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why most of the bounty campaigns have always been extended ??
can you say this scam?
is it normal in bounty campaigns?
we know it's hard to expect to work a long time in the project after scam.

Maybe it's natural for the bounty campaign manager according to the policies and rules that are made, but sometimes the participants will experience a little disappointed. I have experienced it a few months ago. And I always carry out the tasks given. Be patient is the best choice, when the campaign continues to be extended. Do not give up easily!!

extended because some of their tokens have not been sold out, I cannot mention that a project that extends its bounty time is a fraudulent project, it is normal.

To say that a bounty campaign extended is a scam may not be totally true,because there are many reason why a team can decide to extend the period of the bounty campaign of their project,one of which is to buy them time to be able to reach their target.If such things happen,we just have to make do with it as investors to be able to have a successful campaign.

If the ICO period gets extented means then they will also extend their bounty too, it doesn't means scam but probably not worth to participate since they can't even reach their goal and attract investors then the chances of their token may get value is less.

Bounty campaigns may be extended not necessarily because the project is a scam but there are other factors as well. The common reason is when the project is not able to raise up to their softcap in the stipulated time during de ICO. If the ICO is unsuccessful, it goes the bounty hunters as well so I think it is not a bad idea to extend the bounty period.

It is pretty normal, especially in these times when market is bearish and ICOs have a problem with raising money, so they are extending thair ICO sale to get more money and that is why they are extending bounty campaigns also ;).

I do not think most bounty is scam but it's just less than the airdrop. The bounty hunting for me is very important and I have to carefully examine a bounty so that I do not have to waste my time in a meaningless way.

Expanded campaigns are not scam. They also do not want to expand the bounty campaign but because the market is so bad and it makes their ICO sales not as desirable and they need to extend the ICO time. And bounty is essential to advertise their ICO in order to attract attention from investors. In the last 4 months this is normal for bounty and you should accept that. I would love to participate in extended campaigns because if the campaign is good then I will get a lot

Sometimes there are happy exceptions, bounty company has long been recorded in the scammers, and after a few months you start to look for tokens on the forum, which suddenly appeared in the wallet. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case. Recently, a lot of companies cheat not only bounty hunters, but also their investors. And there's no getting away from it. ICO is a very profitable and tempting method of earning and scammers immediately found a new niche for deception.

Unfortunately, it's now normal practice for projects to extend ICO.  Even if the softcap is raised, the project is announced to be extended, perhaps because they feel they can collect more, they just need more time. For example, project mobile bridge lasts for more than six months and is not going to end yet  8), although the softcap is reached at the presale stage. But if you study the project, you can understand that it's quite serious and ,perhaps, with the change of trend in the market, they will collect the hardcap.

These thing has been researched that more than 80% bounty are scam, so this problem is not surprising anymore.
Even with a good market condition, most ICO are scam , the investors/bounty worker should choose a good project

90% of companies are SCAMS. You need to learn how to choose work projects. It will come only with experience.

Now, these days bounty participation has gone useless as the reward token is very less as expected earlier. Also, payments are not done most of the time at the end of with working hard.

Yes, this campaign can be a scam.
So everything is unusual
If you have finished the campaign, why do you need to work?
You are instructed in this Campaign Manager how much work to do.
Why work or conditions are changed every time.
In such scams, you do not get any support from any assistant.
There is no liability for such scams.
If you do not answer, do not get the answer either - or get countless answers

the Bounty program is always extended, it does not mean a scam, the main reason for the Bounty program being extended or the distribution is slow, because they do not want their coins to fall just like that or when the token sales are not optimal, even though the Bounty program is extended by the manager bounty, I personally as Bounty hunters will not be able to do anything because before participating, the bounty manager has the right to change the rules at any time except the allocation change

Hello! Yes, now many campaigns prolong the bounty. But this is not always cheating. This is mainly due to the crypto currency market. Every project wants to enter the normal market. We must wait or stop and take a new project.

normally the bounty campaign is extended because of their ico.. but it depends also on the bounty manager if its needed to extend otherwise if the project is reliable and they think that it will success then no extension

that's normal, extended ICO is a step to raise large funds by selling the remaining tokens before, but not all campaigns follow the ICO extended schedule and the bounty may end earlier

Some ICO extend their bounty to keep the heat of the project in the public.

No as long as they will pay and got their soft cap reach!


Nope, but it is on the TEAM and managers decision.


we know it's hard to expect to work a long time in the project after scam. I KNOW!

Bounty campaigns are not lucrative as they used to be, also it is harder to secure funding now in a bear market. People are becoming more wary about investing their funds in projects, they are not investing in anything on the block. It all has great impact on ICO industry and bounty.

Bounties being extended is quite normal specially if the ICO is not doing well or still has not met the minimum requirement to start the project. Managers can just simply end the campaign even if the token sale has not met its minimum requirements however you will not gain anything so keep that in mind.

They are extended probably because the ico can't raise money, most bounty campaigns are actually trash because the ico does not raise money so the token worths $0

Maybe it's for a good reasons. Sometimes the project might decide to prolong it because it's helping them or could be for dome reasons good or bad

There is no single system how to test the project on a bench. If everyone could find out what project the scum would all have invested in ICO and earned even more money. So a single system will not have any luck.

i think it's normal in bounty campaigns that they will extend the project because i always join a campaign and they extend.

Bounty campaigns are extended because they try to help their ICOs to collect more money (as much as possible) and now it is very hard to collect enough money, to reach soft-cap atleast.

usually there is a note on the campaign that your joining in that the team can change any rules by joining you agree with it, technically its not scam its just increasing the posting days, usually bounty campaigns or signature campaign in general dont extend their campaign unless they get a good result from it, extending the campaign doesnt mean it will turn to scam later.

that's already the usual thing that happens if the campaign is extended
there is indeed a fraudulent bounty campaign but you cannot argue that all bounties are fraudsters

In my view, the growing opinions that more and more ICO projects turn out to be a scam affect people who want to invest. Projects raise little investment, which requires them to be extended to reach theirs soft cap. In my opinion, this is the main reason for that. And that does not mean they're a scam.

