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Recently, some airdrops require identification documents to be uploaded before airdrop tokens are distributed. Emails are sent as a reminder to complete the KYC process.  Share your thought on this issue

I really don't understand why people still continue to join airdrops that will give you in best case less than 5-6$ in coins..... and asking for KYC is absurd!

Some ask for KYC only to avoid multi accounts (?) or to comply whatever laws (?). Some others, indeed, can do quite a lot of "interesting" things with those documents.
On another hand, too many (especially starters) are desperate for a few free bucks and you can't imagine how easily people give their ID.

I would suggest you make a tutorial for airdrop/bounty newbies, but I guess that most will not read it...

Agree with you, I mean people give their privacy such as identity, bank utilities, etc. Just for coins worth $5 ? that's freaking insane

For airdrop I will not submit KYC, who knows and we can't say that they will not use our private details to anything that can harm us.

I'm strongly against the idea of Kyc because the ICOs are using it for selfish interest though Kyc itself means know your customer but the team behind ICOs are trying to use it in order not to pay airdrops participant because some people won't do the Kyc or won't be able to meet up with the airdrop requirements

I don't really know what the kyc for airdrops is all about. Most token gotten from airdrops are not much and they will still be expecting one to perform kyc in receiving those tokens. That's the reason why I don't even like to participate I  airdrops.

I see this year's airdrop very small and almost unprofitable, I never participated in airdrop campaigns that use kyc, because in my opinion providing sensitive data is very risky in my opinion

For me, i do not believe in kyc for airdrops
i flee from such tokens because the airdrop people will never show the faces of their team and they want me to send them my own passport details

it is never done that way, theuy need to reveal theirself before i reveal myself too

simple

I think KYC is something you need to think about and investigate for which projects you are sharing your personal information. Don't just randomly sent your (very) personal information to whatever projects asks for it, be cautious with this. You never know what might happen to your info or how it is stored and whether or not it is done in a secure way.

Some may be genuine, but some are undoubtedly scams. I don't think it's worth the risk. Just leave these alone. It doesn't make sense to take this sort of risk for the prospect of just a few dollars reward.

i am  ot a fan of airdrops i think that it is more like a matter o luck that a matter f ylur abilitoes and knowledge

airdrop os not twhta i think is good but youncan try it of course and try to get profit ftom it and then make your own decison

Only if you are really sure about the airdrop and have done research on the team behind it should you send your private information to them. Sending ID and other info to get 10$ or less worth of coins doesn't make much sense for me.

The main reason of crypto currency is encryption and stay anonymous , I don't know why some airdrop and bounties ask for KYC , I participated in some bounties and some of them asked for KYC , honestly i posted my KYC coz it was some money i couldn't neglect , but sometimes it wasn't fair coz a few of them didn't say they need KYC at the beginning , I think if they want KYC they must ask it first and don't extort from people by holding their bounty tokens for KYC!

I do not recommend you to provide personal information about you, especially for Airdrops.Last year, i was a frequent member of airdrops and pointed to my working e-mail.Which was later hacked.To this address and now comes a lot of emails from fraudulent airdrops.

Stop. And never provide your documents for the KYC identification in Airdrops, this is the sure way to be scammed. Most likely your data will be sold in the dark market and will be used for unknown purposes.

This is absolutely wrong, KYC should be a criteria for all registered investors and should not be extended to airdroppers at all because they are not investing in their project, why should they be asked to submit their details?

In 5% of cases, they want to avoid participation of multi accounts in the airdrop process. In all other cases it is dirty game, which is designed to steal your personal data and copies of documents.

No, my point is still no，I refuse to accept any airdrops that require KYC, because it's obviously irrational, because the airdrops bounty are small, and the KYC data is important.

Actually i also have the same opinion. Actually i dont like to do kyc at all although for bounty but the problem is i can not get token if i dont do the kyc. I do kyc if the bounty reward worth to do kyc but if only 5 or 10 dollars, i will not do kyc at all. Its too bad to do it.

