand find good bounty!

unfortunately for today there is a lot of scum in bounty projects, but we can not say that they are all so, just need to analyze them

I agree with you that now a lot of scams. Believe all ICO is very difficult therefore, we have to adapt to their rules. Tell me we have another choice.

The flooding of ICO projects has led to some work becoming a waste of time. This greatly damages the confidence of bounty hunters. Now the encryption market is at a low ebb, not many people are willing to continue.

i think this is your personal opinion, remember they only ask you to apply, you can choose to participate or not, its all up to you..

well then I really dont know why there are so many bounty hunters and how they make such profit from doing bounties.
I guess some people are just better than others when it comes to selecting ICOs and actually doing things in general
just a thought.

Yes there is a lot of fake ICO's or ICO's that pay no value tokens. That's the problem nowadays, there are people who take advantage of the hype brought by ICO's. With these, only few ICO's are real ICO's. So, before participating an ICO's you need to perform research before joining for you not to waste time on fake ICO's.

I agree with you brother completely as same thing happened with me as well....i have participated in social media campaigns and about an year has passed now...those tokens never just entered the exhcange...what the hell do i do with them now...i have given huge lots of time for that :-\

I do not believe that they write here. Poto that the market is now alive and very good was the time to make a profit by investing in a coin. Bounties, of course, can be mosaic, and therefore you need to check them before entering into them.

The bottom line is to research and choose the most promising ICOs and do their bounties, of course you at liberty or prerogative to reject or accept whichever bounty that you feel will not reach it Soft Cap thus enabling you to focus on the right ones having review, read their white papers and obtaining relevant information about the team of experts handling the project.

You have a point, the number of ICO and bounty are increasing everyday, we are not sure if all those projects are real and paying. Even though the project looks good it still turned to be fake.

I think your opinion is correct. The current market is going down badly and our bonus is too little. We need a higher salary to continue to work hard.
But BTC or ETH pay campaigns are much lower than their counterparts. This is detrimental to bounty hunters.

Bounty jobs are difficult. Both in the sense that they are time consuming and they might end up being a flop. So make sure you do your research well enough before choosing one. I agree a lot of them don't pay enough and there isn't much you can do about it. It's just a risk of the job.

I think solution for this problem is simple, you, as a video or article maker dont apply on the bounty program if they give their ico token/coin as a reward, just apply on the bounty with top coin as a reward, but i think this type of bounty is difficult to found

ICO review websites and offering airdrop for bounty hunters are causing many to waste time on stupid projects. You should realize that there are many ICOs in the market every day, of which 90% are fraudulent ICO projects and 7% are failed projects after completing the ICO.

There are many rewarding bounty for participants. Although the market is down, I am very sad, but do not lament and seek. Also you say the bounty paid ETH and BTC is low, which is of course because of why people pay bounty participants with the money is more stable value than their token

Bounty earnings helped me pay my bills since I started and I will always be thankful for that. I worked for bounties that doesn't pay and just moved on the next bounty until I got paid. That's just it. There is nothing we can do if they chose not to pay us or unable to pay us due to ICO being unsuccessful. There is an allocation on every bounty so if the reward is small for you, don't join them.

I do not agree with your opinion. If you are a bounty hunter, you can only receive the token that you participate in the campaign. If you want to get ETH, btc, ... then you have to contact them before you start work. No one forces you to do it

I think it matters , if you're participating in some bounties with lot of red flags then it's your fault.
Do some research on the project before doing their bounties that will save your time as well as will
give you some extra earnings.

you cant tell all ico bounties are suck, well you can say that some of them are not good. That is why before joining in any bounties you need to do research first about their project because if yo dont your wasting your time in doing bountys especially in signature campaign it needs time to do their task in order to receive their tokens. You need also to check their white paper and their dev team and their background.

Yes, most of them are scams. If you do 10 bounties, only 1-2 are genuine and finally pay at last.

Bounties is not for everyone. But it saddens that market is saturated with ico; it difficult to separate the good from the bad; and the current market just makes every coin look bad. Bring the good down with the bad

As long as those bounty hunters is accepting their specific token for their works/efforts, this system will continue until the end. Sounds like tradition in alternative coins section and Yes... so much project that pollutes the crypto market. I also had a lot of tokens that has no value and it's makes me realized that this is a bull shit thing. But still, this is better than doing nothing. Thankfully that there's a marketplace section here that pay btc only.