A majority of the projects are scam but not everyone, even some are not scam at all but they flop because people don't show interest in the idea they present. Extension of the bounty campaigns don't refer to a fraud. In fact there are a lot of reasons due to which sometimes they extend it.

it is normal if the extended bounty project might be one of the factors still not achieving the marketing target. Scam or not is not yet certain because it is difficult to distinguish it so what we can do if the project we are following is extended, continue it is likely that our profits will be large too.

Most ICOs now extend the sale of their tokens, I think because the effect of declining crypto market, so they have difficulty collecting funds,
because most of the bounties end when the ICO token sale is end,the bounty is extended also, I think it's normal

This is very normal, especially in times when bearish markets and ICOs have problems collecting money, they will extend their gift time, that does not mean a scam but may not be worthy to participate because they cannot even reach their goals and attract investors, then the possibility of their tokens being able to get value is less.

As per my knowledge most of the bounty campaigns have always been extended because all companies want to reach the hardcap and to collect more money from the investors.

The bounty manager can change the rules as whenever he/she wants. It is clearly stated in the guidelines. It probably may not be a scam. It is just a effort to make the sales more for the company By promoting it.

The more people started investing in "shitcoins" the more shitcoins got released and along with those shitcoins come shitty campaigns with shitty managers.
It seems like it's becoming the norm, good bounties are getting hard to find, used to be different though.

an extended bounty is normal when market conditions are not good. usually it is because the sales target has not been reached so the project is extended as well as the bounty is extended.

the developer has the advantage in the bounty campaign they can do additional things in the regulations or increase the duration of the extension for the campaign. so I think you have to be more patient to take part in a bounty campaign and I have invested this in myself so you should do it too and if the bounty project is suspicious you can do a report in a special thread

It is better to have an extension rather than to call off the ICO itself, you may not get paid at the same time your efforts have gone to waste, most of the ICO's are extending their token sale so that is a normal occurrence, it is so early to call it a scam without the proofs rather than that, the reason might be the bears for crypto at the same time the confidence of the investors to ICO's, admit it there are so many projects right now, hard to depict scam not unless you've gone some research to dig the eligibility of the campaign.

The bounty campaign will extended if their softcap aren't reach or they want to  reach their hardcap. Nowadays most of bounties are extended because lack of investors and some of the reason there's a lot of ICO are scam and many ico investor are stay away from it

I do not consider this to be scam. In the rules of bounty it is indicated that BM can change the bounty rules. And there can be a lot of reasons, the main one is lack of funds.

if bounty extended, its mean the project not reaching the target, maybe not hitting softcap or something
this failed bounty, because bounty should be make investor come to the project  :)

we cant easily tell if the bounty campaign is scam if they plan to extend the duration of their project. sometimes they need it to increase the amount they can collect, it helps them to have more money to fund the project.

If the bounty is extended, one simply cannot conclude that it is indeed a scam. Usually the reason behind that decision, is because the ICO fund gathering market is overall bad, so team needs to extend the bounty, because it extends the ICO in order to gather funds at least for soft cap.

Most of the bounty campaigns always extend the period of the bounty due to the fact that soft cap may not have been reached or some other external factors.

If the ICO project does not reach their maximum target, then they need time to be able to collect according to the target they have achieved because they are doing in accordance with the funding distribution presentation to move and develop the ICO project to succeed. I think it's natural that they need time to get hard cap, but sometimes some ICOs stop according to tokens bought by investors. Some projects sometimes have a Scam, but it depends on how the profile of the ICO project team and also many ICOs not Scam Hardcap but in the future, they are Scam, maybe because their project products did not sell so their coins were destroyed.

For today condition, I realize that some bounties are extended. Commonly it has some reasons.
- It of course follows the ICO projects, when the ICo project is extended, the bounty will probably be extended also.
- The extend is normal because I'm sure that their team has several consideration for this.
- I don't think that the bounty extended is scam. If we already analyze it as a legit bounty, some bounties are expended normally. I'm also experincing some etended bounties from one month to 3 months later.

I believe it's not good for the project if they extend the bounty company. Means have them matter that the not on plan. It's a shame of course, it happens that bounty and half a year go. But do not immediately put an end to such a project. Because it is not a guarantee that the project will not succeed.

From the perspective of bounty hunters it is not normal but we have to understand that starting a new business in
such circumstances like we face this year is not an easy task. We have to be patient and understanding.
To be rewarded, we have to be partners in the projects and contribute as much as we can.

I think mainly in this bear market people don't expect any price up after exchange listing. so they have to extend token sale util at least softcap reaching. So bounty campaign also will be continue.  We can't simply say those as scam projects. And also this may be happen due to lack of road map planning.

Usually soft cap doesn't reach coz the whole market is down at this season. So some bounty managers will decide if they will ientertain bounty participants, and by they way there all monitored by Project managers who wish to continue to promote ICO.

Typically, bounty campaigns start a little before an ICO starts, then continues until the ico is over.
So when a campaign gets extended, it is almost always because the ICO was extended.

This is not good news at all.
Theoretically, it shouldn't change anything, as stakes equal a percentage of the available reward.
Yes, you will work a little longer, but the percent payout should be about the same.

But the worst part is that if an ICO extends their ico, that is the biggest red flag that the project will fail.
They basically haven't met their hardcap and are trying to milk money.
But by then, hype and interest is most likely dead so there isn't going to be much value when it actually releases.
If I were you, I would immediately just abandon it and move on to another one.

Hi there!

True, alot of bounties are extended for many reasons and arent scams at all.

Sometimes when a project has a soft cap on there ICO, and they dont reach that cap in a certain time, they extend the sale and also the bounty. This could be good for the hunters, but the project isnt capable to achieve there soft cap, will it be capable to succeed at all?

Also some ico are extended aswell for many reasons and so will the bounty campaign.

Greetings! 8)

I do not think that this means that the project from the scammer. This can happen for a variety of reasons. For example, because the project can not collect the required amount of money, or because they have extended the pre-sale

Its one thing they do to collect more funds. If I am part of the team, I may also suggest to extend because they'd have to assume that their might just some investor that they haven't reached yet or perhaps has to withdraw more money to invest to the project. Extending campaign is good for the campaign participants as well.

