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Ok I received my liker coins this month but unfortunately, I would have to wait for 4 months or the month of May before they let me trade their token, do you think this is ok they never mentioned that they are going to lock for 4 months during the bounty period, what's your thoughts on this?

This is their thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5061763

If it's part of their strategy then you can't anything about it

I guess that is project owner decision to lock the bounty tokens and maybe to protect their token price, maybe they have mentioned in whitepaper or roadmap, by the ways, I don't think we can do anything and just keep follow the project update, wait for 4 month and then sold it if project still alive.

Its definitely not ok especially if there was nothing said about locking the token before or after listing and i think something should be done about it and done fast, it there it was part of the rule from the beginning of the project then anyone interested would still join the project, I participated in one project like that since last year and they dont even have exchange yet talkless or listing and now suddenly after the bounty ended they made up a rule to lock up the token for 3months after the first listing and we dont even know when dey plan to list

Well, as for me it's not ok, but locked rewards is pretty usual thing and there are few more bounties around with the same approach... It's a bear market and every founders tries to do their best to defend the project and prevent fast dump.

It a strategy the deploy I had some tokens that later change their contract and then did offer us any way to renew the old one just had to discard it So locking token is much more easier and you should just focus more on when they unlock it and the process of the unlock

I think thats unacceptable!"first they dont include it in the first place on the official Bounty Thread to inform the possible participants" revising the rules on the latter part of any bounty is betraying of trust how can we trust them if they dont follow a simple agreement. Thats the whole idea, if there was a note saying that the team or Bounty Manager has the full authority to revise all the condition therein will thats a different story" If not thats a conflicting action and a form of Abuse. 

I am in similar situation
I have been working with  some project almost half month
Now it is third month from time when bounty has to be paid
But in that case there is real reason why it is not done yet
You have to know what is real reason behind delay

I think it's part of the strategy some project managers used by some project to prevent from early dumpers from bounty hunters. And thus, it must have been mentioned in the whitepaper or the roadmap that the token will be locked for a certain period of time and that time must be due followed. And mind you, one must also know when the unlock period will be so as to avoid been dumped onto.

There might be a good reason to it.
Have  you tried to ask in their telegram page or whoever their customer support is with bounties?

I bet this could be a way to protect the value of the token since mostly they are being depreciated when they are listed into one exchange. Whatever exchange would it be. Even the most widely used or the smallest one.
Better let them clear this kind of questions.

That means that they are too much concern for the price of their token, they took it much long in order to ensure that it can be traded in a reasonable price and avoid it to be just being garbage in the bear market.

yes it's possible they are waiting for the right time to enter the market. it is possible for their problem to never mention that they will lock for 4 months during the prize period because so many bounty hunter enthusiasts join in it.

Exactly. It's much better than if you don't get your tokens at all or they'd become worthless straight after the first listing. I had experience with such projects before and most of them had a pretty good performance in relation to others which didn't lock tokens at all.

I think is quite recent and policies of recent projects, but are you sure you were not pre informed about the bounty slash ?

I think it’s okay if bounty payments are in parts as long as they are not gonna disappear before the completion of their duration

I think it is a policy made by project makers because the market conditions are very bad. I think you need to be patient to wait for the time you can sell it.

In my opinion there are two sides to the perspective of locking prizes for 4 months.
1. They lock coins because they are worried about falling prices so they are waiting for the right time to exchange their coins.
2. sometimes they are negotiating with the exchange to be able to exchange their coins at a relatively expensive price.
this is according to my understanding.

The lockup period may be longer than most others but is not unusual. Lockups are becoming more common in this weak market since so many tokens are trading below their ICO prices.

If you are participating in the bounties then you need to agree all the terms and conditions of them so just wait until can trade it. But if you think it is unfair to do then never join on the bounties and make altcoin payment other than tokems by themselves.

If they are not live on exchanges and are still in the funds collecting stage that this is not surprising. Maybe they have postponed their ICO and have decided to postpone the bounty programme as well. Do not need to worry I hope.

Locking tokens allocated to bounty hunter is actually good both for bounty hunters and the project. It can avoid a project from dumpers which mostly are bounty hunters. Also, bounty hunters who are only want to sell projects' token as soon as they received the bounty payment will be decreased, and the bounty will be only for them who are really believe in the project.

I think as a bounty hunter you can only wait for the distribution of tokens, they usually reduce the risk of dumping on the cmiiw's token.

It seems to me that in such a situation it is difficult to do something.
The developers thus decided to further stir up interest in their project.
I really hope that you get what you deservedly earned.

There is a bad situation on the market now. The project's strategy doesn't let you to dump their coin while the whole market is falling. When the situation will be more patient you will sell your tokens.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to lock the bounty for a few months, as some time the market is a very bad situation, so releasing the token in such a situation would be very bad for the project. So, it would be better to lock the token for a few months and then release it when the situation is a little better.

This happens not only with tokens earned from bounty programs. Many ICO projects delay issuing tokens for up to six months! Some projects change the conditions for unlocking tokens for early investors and so on. You should not worry much about this, these are the realities of the market. Now it's best to be patient and not to spoil the reputation of projects.

After the cryptocurrency market recovers completely and gains its former glory, you can get the desired profit from these coins.
In the meantime, do not despair, in this situation you have to wait.

I think locking it should not be a problem as long as the whole token is being locked so why worried, but if it is to be that only the bounty distributed tokens are locked then there is a problem which need to be dealt with with the organizers. Because how on earth someone will work and sell at valueless prices.

I think it's okay the decision of the developer is for the good of the project. As long as the smart contract is locked not even the ICO investors can trade their tokens. You need to bear with the developer as they have the best intention to locked the tokens. You need to be patient as 4 months it's not too long.

That is not a nice decision from the team, but they can decide that.
It would have been fair if they had said that from the beginning.
But as written, they have the right to decide this.

This is normal. Apparently the team decided therefore to keep the coin from falling. Some projects simply delay listing on the stock exchange, and some freeze tokens.

Yes, the team should have warned about this at the very beginning of the bounty company. Maybe they did it for good purposes for the project, but it's not good to announce it at the very end. Because someone may not be ready for this and do not agree with these conditions.

I personally don't think it is good or OK to lock bounty tokens for that long, because most bounty hunters participate in bounties for a living, so locking the tokens for that long will affect. Also any bounty that wants to lock up bounty hunters tokens should state it as part of the rules for the bounty so that we will be fully aware of it and can decide whether to participate or not.

Team have rights to do so but it doesn't mean same thing to prevent possible dump. Bounty hunters are not usually investors and locking bounty rewards have more advantages than disadvantages.

It's a bad precedent for all of us bounty hunters what if they do not announce it and then they lock the coin for 6 to one year and everybody is doing it I don't think bounty hunters will be interested to promote ICO anymore, consider them as scamming the bounty hunters.

This is one of the great concerns in the crypto community currently and it seems most participants always get cheated. Ideally it is not fair to do this but bounty hunters have also been seen to dump tokens when listed so currently most pojects bring up lock period to sustain the value of their tokens. I believe when bounty hunters stop dumping tokens this trend of distribution might change.

after all, you got some token for your work, that is worth a lot. the four months go by and you have your pay safely. since many ico projects do not pay anything at the moment, you can be happy if you get something. that sounds tough, but that is the reality on the ico/bounty market right now.

This is one of team's strategies in maintaining prices in market because indeed many ICO coins are currently experiencing huge price decline when listing and in my opinion it is fine, you better follow development of the project on telegram

Since we are on a bear trend I think its good for the project to hold it for now since it will just become useless if they push it through. Don’t worry because if its a good project, you will gain more so be patience. The problem here is that, they don’t tell it in the first place but still its better to wait than nothing.

Is that the new strategy of the bounties that they aren't allowing the bounty participants to dump their tokens?

I have read it when I'm surfing somewhere and I think it's one of their preventive ways to stop most of the dumping session. They take all the blame of dumping to the bounty hunters so I think that's part of their plan.

It is not okay if the term was not mentioned before the start of the bounty, this is ICOs breaching terms of agreement but because there's no regulatory body they get away with it.

They locked the Bounty because of poor market conditions. Maybe this is their strategy to keep prices good and not collapse. Maybe you should be patient until they reopen the Bounty token.

OP their is no other option as you have got lock-in bounty, which you have to follow it, it all depends on the quality of the token/coin success and how they are going to promote their project. If it is good then you will get good returns if not forget it and move on to other project.

It is indeed sometimes annoying. However, the team did not want to sell the coin at a low price so that lock them to avoid massive sales can make prices fall. not to mention on the condition that Crypto is indeed too bad this will result in any coin that appears or just finished ICO into fall and far from the expected value.

for the locking of a token or coin by the founder is a natural thing, because they think to
stabilize the price released, because there are so many examples if a coin or token is directly
released in the market, bounty hunters sometimes sell it even though the price is very well below the ICO price

This is one of the reasons why ICO is not my favourite ,why would they do that? I'm guess they did that out of fear that dumpers will make the price crumbles,but still this doesn't safe the project from dumpers ,I believe if the teams behind the project trust there work they won't have to worry about the price at all as market is not already in good shape

But they are wrong at this case, remember whatever how long you lock the token and if there will no a lot of liquidity in the market that support the buy order and that will be useless. the developer must put the main attention to get a lot of liquidity. this can prevent anything.

This is ridiculous to lock tokens for four months if they have not mentioned on their bounty thread or informed hunters earlier about locking of tokens. They are doing this becuase they fear hunters might dump their tokens when launched on the exchange. There are some projects who did the same thing & when launched on the exchange their values got dumped because of pre-sale buyers who dumped token on the exchange. Take example of Hyperquant, Gamestar, Fiicoin etc due to this bounty hunters earned amount as per ICO price drops significantly by 80% to 90% which is not fair for hunters. Its better next time confirm about is there any locking period or not??, else your hard works will be worthless.

Maybe they want to prevent dumps on their tokens. And in market conditions like this it is the best decision from dev.

I think that is OK, perhaps they still need to prepare for the market listing or they are waiting until the market reach a stable state, cause as we know the market today is still so low and so much fluctuated.

It's really up to the project team before tokens gets unlocked.
They're just protecting their token price as we are in the bear market and releasing it now will be detrimental for the price of their token.

These kind of decisions should be made public at the start of the bounty campaign. It's bad when at the end they suddenly decide that bounty hunters should not get paid until everyone else has dumped

Bounty is of course very dependent on the market, if the market is still red like in 2018 then we cannot get income from the bounty, and what we can do is hope that strict regulations will be made immediately on ICOs.

It depends on the agreement before the bounty activities started, if they stated this rule before the campaign started, then it's cool, I am participating in a bounty that would lock the tokens for 3 months but I do not mind because it was stated from the beginning.

it was bad, I had experienced the bounty token locked for 6 months and after the token was unlocked the project was lost and worthless. we must be careful now not to meet a project like that again

If its the projects team decision, we cannot do anything about it. We just have to accept it and wait for it to unlock. Its their strategy to avoid dump of their token and let the investors freely trade their tokens in this time span.