In my opinion, for now there is a lot of bad because sometimes if the bounty is finished and waiting for payment, sometimes some parties do annoying things to bounty participants, such as cutting large bounty allocations and sometimes there are also those who do not pay at all / only pay a few participants

Some of us here already know everything and understand about it, you know. I feel the same way that most of them have dropped in value. Bounty is not for everyone, and it's entirely up to you if you want to participate or not. but sometimes it's true. Sometimes ICO sucks but not all the time. that's why many are harmed.

a few of ICO's are not legitable but doesnt reflect to all bounty campaigns.Some people decides to participate to these bounties still believing to the legitibilty of these ICO's.Consider first the white paper and the development team as a legitability of each ICO bounty campaigns.

Recently, with the bounty it really happens that something very terrible, many projects do not pay anything to their bounty hunters and I think that all this may be due to the fact that people obviously can not take their tokens from the developers.

You ought not sum up and aggregate all ICOs in a similar pot. As you are exceptionally mindful, advertising is the key for the scattering of the venture and it is a fundamental advance to embrace. Clearly there are heaps of phony and trick ICOs which won't compensate you are they should. What's more, you should battle them making terrible advertimsement. In a squint of an eye, you will be astounded about the change. The people group will simply take after the illustration.

We as a whole comprehend about that, you know. I felt a similar much too that the vast majority of them have gone down in esteem. The ethical exercise here is that never put the majority of your eggs in a solitary bin and keep your alternatives open. Bounties are not for everybody, and it is completely up to you on the off chance that you need to take part or not. I typically do abundance low maintenance while working all day as a PR advertiser of a crypto venture. Abundance isn't a substitution of your all day work. Treat it like a sponsor for your requirements and needs. Simply my two sats.

We should respond with understanding. In the real sense, yes bounty is not forced on anyone but the truth is that participant should be handsomely rewarded for their support, energy and creativity. What is the point keeping all night and sitting all day long to write blogs, create video, tweets and share, endless numbers of post for weeks and at the end of the day you are paid 100 tokens which goes for $1.5/100 tokens. what can such amount do? I also noticed that good bounty managers dont give too many rules, they ensure articles are accepted and stakes given but some bounty without good foundation cluster us with endless rules and rejects any and all forms of work. there was a bounty i did and almost 3/4 of the participants work were rejected. I suspected that those they issued stakes to are part of their team. i have also done two or three that went half way and stopped. it is the participant that are at loss in such situation because there is no binding agreement to compensate hunters for wasted resources in the event of failure.

I believe that developers have the right to promote their bounties as they wish, and you are also in clear right to accept or reject it, I believe that I would accept the tokens if they are going to go out on some reliable exchange and with good volume, like crex24, kucoin, etc, something that I can sell if I need the money or if I am not very interested in the project, I also consider that the videos should not be as strict in the requirements, after all they are also new to the industry and we are all starting here.

Ico bounties suck, but not all of them. There are still a lot of them that are true, and keep to their promises. Sometimes even, you don't get your rewards, not because they are scam, but because you probably didn't complete the tasks that they asked you to do or you didn't do them as instructed. There are still a good number of ICO bounties that are amazing.

In my opinion, not all ICOs are bad, unless they are scam from the very beginning, but  we dont even know if the ICO is scam or not, only them knows about it. And besides, there are many ICOs to choose from. No ICO ever forced someone to join or promote their ICOs. It is us who chose to participate. If we get paid or scammed at the end of the ICO, it is because we freely chose them.

actually, not all ico are legit and going to become successful when its done, most of the projects like that is scam, and their token will be shitcoin. you will encounter a lot of projects like that, so you must know the things you need to find in an ico before spending your time with it.

That's the problem nowadays, there are people who take advantage of the hype brought by ICO's. With these, only few ICO's are real ICO's.
So, before participating an ICO's you need to perform research before joining for you not to waste time on fake ICO's.