I also notice this that most of bounty campaigns now are being extended but I can see few valid reasons why this is happening, first the target soft cap or hard cap is almost sold out but it lacks time for the project reach it so they need more time for that. Second there maybe some unfinish negotiations with possible partnership and it needs more time to get the things done.

They've extended because they think that'll help the ICO raise more money (by extending ICOs). It all comes down to the market. Everyone is losing interest in joining ICO. The actual fact is that the market is scaring everyone. Seems people are waiting for market conditions to get better and then they can comfortably resume their crypto activities.

Due to the difficult situation in the cryptocurrency world, the company may not have time to raise the necessary amount and decided to extend the bounty.

It's because the amount of money they attract from investors is not enough. That is the main reason and no fraud. When you participate in a campaign, you are an employee of that company and you need to work hard to get them big investors to invest in the company.

There are many ICO scam. But for me, the expansion bounty is not scam. They are even good and have potential, so they need more help from investors so ICO can succeed. And they need to extend the ICO time so that their ICO can be successful. If ICO scam, they leave after getting a small investment

Bounty of the company can extend for the reason that did not manage to raise the necessary quantity of funds. It not fraud, just to projects was easier to collect earlier the necessary sums for development. Now the market stopped and does not grow further.

It's true that lately, many bounty campaign announcing that the bounty campaign period is extended. Perhaps thats because the ICO or public selling hasnt reach it's target.

       Yes ICO are always extending their token sale just to ensure that the hard cap will provided and   inventor in
   valuable after ICO , and as a bounty hunter we must to hold and  be patient .

I think that the extended of each bounty campaign is normal, this may happen because the achievement of the funds has not reached the desired target, so in my opinion, before participating in the prize, you have to research the project

Hi, I think that expanding bounties is not cheating.
Now it is difficult to understand what ICO is fraudulent. The team can issue tokens, declare the listing on the exchange and then the team can disappear. now a lot of empty tokens in https://coinmarketcap.com.

As far as I know, the bounty is extended because the token has not been exhausted, they extend the bounty so that the token can be sold and more revenue. Bounty can be said to be scam if the bounty does not pay after the specified time, and if the bounty admin is still actively replying to the questions in the telegram group in my opinion it is still normal. do the bounty that you like but don't expect much.

Bounty Extension is not good for the bounty hunters. But It is not a fault of the project owner. Because of the long bear market run, Most of the ICO projects can't make the soft cap or enough funds to stop the tokensale. That's why they are extending ICO timeline and bounty campaign too. The Module is a very good project, they have a great ambition with some great potential. But They extend again 30 days to raise a good amount of USD. So, Don't be upset, try to do 30-40 Bounty campaigns at a time, this will help you to balance your bounty payment.

I feel a lot of the bounty campaigns are not run by serious devs. It is really important to do the research to find what devs are serious and only spend time on those bountys!

Who says you bounty hunter when joining a campaign are employees of that project?. They are just word of mouth marketing about good or bad about different projects

Its not an easy task to run a bounty and find mass participation to attain the target goals. Most times the stock of the bounty rewards needs to be distributed to achieve spread otherwise since the team cannot keep excess, they resort to burning or extension of the bounty. Bounty is always free therefore cannot be a scam. Infact bounty fetches you a lot of money if all goes as planned for the coin. My advise is once a coin project is launched to the public, a complimentary commercial team as strong as the development team should swing into full action to ensure and propel the coin to a tangible commercial value ahead of listing. A bounty campaign with  commercial design will lead to a valueless coin in the long run. I therefore seize this opportunity to invite you to join in the encocoin ongoing bounty and airdrops on this link : https://www.crypton.global/airdrop.php?id=5b92939909cc387&ref=5b915f158e0d83d  . Its a project with a strong commercial team and design application to create a negotiable trade instrument platform for global imports and exports. See the ANN here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5028776.0

Possible reasons of extension where projects didnt able to reach out their cap or a sudden decline of bitcoin and altcoin prices.

We cant still conclude for it to be scam when its still on sale but there are factors which you can already presume that they do really tend out to scam.

Scam is already a normal thing.Why? because it do involves big money and lots of scammers will normally do things which they do saw that they can able to steal off investors money.
As a bounty hunter then you should know the risk.

the bounty campaign was extended because their sales did not reach the softcap and for now it is very reasonable if the duration for the bounty is extended (it is normal and no need to worry)

basically it is very difficult to distinguish fraud from those that are not, it is proven by all investors that more experience can certainly be trapped. in my opinion, if the extended gift project is likely not the rest, the rest will only extend the production period that has not reached the target. but not all are right we still have to be vigilant.

But some of them are also becoming greedy.And if you extend your ICO and allowing more hunters to join you must also extend the rewarding pool

Probably the most annoying is when you submit a project and you have a signature. Because Twitter and Facebook can be run by multiple companies, and the signature is only one company

It could not be inferred as a scam. many bounties extended since also influence more bounty. investors get confused to choose and invest, this causes the ICO supported the bounty did not reach the targets set sake that will certainly lead to extended. might be said to be reasonable, but if you finish on time and sales targets are achieved is also better.

it's hardly a scam. most likely the project just wants to have it popoyarili after a fact for free

Extend bounty company because the project does not collect the minimum fee (soft cap) or when the project has collected almost the maximum and left quite a bit to the hardcap, it can also extend. But there are good projects, they just are not in demand here and do not raise funds, and there are projects that do not have a product and try to make a HYIP, these are Scam projects and they always extend to collect at least something!

95% of ICO's launched in the form of token bounty before exchange listing are absolute scams. Projects should start with airdrops to offer free tokens or coins to galvanize a community,  do listing, guage market perfomance and then raise funds(If at all necessary) thenafter for further further development.

if the company is renewed, this is a bad sign for me. but given the current situation on the market, this is not surprising. But if I participate in a company that is renewed, I stop doing it. After all, in most cases, they will not collect money

Well not always a scam. Sometimes maybe they need to reach their caps that only needs little time so they have to extend their time. I have participated in a scam ICO once and they did not extend, just disappear early before the ICO ends.

Many things must be learned if ico is extended. Ico's playing rules may need to be changed so that many are extended in duration.
Situations that sometimes make the project run well or stop.