I've been waiting for my one bounty and didn't received any.

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These projects are still thinking that the market conditions isn't favorable to them to dispose and distribute their tokens.

Not quite perfect, but at least they paid you the token, and planned to list it on an exchange. That is acceptable.

That's not fair. In the end, it should have the right to save money for a coin that it invests. I think just because of these arbitrary practices, the ICO will end and the STO will begin.

They might just wanted to reduce the dump activity once they get listed on an exchange, that's why they lock the tokens to be traded in anywhere exchange.

Come on people they have Total supply:  1,000,000,000 LK and the bounty hunter allocation is 5,000,000 not even 3% of the supply, where did they get the idea that 5 million supply can disrupt a volume of 1 billion I don't know this is the first time I joined a token that was locked this long.

Yes, it is normal. You understand that when you join a campaign bounty, you agree with its rules. And with any changes to these rules at any given time. And the project has no obligations to you, since you are not an investor.
So, I received tokens, I managed to exchange them on the exchange - well. The project did not pay anything, or the token could not get on the exchange - forget it, and move on.

maybe this is one way of dev and the team to extend the time to see the market situation again to look good again while developing. because indeed if it is enforced it is certain that the exact price will be below the price of ico, obviously it will cause many to be disappointed. waiting and developing is one of the alternatives.

   I get you Judeafante, but maybe they don`t want some low volume exchange and team is waiting for deals between them and quality exchange with high volume.

   As I read in their thread this ICO reached hard cap:


   I don`t understand this term "locked tokens"? How can someone lock your tokens in your wallet? Creator of this thread is a bit confused, he needs to wait until this token gets
listed on some exchange.
   I waited more than 6 months for Cedex token distribution and only after few more months they were listed on one exchange. I didn`t sell anything, I like to be informed, I don`t
understand why people hurry so much to sell tokens for low price when in future this tokens can worth much more.
  

Many ICO does that because they believe the project will be dead when hunters are gifted their token due to regular believe that hunters always rush to dump token in exchange but to me, the idea is not good. In fact, I have recently believed that many investors do dump token as well especially those that received bonuses that is almost equivalent to the amount they bought. From experience, any ICO that does that hunters put them in the risk of holding token that might be worthless when the time come provided the project has not turned to scam before 4 months. ICONIC locked bounty hunters token for 12 months but the project is already dead before 10 months

It is on the ICO team decision and participants has no power to change it.
Sometimes ICO team wants that to happen for the sake of market price for their tokens/coins.
It is sometimes approved by most investors, for the safety of their investment.

If the project is good, no one will freeze anything. Now disappointment with this all, there are always cool projects, but you need to look for a long time. Well, people no longer believe anything.

In the case of reward issues, in general, managers can change the rule if they want to rule. There's nothing you can do when they pull these rules out later.

Well it is somehow fair imo
People spent money to purchase tokens
But bounty is basically people doing work for token

It may "seems bad" for the investors who put in money because some bounty hunters dump every token they received without a doubt
Hence a Bounty lock is ok for me

     It is the decision of the project manager to block the token for a time. They make part of their strategy, most of the times to protect the token. You can do nothing meaningly. It is not normal how it was done. It was normal for all bounty hunters to know the situation and decide whether or not they deserve the project. Still, I think you are a happy one. There are many projects that seem real and do not offer anything because they are SCAM. You really need to be happy.

I also get token XDMC a month ago but I can trade it after the end of ICO, that is in the first half of this year. And some coins are going like this, with the very long time exchange listing, such as AMBIT. Well, I don't really know what's going on. But, i think I must save them and wait for the right better market. I think it is no problem as long as this is not scam or dead coin.

if I am your bounty manager I will not pay you because it's ok for you if I will not pay you for campaigning for us for free, they have an obligation of course, where do you get the idea that they do not have an obligation to pay bounty hunters, they invest their time and effort, I hope your bounty manager will not read this or he will consider this as working for free.

They will be able to do this simply by blocking a smart contract, this rarely occurs, so there is nothing surprising!

if the bounty is reputable and can assure that they are paying i guess its ok to wait because maybe they are having a problem on thier side .  and besides working on a bounty do actually reaquires a solid patience because they'll eat more time than a normal signature campaigns that pays in basic cryptos  .  in the meantime why cant you just apply for other bounties ?  the rewards can stack up  and you can sell them all in the future along with the market recovery  .

With me it is a good way for them to ensure their token is not dumped during this period. The market is bad and if their tokens are dumped, it is difficult for their projects to continue to operate and their tokens are not valid. It is best to lock it and wait for the market to be a little better

This doesn't look good, that's for sure. They should have warned all the participants before the start of the campaign. But maybe this will be better for every participant - selling now is useless, I would hold everything till the next bull run.

The people running the project is doing this as a strategy to raise the value of the coin and control bounty hunters in dumping their reward thereby devaluating the coin's price. I think as long as the project is legit, it is ok that your stakes will be locked. This way when you unlock it later and sell in the market, you will have a bigger value coin.

This is.not the only team doing the locking of bounty rewards. I have known other projects whose team also doing this. Why? because they believe that bounty hunters will be made a huge dump where market rulings states that if there are more people selling compared to buying then the crypto market price will definitely go down. So.meaning bounty hunters could be one of the reason why market will going to fall down for that crypto.

It's only thinking that Bounty Hunters mostly dump the prices of tokens, that's why most of ICOs lock the token’s, but it doesn't help to keep prices stable in my opinion. There also other reasons for  token price to keep down like supply and demand for particular coins.

That's not true, bounty hunters only hold a very small percentage of the supply roughly 2 to 5% of the total supply, it is not enough to bring the price down and if ever all bounty hunters, dump their coin if the project is really that good there will always be taker of those dump tokens.

It not normal but we cant blame most of the owners or teams of this day because the crypto market is bad affected with the current down trend of the market. This leads to new project owners looking for every alternative to secure the price of their project and  the only thing you can now is to have patience since you have received your token.

Somehow it is necessary to implement due to market deep deep down prices. It is difficulties for the developer because the market condition could be the unforseen part of their project. Probably they just want to have the best result as soon as possible unfortunately to come up to that decision-making is a must to protect their project dignity. The existence of the project is more important than bounty tokens. Meaningless to distribute if the project will be dead soon.

For me, this is not okay. Ask yourself this, if you were employed by someone, would it be okay for them to be able to lock your salary for months? I don't think so. These practices, however, are being allowed by certain bounty hunters who accept to work under these circumstances. If bounty hunters refused to work on cases like these, then these practices would cease. So, my advice is to find a better coin or ICO (or anything else) to work for.

The problem with that, bounty hunters don't have any rights to decide with their supposedly payments by doing their jobs, it's not good as developers should expect any market conditions and allocates enough fundings for future developments.

The bounty rewards that already been distributed should be freely trade or hold by the hunters and not being freeze by the team.

It is on the decision of the TEAM ICO so we dont have a choice but accept the fact.
Though i will consider it as better option than waiting for the payment that reach more than 2 month.
It is a ease to have our tokens on our wallet.

It's old topic and Similar thing happened with me in some projects. Token lock is actually dev decision. Although Sometimes locked only hunters token and dev trade in exchange their own reserve token this is benefit of investor and project team both are dominate price. 4 months is massive and i think team is not prefer to launch their project right now in this bearing market. 

Tokens lock for 4months is not ok mate but if that is their decision we cannot do anything and wait for it when it can be traded,I understand them they want to protect their investor's investment and they are scared that Bounty hunters dump their tokens.

I know that sometimes it is a part of the strategy but if that is the case it should be mentioned from the start I think hiding this kind of information from bounty hunters should be marked as shady behavior. There is some bounty running right now that have this kind of strategy but all of them are announcing that openly and making sure that everyone is aware of it. Sadly there is nothing you can do your only move is to gather some participants and try to have a talk with the bounty-manager and reach a middle ground and if this didn't work, try to take the matter with your own hands and go speak with the ICO team directly (but make sure you have participants backing you up).

For me, bounty rewards we are getting is for our efforts we put in. It's not our investment. So although tokens are locked for say 6 months, it doesn't matter at least for me. I
would like  to wait until value of the tokens I hold turns into a amount which I can say a good amount.
Now a days I see every ico after listening to exchanges drops more than 60%.  of it's original value. So in such situations we don't have a choice to wait or sell the tokens for few bucks which is not worth of efforts we put in.

It is absurd this days to see how most project in the space threat Bounty Hunters. During the campaign they threat Hunters like King and Queen that they are and after the campaign they decides later to include one funny rules that was not and never part of the whole deal and if you ask the answer is always been referred to the fact that they can always change the rules anytime. Hunters deserve the best and 1-3% of the total Supply won't in anyway affect the price of the token in the marketplace.

Yes, 4 months is so long period of time. But the project will work as per the developers, so yes definitely you have to be more patient.

I think it is good if the management team will lock their token/coin for that period of time, if they have a plan for their project, in order for them to provide a better outcome or future to the users of their token/coin. But if you are a bounty hunter and you really need funds, then you will be upset for it but just understand it if their goal for doing it is to provide better services to it's users.

I think this is the right step. Many projects are increasingly began to do so to bounty hunters did not lower the price of the coin, and investors had a chance to earn. It may not be fair to bounty hunters, but project managers know better what measures are needed to develop the coin.

Though, this is not OK on the side of the bounty hunter because they have deprived us from trading our rewards but the project administrator believe that the idea is to cub dumping of the token in market.
Therefore, we have to take it as our faith and keep hoping for good time.

During this time, I think that investors will start selling their tokens and their price will still fall, so for bounty hunters it will be bad.

And what's wrong with that? This is a very correct decision in such a market so as not to drop the price at 0 finally

it's been common to see most projects taking action like this , because they don't want token prices directly dump by bounty hunter , actually this action has a positive too, while walking the roadmap it will be difficult to be dump in the future

If it will he'll help the price of the project to appreciate why not, but not mentioning that from the beginning is what i do not support.

My friend, you are a high rank. You must understand everything. Scammers or not so easy we can not find out. Of course, any project has the right to block tokens or something else. However, this will not give you the answer.

If that is the decision of the developer and the team then is not a bad idea if it will help the value of the project to appreciate, it is one of the way to sustain Tue price of a project now.

Its your choice to participate or not, but mostly you are being informed about this but if its not then there’s a problem. Bounty hunters should take responsibilities on choosing a campaign and ask everything to the developer before you participate. If they lock your tokens, maybe they just want to make sure that you will be part of the project even after the exchange listing. 

I find that not good at all and the most annoying part is that it won't be stated prior to beginning of the campaigns only when it has ended and your token received, you will hear a different story

Unfortunately no! Most projects tend to treat bounty hunters poorly, putting in place so much restrictions and limiting how bounty hunters get their tokens as well as what they do with such tokens. Most times, these tokens are locked and release when the project value must have dumped hugely. Locking tokens is always heavily felt by bounty hunters because they are the ones normally targeted. These projects forget that, their success depend in huge part to the success of bounty hunters.