There are many ICOs that pay Bitcoins or Ethereum and can be found here in this forum. However, the Bounty market is arranged in such a way that we only get tokens. Therefore, we need to be careful about choosing a good bounty campaign for us to do.

I also think that ico really has a lot of fraud. They just pursue their profits. They don't consider our feelings at all. Now the market has become very bad. We should choose the bounty activities more carefully.

Maybe you have less experience with the rules included in the Bounty campaign.
ICO Bounty also includes cryptocurrency, so everything depends on the participant.

If you can't afford to follow the rules then you participate.

Many bounty campaign right now is not paying good reward because if they did not reach the hard cap the value of their token becomes lower than their ico price. So the effect is the bounty hunter and specially the investors will feel tired in joining on ico because when they get listed on exchanges sometimes their token becomes worthless.

personally, I still believe that there are many legit ico that can be followed. but to choose legit ico it's difficult. we must really analyze it well whether the project has good prospects or not. the most important thing is to stay patient and work hard so you can get the legit ICO.

bounty program is actually a great way to promote the project itself. given nowadays many scam around the corner. you have to be careful when choosing the right project. a legit program usually offer their own ICO coin as reward for certain task they require you to do, reward amount is quite lucrative as well.

anyway, as a bounty hunter, there is always a hit and miss. some coin perform well, you get paid, win win.
some are either not performing, scam project or developer not paying you up. those are miss.

you never know whether you got a hit before you sell off your coin and make profit out of the token you received. 

Boutny is good and bad because all of that needs a process for success in the Exchange listing.

All Bounty participants also need time, energy and thought to do it.

i dont agree with you. okey some of the suck. you can fail if you join the bounty program of a project that failed during crowdsale. they can not distribute you anything. or they can be scam as well. but there are still good bounty campaigns that you can earn a little bit money.

Paying with their tokens is part of spreading the project and the tokens,and we cannot force them to pay in any form than theirs,.because they are not forcing you to join the bounty,it is our prerogative if want to be part or not.so with this nothing we can’t do. ABOut it

Such job should be payed in tokens to increase brend awareness and to decrease marketing espenses. As you know, ICO collect money and they can't afford to waste money
Nobody will pay for your useless movies in stable currency. If I launch ICO, I would pay only to top bloggers.

Yes bounty is not profitable anymore.
Nobody forces to participate in bounty campaigns. After all, if you do not find economic sense in this, then why continue to participate?

It can be seen by two ways of the project , at one side we can suppose that the ICO don't want invest a bit of money and want to make free advertisements by using his own created free tokens , so overall they make it without spend a bit of the money .
Now come at another side , that , ICO team may have better concept of technology algorithm but due to problem of the money they are not able to give boost to the popularity of Thier project and with the help of the tokens they want serve Thier technology algorithm with Thier coin .
Well here I can't do anything for you in the both of the cases , but here I can give better suggestion for you , first of all you should get tokens from the ICO and then after get of the token , make the directly sell at discount because surely you will get at low price then what the ICO will set the price of Thier token .
Don't worry to sell , because you can found easily token buyers at Thier telegram channel at low price , so just accept token and sell them at low price , surely you will get much amount of money easily .
In this way you can make money and also ICO project will make Thier own advertisements without spend of money .

I find it hard to believe that some bounties are critiquing twitter content where the individual is going to work for days tweeting/retweeting over the course of a bounty for most likely $0 and they still want high quality.  LOL

This is really funny. What is the use of a token that is not listed on the exchange? It’s like a pizza with glass, you can’t eat it in your mouth.
This is an insincere performance, they try to deceive the bounty participants to provide them with free services.

Well maybe half of the ICO bounties are not all bad there are also good ICO bounties, the problem to this bounties does`n lie on the ICO it is in the market listing that almost all bounty participants are so hasty. They want the project to be listed in good exchanges but dont support the project all the way.