I hate the ICO to extend their token sale time, it makes me think the project is junk and has no potential in the future, in addition it pulls the similarly long bounty

what must be considered is the sales program ... there are two important parts in the sale of ico
1. sofcap
2. hardcap
if an ico does not reach the sofcap target, there is a possibility that ico will be renewed or even stopped and the bounty campaign participants will not get paid at all, and don't forget the ico road map should we pay attention too

Many projects have extended their bonus campaign. Perhaps the overall situation of the market. 2018 is a difficult year for crypto. The decline in the value of the market led to the stalled sale of ICO tokens . so they had to expand the campaign to attract more investors.

This is happening because the developers are having a lot of problems rising capital, even many of the icos that got a lot of ethereum at the beginning of this year are having problems with their money, because ethereum has lost a lot of value in the last months, so it is completely understandable that many bounty campaigns have been extended.

not scam just they didnt reach target sales or didnt reach softcap or hardcap, they need extend time to reach the target.
now market situation for ico not good many bounty paused they ico

an extension of a bountie campaign today is not a sign of scam. it is almost normal for every bountie to be extended as there are fewer and fewer investors. that is why it is getting harder and harder to raise money for an ico and therefore the extension.

Actually, Bounty campaign goes hand in hand with their ICO sales stage. And usually they don't extended bounty campaign without a reason.
Some possible reasons for this is they paused ICO sales or maybe they extended ICO sales too (this case can be happen if they don't reached softcap and force it to happen). Note : IMHO that bounty campaign which usually extended the time is small possibility of scam, but if the ICO which extended the time period is likely to cheat. I mean they are very inexperienced and not committed to risk. So it is not recommended that you join the project.

You need to confirm with the bounty manager why the periods of bounty will be extended. They should give you an ample reason as they are working directly with the ICO or project managers.

It's simply because of small hype which project has created and not haven't reached their soft cap as usual, it might happened by different reasons not always this project will be a scam.

Most bounty program goes hand in hand with the ICO or crowdsale. If the ICO needs to be extended (probably to sell out all tokens) then the bounty program USUALLY gets extended as well. If you come to think of it, extending the bounty program will be beneficial to bounty hunters since the token allocation for bounty programs depends on the total tokens sold. In short, the tokens got all sold out, then the bounty program will get the max tokens allocated for it benefiting all the hunters.

In addition, bounty contests are manually audited at the end to weed out cheaters (and again, this benefits honest bounty hunters) and that takes A LOT OF TIME!

So yeah, not all that extends the bounty program already a scam. Like the cliche goes, patience is a virtue.

happy hunting!

Bounty camapigns extends when ico extend.
This happen when team cant collect soft cap moneys.
Often this is scam projects, becasue no interest in them

There should be some reasons to extend the bounty campaign, some campaigns didn’t reached soft cap or didn’t sold tokens so they extend campaign.
Sometime ICO delay so for that delay they extend to bounty campaign.

My experience has not been many, which I know is that bounty is an information medium for selling a project token. If the bounty period is extended, it certainly refers to the sale of tokens from the project that have not been successful.

Bearish market of crypto market has been make impact to ICO market as well, the demand of the ICO decreased and many project does not receive money by soft cap. That why the bounty campaign extended, and the team developer have goal to collect money minimum in soft cap or if possible reach the hard cap and use that money to development purpose of the project.

That's for sure, extending the bounty period also means that the ICO is also extending for almost project. You have to be patient since sooner or later you will experience this situation. Unfortunately, if bounty will be extended, the expected bounties will greatly reduced also.

I think the main reason why the bounty is being extended is that the project organizers have not raised enough money to implement the project, and they still need more advertising and time. But on the other hand, if the project is really worthwhile, its tokens are sold out very, very quickly, regardless of the market situation.

As far as the project is legit i don't see anything wrong with extending the bounty program. So many factors are involved and in some cases what i have observed is either they haven't reached their softcap or haven't sold half or quarter of their hardcap or they got into troubles with their respective Government in their country where the word ICO is probably a barrier over there. So all things being equal, it is not a bad idea rather it will only help in creating more awareness for such project. I understand most times bounty participants are discourage especially the Signature hunters who might have targeted the next signature to wear and getting to see the program being extended won't in anyway help their motivations. Well, i think reading some few things in this thread might help also: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5031657.msg45856516#msg45856516

Many things must be learned by project extension, we must understand the situation, and we must also be able to search for or choose projects that are truly qualified and provide the best so that they do not experience project extension.
I think seeing the unfriendly situation naturally is a lot of projects that are extended.

ICO began to transform and the extension or postponement of launch ICO's terms to more favorable investment phases of the market is now practiced by most projects. In some projects, campaign bounties were extended to 26 weeks. According to my observations, payments in such projects are very small in the end.

Most of bounty campaign extended because of their target period of time did not reach. They give chances to investors and hunter to invest more token

it is because of the current market situation where the market is unstable and the delays in etf and other negative news regarding to crypto but look at the brighter side we are more ahead than the last years price and we have been grew rapidly and exponentially.

The reasons can be two - or the project is really a scam, or simply it was not possible to collect the necessary amount. Very many projects in the bounty rules indicate the dates of the "before the end of ICO." This is a very convenient rule. They are right - and hunters do not have to go anywhere.

Extended bounty campaigns are not scam they might have lack of promotion and getting small amount in ICO that's why bounty should be extended I've beem through this many time but it aint a scam but it is a strategy by the team

They are being extended due to the terrible market conditions now. They are horrible at the moment, no new money is coming in so it is becoming harder for projects to reach their soft and hard caps

Before going for the ICO, the project announces launch of a bounty campaign, which designates types of activities, as well as bonuses for their performance. In a bounty platform, you can reflect any scenarios for users. If a participant finds the reward attractive, he will be ready to perform high complexity scenarios. Therefore, prioritized activities for the project are always encouraged with higher rates.

We cannot say that a project is a scam because it extended its period. There are some possible reasons behind it. And I think the number one reasona is because ICO was not able to reach the soft cap on the target date. Coins were not all sold and still need to look for investors.