I really like Airdrop event. We can collect free tokens from the Airdrops. Personally, I already do a lot of airdrops and Now I have a Hundred plus type of tokens. Few tokens have a value and some tokens haven't value because it's not yet listing to the exchange. KYC is really important to ICOs and bounty. But now KYC needed to some Airdrops. I think it is a bad decision because there is a lot of scammers. So maybe they can steal your documents. Be careful.

KYC and airdrop tokens have no positive correlation. KYC stands for Know Your Customers, airdroppers are not customers, they are just people who receive free tokens by way of filling forms or campaigning for the ICO.

KYC is becoming very reasonable now, not just on airdrop, bounty and giveaway now many are asking for KYC. just follow this is only part of the procedure to get the token, nothing wrong from this.

Let us first understand what KYC is all about. KYC is the full meaning of Know Your Customers. It's a way of identifying your customers and knowing their full details. While a customer is someone is patronizes his/her client with a view of transacting business with him/her. In this case airdroppers are not customers or clients, why should be asked to pass KYC before receiving a free token?

Personally, I would not go to a KYC process for an airdrop... There are a lot of scammy projects that I don't trust with my ID

I will skip all the airdrop need to pass KYC, there are many frauds in crypto, any way participated in airdrop is unprofitable, it worthless and waste your time, I would like to spend some time review the promising ICO than airdrop.

Tell the token owners to keep their airdrop token. I will never do any KYC shit for an airdrop that may probably be shit or scam itself.

Don't join on such airdrops because they maybe used for some illegal activities,It is okay to provide the basic details to confirm the real identity of the person but asking all the all the documents about us looks like data pulling and these informations will be shared to someone to make money.And finally airdrops are useless they are not going to give any tokens which has value so better stop them.

I don't think that the KYC procedure is needed for Airdrops, but it may be useful for Bounty Campaigns, this measure will help to prevent cheating/multi accounting.

At the moment it is quite normal, it gives investors peace of mind like trading exchange
Often projects that capture KYC are always good projects and never scam investors. I just think so.

I had the only successful airdrop, in which I passed the procedure kyc, it was Polymath. It really was worth it because I earned about   
$ 350 on it. And today's airdrops are probably not worth our attention, as many are scammers.

KYC is not required for an airdrop. They need KYC if there are too many cheaters in their airdrop system. But if they ask you KYC right at the registration, I advise you to stay away from it. Because your personal papers may be for sale for a variety of uses

KYC in processes that have nothing to do with payments is a complete violation of human rights. This should not be the case, and moderators or advisers should do the same. But this is just a conversation and only my opinion.

Interesting when everyone here is talking that they will not provide their ID when it is required by aidrop, but I think that they do that  ;D Almost everyone who is doing airdrops believes that he will earn a lot of money and will do almost everything for that :D.

I really don't understand why people still continue to join airdrops. Some ask for KYC only to avoid multi accounts. For airdrop I will not submit KYC

This is simply to avoid farming account if the project is legit or they just want to stole our data (if they are scammers). Most of airdrop participant is do KYC because of ppl who known as ( Clickbaiters ) that said you'll receive big amount if you passed kyc and using their refferal ( Onfortunately it's only make the refferer rich ). I even almost see this everyday, so sad  :(

That's the right thing to do have to ensure the validity of participants in receiving there rewards.

provide personal data only for airdrop? does not seem worth it to me.
when new blockchain is introduced, we receive coins from airdrops free without any conditions. and my advice is better do not give your data only for airdrops because of the big risk

Do not participate in such campaigns, they just need your data. Your documents will be used for their purposes.

In my opinion this is kind of bullsh*t but everyone is scared about newcoming regulation rules and SEC is not the only problem ico can have. It is bad but also good in the long-term...

As for me. I against the KYC at the airdrops. Airdrop tokens should be free for charge becuase this is promotion. The aim of airdrops is to share some project to wide community.
KYC kills this aim.
But as for ICO that control may be usefull especially when developers return funds to their owners.

Some of airdrops are require identification the reason why they do that is to avoid multiple accounts but personally I think you should stay away from that, we're not sure if it's real profitable or a scam.

