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I recently started managing my first bounty campaign, however, its been a few days and we have yet to see any traction.

The project I'm managing the campaign for is currently in their early startup stages, however, they are running on the VeChainThor Blockchain, they are closely related and in collaboration with an existing prominent project, and are set to release their MVP before the public sale is even set to end.

All these are clear indications, at least to myself, that the project is legitimate and seems to have potential to be a great success. So I would have expected to see more traction by now, but I haven't.

So my question to you all, what do you look for in a bounty campaign?
Do you value a project with a better product, or a project that is giving away higher rewards?
Are there any requirements that steer you away from participating in a campaign?

Any insight and feedback would be extremely helpful so that I can adjust my campaign if needed in order to maximize the results.

Thanks!

The reward doesn't matter a lot but the minimum viable product is something that is needed to be considered as an indicator about how serious that platform to create such a new product that can bring a lot of benefits to the users.
But some people may consider rewards as the main consideration too. At least put fixed rules that will give a lot of information to the hunters.
You may have the right to change the rules but just do your best to and you must not try to change anything at the end of the campaign.

Reward must be commensurate with the task to be performed. Show data about the allocation for the bounty so that the bounty hunter knows how much reward is given. Then give a concise, concise and clear review of the project and its strengths.

The most important thing about KYC, if the bounty is without KYC then many are interested and start participating in the project, because it's easier without KYC. Next do promotion to every social media that you have.
if there are already many participants, do regular updates to the participants' threads and spreadsheets.

I think you need to post the link of the website and the bounty campaign you're managing so we can see it and judge on how it performs, people will join a campaign depending on how good is the project, bounty hunters are not joining bounty campaign for the sake of joining one, send us the name of the project and we'll tell you if it's worth joining.

You can view the bounty campaign I'm managing here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186272.0). I made a unique account with the project's name because I thought it would be more professional rather than having a random username. But now I know that the profile's rank in which the bounty is posted is a very important aspect as well as it shows credibility.

But, any feedback or suggestions you could provide, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

For me, I am looking for bounty campaign has potential in the future. I am working for that project, of course i want to get token/coin payment that i can sell someday. Better product is one of value to make me trust, especially if that project already working well. Higher rewards is not my points to join, but how the BM limited participant is the best way for me. Higher rewards, bounty hunter participants unlimited it looks like doesn't have any potential in the future.

Paying with top 10 CMC coin/token, with limited participant is more effective than unlimited participants, but they are just spamming this forum. And your team dev can save their token project from dumping price who blame bounty hunter.

Number 1 is NO KYC. Not that I am opposed to the KYC in theory, but I'm not about to hand over my personal info and documents to some random developer. If a bounty requires KYC, nothing else about it matters, I simply won't take part in it.

Hopefully the project is well laid out, info is available on all devs working on the project, and of course it helps if the project makes sense. A bounty for a coin so we can use cryptos to pay for taxis or dental work probably wouldn't  be considered a top notch groundbreaking coin, for instance.

Don't change any rules or terms as the bounty goes along. Have the rules all written out in plain English and have an easy way for participants to contact you if there is an issue.

And a biggie here: payouts. Ideally pay out on a set schedule using btc or eth. And if that can't be managed, payout in the token/coin itself as the campaign goes along. A single big payout at the end may result in the same thing (or same number of coins per participant), but a zillion projects pack up before the bounty is even over, resulting in folks just wasting their time. So something needs to be paid out on a set schedule.

Edit: And I just checked the campaign the OP is running.

KYC required, devs can change the terms at any point, pretty low payouts ... that type of campaign wouldn't get a second glance from me, to be honest.

Beats me why bounties would require KYC. I mean, it can't be anti-laundering due to the tokens not really having any value to begin with and besides, it's not an issue of coins being exchanged in the first place. As someone running a campaign, I have to ask, why do devs even institute KYC for a bounty campaign? The only logical reasons I can come up with tend to be nefarious reasons.

I have participated in bounty campaigns since i started to learn about cryptocurrencies and since i learn how to earn cryptos in bitcointalk. I always value the project with a great potential to be successfull when its ICO is finish and continue to develop yhe project. The high rewards coming from a bounty campaigns is just only a bonus in supporting the project.

KYC is actually the complete opposite then what you think. A project that requires KYC is more credible that one that doesn't. It shows that they have taken the necessary legal steps in order to safely plan out their public sale, whether it is an ICO or IEO. It is very rare to see a professional startup not require KYC these days.