For me, the reason why some of the bounty campaign manager are extending their project is because their tokens are not been sold out, they didn't reach their target and the market are still in a deep situation. So the best thing to do of the participants is to be patient and wait for the time of distribution.  

not necessarily if the extension is fraud, they may not reach the softcap or it can be said it has not been successful.
all of this is also done with a number of considerations, they might not want to disappoint the bounties who have been fighting for it

Usually this is happened because the ICO also being extended due to the selling isn't going as expected, so the project need to extend the time to get more investors join the project.
Lately it became normal due to there are so many new project appear makes the investors got separated into many projects, making one project having hard time to get enough funding.

1. Maybe they don't raise enough fund to continue the project, so they need more time to search another investor.
2. There is a scam project, and there is a legit project, but we don't which one of them that is legit or scam.
3. I think in this situation is normal, but I don't know much about the project itself because I am not part of any ICO project unless as a participant.

So you need to decide whether to join with the project or not and if you still interesting with the project, then you need to research on your own so you can find what you want. But again, maybe the bounty campaign needs a longer time to finish the campaign, and they need more investor to invest in their project.

You’re not the only one that is worried about this, a lot of people are much worried cause nobody can stand it. This time you don’t even know when you’re suffering and working for something that will turn out to be scam at last, it’s really going to be painful.

I just pray God help us, seriously how can they be doing this? They should have just leave it the way it is. This is the time for us to be very careful on what we choose, if you are not careful you will for their trap. So always make proper research before investing in anything.

This is because we are in a bear market and these days people do not invest in ICOs much. So the ICOs are having a hard time raising money for their projects.

Indeed, most of the bounty campaigns are being extended, as projects are constantly postponing the ICO due to poor market conditions. Get a good reward is now very difficult ...

the company extended because the fundraising is affected by many factors such as volatile market does not allow to collect all necessary funds..what would ico held his extend, giving yourself and the community a chance to participate in any particular campaign

An extension of the bountie campaign is not a scam.
It is more normal that most bounties are extended, at least that is my experience with it.

Seeing a situation that is indeed in a collapsed situation, it is natural that the bounty campaign will be extended, this is indeed reasonable because reaching the target is difficult, it requires an extension of time and improvement in strategy.
Fraud occurs if the project succeeds or reaches the target but the funds are taken away by the devils, otherwise, the project is halfway but the team does not want to know or leave.

The main reason is that projects don't expect that collection of required amount on the bear market can take much more time than on bullish one so the extend their ICO dates, and as a result bounty campaigns are also extended.
The worst thing here is that bounty pool remains the same :-\

usually, the Project ICO bounty campaign is extended because it does not reach a soft/hard cap, the possibility of the project is a scam, but if payment using Bitcoin or coins / Tokens that are already in the exchange will be very pleasant

Yes . The expansion of each bonus campaign is normal, the bonus campaign has been expanded because their sales have not reached the softcap and this can happen because the fund's performance has not reached the item desire.  so ,  you have to study the project before participating in the award .

It is caused by current market situation. ICOs have a real problem to collect enough money- to reach soft cap. And that is why bounty hunters do not receive tokens everytime.

I think they are going to extend the bounty because they have poor marketing or they don't hit their market cap or whatsoever as long as they don't scammed their bounty participants then it is still okay.

It is hard to say that extendable bounty campaigns are scams or not. When the projects finish and listed in exchange then you will find their credibility. Working in bounty campaigns are very risky and if they receive no funds, they will give you nothing and you will waste 2-3 months in these campaigns. Some time it is better than signature campaigns.

Bounty campaigns are unfortunately not in good shape right now. The bad news of the market has also affected bounty campaigns. This will also return to normal after the market moves.

at this time many bounties were extended because the project had not received the target from selling tokens. now most bounty campaigns last for 3-6 months.

Most bounty campaign get extended due to the fact that the team might have fallen short in reaching their target that is why when ever the is extension in the bounty campaign you will also notice an extension in the ICO time and date.

Prolonging a campaign does not necessarily mean fraud. Various occasions may be the cause of such an extension. I participated in two such projects that extended the time to achieve the goal. And both of these campaigns were not scam.
But still this one should look closely at this feature. Often, it is scammers on this come across. Need to be careful.

Unfortunately, at the moment it is pretty normal, that the bounty campaigns are extened. The reasons are very simple. If the ICO does not collects enough funds, during the planned period, they are extending the token generation event, as well as the bounty campaign.

Their token has not been sold out yet, so this issue will help them solve it. Conversely, they will lose faith in bounty hunters.
But to say that, with a potential project, let's support them to build a strong community

Anything happens. Basically, they want to help the collection with this very extension of the bounty. Only bounty does not increase sales directly, but it is difficult for teams to recognize.

The companies of bounties ceased to pay. To me tokens which cost nothing often come. I do not want to participate in all campaigns more  8)

Campaign extension doesnt mean scam, you must be thankful instead, since they are relying on bounty hunters to invite more investors via signature bounty campaign. Extension means additional token, maybe because a certain ICO have not reached the soft cap or pursuing the hard cap. Neverthless, if they extend, there's a high probabilty for a certain project to succeed.

There are projects that have already reached soft cap, but they are extending their tokensale and bounty campaign (of course without increasing the pool). Here are the projects I'm starting to be treated with distrust and wariness,so as to solve the tasks, the money has already been collected, and all the rest is "behind the scenes manipulation"

Have participated in one that actually extended it, you do not blame anyone because that is the market situation determined, the good thing is that most of them will ask that whoever wish to continue should go ahead while those that wish to step out can have their stakes retained, it would be bad if the extension requires compulsory participation by original bounty members

Some of the bounty campaign I participated last few months is just like the same and I think it is common to some campaign that they want to extend their due date to get the target earnings of the campaign. And I think that was a good thing about some ICO's to give a better earnings and get the success of their projects that they launched.

Yeah you are right. Legit campaigns should continue for long time. I am also working in bounty campaign for more than 5 months and I want that it should go for long. The more it runs the more I earn. Bounty campaigns are risky but also very good because you don’t know about the price of a coin and it may give you thousands of dollars in few days.