I personally believe that any airdrop asking for kyc is a scam, asking people to submit personal information to obtain an insignificant number of token is laughable. One could argue that its necessary for identification process and to curb the utilisation of multiple accounts, but I still believe that kyc is only necessary for investors who purchased the tokens. Going by the meaning of KYC - Know Your Customer / Client. Airdrop participants cannot be categorised as clients to the company because no transaction was made.

Personally i do not participate in any airdrops that require an KYC. Most of the times airdrops arent even worth pretty much so its not worth to complete KYC

Rewards from airdrops usually do not amount to much, so you need to think about the time spent on KYC.

If I were you I will not do KYC for airdrops. It's not worth it. In my case I only do KYC for bounty campaigns here in bitcointalk. Or maybe in ICO when the time comes that I decided to participate.

There's an high percentage of risks to give your identification in airdrops.
Stay away from that because it's too risky, especially we do not know if this is true or just part of a scam.
Just be careful on what the personal information that you give in any site.

there are many different reasons for that. there are people creating multiple accounts to participate so KYC can prevent it. what if the airdrop requiring KYC is a scam? most airdrop today are scam so better stay away from airdrop requiring KYC.

In my opinion, this is arguably not worth it between the results and the goods we are staking. Imagine that if we are sharing our personal information to the public just to get a token that is not of value. This is not a wise choice. I think that KYC is used only for investors.

kys stupid procedure that humiliates the participants and does not agree with the theory of decentralization and blockchain

I think this is a really good development, however, the tokens or coin need to act responsibly with that information and protect it from scammers and others that will look to abuse it.

In airdrops there are a lot of people entering double, treble or even more times, this is not only unfair but it also defeats the aim of doing an airdrop as it creates large holders of coins or allows people to manipulate the value by dumping.

You have a point, this kyc is use to prevent multiple sign ups and to avoid abuse in the system but sometimes we cannot really tell if the project is legit or just getting our IDs for them to use it wrong doings.

This is already done by a lot of projects, to protect against scams, it seems to me that there is nothing difficult to go through this procedure

I think that those projects that require your personal documents in return for the meager pay scams! The KYC process for airdrop is unacceptable, because the reward is very small, and you risk your personal data for a few dollars.

I really don't see KYC for airdrop as something important because its airdrop and it should be free of hassles. For me, most of the time a see airdrop with KYC I just ignore it because I don't have time for their KYC.

Bounty is worth to KYC, but Airdrop? Nope? Not worth to give them your personal information

I think it isn't a problem. Don't worry about it. KYC needs for checking multiaccounts and delete bots. I guess good company should have KYC.

I think it is very risky and not so wise to give out your details of kyc anyhow because the rate at which cyber crimes are aggravating is too much. We all need to be security conscious.

This is the requirement for all the ICO's recently and there are few projects asking for the KYC for airdrops and bounty as well but most of the projects doesn't require KYC for airdrop and bounty and they isnist for KYC for investors only. I think the KYC concept is to avoid anonymous purchase and bulk purchase of whales but not too sure why this is mandatory now a days and may be this is due to legal requirement for ICO's now a days.

Airdrop usually give you too few token, and it's not worth for you to show your KYC. It is unreasonable to ask KYC for a few dollars. I only accepted showing KYC in the bounty campaign.

Actually not only airdrops but all ICOs, bounties force to pass KYC as it is requirements of exchanges

It seems insane to show your documents for a few dollars, but there have been cases when after a while coins have grown in price to several thousand dollars.

First you need to understand what a person is afraid of, who does not want to provide his personal data. But on the other hand, I fully support you, because for a couple of dolars to provide their documents does not make sense. I think that the company's Bounty managers, as well as the ico team, must take this into account.

Its a personal decision exposing to danger their personal data, but most of airdrops are cost nothing, or even dont distribute to members (i mean scam airdrops), so tell me should people do KYC for them?

should be that KYC's are investors, airdrop and bounty seems in my opinion unnecessary,
because it does not really matter, for KYC investors needed because to protect their assets

It would be better if you choose Airdrop that does not use KYC because in my opinion it is too complicated.
Airdrop is now very vulnerable to failure and also a lot of fraud in Airdrop. so be careful and avoid such things.