I think the essence of it is to prevent bounty hunters from dumping immediately after listing thereby crashing the price if the token but they have failed to understand that investors equally dump too

 Bounty campaign now a days is not profitable ( working at least 2 months and you will receive a couple of bucks only )... so, 4 months is too short, I think you need to lock it for a couple of years until the revise of a new market.

Well, few people pay attention to the hunters , I think in this case nothing can be done as just wait, because the rules set by the project itself (

It is longer that most projects but bounty participants have to go with whatever rules are set by the admin team. Still better than many bounties that do not pay for many months.

This is the most annoying part of Crypto that I hate, you lock tokens so bounty hunters doesn't and when it finally over dumps, you unlock. Isn't it annoying

This is not the first time, a project has did this thing. This is one of their strategy to avoid bounty psrticipants to sell their token quick after receiving it.

This locking of tokens for such long period is becoming the trend now. It's not fair to allow someone work without noting the locking if tokens in the terms of service. It should be stated at the beginning of the bounty.

Going by the rules is if such rule is stated at the beginning of the bounty, then when implemented the hunters won't have anyone to blame. But bring up the rules at the end? C'mon, we are all human beings.

There are lots of projects exhibiting this act these days.
They know if such condition is stated before or during the campaign, a lot will not go for it and those that are already into it, might opt out.
What they are telling you invariably, is that you do not know how to hold, therefore it will be done for you.

I see the red line "they are never mentioned that they are going to lock for 4 months during the bounty period". Every project has its own policies, I understand your feelings, but they do have the right to change policies that they think are right, of course this is part of the strategy. There is nothing you can do to change it, my advice, try to make peace with your feelings and accept reality. You are not the only one who has experienced something like this, and this is not the only project that makes a policy of locking rewards for tokens for bounty hunters.

it was a long time but in my opinion it was still within reasonable limits, it would not be a big problem the most important thing is that developers would actually place their coins on the market, and should when they first put coins in the market, their coins should already have good prices because their project should have experienced rapid development

The team can decide how they will distribute their tokens if there will be a lockup period or not.
The ICOs do not want their tokens to be dumped and they could decide for a delayed  distribution in several phases to different investor groups to avoid that everybody get their tokens at the same time.
Bounty hunters are usually at the end of the distribution.

But in reality when it hit the market the token is 50 to 90% lower than the actual ICO price, so the bounty hunters will sell or trade their coin at a lowest possible price and if they are unlucky there will be buy order anymore of the token, and if things will get worse, the developers already left the project.

The token is locked for several months, but if the project is real and works well, I don't think it doubts, especially later on the token can also help you in the education they will offer. Be patient with team decisions because indeed current conditions cannot be predicted well.

You are very lucky because your tokens locked only in 4months opportunately my tokens at PGC or Paygine get lock for 1year to enter our tokens into trading platform.

I have joined many bounty and they also lock in for several months like that, it is their strategy to increase the token value and many ICOs are applying it.

That is normal because the project team want to protect the supply and price in the market. 4 months is short for you to wait. I have a coin and a year now never sell because voting where it is going to list is not finish yet. You have nothing to do if it is extended because if the coin is not listed on the market, it stay no value at all.

Before that, there were quite a few projects to carry out the token bounty.
This has 2 cases:
1. After 4-5 months, the price of tokens may increase at that time (the market recovers).
2. The token price will decrease (This is almost the default when the tokens list exchange)
You should be patient.

I think its normal ,the teams care more about the token value so by locking it for 4months will actually stabilize the price of the token and avoid huge dumping from dumpers

they are waiting for the best time. many are using this strategy to ensure that coins from the ICO do not fall when it entered the market as previous times. but whether the four months with can change the value for the better then I think also does not constitute a guarantee.

I think it is okay to lock the fund in this market. Some good potential market is also dying in this bearish market. If bounty hunters dumo their coin, any new good project will die and that is why they are trying to ensure a good project which is also better for you.

Maybe this will disappoint you, but if we think positively that the condition of the crypto market is affecting it. They give a long time to lock prizes because they wait until the market is stable. You also have to be patient because if you arrive you will get more profits.

It's one of the working strategies to control dumpers and avoid tokens lose its value and most of all it's not a good time to list tokens on exchanges because of market condition which will affect the price of the token, if still listed bounty hunters will be the first to start dumping

That's the strategy to prevent the price from being dumped by bounty participants. This can also make the price of the token to increase in demand because of the lower supply and also the effects of the marketing that have been done by the past bounty campaign.

Anyway, this strategy might be good, they might have a reason for the lock, but i really do no like it, i prefer i am being paid atleast a month after i have rendered my services to you. As bounty hunters, what we do is rendering services. Would it now be nice not to pay for the services rendered for months and keep us waiting?

I disagree with you after long time of doing bounty if you it lock again is will be very bad someone can lose he or her patience.

A project has the right to stipulate the conditions of how they want things done, rewards and everything. Locking their token for 4 months is part of their strategy against dumping by bounty hunters.

I do not agree with the opinion that bounty hunters strongly affect the rate of the coin. Usually bounty hunter payments do not exceed a few percent of the total number of coins. But now the market is falling and a small push down can greatly reduce the rate of tokens.

In my opinion, that is normal because of the decreasing market influence so the team decides to lock the tokens up to 2-5 months ahead so the rate is not a dump of trading bounty, but the information is disappointing because there is no communication from the previous team

But bounty hunter is ready to dump and the investor does not do so. A few days ago I received some tokens from the bounty, And the bounty hunter was ready to sell for 10 times lower than ICO. Clearly in the first stage, the token bounty greatly affects the whole project

This is not new, the issue with bounty tokens is perspectives, some people feel that bounty hunters usually crash the price of the tokens on exchanges and if the developers belief this they might decided to spread the payment of the tokens or delay it until the price on the exchange stabilize

It is ok, mate. Don't pay attention to it. This is ordinary situation and you have nothing to do. Just keep calm and find another bounty. I wasted several month in KYC legal bounty and they scammed us, tokens are listed on shitty exchanges without volume and they just answer in telegram with typical answers

I am very thankful for any free tokens, no matter when I receive these tokens or when I will be able to trade them. We are bounty participants and bounty campaigns are not a job but a well paid hobby, so do not take it so seriously  8).

Today, a very large number of people who form real ICO projects see how all the same exist and will move further sectors that support cryptocurrency. Bounty is also a sector that needs to be taken. This is really the right thing.

Of course my answer is not okay.. This is actually very irrational but as a bounty hunter we do nothing because it is their rules but sometimes there are some ico didn't give this rules to their announcement from the beginning, they all of a sudden give it after the campaign ico ended up.
Imagine, before they give token to their participants the value is already dump its price.

I think they don't want to list the token in exchange yet because of down market, maybe they hope that the month of may the market will be good. Well you should move on and find a good bounty.

This is a bad strategy and ICO that will do that, will not get enough bounty hunters to promote their project, this is a bad precedent, for bounty hunters, imagine promoting project for 5 to 7 months then locking it for 5 months or more bounty hunters will forget the coin by then or he will get zero if the project cannot sustain it.

If you are not new to this ecosystem — bounty programs and campaigns, you should be aware by now about the possibility of locking period condition by project team. The locking period is a strategy many projects deploy to protect their big investors and the value of their token. Even some projects as well lock a percentage of their investors' token just to prevent sporadic sell off. However, when it comes to bounty rewards, there should be an arrangement or agreement from the onset on locking period. And I think hunters should be prepared for possible lock up.

Personally i do not like it. I should be paid after my job is done as a bounty hunter, but if it is their policy to lock the token, then we do not have an option but to wait till the token is unlocked.

I don't see any need for you to complain, or do you plan of dumping the tokens prematurely as soon as you get paid? No ICO will be happy paying tokens to dumpers. You have to help them in sustaining the project by holding some tokens at least. If everyone dumps, the project may crash.

Every project has their own strategy and locking their token to a specific time frames is one of it. I think we can't do much about it as bounty Hunter all the more to the investors who put money for the project.

Many ICO projects are applying this way to control the amount of token sell in market and I see it is not fair for bounty hunters who see this job as their main job

The part that I don't think is OK is the part where they never mentioned the lock up period it's always sad knowing that project change their bounty or ICO token distribution and listing after their ICOs that's quite bad it's good all rules gest stated from the onset. All you need do is wait it out there isnt anything else you can do about it.

You generally need to rejoice that you have received at least some kind of token in your wallet, which may sometime be of some value. Now, many ICO teams deliberately suspend payment to bounty hunters of earned tokens, fearing that they will not just fall in price on the market, but will be devalued thousands of times. Therefore, in this period of such a long period of stagnation of the cryptocurrency market, blocking the movement of tokens in the wallet so far is considered an acceptable action by the ICO team now, however, it is certainly not normal at normal times.

They might scam you after that long 4 months! So, you have to open a scam accusation before they ruined your life by turning to an exit scam of the bounty.

The ICO team has the ability to block the tokens sent to us in our own wallets, and I myself have come across this more than once. Of course, this is not a normal phenomenon, each bounty hunter should have free opportunity to dispose of the received tokens at their discretion. However, one must take into account the current state of the cryptocurrency market. It would probably be better to have a valuable token after a certain time than the freedom to dispose of the discounted token now. I still admit such blocking, I still consider it inappropriate to sell the received tokens at such low prices.

I guess that's the way to prevent huge dumps ,many bounty hunters only care about the money they make not how good the coin or token is so they always dump but if dev knows what he or she is doing they can limit the dump by releasing half of the tokens and the test later on

I heard situation like this before and it does not really sound good for us bounty hunters. I think 4 months is bearable compared to others who has not received their bounty for a year and still waiting for the time of distribution. Lock-in periods are popular these days because of current state of the crypto assets.

Any action regarding the freezing/blocking of tokens is in the interests of the company and is correct. Accordingly, any action in the interests of the company has the highest priority. What's the point of getting a token after a bounty now if its price quickly drops 10-100 times? Wait 4 months, there is nothing terrible in my opinion. (Do not be so selfish as to put your own interest as a bounty member above the interests of the company).

And this is right, need the development of the project, reducing their shortcomings. In the meantime, everyone is just chasing profits, so wait a bit and I think you even change your mind about selling.

Many Bounty projects currently lock tokens due to collapsing market conditions. And they can only sell tokens to keep prices high. And 4 months I think it's a long time and you have to be patient. Because I'm sure it's very good and tokens have great potential.

locked the token is the safest way to secure the value of token itself from dumping, maybe they prepared the long term planning for the token itself, so the team doesnt need to rush enter to exchanger and traded the token.

I think they locked Bounty Token is to protect their investors, although I do not agree that bounty hunters are the reason for prices to fall, but the reality that has happened so far.