That's my problem. I think it's cause of team funding or rules of BCT, it make bounty program has been extended, I saw some bounties pause and start again and extended. I don't know why. Perhaps, they are try to patiences of us. I saw some bounties like that.

Because crowdsale prolongs listing the coin on the exchanges i think. As little as is bearable to wait 2 months for a signature, and then be part of the project as investor as well and find all sort of news. I remember quite a few campaigns that did hit their threshold on funds and goals and still extended the campaign and had hidden hard caps. I figured most of campaigns which gathered many investors (rather then few wealthy ones; aka whales) usually are more professional on communicating.

There are a lot of bounty campaign to choose from. It is a good way to start earning while also learning at the same time. You only need a few minute of your time to spend to be able to earn.

This year, most ICO processes have become very difficult, they are not so smooth, when we have seen many projects are failure after ICO, there are not so many people who believe in ICOs now.

Not only that, not only the time that you are expected to participate in a bounty campaign has now been extended for many weeks or even months, now the pay is going to be way lower not only because now there is a lot more competition to try to get bounty rewards, now most icos are going down when they enter the exchange so your pay is going to be way lower than it used to be.

I think that many developers made their ICOs thinking that the market would be as rich as last year, when in fact we have months in a bear market that is drying the money for investment, besides creating a project from 0 is not easy and if they want to be successful they need the right amount of investment to run the project without problems.

   Most ICO`s are going down cause we have massive selling after the distribution of tokens. Mostly people who
bought with huge discount in pre-sale, after them most of the bounty-hunters. When they are selling what`s
happening is that supply is going way up, while demand is going down.
   To be honest most of the people care only about the profit. Most of the people is looking how to make money
tomorrow, rarely people wish to wait. Prices are dropping hard after tokens hit exchange, but I think in future
that will settle down, when supply starts to go down and demand up.

Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about it. In such cases, we can only hope for the honesty of bonus managers and ICO developers.

I think that the reason is not the stability of the market and the fall of the air, of course, that the project is really a fraud or could not collect the necessary amount of money.

What you say is true but unfortunately we know that icos do not have a long life so by the time the market recovers the coins that you are holding are probably going to be worthless, this is why people are selling immediately after the ico because they are afraid that if they hold their coins for a long amount of time they are going to lose all the efforts that they made in order to get those coins.

With unexpected this market condition lot of ICOs and new projects have to face so many difficulties. number of people that participating ICO is reducing. Because of that  so many ICOs extend their token sale. As that bounty campaigns also have to be extended. So with this market condition extending bounty campaigns is not serious issue.

I can confirm that the bounty extension of the ICO campaign is entirely not a scam. The expansion of time is mainly due to Token sale has not reached the soft cap or hard cap. And the biggest reason is that at this time when the exchange rate is unstable, they do not want to release the Token for fear of falling Token rates.

This is the sad story about ICOs this year 2018. Most of the ICOs didn't reach the soft cap on time so they need to be extended. Scam ICOs may have a contribution to this but I think the main factor is the down market. If the market is down and so with the investors. Let's wait and see if the market goes up.

Before it wasn't normal, but it's already becoming that way, I imagine it's because they can, plus they need more money to reach the soft cap, when you start making a bounty you have to take into account the bear market, that's essential if they want to reach their goals.

It's normal for ICO to extend their bounty campaign or stopped it if they reach their hardcap or the ico is a failure so it's up to you if you prefer to continue or leave the campaign, it's better to join a campaign where you are guaranteed to earn your stakes even if you leave the campaign.

I have two reasons for you. First, the project was not able to reach hard cap. Many projects would prefer to extend their token sales/campaigns with the goal of hitting the hard cap which will be beneficial for their team and of course, to the bounty hunters. Second, market condition. Many projects also base their decisions on how good or bad is the market condition. Many of these projects offered/promised great benefits to their investors from the start and so they wouldn't want to end up breaking that promise by compromising the project under a bad market condition.

It could be an extended bounty campaign program because the ICO has not reached the sales target. I think it's normal in a bounty campaign. Indeed, I admit, if working for a long time in a bounty campaign is very difficult.

I think so. 2018 is an unsuccessful year for the ICO because there are many potential ICO projects as well as scams. It is hoped that in 2019 the cryptocurrency market will improve and the ICO will also be more potential to invest and participate in bounty campaigns.

People are too impatient nowadays to receive their bounty rewards, some of the ICO extends their crowdsale for some reason maybe they need more time to collect money or they just need to extend the ICO so they can have more time to develop their technology. If the ICO extended it doesn't mean its a scam, just be patient and join bounty campaign that you think is legit.

Extension of bounty period does not mean scam. This is the recent trend now in most bounty campaign due to the nature of the market not allowing fast sale of tokens. Now ICOs have to spend longer time to achieve even softcap.

Plus the price of ETH or any alts that are used in investing declines too that even they were invested the price still tends to lower that gets too hard to end the program even they reached the soft cap. As long the team seems legit and working. Nothing to worry about.

extended does not mean a scam. they just reproduce their sales just so at least this is greater than the time before. Sometimes there is also who have not or barely reached the minimum target of the project and it would certainly make it extended. Don't be too easy to speculate scam and better carefully used to be what is happening.

There are several possibilities for extended bounty campaigns, and one of them is the need for a project. Where the manager and team decide to extend the campaign to achieve the planned success. Believe that not all campaigns are fraudulent. Keep thinking positive and follow what has become a task in the rules.

Because they want to reach the target of tokensale

can you say this scam?
is it normal in bounty campaigns?
we know it's hard to expect to work a long time in the project after scam.
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Depend on the project and choose project handle by the reputable manager fron this industry to avoid scam

There are companies that value their tokens and don’t want to release them at such a time, it doesn’t mean that the project is a scam, everything depends on the context, good campaigns do it sometimes, just the bad thing is that you can’t to predict.

Every day they start to disappoint more and more. The memory of good projects is very small, although I have been involved in a large number.

We're all disappointed in every projects they produce because it result to scams at the end .Bounty campaign is an opportunity to earn rewards without investment money ,the good thing we serve is to construct opinions in desired topic to promote the platform in ICO but sad to say nothing to gain due to scams.I hope this time there will be more legit projects .