Yes, most bounty participants drain their tokens at the first opportunity. you need to study the project before you participate in the bounty

This past months, ICo are very useless and even raised a good numbers dont expect a good price after exchange. I  AGREE  with you that please pay the bounty participant in eth,btc or any usable currency. Dont just pay in token, once the project failed, so bounty hunter will not gain anything after doing the task

I agree there are many scam ICOs in the market while their tokens might be useless too but you can also find ICOs with real team and intention behind their projects.
If you ever decide to join a bounty or contribute, must research on their background to realize how legitimate they are

That is right its up to you if you want to participate ! But i think you are doing reviews for all without doing proper research you always seek for ICO that promise ypu that they will pay you so dont blame the entire bounties because we bounty hunters know the risk if the Project is a complete failed

I agree if in the future the bounty project will pay bounty participants with coins that are worth such as eth, bitcoin, or fiat. I often get trash tokens and just waste my time participating in a scam bounty.

There is many scam bounty campaigns , So always try to choose best bounty programs. You have a choice to choose so always do some research before joining any bounty campaign. It may help you to earn from bounty.

maybe its true, but i think its worth to try because we dont spend Money for buy they token like investor buy at ico site, we just did several task on their bounty campaign, and if we Lucky we get paying and if we unlucky we join an scam bounty campaign and didnt get payment.

The present bounty is not very good. No matter the market environment or the arbitrary change rules of the team, it brings a very bad experience.

Bounties are not forcing you to do that for them, they have allotted budget for that work.
Before doing things for them, kindly make a research with the team and ICO to make sure they are worth to spend time with.
As of me doing bounties finding it really good provider financially.a

Just be cool about it. That is the result when you are joining into a specific bounty campaign with no cap system. When you get only 300 tokens as a reward because many users are joining to it. And that is normal, best is to move on to it.

In my bounty deal is the choice of everyone, so if something does not like it, then he's right not to do it!

ICO are project running with fundraising money and that's the opportunity to others to scam many user but believe on ICO that have a partnership program  and good background of the project. Don't believe of what written on roadmaps because it is a lie to encourage other to invest in their project.

Excusme.  Dont do drugs kid

I’m not much agreeing with you with some reasons…
First of all bounties just attract you for joining by giving some good rewards, they are not forcing you to join bounties.
Secondly we can’t blame all bounty campaigns while we know mostly coins & tokens are standing on some good positions, which were introduced by bounty campaigns as well.

You should check first all the social links and ico listing site than you should join bounty , some bounties are scam.

I like taking part in the bounty of previously run projects, not wanting to invest in new projects, because they already have a fair amount of investors available. Also, I'm also involved in a signature campaign for a project run by people of Chinese descent, I highly appreciate them.

The challenge been faced by beating trend in the prices of cryptocurrency is changing what works and what doesn't!  ICO are making little to no money in the running of their campaign Because people are less incline to put their money or better still risk their money back on ICO investment!

I tried to understand what you are trying to explain for, well, in my own investing ICO's project are really risk to invest we don't know how to predict them that they pay bounty hunters and also investors. There are some that good in a platform from the start but after all their gone.
But we can easily avoid this serious scammer, through reading the entire documents of the project and also the development team, you must take advantage of with them.

I can say, not all of them smoke. I have experienced some bonuses paid with good interest. I'm just a member. So, I suggest you analyze the project first before joining.

the bounty campaign is open to the public, so it's an option for you to follow it.
you can choose to follow or not, all decisions are in your hands.

so don't blame the manager's bounty if the campaign fails and scams.

Strongly agree with you, because the bounty campaign is open to anyone who wants to follow it.
If we are forced to do a bounty campaign, it's better not to do it because it will only waste time.

We have the opportunity to choose which campaign of generosity to join and no one forces us to help poor projects getting for it a pittance.

It is true that some ICOs not look professional starting from their website , WP and their communication with the field
is not on a required level, but they are startups and not everything is  functioning as it should. The choice is ours to decide
which one to support with their promoting activities, nobody forces us to do anything.

yes there are alot of bounties out there that can be considered scam, many are only good in the beginning but when nearly ends, it will end up to be failed.

I am sorry about what you have experienced in bounty. I have also been into a scam ICO who runs bounty and it just really wasted my time and effort in the whole duration of campaign but there are also ICOs who are giving me real profit which makes me keep on going and keep on participating.

I don't think it's much. If ICO will pay you, you can get good money. Much better than if you were paid in hard currency.