You know mate, it's kind of funny that most people here would tell you that four months is not even long enough. For many other investors, some even plan to lock up their coins up the north of a year or two years. However, I think the investment landscape is changing in the cryptocurrency market these days. If super-dragged out long term investments worked before, the market now is more inclined to having medium to short term investments that can go for a couple of weeks to some few months because the market landscape now changes so quickly that having a dragged-out can be too risky more than gainful.

Some tokens are locked because the product of that project might not be ready for the market. In situations like this, the team of the project fear the tokens may be dumped, hence they prefer to lock  the tokens till the product is ready which will create more demand for the tokens irrespective of the dump that may follow.

Locked periods are very popular lately due to the current state of cryptic assets. I think 4 months can be borne compared to other people who have not received their gifts for a year and are still waiting for distribution time.

almost all bounties like that. they hold their coins until the time limit they set. do you know Karma bounty? the token is already in the wallet. but they still locked the token until their ico was finished. so it does not matter if in the lock. and you can't do anything

It is quite possible, with the help of a smart contract you can do a lot of things and it seems to me that this is not necessary, because tokens will not be dumped by bounty hunters!

Yes I received many tokens that were locked for months....it's not a problem for me.. this is a very bad period for ICO so I'm happy if I receive tokens even if they are locked.. ;D

I do not support this decision of theirs, because I expected it to be stated on the bounty thread that the tokens will be locked for such period of time.
During the campaign period of Bidooh, it was clearly stated, so those who joined already knew that.
Well, you just have no choice than to wait for the period to be over, because the ball is in their court.

it is generally done by many project so that bounty hunter do not dump their coin right away but i think 4 month is too long ya 1 month or in a sequence distribution is okay but 4 month is bit too extend.i also been a part of a bounty which payed bounty hunter after 1 month but its okay as they have to show trust to investor so they have first right to trade.but they are many scammy project are there so first check the project then u can be assured that they will pay you or there should be escrower.

Well devs probably think this may be a solution for tokens dumping right after thet get to an exchange but token holders would eventually sell them anyway after the lock period. Personally i wouldn't mind staying with them for 4 months or longer especially if they seem to be good projects. I've done so already in the past with icos like waves.

Don't judge bounty hunters also because all of campaign that can join in every ico you need to send reports time to time. Even you call this a free work you apply also in the sheet for beggining on it. It's also hard to find campaigns for people who get scammed and wasting time and effort on it. If they think don't want to price of their token get dump it's better also pay them Eth/Btc after working in a ico.

Sometime it is very good to lock for more than 6 months, because it is very good to see the actual development in the market. We should always follow their development activity mean while in order to get update in the market.

Well, locking of tokens for any specific periodic of time sometimes depend on the readiness of the product of the project. Many projects raise funds for the development of their product through ICOs, hence a project may finish its ICO yet not ready to be traded on the market. To avoid the trading of the coin under its value, the team decides to lock it until the product is ready for the market.

there some bounty that they really locked the coins of every bounty hunters they doing that to avoid dump and thats there strategy to protect the early adopter investor to not lose there investment when the coins get listed on first exchange. Its ok as long as they will release it after 4months as long as its still have a value in the market, if not then i can tell you its not ok. ;D

I think that the guys wanted to protect their startup from falling the value of the token. This is very common)) But as far as I know the team of the Saturn.Black project is not going to do this. By the way, they have bounty now, 2 rounds at once!

Be glad that you only have to wait 4 months and you have received your payment already. Many bounty campaigns do not pay anything and that is really bad. To wait four months, however, is not a problem.

In my opinion, that would be totally fine, Perhaps the reason would be they are avoiding the coins to get their coins dumped.
Mostly any project owner suspecting the bounty participant is the one responsible for any dumping of a coins.

I've seen something like that in the past, locking bounty for 4months happens sometimes to avoid dumps from bounty hunters ,its nothing to worry about after 4months you will be able to trade

maybe that's a good goal, because like that, the price will be better, but investors don't dump. I myself don't have much problem with lock for paid bounties. but that could only be to protect the interests of investors.

Locking the token for 4 months is not really a great thing especially for the bounty users who already wanted to cashed out their funds after their hard work.

I think this is not in favor in the part of the bounty hunters, but this would be a solution to a token that would be going to dump its price. I also think the posaitivity on locking the rewards for the betterment of the price of the coin. And i think 4 months is good enough to wait and its better rather than if you get your reward right away then the price is dump.

How will locking of tokens stop  dumpers even after the four months elapsed? I don't believe this delay tactics by some project manager will stabilize the price of their token, of course a lot of investors and bounty hunters would have reached conclusion of selling those tokens outrightly, I also participated in a bounty wherein almost a year now they refuse to get listed while citing unfavorable market conditions and to avoid dumping of their coins.

The blocking by the ICO team in our wallets the tokens listed to us for participating in their campaign of bounty ICO for several months under normal conditions is of course not normal. However, now we need to take into account the current state of the cryptocurrency market. Now, almost all new tokens, after they hit the stock exchange, depreciate simply catastrophically, sometimes thousands of times. It seems to me that it is better to wait a few months now, or even more than to have a discounted token.

Many bounty's have the same problem. Initially, unwanted rules can be added later. Some bounty had no KYC requirement. When it came to the award distribution, they put the KYC requirement. They make it hard not to distribute the awards. They must continue with the rule set at the beginning.

It's the ICO or team's right to hold or lock the tokens for 4 months before you could ever trade it somewhere else. They are doing that for so many reasons that might even come as a surprise for both investors and bounty hunters as well. All you have to do is just wait and see if it really works.

They can do that if they are transparent from the very beginning.
At this situation, I think their actions could be justifiable because if they'll release it and people will dump
there's a chance that a project will be having a hard time to recover.

You can just think that you are investing in a company and what they are doing is not only for your interest
but the interest of the majority, so I repeat, as long as justifiable or legal, that's acceptable.

They can, and then also reduce the payments and say it happened, so decide whether to invest in a project that does not value people who gave them the right to live.

The team always reserve the right to change the bounty rules. I would not mind locking of bounty rewards to be honest as long as they do not abandon the project.

To some extent i can understand locking tokens but that should have been written somewhere in the bounty thread. As it is is more of a form of abuse, since you had only a part of the information when you joined the bounty.

I think it is bad practice to do this, epecially if it was not stated at the start, people have spent time promoting their project expecting their agreed reward.  You cannot just change these things at the end, it is unfair.

It just for prevents price dump from the bounty hunters, Almost every project that I saw since 2018 always use this strategy. I know it makes us need to wait for longer to enjoy our reward from our hard work but It must do by the team to make the price of their token become stable...

They locked the tokens for various reasons and this was a strategy the team did, just hoping it wasn't just a scam.
Also, check the telegram, the team is still active or not, and what action is taken by the development team in the process of locking the token.

I think that you have recently become a bounty hunter, because this practice is used by many companies. In the crypto-currency market, you do not have to wait for justice, you have to agree with the decision of the development team. In addition, this is done in order to protect the rate of the coin from a strong decline.

the team is avoiding the price dump of their token which is good for a project although the sad part is that bounty hunters will pay the price and have to wait a bit longer before they get what they've earn but this strategy is good in the long run.

In my own observation, bounty nowadays has been realigned and adjusted to when it comes to distribution and locking of tokens, some project tokens were lock and in order to protect the market value and avoid dumping of value, in my case it is okay for me, as long as the tokens would still be valued and liquidated after the dues of locking of tokens, but some others were disagree d on this method because it is the right of the bounty participants to receive their share and liquidate profits based in their performances.

It seems to me that they are taking such steps in connection with the market situation. Recently, I have often watched this!

For those projects, I think they are very interested in their projects and they are afraid that prices will be dumped when the bounty is distributed. Locked bounty for 4 months will help the price of the token will not be dumped at the time listed in the exchange. I will be patient and waiting to receive those tokens, very valuable

It is quite unfortunate that some rules are not made clear at the start of bounty. They are not also announced during bounty, but when it ha ended.
I just wonder sometimes when i read statements like "we have the right to make changes to bounty rules" during bounty and it keeps me quizzed on what may likely happen, which most times bounty hunters may not like.

It it quite a dishonest ethics to distribute coin and that is when you inform the participants of the bounty that the coin would be locked for 4 months, it should have been announced before the bounty even started.

I have participated in several bounties that has locked their tokens for several lengths of time and I do not mind as long as it is stated in the rules beforehand and I still agreed to take part in the bounty, it is criminal to suddenly do such a thing when it is time for distribution.

I think it's obviously good for you. Let's say you get the payment right now & people start to trade them maybe at 1/10 times of price & destroy their project plan. And their coins/tokens will end up with no worth. Is it good for you? It's better you get the payment a little bit later with a handsome amount of value. Hope it helps. ;)

The dump can't be avoided if the token has very low volume after listed on the exchange site, look at some major coins which created the bounty too and they can list the token to the big exchange and it can prevent the dump and it's effective.

Well i think its alright to lock the bounty rewards in just 4 months. For the betterness of the coins not to be dump, ut is necessary to hold it by the ico project.

Personally, I do not mind this practice, provided that investors receive coins with the same restrictions and the project team itself will also have tokens with a lock.

maybe they have a reason why they should lock the token, the market is bearish and maybe they want to keep the value, we all know that sometimes bounty hunters really throw away at cheap prices, that's what they might do

I just hope it will not become a practice imagine you are going to promote a project for 4 months then they will lock it for another four months that is almost a year of waiting and that does not guaranty that the project will succeed in the market.

I think he asked about the price predictions of bitcoin at the next price increase that had become very reasonable, he wanted to try to find out all the predictions given by the members here even though the predictions cannot be confirmed but at least know the price movements happens to the price of bitcoin.

It is not ok at all to.lock your tokens no matter how you look at it, if it was specified before the bounty started, then if would be ok but since it wasn't, they have no right to enforce it at that stage in the bounty campaign.

Don't make me laugh, all bounty campaigns are clear - management can change the terms and conditions at any time. As a bounty hunter you do not have a contract with the company, and you are initially filling up the registration form mean "take all the risks". It's an ICO, my friend...

Of course this is not normal and such things should be discussed at the beginning.But at the moment it may not be so bad,maybe just 4 months later the market will recover and you will earn more.The main thing that the project was serious and did not fall apart for these 4 months.

I don't even think if locking the bounty for 4 months its actually a great idea as the bounty hunters the money to be used for their needs.

Wether we like it or not most of the team handling projects and bounty programs are doing this to save the project from falling. The influence of bear market has made them to do hard decision making which compromises bounty rewards. This is why I am wondering if I am going to go bounty hunting again or not due to the current bear market.

This is a strategy for promoting the coin and it is adopted based on the situation that has developed in the market. Your decision to participate in the bounty campaign has no legal force and you must be prepared for any turn of events, including the fact that you can not pay anything. But in this case, it's just a strategy to protect the coin and I think it's normal.