Now the revenues from the bounty campaigns are falling dramatically and the situation on the market cryptocurrency is to blame. Many projects in the course of ICO do not collect very little money, which does not allow them to implement their projects.

If they were better, we would not have seen the situation that has developed now with the crypto market.
I mean, seriously. Me personally, it is disturbing.

Bounty campaigns don't just exist in isolation, it is dependent on the ico which they are promoting. If there us can extention in the ico definitely there will be a need to extend the bounty as well. And the reason why ico extend their duration of token sale is not far fetched; they are unable to meet their target and this is caused be investor's loss of interest in ico participation amongst other factors.

maybe they are extending the bounty because ico they don't reach softcap or they reach softcap but are very confident that they will reach hardcap so ico continues to run and the bounty also has an extension of time, and that is very normal in my opinion

The campaign period was extended because it did not reach the sales target and in my opinion it was normal and had not been said to be a scam campaign.
The reason for the extended duration of the bounty campaign will certainly make the participants feel disappointed. Sometimes the nature of fraud begins to occur as long as the duration of the campaign is extended to a duration of 1 month.

Yes, this is quite a normal practice, many good projects extend their ICO and with it the bounty company in order to collect more funds, and therefore payments for bounty hunters will be higher.

Yes, you may be unhappy right now, but believe me when the bulls return to the market, you will again say that everything is good and you can earn money again on the bounty. just be patient ;)

I think that's the risk of being a bounty hunter , so I think it's only natural if a scam to occur , the problem of extending ico that was done by the project because they have not reached softcap funds, So the long time the bounty goes, all the decisions are in our hands, we want to stay or leave

you have to be able to distinguish between a scam project and a failed project, crypto is currently sick, and naturally many projects fail here, then why do you make the bounty your job ???
find the real job

The reasons why the bounty of the company can be extended may be different, for example, a soft cap is not collected or it is not the best time to enter the exchange.
Extending a company's bounty doesn't always mean fraud.

Sometimes it is just because the Soft cap and Hard cap period are not finish for the expected time that is why they are extend the ICO even the campaign of the project. They make improvements that affect on the time that being plan to finish. Almost of the campaign adjusted there finish time which make more longer. I just hope that even it takes that long, it  would give good reward for all the effort we make to support the project.

I think most bounty extends because the ICO itself is also extending. Since, ICO is where the source of funds for the company and also the pay for the bounty participants comes from. Reasons ICO extends is maybe fixing their legal terms, improvements and maybe to reach their goal.

If the extension in the bounty campaign is normal, because if they really want to develop the projects they make, then they will keep the project running with the addition of time on the ICO sales that they do. It also aims to keep the project going even if it out of the schedule they planned even though not a few ICOs like that experienced a failure in their sales so if we get a campaign like that then the right step we do is just monitor the progress of the project group and speak directly to the dev of the project.

it's a reality of today's market and we have to accept it. our goal is to colect tokens and wait for the growth of the market.

Bounty projects can occur suddenly extended. Maybe there is another reason why it's extended. Even though something like that happens, the rewards and prizes will certainly increase. It does not matter if you want to be extended, provided the project is clear on the grounds that their project will attract more investors or so far they have not reached the target in the bounty.

Maybe it is scam or not because some of those bounty before they distribute the token they first make sure that their project will success just like my last 2 bounty almost 8 months until now their is no token distribution and no exchange one of that i think it is scam because their is no update from the manager and that project so that all bounty is not sure that is legal or not so always be careful n what are you joining.

If the bounty company is extended then the project is experiencing some difficulties with the collection of funds. This is not a good sign, but do not immediately write such a project in scammers. Maybe he will succeed.

If the bounty is extended repeatedly, you should think about the decency of such a project. However, if this happens once, then there is nothing wrong with that. Many projects also delay payments, which is also very frustrating and undermines trust.

Bounty  campaign is extended maybe because they having some problems on their projects but dont give up easily because sometimes they  fixed the problem and continue the project. Not all project are scam so  just patiently wait.

this year is different compared last year. there are a lot of ICOs today and many don't get enough attention as a result the ICO can't raise enough funds. so they have to extend the ICO as well as the bounty campaign to raise enough funds. you should have research first if the bounty is a scam before joining.

This is natural as the ICOs are much affected by the bearish market in which they hardly to collect the desired amount for their projects and that is why they will be force to pause, extend or the worst is to stop their projects making the time and efforts of all particpants will be wasted. Expect that this situation will be getting worst if this bearish market will still be in effect until the next year that it will make more investors to stay away from crypto investments that hopefully they will not.

Well, its a normal process of the bounty campaign will extend there duration of campaigning the product because they think it can be more efficient for the project to reach the allocations and be more demand on the public and community of cryptousers anf cryptoinvestors to cater the people's wants to participate the said campaign on a thread.

to mention that all bounties today are not good scams. indeed this year is a difficult year for the bounty because it has reached the 10th month in 2018, there is no paid bounty. maybe this is the impact of the crypto market collapse. You don't need to panic, because now the market has begun to improve and surely the bounty will be paid even if you have to wait until the end of the year.

Scam or not I don't know, but if it's really a good project then the extended bounty doesn't matter to me. Because it is extended including the strategy of the project team. For me the project team has always been active in giving responses which has become a plus value of the project.

You need to be more patient, especially if you are doing everything right and believe in the product you are promoting!

If the project says that the bounty company will be extended is not a fraud. I was in a similar situation several times.
Then the projects turned out to be very good. Maybe of course I was lucky, and I judge only from my experience, but I had it that way.
Sincerely yours.

People can not predict in how long they will accomplish the goal of the campaign so I think it is normal to extend the campaign if the results were not accomplished.

Main reason of bounty extend is, "Soft cap and hard cap not reached". Cryptocurrency market now very down, people afraid to invest in ICO project. For that project can't collect enough money,  for this they extend their running bounty campaign.
Hope now you clear about this.

I think it's ok because if bounty campaing is extended then it might be a true need. Maybe developers just need some more time and your help?

Definitely there are major extension in the bounty campaigns because they want more from yours. And there might be some companies policy too.