I think there is nothing bad about KYC, if there are reasonable demands, but do not for airdrop.

I wouldn't even do KYC for a bounty, no way I'd be doing for a airdrop, but then I wouldn't be doing an airdrop anyway, terrible rewards.

What is clear is to reduce multiple accounts. Because airdrop is a way to increase buying and selling tokens, not just given to people. Because spammers can have a bad impact on the price of tokens after the token we can sell or buy on the exchange market site. Please imagine this

If you receive something for FREE, you didn´t invest your money, than you are not a customer, than I do not understand the meaning of Know Your Customer...
Everytime when Aidrops require KYC - go away.

Of course it is risky, they can easily use your documents to scam others or use it in to fraud. That's why you need to be careful when we are giving out our IDs/passport and etc. We are in online world which anything is possible.

know your customer (KYC) very important thing but also dangerous, as many projects then sell our data on the black market

I have never followed an airdrop requesting KYC and filling out a personal identity form to receive a token, I think this is not in accordance with the personal data that we sent, as I know, the distribution of tokens for airdrops is currently not comparable to the KCY they submit to receive tokens

This is just so much hilarious and very irrational to me having KYC required for mere Airdrop Token that is very much little rewarding. I therefore feel people or member's orientation towards any project seen with this should be such abandonment, because they are just time and energy wasters.

I would never participate in airdrops that require KYC. I am afraid that my personal data will be used by scammers. It's weird when airdrops require KYC.

I think it's a great idea if they are doing this as a way to prevent one person from claiming airdropped coins multiple times.  I know that there are people that do.  I can't see them using it for regulatory purposes though.

I heard the first time asking KYC in airdrops. I think it's for who guys joined twice or more. But i think it's not necessary to joined this type of airdrops. I don't expect more reward from airdrops coin that's i don't support kyc. Also airdrop coins are very weird price.        

Yes, surely all of us already know a lot of airdrops that require KYC and I don't think it's a problem as long as it is safe. indeed a little worried to send our complete data by thinking of using something else, but as long as the project is good it's not a big problem to continue.

But i think KYC in Airdrop is totally waste as they will be giving only 1% of the ICO and for that i think KYC is not requred. this they are asking as to reduce the Airdrop participants to enroll and who ever is giving the KYC document that they can utilize in other way in their project.

That’s too risky for me because airdrop is just a small amount of money and I think its not worth it to give up your personal information just to receive a small money. Just be careful because most of the airdrop now are just a scam, so do your research before joining any campaign.

My friends say am arrogant but I call it smart
I never do any kyc for Airdrop tokens

Researches made by me educated me that any Airdrop that request kyc is scam and they sell those information at a secret site for good value of money

You can say I have no proof but this is just my believe

The other thing is that airdrop is for tens of thousands of people, bounty hunters only have to compete with hundreds of people and they earn a few tens of dollars. And I do not think they earn more than $ 5 with an airdrop

It only bothers me because I can't get through. I want to participate, but for unknown reasons I was denied. I think that is the most wrong and should be removed as quickly as possible. It will be the best solution

I think it's wrong. Why and why should I send my personal data to unknown people? It's stupid and useless and pointless. I look forward to the moment when everything will be canceled and I will not have any obstacles to participate in the projects

I will pass KYC only when I am fully confident in the project, because I do not see the sense for 10 dollars of passing this procedure.

I'm powerfully against tho't the concept of Kyc as a result of the ICOs square measure exploitation it for self-seeking interest though Kyc itself suggests that recognize your client however the team behind ICOs try to use it so as to not pay deliverys participant as a result of some individuals will not do the Kyc or will not be ready to converge with the airdrop needs

This is the way to restrict cheaters that recently some bounties and airdrops have been using. But I am also afraid if my identity card's image and some important information is used with bad purpose and have the risk to be hacked accounts in exchanges