To me it's definitely not okay, and to avoid sticking in such situations in the future you should demand at least partial payment in BTC for your work. Not only they locked your coins for so long, but, as I can see, LIKER Token (LK) is not currently listed on any exchange. I'm wondering is there a way to sell the tokens at 1 LK = $0.05, as they promised?

I'm in a similar situation with TTV tokens (they have never gave me 6,000 TTV tokens, as was promised), but at least I was paid partially in BTC, 0.01BTC/week, participating in their signature campaign, so I'm not complaining.

They must have included it in the bounty rules in the first place and it is not acceptable to lock it because we are in a bear market season, but it is their decision and i don't think you can do anything about it if that's what they want. Better wait because if bullrun comes within that 4 months then you will have great profit for sure.

If it helps then there is nothing wrong in locking the bounty for a few months, every steps that is helpful for the token should be taken, so there is not need to hurry.

This is really effective and helpful to the token to not dump fast. Because it will not do that it before so the token once they listed to the market it will dunp fastly. But now they will discover startegy also to prevent dumping tokens and that is nice. Other bounty they divided it to the different month the stake they give to the participants. Maybe after 4 months the coin or token that you have will increase very high they have advatanges also this.

If I'm not mistaken, the rules in the projects describe in advance possible difficulties of this kind. For more than a year, I haven’t even sold a single coin, I have never seen a problem in that they freeze, the hope is always only for successful development.

It is not okay for bounty hunters as bounty hunters want their reward tokens as fast as possible, while project owners may have various reasons for delaying the distribution of tokens. So project owners are not entirely to blame for this. As far as bounty projects, it is very unfortunate that many fake ICOs are cheating bounty hunters and investors. It must be stopped.

lock for bounty token sometime has good impact for us.developers team decided to prevent massive dump to their token price.and if our token unlock maybe we just got small amount of money.

Maybe team doesnt want the bounty hunters dump it right away. They have own strategies to avoid that scenario so they lock tokens for 4 months. But me as bounty hunter doesnt like that way. The reward should give to the bounty hunter as soon as possible.

Locking the bounty tokens that you received in the projects you participated is good strategy to make sure that the price of the currency will grow. But what's wrong is locking the bounty tokens without any announcements about that matter and it is really not good at all because you don't even know why they choose to lock it without any information given.

They have the right to do so though not everyone shares their opinion, but still they can do it through a smart contract!

Unfortunately, you can not do anything about it. Most likely, this is a necessary measure. I understand you that you are upset, but now many projects do it. A solution of this kind is an unpleasant surprise for bounty hunters.

I saw many such things. I waited 3 months and even after 3 month price cost still - 95%. Everybody just hope that bull will come to the market and trying to take time.

Is not ok by me at all,  if they are to lock token after distribution that four month of locking is too much .

For 2016-2017, this phenomenon would be abnormal, and today many things have changed, each project dictates its own terms and there is nothing to argue with, of course there is nothing pleasant about it. But you have no choice.

As a bounty hunter i would accept this offer. When the tokens arrive to exchanges the bounty hunter usually sells their bounty coins at the first day and the price goes down too fast. So that would be bad for everyone. I think the bounty payments should paid late or the project pays to bounty hunters in ETH or BTC.

Bounty manager do that for the good purposes. If you are bounty hunter you can what happen to the token and that is decreased in the first week in the market. Maybe that startegy can help for the token to maintain the price at ICO value or it will increase it.

Every bounty has a set of rules and guildlines that must be adhered to, if a project owner decides to lock the bounty tokens and makes this known before the bounty commences, then there is nothing wrong with that, it is wrong when it is not stated clearly before the bounty begins.

I met a campaign where they locked my password for 4 months, but they informed all the hunters and I feel normal. There could be some reason for the project that the team did such.

I think that is a strategy from the Liker team, and bounty hunter can't do anything just wait until the token unlock. Maybe the team afraid if the token listing that price will dump.

I agree with you when it come to this and mostly the bounty hunters sells their token quickly for a below ico price that will cause a huge dump but honestly even if they do this and they start hitting the exchange and the price goes down then maybe there is a problem with the development.

Also there's nothing to worry about if you get your token to your wallet from the campaign even if they unlock it for a several months but not too long because people might forget the value of the token.

There is nothing strange in this. It's quite normal. I have repeatedly come across the fact that projects extend the bounty company. Therefore, it remains only to wait. Sometimes it is unpleasant that they endure and prolong as you rely

I think locking bounty hunters tokens for four months is very unfair especially when it was not mentioned when the bounty started. Most project team tend to blame bounty hunters for the dump of their tokens, how will bounty tokens not up to 5% of the total token supply make the project dump so hard? And they have forgotten that they have given investors ridiculous bonuses during the pre-sale and crowdsale.

I participated in a bounty and the team decided to lock our tokens for 1 month but the token was already trading at 0.02X after it was released, how is that the fault of bounty hunters? I later realized that they gave pre-sale investors 100% bonus and 50% bonus for crowdsale.

Most times bounty participants are always I haste to sell, but despite that, some projects still make their ways to the top and they are trading above ICO prices.
I have seen projects that locked hunters' coins, yet they dumped. Most of these prone ts should learn to work on their products and project in entirety, instead of focusing on unnecessary things.

I think if it for the improvement of the coin, then it is fine for it to be locked. I mean, you supported and work for that project right? Why not support it until the end and the decisions they have made. I think it is for everyone too.

I have took part in a bounty that ended in April 2018. These guys have collected their hardcap and still have not even distributed tokens. It is silly, but you were lucky, that you needed to wait only for several months.

Learn from experience, I have followed a bounty like that and got a few coins that happened almost the same as you. Usually, coins that are locked by the owner of such a project will not long even tend not to develop, so my suggestion is that once the coin can be traded then immediately sell all the coins because if delayed again the price of the coin will continue to decline even has no value at all.

This is what most projects are doing these days. They ask for their token to be promoted and once the bounty hunters do that, they lock their tokens or make them wait till everyone sells their tokens and there are no buy orders left in the market.

I have no problem if its stated at the beginning but I think it's unreasonable for ICOs to turn around and lock bounty tokens after ICO when it was not in the initial terms.

Yes. Now those tokens that we earn by participating in bounty campaigns are very hard to sell. either because tokens are not traded on exchanges or because no one simply buys them

Recently bounty rewards are delayed according to current situation. So devs think that if they delay bounty reward, they can rescue price. But, 4 months...  I also wait for 2-3 months, but my situation was difference. They explained reason and it was sense for me.

The most important thing is not to lock you into a campaign for more months than originally agreed without fair compensation. Locking the rewards is not a big deal.

I think this is because the ICO devs doesn't want hunters selling their tokens  quickly just after the sale.
They want to prevent dump by locking the token. But i think it is not necessary to lock it, because usually hunters received only small percentage.

There are some bounty campaign that will not send your stakes unless they first get listed in a good exchange after a month it's even worse than locking your coins in your wallet because you already have it in your wallet, while that other campaign did not even bother to count your stakes.

Maybe now many projects are experiencing delays. And some of the projects that I have participated in have given tokens. And tokens have entered the exchange market. However, the token for Bounty is still locked and will be opened in 2 months. I personally still believe in this project because all Teams and Developers are still active.

As long as the project is ongoing it's ok to lock the funds for 2 to four months but locking it longer than four months it's a different story, I hate it whenever people will say that bounty hunters will harm the price when they are sharing a very small percentage of the coins.

That's other people's opinion saying bounty hunters pulled price down. But locking bounty rewards for 4 months, I think we had no choice but wait for their decision to give the tokens after everything will be a success for each and every ico project. Probably more of the participants became tired of waiting due to bearish market, and it brought us struggles specially not all bounty has the assurance to provide every participants a legit rewards. In most cases scam project was always present these days.

In bear market only small part of funds can be a reason for panic selling for a specific token. Bounty hunters usually don't care about development of coin and what they are doing is simply to get payment for done tasks.

Indeed the bounty hunters don't care and they throw away tokens with low scores, but not all of them like that. To get a profit, you have to wait for the development team to develop their tokens, so they will get a decent value. So locking tokens is a strategy for teams to develop better.

The fact is that no one controls the projects right now, and they can do whatever they want. Whether it will be delays in payments, the introduction of KYC and so on.

The token was locked for several months in my opinion which included their strategy.
And we also need to be able to understand because the market conditions are very far down.
And there are several projects that are currently given tokens every month.
They avoid the dump so the price of the token remains stable.

Just by looking at their Ann post, it seems to me to not do their bounty lol, do bounties from trusted BMs or from genuinely good projects, you can sense how good project by communicating with the team.

Agree with your opinion. that indeed this often happens when the campaign suddenly extends which is not in accordance with the beginning they said. this is very detrimental to us in terms of time

Basically, the project itself has the ability to create a lockup period wherein, they can protect the token from dumping by bounty hunters which I find reasonable. We cannot blame them for this action as it is a solution.

I'm ok 4 months is a short period for a bear market but a long one for a bull period, I just hope my coins are still in a good price when they unlocked it and they kept their promise that they will unlock it the exact date they've set.

We must follow the rules they make. Most people find it unfair, I also feel the same experience. Tokens given to bounty hunters are locked for three months after the token is listed on the market. I am very disappointed, the reason is that bounty hunter often damage prices. Oh come on, we also want to get the best and valued prices according to our hard work in supporting the project. But there is not much we can do but obey the rules. That is a risk, be patient.

Agreed, now that the market is bearish and if bounty hunters get paid, the situation will get worst. That's why I think it's okay to lock in such a market. I am also in such a campaign and hope I will get my token before the bullrun comes.

While four months seems long, it is not that long if you compare to the longer periods of lockup development team and other insiders  have to live with. In this very weak market, this is one more tool to try to keep coin price from falling too much too soon.

It is part of the team strategy to gather more value in the market (they think of it)
Well, it is okay for the token to be lock for that long as long as it is on your wallet.
Unlike many other campaigns, you are still waiting for the tokens to come.,

I have no problem if my bounty reward is locked for 4 months,what matters is getting paid at last and be able to sell at better price ,locking bounty tokens is way of controlling dumpers

I have liker token and I didn't realize that they locked it because I never have intention to sell it. Because of current market condition, I have no problem even if they locked it and just 4 month, in the crypto world maybe it just short of time. I have experienced many token without locked that never good in the market. So personally I will enjoy liker coin with hoping their strategy will work to make better price.

That's probably be a new coin because I'm not familiar with the name of coin.
Devs will lock the token if they find it necessary, especially the market condition now it's not wise to trade it since it will only
affect the investors if the tokens will get dump, bounty hunters do normally dump and devs understands that.

You have the patience in holding and that will hold you, you work for bounty to earn so you have to expect a good payment of our effort but unfortunately you won't get that now as main currencies are down and tokens are affected also.