Usually those who have been doing this for a long time understand that this can happen and there is nothing wrong, there can always be some difficulties the main thing that they were temporary

Iin my opinion, the length of a bounty campaign does not guarantee the success of a project. We cannot judge in that respect. Usually a successful bounty is seen from the coin prices sold while Ico is still running. if the coin sales have reached hardcap, the greater the potential for a bounty campaign to be seized.

This is not surprising. Most ICOs didn't reached soft-cap. It can be understood that they have actually failed, but they are not willing to give up easily, so they can only be postponed continuously,bounty is same reason.

It is normal in the market like today. When Eth costs 200$, projects don't have enough money to continue working so they extand ICO and bounty campaign. I think that it's quit normal now.

Yes, the market is so bleak now. It's really hard for a new project can grow up as planned. They need more time for selling their token and only distribute the rewards when its softcap reached

Hi, I think that bounties that expand are not frauds.
But in the beginning it was frustrating because when I signed up for the bounty campaign I had 1,500 subscribers, after 2 months I have 11,000 subscribers, and the campaign is expanding for another 2 months.

Also the team extend the time because they only want to maximized their sales not only for the sake of the participants but also for the sake of the project to have a fund and maximized the fund to make the project a best one in the market.

The length of time for the bounty campaign does not determine the amount of income that will be earned later. There are many other determinants that influence the bounty, including the allocation of bounties that we follow, which is the percentage of the total number of tokens released for the bounty campaign, and the success of the ICO. Most bounties are extended because the icon hasn't reached hardcap. Ico who is not a scam is ico who has a professional team, Developer team, technology, concepts and market place or exchange

if you are active in the crypto space, you don't really need to ask why because the bear market is affecting everyone in the space, bounty campaigns are extended because the ICO are either postponed or extended and the reason is because the market is down and much people are no longer investing into ICO, they are waiting for market to make recovery.

in my opinion, sometimes it's not all fraud, but only a problem where the project has not reached the sale of the product, making the length of time for promotion, it's normal that we meet to be normal while the project is always active and the developer gives instructions to the target and time to finish. we should always be vigilant, because this year fraud projects have increased.

You have another option, to me the conditions that bounty campaigns are putting to their participants seem unacceptable and the only way this changes is if more people stop accepting those conditions and decide to stop participating in bounties and decide to do something better and more profitable with their time, I understand that it can be a nice bonus for someone just starting in cryptocurrencies, but after some months or years you need to find some other way to make money.

Actually most of ICO are extending their bounty campaigns so it's not a scam but unfortunately it's the ICo crysis that requires to extend their campaigns otherwise project won't reach softcap... :( :(

Actually, it bothers me, too. I participated in 4 facebook companies and all of them were extended for two months. It makes me worried, considering the payments won't be coming soon either. :(

You can't really tell whether a bounty/ICO is scam or not. Take for example PRL. One of the biggest project of 2017 finally turned out to be a exit scam. So be cautious while investing. Since cryptos are unregulated, not much can be done in case of scams and fake ICO. So it is one's own responsibility to put in some research before joining a bounty or doing an investment.

No way that you will be able to know for sure that project is fake, because sometimes project turns fake just after the end of ICO. It is really hard to know.

Some very successful projects have not even paid. A project is a fraud or not, they don't pay even if they make a hard cap (envion, current)

all of them ?  i think that is not a co incedent anymore   .   if i were you id better quit on it because it is clearly obvious that you joined a scam campaign  and soon your efforts will become wasted if ever you still insist to continue  .


no there arent  .  not all ico's are extending their campaigns because not all ico's are going to be succesful plus ,  running a campaign isnt also cheap  .

almost all bounties usually will run 2 to 3 months and this is already long imo , that  why there's no really need for further extension not unless they are paying upfront of per week via btc/eth .

you cant even know how long the bounty campaign will run even it was stated in the bounty thread, I saw a bounty that running for more than 30 months now and almost most of the participants are leaving because they are wasting their time and even the team cant reach.

In terms of extention, they are extending the time because they want to maximized the time and effort of the participants while the campaign is not yet close to public sale.

One major reason is that in between their was so many scam that people now avoid any ICO this days . Instead they prefer to buy it from exchange once they are listed so that in a way they know that if it has future or not or short term holding and then they can sell it off.

In future there will be platform that control ICOs and bounty programs, but now there are no such organizations, so we can only wait.

What are the options for people, who want to get something free. There are always a lot of obstacles, so you need to learn how to avoid them.

Because of ethereum price many of ICOs couldn't touch their hard cap and it affected their budget also their bounty budget , I was joined to a campaign that stopped its bounty program either , I think it was accidently and many of them didn't want such situation for their future , I dont and cant blame , I just can keep on and look for another one .

Recently, this is quite common. At least in those campaigns in which I participated. And I don't think that they are scamers. It’s just the project realization was delayed and temporary difficulties arose. It happens.

It's a common thing for bounties when they are extending their deadlines.

If they express that they are going to extend and prolong the campaign they are doing it for the sake of the project. It's not a scam if they have been paying you with the respective payment that they have promised. And you have the choice to continue or not.

It is because they made some mistakes either in the roadmap or any promotional activities of their product. Bounty hunters are just promoters of their ICo, which they will allocate some little percentage to bounty people. They need to give a presentation about their future activities in public conference and this makes them get more awareness about the project.

Of cource there are good campaigns, but to find them you need to go through thousand of shity campaigns, which makes bounty participation a waste of time.

It is quite normal to extend bounty campaigns in these difficult times as icos cannot sell their tokens. It's useless to send your tokens unless no money was collected by ico. Because they will be worth nothing.

You can't say if it's scam, they have their own reason why the bounty program are extended. Mostly because the project decide to extended their crowdsale / public sale because it's not yet sold out or most of their investor are requesting to have additional time for the tokensale.

The campaign can be expanded but not necessarily scam

I haven't seen a snatch that has been extended and scammed people. I see the team as the reason for extending the project, we can not do the job anyway, then we can collect as much money as he says.

As long as they have funded the extension there should be no need to worry about it.

Though there's another issue when these bounties are getting extended but there's a set of change for the rules then what do you say about that? it's still connected to the extension of the bounty but they are changing their rules without any prior notice.