I would not say that new projects suck.. we need them for market development, it will be impossible further growth without new coins, but of course we agree that the market is full of scams, so we should figure out how to find good coins. i personally trust rates of IcoGuide.com, they have real not paid rates, but then closer look is necessary of course.

A bounty manager who monitors the quality of a promotion campaign is an employee, he must be demanding. And about the payment in Bitcoin or Ethereum, such projects exist, but the requirement for the participants are very high and payment is low.

Very lot of bounties will pay you 50-100 coins that value 5-15$ and you waste you time month or more to earn this shitmoney in social media bounties, in signature campains hard choose project becouse in good so many people join  and you recieve not good reward,i try take part in a lot of bounty,airdrop but still not earn good profit and some project stopped they sale and promise reopen in the end year or the next when market will be better.

None of the ICOs forces the Bounty down anybody's gullet. Participation is voluntary. In a way, the bounty participants need to believe in the ICOs to participate and propagate them.

I think you contradict yourself when you say that someone should be willing to do a positive review of an ICO and expect Fiat in return. One should only provide a positive feedback once he or she is convinced about the project. Else, it becomes 'buying' a positive review. This will be completely against the decentralized principles.

Just the way there are fake ICOs, we have Bounty hunters galore. This is evident by watching the Telegram communities with ZERO discussion on products and progress. The space requires automated cleansing through each of the 'believers' in the technology. Having a centralized Compliance Enforcer will make the space like all others and do away with the basic theme of decentralization.

Your activity is just 3 and you say you run lot of media bounties probably you have lot of bitcointalk alt accounts. For your kind information no one forces you to join the bounty campaign, its decided by you. What will hunters get when they will joins lot of bounty campaign without checking background of the projects & its better to learn basic things first with that learning you can pick up the right projects and earn well.

No one forcibly forces you to participate in the campaign. Find yourself those who will pay you in btc, eth, usd for your work, if you think it's worth it.

To be honest, a lot of the articles written are just copies of the white paper and/or ICO website, or copied from other participants. You just get a whole load of keyword cannibalisation, and no good SEO rendering the content campaign a bit redundant. I see about 20% of articles submitted which are good - although most have zero SEO applied. So, a lot of of the time, ICOs are getting useless content.
Videos - whilst it's not against YT's rules to buy subs, or views, these are all mostly pointless too. Although I guess it could be argued that some could be rank up in Google because of the no. of views...

You don't have to take part in any of them. It's not a great time at the moment, and the market is flooded with ICOs - some of which have a great concept but investors are just taking a back seat.

Even the good bounty managers have had too long delays in payment of remuneration lately. Probably the organizers do not collect the necessary amounts and do not want to pay bounty hunters.

You cannot equalize all bounty are bad.
Because some of them are good for promotion and really helpful for the project itself.

There are a lot of different bounties on the market right now. Just find a good one for you. I agree, that maybe 60 percent of them are not legit and won't pay anything to the bounty hunters at the end. Find a good ICO, that has already reached its soft cap.

Its your right to believe whatever you want. But as long as there are people that still believe that some Bounty campaigns still relevant its not a problem Maybe to you or to somebody else! the more important is they do what they think is right and its not a useless. I still believe that there are still legitimate ICO and Bounties that still running these days!

As other writers have rightly said - nobody forces anyone to participate in bounty. Yes, most tokens drop in price or they can not be sold at all - but this is a problem for bountyhunters who agree to such conditions. Everyone is self-assessing risks.

The problem that has emerged in the market today is forcing many investors and bounty hunters not to invest in some I would probably say in most projects that have questionable structures, because the scam projects have become very much.

I think the author of this post is right. The quality of of course same many posts wants be the best, but mostly hunters for heads more than mismanaging with his task, and to do what the very good and voluminous posts and articles for those money which stand out not worth. Keep in mind that we are here as cheap labor!!

You are right now days ico bounties are suck but not all of them. If you pickup a low budget and fack project to take participate as a bounty hunter its your fault. Also you are making this question because of the current market situation, when the market was in a good position there was very low number of people who made blame like this that you are not getting what you deserve...

I still think that there are normal projects that are currently developing projects, but there are very few of them in comparison with those projects that are on the market today and are a frank scam project, but still they are and you need to look for these projects.