I just found out the token, and if it was locked in 4 months, it was the team's strategy to look after it because indeed the market conditions were not yet possible to have a higher value.
So wait and let the team do the best for the token, so that later when the token is open it will make you surprised and valuable.

this is actually not really a problem if we see bounty not getting a token in a few months because the market conditions are not good or anything else. but most of them run away without paying

That's the problem, therefore it's necessary to study carefully the project you are participating to ensure you will get your reward.
Successful ICO with big supporters will listen to their investors, they can lock the tokens but they will be transparent with their update, they have
a reason to stay since they successfully raised a good amount, so you are a little ensured with that.

Exactly Correct


Frustrating that they would make it up after without telling anyone, but is going to help with dumping

As a rule, project managers now do this often, while they believe that they will keep the price of tokens this way!

I find this problem often but this more better than they not paying bounty hunter. Sometimes so many project changes their rules in the end of bounty but as bounty hunter we cant doing anything. When project still ongoing they need bounty hunter to promote their project but in the end sometimes they call us as a trash. Not fair but this locked maybe for their good movement price because some people  afraid bounty hunter dump token price in the low price. But nothing to worry.

This is done to ensure that tokens immediately after listing on the exchange does not lose their value. They will unlock them either gradually or all at once.

If this is what they are saying in their terms and conditions before you sign up then it's up to you if you want to proceed with such a bounty or find another one that does not have a lock up period.

Exactly. Let's examine this particular campaign from the OP, for example. The total supply of Liker is 3,000,000,000 LK, and according to their bounty thread:


5,000,000 : 3,000,000,000 = 0.0017

Selling 0.17% of all tokens, even in one day, can't make a big impact on the price, in fact, it's not even close to that amount that could make an impact. So, locking the tokens of bounty hunters for a long time is an unnecessary measure in economic terms.

The main reason for such a measure is its psychological effect on the investors, who can feel privileged knowing that they are allowed to sell their tokens while the bounty hunters are not.

Arrangement like this will be for bounty hunters to accept during the first sign up, if the team give this rules and participants agrees there's no
problem that will discussed, but for sure things is different when after finishing the job and the rules was change due to some issue or developers
decide that's it is requires the hunters doing so, better to have a much clearer rules so issue will not be raised after.

I totally agree bounty hunters selling in the first days in the market will not hard the price, because they own the smallest share in the market, the dev team are with the biggest shares always, they are the one likely to dump when it first hit the market.

It is their strategy, but I feel the bounty hunters or whoever wants to have the coins should be told form inception about the lock-up period. And from another angle, it could be that they are only trying to protect their project and coin value.

Locking tokens is a normal and even frequent occurrence for projects. In my opinion, this is not bad because in this way they can give a price to their coins. Through the development of the platform or any pozitivnyh news. Or simply the team does not want to enter the market when the prices of coins fall every day.

Actually, locking the tokens is much better than not paying at all for reason of recession. I've joined some bounties which say that they won't distribute the tokens unless the market goes up. This might be unfair for many hunters. Imagine the effort of doing the bounty for such long months and the burden of waiting for your token payment. But if you'll analyze things, it's for the good of the project, as well as its community. Afterall, what profit will it bring us if we'll be able to sell now? Who knows? It might bring us unimaginable profit in the months to come.

Yes, its okay to lock your bounties in 4 months, so you can get profit when the price are high, and it depends to a person how many months he or she will lock up their bounties before they trade it, because it's a nice strategy too to make some profit.

If it's the way they want it, you have no choice. It's one of the things bounty hunters suffer from. Bounty managers won't say anything about lockup and all of a sudden dey will just come out with new rules

I also received a liker token, in my opinion it was one of the team's strategies for the price of tokens after listing. In the key if I'm okay, the most important thing is the price is not dumping and certainly not a scam.

Everything is okay, if you would ever see your money. I am talking money and not tokens. Tokens recently have no value, you are working hard for it, waiting few months for distribution and after all you have tokens that you can´t trade because the coin is not listed.

Now this happens all the time, because the projects are trying to survive in a bear market. In order to keep the price of the coin, the developers postpone the distribution of coins, or block them on your wallet for a certain period of time.

currently, many projects are doing this. you must keep abreast of the project's development because a good project they will always be transparent in providing news about the development of their project to their supporters. therefore make sure that the project team does this.

If they stated it before the bounty campaign is done or during to its period perhaps nobody will join their campaign or many will quit. So, I guess they mean everything as part of their tactics regards to their campaign that aim drive into success.

Cant argue with that
it may help and technically they can do it
but the right way would be to tell them  up front

Teams that do this must give no exception to bounty hunters alone, Investors of certain size of token should also be controlled. such token must be listed on exchange at least at the second month of the lock into the 4th month before unlock. Sometimes it is mere deprive of bounty hunters, if investors can trade.

I once met a project that made a lock on a reward bounty is a dealcoin the reason is because they prioritize investors but still in the end the project falls, and it looks like locking is the wrong choice

Personally, I am ready for the part of the tokens I received to be blocked for a period up to one year maximum, provided that the token does not fall in price during this time, or on condition that the developers buy out the token from me in a year for a price not less than on the ICO.

Same thing happened to me last year when I did iconic bounty on bountyhive platform. They never mentioned locking during campaign till towards the ending. To make it worse, locking period was to last about 7 or 8 months. Meaning latest last November we should have our tokens unlocked but lo and behold! Team is nowhere to be found. Project abandoned or just basically, scammed! It is just part of the things we bounty hunters face. Try not to be dejected and work on other bounty projects. Good luck mate!

if the project is good then there is no need to lock the token especially for months. so it's likely that the project is bad if it locks your gift. or that's just an excuse because they don't want to immediately announce if the project really fails.

They most likely just to make sure that they don't want their coins has low value once hits to the exchanges, like most of new coins do. Yea, it sounds really unfortunate to lock your payment and you can't get your money after your "hard" work. But, it's not all their fault.

Some projects fear that their tokens value will be dumped after listing on exchanges so they implement certain drawbacks like "locking" in order to protect the value of their coins. However, I agree that they should have informed you earlier about their plans but it is what it is...

Really? do you think that's best approach to control price dump? Okey lets assume your liker tokens where locked for 4 month for every participant, and depending on the token allocation to this bounty - it could huge amount or not, then it is time to releas to to all participants, dont you think it will still affect price in a way?

Yep sometimes it happens but they do this because of market situation, as most of the hunters would dump tokens but they must do this with early investors too.

I hate with some bounty campaign reward lock for several months later, many bounty campaign reward always lock their token giving for bounty participants about two or three months and open it after price dump and lower.

there is nothing wrong if some bounty campaigns still lock their tokens a few months after distribution because I think that is only part of the strategy so that the price of the coin at the exchange does not collapse and does not make many investors lose.

Blocking received new tokens in our wallets is not very pleasant, however, believe me, this is not the worst option at this difficult time. The fact that you received a token and the project will develop, this is already a great rare success in our time. Almost all new tokens that fall on the stock exchange fall in price, sometimes thousands of times. Therefore, I am not even interested in the price of a new token on the stock exchange, because I know that selling them now is not profitable. Therefore, I would not be worth worrying about blocking tokens in the wallet; the ICO team thus saves them from depreciation.

Exactly! The receiving of bounty tokens now is big luck.
Maybe they give a gift to you that hold your tokens. It's probably in May their cost will be higher

If you think 4 months is long enough, i have to wait for almost a year. I finished my bounty on April 2018, and I just got my token on Desember 2018, and now the token hasn't even release in the market. It's annoying if they made you wait but then again, they have their own strategy so that their price won't drop and ruin their price in the market. You just have to be patient.

It is not ok, but do you have other options? I don't think so, because bounty hunters have to wait in order to receive their reward. Nothing more can be done.

On the one hand, this is true, since with this action the project will secure the course of its token, but in such cases it is necessary to initially notify the participants of the company’s bounty about such actions, but on the other hand, for 4 months, no reward will be wanted.

If you weren't informed of this condition up front it's not really fair but the terms and conditions for bounty campaigns generally tend to change at any given time even without prior notice and there's not a real lot you can do from a legal point of view so just be patient and you should receive your rewards

Yes because those are scam projects and no matter how they do, their projects will fail. I really hate those projects because we have wasted a long time but we have to keep waiting when the rewards continue to be locked.

This is a good move for the project to lock bounty tokens to protect the price and prevent dumping because some bounty hunters once they receive their token they will immediately dump and the price will go down.

The project is trying to avoid a sharp decline in the price of the token. This is good for the project, but unfair to bounty hunters. Most likely, you just have to put up with it, because it is connected with the state of the crypto market.

We must be patient and you must also understand because market conditions are still low. We can see that in 2017 many projects were successful, even to get tokens it didn't take long. Because at that time the value of coins increased and they were not afraid of Dumps. And for now, many ICO projects that secure prices remain stable.

I get your point. But, once they distribute the token to the bounty hunters, they should not be the one to decide what will the bounty hunter do with their tokens. They are out of the business if the bounty hunters will dump their token immediately. I personally don't agree with locking your tokens.

It is normal now that there are many bounties that delay months of payment on the grounds that the market is not good and now they need something new to be able to get a big profit

Indeed, developers team must want to protect early investor from dumping. If bounty reward not locked, developers team worry hunters will dump the token in any price and it makes investor lossing their portfolio value. I think its normal if developers team lock the reward for protection

Its a strategy that most projects implement so as not to let bounty hunters dump the coins for the best interest of the coin the the developers lock down the coin

Today's average bounty payments are not clear. lots of delays even cutting allocations. It is very detrimental to the bounty hunters who hope that they will benefit greatly here

If the team or project decided to lock token, there is nothing you can do about that. They might have their reasons of locking up token, maybe to prevent dumping. The bad side is that the project didn't mention this when running bounty.

If it is say before hand or when something unexpected happen it is still acceptable. If you give it a thought that if the ICO make their coins tradable at bad time the coins that you get might not worth anything at all and once it is trade-able in exchange all the other people in the campaign will want to sell away their token at the same time as well and high possibility that the coins value will drop to a low very fast before you are able to do anything about it. Personally i also hate this lock up but if you think deeper you might agree to their lock up also.

I have seen a project team that says that bounty tokens will be paid in the next 6 months after sales, this is not even talking about being locked. It means that the tokens will not be paid until after the six months end. They had announced it at the start of the bounty, which i feel is fine. Unlike some projects team that just postpone indefinitely. No prior announcement and no update.

I think this is the right decision. We should care not about our own benefit, but about the success of the project, which in turn leads to our enrichment. This can be compared with a forced hold strategy that will bear fruit.

Not to say of course that this is normal, but it happens all the time, and it can last much longer than just a couple of months, it can last for half a year or a year. Sometimes it can even be good when a project is well developed and after paying a token it is very expensive.

what a wonderful project. i wish i saw the bounty. it looks nice. i love educational projects. personally. projects like Odem. the reason behind the lock is to avoid people selling off unnecessarily which i believe you know. kindly wait after the four months for usage. it is worth keeping serious. 

That is their rule so you should accept it. They declared this when they launched the campaign. This is normal and you can see it everyday. Instead of selling them immediately, you can hold them longer to wait for a large pump to appear.

well, that is normal. sometimes a project will climb its investors first. but, normally it's 3 months, but maybe 4 months waiting doesn't mind, as long as it's clear. the most important thing was already informed from the start

To lock bounty for 4months is quite  unfair to bounty hunters if same is not done to ICO investor, thou have observe that bounty hunters do dump token ones it hit the exchange and this usually have a negative impact on the project, other strategy can be use to guard against dumpers thank locking the bounty.

If it was agreed in advance, then this is normal. When you start work in a bounty campaign, you accept the conditions on which it is held. But if during the campaign a bounty pool suddenly changes or payments are frozen indefinitely and this was not provided for by the rules, then this is absolutely not normal and I think that this situation should be given to the public on the forum

Locking up bounty rewards is actually to prevent huge dump when listed on exchanges but i believe it was unfair of the team to have suddenly change the rules of the distribution. Even though they have the right do so i believe they could have better communicated this with the bounty participants other than slamming it down their throat like that.

This can be problem, but there are ways to prevent dump and bounty huters form selling all tokens all at once.

In recent months many ICO projects have locked coins for prizes. And this is very disappointing for Bounty participants. But we also have to know the reason why they locked Bounty coins for a very long time. This is done to protect the price of coins to remain stable and there is no dump.

the goal might be to avoid dumping when the market is bearish but even so, they must first notify all the owners of the tokens
but are you sure that the development team doesn't give notifications? do you always monitor it? maybe you don't read the notification about locking the token
sorry, that is only possible

This is not normal, but unfortunately the practice of recent months shows that they are beginning to do so more often and this does not particularly please me, since in these few months investors will sell their assets and the price of a token or coin will go to the bottom.

I own Liker the coin that was mentioned that is locking the coin til May and it seems a promising coin to me I am on their telegram channel and I see a lot of updates if they unlock it on the bull period we are going to make a good profit from this.

A lot of project developers perceive bounty hunters and airdrop participants as one of the major reason to price slump at exchanges and thus include a lockup period for the bounty to forestall it. I think it's wrong and should not be done because bounty hunters are not the major  reason for price slump but Private and Pre investors with multiple bonuses are

Get used to my young friend. All projects at the moment are doing the identical. And I can tell you that this is not the end. They can not go to the stock exchange and you will remain unnecessary to anyone wrappers. You should hope that this project is not scam and otherwise you will be sorry for the time spent.

Bounty tokens are the same as investors tokens so they locked all tokens not only for bounty hunters. I don't know what is reason to lock tokens maybe they don't want token price to drop after bounty hunters start dumping them, they maybe have higher goals for their project and don't want to risk everyone leaves it early.

four months is long considering how will the bounty hunters will react to this. We know almost bounty token that distributed in span of one month but most of them getting dump by the hunters so i think they are just being careful for locking the bounty for 4 months but i don't like that long span days before i get to my bounty tokens unless this token and the team behind is good and dedicated to the project.

Each project decides how best they want to run their tokens distribution. Some decide to lock for longer period of time. The campaign I'm currently working with now locks for a time frame of 3 months I jut have yo decide if I can wait if not then I don't join such campaign.

I have a lot of Tokin who I can not exchange. Each project pulls and changes release dates so this is normal. If the project pulls time with the release.

That's where some of the team fail, to give proper information as regards terms of Bounty. The lock up should have been stated in the first place. As it is, there's nothing you can do than to wait.

I personally do not see the need for the lock up because at the end if all, hunters who want to dump will still dump the token. Besides, it's quite bad to not state the lock before starting bounty.

lock token is one of the team's strategies to avoid possible locking tokens to avoid dumps from investors and bounties .. in my opinion that's fine ... try to see the boltoncoin project that locks bounty participants' tokens for 6 months

No matter how long they lock bounty, if their project is not strong and no one invests, I always believe that the project will fail and die soon. In fact I have seen a lot of similar projects and now its price has dropped more than 50 times

I think with a situation like in 2018 the price of all coins fell. So that many ICO projects make policies, so the price of ICO coins does not collapse. I also got a token and put my wallet in, but I couldn't sell it because they locked my token. We must be patient because if the market conditions are good, of course, they will open the lock.

why not. it depends on the project of corse. if you dont believe in the project, it is probably not good for you. but if you believe in the project and if you believe that project has a good future, 4 month is not a big deal.

Its a good idea made by the team for the best of the coin thats is keeping it safe from bounty hunters so they ndo not dump and making the price not worth it so its very much ok to lock bounties

If the rule has been mentioned at the beginning of the campaign, I think it's fine. As long as the project continues to grow, I think locking tokens is not a problem. After all, the average ico token after release in the market is actually far from the price of ico

There are more interesting cases. For example, for me, one project has not been able to even pay tokens for about a year. SCAM deny - but not paid. And in your case, if warned - this is normal!

A lot of ICO projects do that because of bad market conditions, so that I do not see any bad things in that. Keep calm and work further.

I seriously don't think right Lock bounty tokens for 4 months but most of this projects just feel we dont offer them any real value which is a lie so they keep treating us anyhow, most of all this projects from late 2018 have been locking up bounty rewards, like the one percent allocated for bounty would have any real dumping effect on the price

That's was a smart way to keep the value of the token far away from death. but we must to analyze as well.
locked token it should be give benefit, ie; will give dividend to all holder, and something like that. so there's not be worried for all bounty participant.

The team has the right to modify the rules in the bounty campaign . I think this is also really good to avoid bounty hunters selling their tokens silly. Maybe you will become rich after they are unlocked  8)

Yep. That's why some projects lock their token because the team had a logical reason by doing that; to avoid dumping prices in the market and to maintain the liquidity of the token.

Yes, I think this is a normal practice, each project has its own strategy for unlocking. First of all, participants of tokensail should have the opportunity to dispose of the invested funds, and only then participants of private sales, presales, bounty hunters, advisors, etc.

4 months of waiting is just a short period of time OP. I had an experienced once where my rewarded tokens were locked for almost a year. Nothing left to do but wait. As a bounty hunter, there was really nothing we can do. I think locking their tokens once they were distributed will be the owners prerogative. Maybe the soft cap hasn't been achieved or there was still no available exchange for that particular token. However, in some cases bounty hunters do benefited when ICOs locked-up their tokens. Because at the end of lock period, the value of the tokens increases.
In your case OP, i do hope that your tokens will put a big smile in your face once unlocked.

No, there can't be a problem. I had explained that already in my previous post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103256.msg49848985#msg49848985

And I'm going to stick with my opinion unless you show me a bounty campaign that allocates at least over 5% of the total supply of tokens to their bounty. There are no valid reasons for locking participants' bounties for months, in my opinion.

developers team has their strategy to prevent price dumping after listing in market.and locking token was be one of them, usually they lock token for bounty hunter and bonus for private sale contributors.

This has been a regular practice of Some projects. They leave out some informations when hosting Bounties. I know it's a strategy, but Four Months it's a long time. And some times the prices of the tokens/coins reduces before the distribution thereby leaving Bounty hunters with less dollars(After trading) than expected.

Locking tokens or not is actually the team's decision from the project. We can't do anything but the token locked. If it is done without prior notice, maybe the project team wants the price of the token to be stable first. But for the hunter bounty, this is very unfair. After we work for them, they lock the token for the specified time. Of course the big reason is to stabilize the price of the token.

You are lucky to have received your token even though you have to wait a long time. The Bounty ApolloX I participated in from August and ended November has not yet had a sign that they will pay me.

they could have run away. I had previously participated in a bounty for 8 months and their last announcement was that one of the teams ran away with the money and the participant would not be paid, but the thread was still not locked. but I think it's useless.

If the ICO team want to give preference to investors over the community members, then it makes sense. This is because there are a lot of proffesional bounty hunters, that don't intend to use the token and dump it right away. This influences the price to the negative.

I think it is a normal thing, I just think that the project is really still working. Because now many projects face a shortage of money to operate and then it dies. If so, all my bonuses will be lost as well, and I don't want that

Since they announced it before taking the action, I do not think there is anything wrong with it they might just be trying to avoid being dump by bounty hunters, because most people believe that they are the cause of all fall in price even though they are just finding who to blame.

If the wait in the end will be justified, then I am ready to go for it and wait even longer than 4 months. Cryptocurrency is a long-term sphere, which means the more we invest in it now, the more you get.

In fact, what is happening today in the Eko market of the company, as well as in the cryptocurrency market, does not contribute much enthusiasm for further activities. But in any case, I believe in the prospects of cryptocurrency, as well as in the importance and value of certain projects for society, and therefore I will keep my assets Until better times.

If it is announced or stated in the rules then so will it be. Nowadays that's the trend, the team does so in order to protect their project, but in most cases the price still dump while in rare cases the price remains encouraging.

Definitely not! If you are ready to lock your bounty for 4 months, then I am not ready to do that! I believe bounty shouldn't be locked in either way!

They have the right to do so, but I personally do not like the lock. It remains to wait and hope that the project will pay your coins. Still there is such an excuse "Unfortunatelly, in crisis situation distriburion depends on investors' demand. We hope to catch a new wave of its growth and are doing everything necessary". I have several such campaigns, I have been waiting for a long time.

I don't know honestly.. I've faced the same issue one month ago when i got involved into Eosex Bounty compaign...they did the same move and that is freaking bad about a good project acting in a shitty way just like that. Hope that waiting will be worth it..

Well for exchanges that have low liquidity the price can change drastically with just small amount of sold tokens. Also not all the tokens are released immedeately. Investor tokens are usually released first, then bounty hunters. The team member tokens are sometimes locked for some period of time (few months).

Hhhhm it really unfortunate that most project do not make participants aware prior to the start, but i think 4 months is just at the corner. I have a coin which is to be in lock for 12 month and I ask myself what if we never hear from them again.

I participated in a lot of bounties and you know, most of them postponed bounties and payouts. So that's why I think that bounties always pay with delays and I accept it!

This sometimes happens, I also participated in a project that blocked tokens for 4 months, but in my case, bounty hunters were warned about this in advance.

I'm not talking about BTC/USD value of the tokens, but rather about the percentage of tokens allocated for bounty campaign. Selling much less than 1% of all tokens (0.17% in the OP's case) can't make a big impact on the price regardless of the BTC value of all tokens in circulation.


I'm not sure if this is true even in some cases, let alone always. Isn't the point of this thread to say that it's bounty hunters who receive their tokens last, not the team members?

You're absolutely right, this is currently the actual situation and about a lock of the bounty token i wouldn't get upset. You can be happy if you get paid at all at the moment. Most of the time you get nothing and a lock of the bounty token for four months is not really bad against it. So don't get excited about something like that and rather be happy that you got paid at all and if you're even luckier, the tokens might even be worth something. That's a lot more important than the four months of waiting.  ;)

Well we're talking about people here making efforts to promote a project. It's similar to having a stake in an ico so for me, it's non negotiable and they should be paid what they're promised. And icos don't automatically have value so hunters risk wasting their efforts for nothing. Having a lock for 4 months may make them lose good chances of converting at a better rate.

Some time I used to wait for more than 1 year and it is completely based on the developments they do and progress about their developments. Some bounty people failed to hold them more than 6 month due to because they want to make fast money from the earning they got from the bounty.

Thats the decision of the team, sometimes they lock the tokens of the bounty hunters  to maintain the token price.  There is a good reason why some project do it ,they want to prevent bounty hunters to dump thier coins.

Im a bounty hunter and i dont dump my token instantly as soon as i recieved it on my wallet  . instead i hodl it for a long time in the hopes of earning huge income in the future  .  im sure that most bounty hunters out there are just like me   .  there is no reason for the ico owners to be afraid because their coin wont get dump easily  .  locking the token can only cause issues because we will think that the ico is shady  .

After participation nothing is in our hands we have to move according to the situation of dates and time when they are going to send the bounties. Once we are joining their bounty campaign we are agreeing to changes made by them until we get payments from them.

It is not ok to lock bounty for 4 months because projects should pay participants after ICO, doing some job no matter how small it is should be payed after job is done, company which doesn't pay for 4 months usually ends up on TV. I can agree on locking tokens for 4 months or until project goes to beta phase or released, but in investors and bounty hunters wallets.

Even if you are not okay with that you couldnt do anything about it because you agreed all the terms while joining on bounties so they can reserve your bounty pool just like everyone else to avoid dumping.

It's probably ok
Many projects do something like this to prevent price dump because of bounty hunters itself, you can't do anything because is their rule.
Maybe after the token unlocked price will already higher and then you can sell your tokens at a higher price...  ;D

Of course, this is not fair for the participants, I think if tokens are blocked by time, then it is necessary to initially warn participants about this. But in another case, it is unthinkable since participants expect tokens at a certain time and for such projects should be punished.

If locking the bounty for at least 4 months has a good reason then why not. But sometimes once the coin is listed on an exchange the price goes down , and after 4 months token price get worst. So bounty participants will get small reward if thats the scenario.

I guess it is OK because the developer of the project is trying to secure investors profit due to the massive dump that do occur from bounties participants, To me it's OK maybe perhaps they might reduce it to 3 months

It's obviously not okay for me and I know most of the bounty participants feel that same way too. But with the current situation that we encounter with bounties these days, what is the difference anyway. I also doubt that there is a chance that you can sell your token for a good price so there is no reason to fight for it.

If a company has a very good reputation and are actively developing the product will help us to hold the coins for more than 4 months because along with their development the chances of increasing prices will be huge. Of course, most of the bounty people will regret to hold the coins but it is always good to hold more than 6 months to get more profit from what we are holding.

In that way, if you are one of the bounty participants in a campaign and having that kind of rules, obviously you can do anything about it mate.
even you the token has been distribute to your wallet, you can't still able to trade it even there is a exchange already due to the wallet is still lock in the deposit. Maybe to avoid dumping its value of the token they have in the project.

Exactly, each one will have a different view about the tokens, some people will show interest towards holding and some people will sell them in the market once they get the payment. We need to think them in a different way that if a company has actively given updates about their development then i am ready to hold them for more than 5 months.

This is what they do to frustrate bounty hunters, sometimes before the end of the lock down, the token become worthless but you can't do anything about bit as they reserve the right to implement rules at any point in time.

Positivity is there but the doubts on how the project would succeed would be always present. Locking your bounty tokens for 4 months seems really very shady yet its a long wait
for the work you have done for them.If you can see projects progress then it might ease the doubts we are feeling but bounty rewards should really be paid up upfront as the sale ended.

4 months is a long day for bounty hunter gonna paid because workers for ico project need to paid after getting money for investors who invest on their project.

I have encountered this problem.
This is unacceptable. It's annoying but we can't do anything but reflect on them. maybe we have to accept that because they are managers we can't do anything else

Its not ok for me, i do not want to lock bounty reward for 4 months.  They should.send the  bounty rewards 2 weeks after the campaign is ended.

Your answered was definitely indeed true, I think its okay to join with the project campaign that has a rules like this, just make sure that project is promising and has a potential to be adopt by the community here in the near future. But if you're not sure better not to join in that campaign.
But sometimes there are some project they will only announce it once the main sale is done which is too late for us to complaint.

Why they are dumping their token in the market kindly understand, every company is balming the hunters. After working for more than 3 months of time, which they will not make any money but people who are launching the bounty campaign they are making a huge amount of money through crowd sales. Which they don't want to develop any more after the crowd sales, which i have faced these type of situation much time.

If its on the rules at the first place then i have no choice but to accept the decision coming  from the bounty team , but if they chnange  the rules after the bounty is over without any notice many bounters will get angry.

Hunters would always took the blame neither by the devs or investors itself not knowing that the main dumpers are the ones who do purchase large chunks of coins while its still on sale.Locking for too long might be strategic but majority of them will just ran away with the funds and not to turn their back into their project.The main thing on mind is n pocketing money and leave it on the ground and create a new one.

More and more people are doing this now, but as I keep telling my friends who complain, nobody forced them to do that work. And I always say also, if you want good honest work where you really have to use your brain, then just freelance and do proper jobs for proper companies. Not do free easy work for ICO companies who want to give freebie tokens.

That is why many bounty campaigns actually don't promise the exact date of distribution, they just notice "after the sale" or something similar to that, in order to take the longest possible time before distributing the tokens. That's a bad sign already, because after long months of the token sale usually the token's price becomes much lower.

Yes,they have the right to do so, but they are abusing their rights for not paying the participants, and most of the time in the end
they will suddenly applied KYC requirements for each participants, which is not in the rules of the bounty anyway. And even for locking the bounty for 4 months were it was only announced after the project was done, which was very unfair for the bounty hunters.

I used to with it, so this is okay for me. But they did not mention before the bounty campaign, this is a shady behavior of them. They should've mentioned it at the beginning of the campaign! Right now, all the coin's price is very low, some coins dumped more than 95% from its previous price. So, this is not a good time to come in the trading market for some projects, because they will not able to protect the price. So, I don't blame them for locking up bounty tokens for months, but Liker team did mistake by not informing hunters before.

As a bounty hunter such a system is not good, most of which I see as the project works, it seems that the developer who owns the token holder will be able to make a profit first while he or she is making a lot of money in exchange, then The project team said that once the bounty hunters give the rewards they often have to beat the price in exchange, that's a big fuss and they're just making excuses.

It's a nice idea in the terms that it prevents dumping of the tokens price to worthless price, because lots of bounties hunters don't care about the development of the project all what they care about is to get the tokens and keep dumping

i think it is in the best opinion of the project in the eyes of the team and developers, it is not what we can actually give our own opinion since it is morely the say of the team. the lock up period, in most cases is to allow the stability of the token/coin price in the market to allow it gain sufficient liquidity to enable them withstand the dumping from the hunters.

This is totally insane for project managers to decide on such a decision on prior to distribution, why not before or during the bounty campaign but rather prior to distribution. Do they think this solves dumping, I know of many projects that locked their token and it even dumped more than they expected. Locking is not the antidote for dumping.

Not informing about the blocking period at the very beginning is very unfair, same asn not informing that KYC will be required.
However, the idea itself is not completely insane. Often the project needs a few months to attract the eyes of investors, especially in the situation in which the market is now. So finally it can also be very profitable for bounty hunters.

We see this type of situation from the bounty companies. In the beginning, they won't mention any locking period and KYC but after collecting enough, they will start teasing the bounty hunters to send the documents for KYC verification. We have experienced this type of companies which sometimes we don't receive the bounty at all.

And this is one of the bad experience we can have by participating in bounties.
This KYC  is the one i am affraid to do.

More project affraid of bounty hunters to sell thier token once its listed in exchange thats why owner make a move to lock the token and give it time mostly it takes 3 months before you can move your token once its locked.
They dont see that the reason of the price declining is not only bounty hunters sometimes its investors it self they are affraid lossing so they will sell thier token even with just small profit .

Its part of their character, another coin that threatens to lock bounty hunter's share is Adab although it is not yet confirmed, there's a possibility they are going to, it's a big buzz in their channel, Adab falls into a dubious character in bounty hunting, they have no announcement of KYC after the ICO they announce they will ask for KYC, they promised they will send all bounty hunter's rewards, but they cut it with a whipping 80% there's no future here in Adab.

Joining bounty that offers legit platform can be trustworthy, and I guess when that bounty rewards locked within 4 months then the results can be promising it wouldn't be a problem. But, I don't think that's acceptable for the bounty hunters, longing for some value on their tokens after waiting for so long and yet they couldn't trade their asset because it wasn't listed in any trading site.
It would be better for those developers to don't run a bounty project if they can't accommodate to provide their token enough funds for trading.

If you plan to hold your favorite tokens for a long time, I think there is no problem with locking for 4 months. If you are a short-term trading operator, such a solution is not desirable.

Locking bounty tokens to bounty participants is common for bounty projects, most projects now often lock bounty tokens so that participants cannot sell them directly when tokens are distributed to participants. Actually, if this is in the bounty rules, that's okay, so before you join the bounty project, read the rules first so that we know that after the tokens are distributed to bounty participants, the tokens are locked or not.

but usually in written rules about the developer or BM can change any rules and of course it becomes one of the risks that must be faced because of the problem is, whether the project will really continue to develop or not, if during the time period the project like there is no change which promises then it will be something very bad

It depends, if holding the coin will make it more value or avoid dumps then it's worth the waiting, all this lockings starts after bear market took over, project teams don't have a choice but to use different ideas to keep coin value alive

With the current market condition, blocking coins even for a much longer time seems to be a very good solution. The blocking period gives the project time to develop and prove its potential. A few months should allow to achieve the first successes and interest investors. Thanks to this, project can avoid a drop in the price of the coin immediately after listing on the exchange.

It would be a good solution but it will only satisfy us if we are also seeing some kind of improvement by the project although we don't hold the token reward yet, some of the projects I joined hold the bounty and I have not seen their progress, that's really disappointing.

This is a risk that can only be reduced by thorough analysis of the project and developers before joining the bounty program or investing.

At the moment of the bull market there is no problem with the inflow of new funds, so blocking is not needed. However, during the bear market period, unfortunately, this is often the only solution.

Good solution only for short term, they just want to delay the dump that will happen once bounty hunters sell thier shares. The best solution is to buy all of them from bounty hunters not freezing in a months. Even you successfully delay the distribution the result will be the same after the locking period finish.

This does not necessarily have to be the way .. If developers are active and the project moves forvard, many bounty hunters during the lock period, may notice the chances of making a profit by not selling tokens at the very beginning. In other words, if there is no blockade, everyone will want to sell immediately and the price will definitely fall. When there is a blockade, there is a chance that there will be no such problem.

IMO project locked 90% of bounty reward for 12months and bounty hunters are not even sure if the project will still be alive by then, 4month is not very far and if this will help the project in any way then its all good