Bounty campaigns are also labeled as investment transactions as well by most countries, hence, while KYC is required for bounty campaigns as well.

So I understand that KYC could be a burden to complete, but it is very necessary and I'm not sure why people complain so much about it. It has so many perks so you need to do a better job when researching projects because it is obvious which projects are scams or not legitimate.

Any chance you could comment on my bounty campaign and what you like and/or dislike about it? I'm all ears right now so don't be afraid to be honest. I want to help the project grow as much as possible and the only way to do that is to have a balance between bounty hunters and the project.

Only 'perk' of KYC I am aware of is identity theft.

I've been around for years w/ crypto, so this isn't a new thing to me. I'm well aware of how many scams have been about. And just because a project requires KYC hardly means it's immune to being a scam.

 I'm also aware that identity theft is a real thing, and no sane person would willingly provide their personal info + documents to a random dev team here. If you can't understand why this is an issue, then I suggest you start researching identity theft.

And before you bring up the fact that exchanges require KYC, I'll also state it's a necessary evil in that situation. Besides the fact that exchanges should have extra safeguards to protect your identity (at least some do), in those cases we probably are talking about much larger sums of money at stake vs the pittance most bounties pay out.

This is exceptional of you directly reaching out to the bounty hunters themselves. Let me give you my two cents.

In general, bounty hunters are looking for a couple of things. One is legitimacy/reliability of the project. The second is high reward. But the two should go together. If one is missing, that is enough good reason for them to steer away from promoting your project.

I am speaking of myself and perhaps the majority of bounty hunters of this forum. We do a little background checking of the project we are promoting. We may do a quick glance over your whitepaper, social media accounts, ANN thread, website, and review sites. If the result is positive, we are going to take a look at the rewards. If it is too small and there are already many participants, I might proceed to check another project. But if it is good enough, I will be glad to work for it. But if the project is offering millions and millions in tokens but everything looks shady, like their project team is a bit off, that's scrap for me.

And please, look for a good and responsive manager. People here do not like managers or admins with bad temper. 

Thanks for the comments. A few of mine if you don't mind:

I've heard many people state that a large number of participants steer potential bounty hunters away. Is that because most bounties are staked-based and the more participants, the less the reward?

Also, what would you say high rewards are technically when it comes to the different types of bounties?

Lastly, if you have time, would you be able to review my bounty thread and provide feedback based on your own initial thoughts? I really want to help the project I'm managing grow and increase its exposure, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Bounty Thread Link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186272.0)

I took a quick tour in your bounty thread. Here's what I found:

1. "PlanChain has allocated 1,500,000 PLAN tokens (~$30,000 USD)" This ~$30,000 USD may be good enough in terms of little tasks such as retweet, etc. but I am almost certain that by the time PLAN will hit the market, this amount will probably be around 5,000 USD.

2. ~$30,000 USD for 6 different campaigns and in a couple of months might actually be too low.

3. "All participants must complete the KYC Registration process on the PlanChain website to receive any reward." If you can, remove this. This is a complete BS to the majority of the bounty hunters here. Imagine a participant of yours having this: "Reward: 100 PLAN (~$2.00)" undergoing all this intrusive KYC process.

4. Your reward system is not stake-based, right? But you have pegged your total reward at 1,500,000 PLAN tokens? And since you have no limit as to the number of participants, how could you be sure that there is enough for everyone in this 1,500,000 PLAN tokens allocation?

Good luck!

I check with signature campaign participants, are hero or senior member there or not, without higher level participation maybe this bounty campaign is not worth.

 For a bounty campaign, I search for a reasonable pool and work with a reputable team. because right now there are a lot of bad projects managed by bad managers.
After the project is completed, they often postpone the token distribution and make unreasonable terms.
I really need them to be serious and respect us, respect what they say and promise before the campaign ends.

Logical product that really can be developed well, and of course highest bounty allocation. With 2 of that i usually join the signature campaign. Because not only high amount of reward, we as bounty hunters must think as investor too. And look project that can be really good not only in sale, but in realize project and market. Because it can make us have big rewards too.

I check the use case of the project to ascertain it potential within the cryptospace as well as confirm the board members and finally confirm if the project is already listed or has a high chances of been listed in a reputable exchange.

1. Seriousness of the team
2. Professions of the team
3. Are they real or not
4. Past histories of work and the reason of the present project
5. Roadmaps and exchange listing
I believe this five points of mine is very necessary before any other things in every bounty

Find quality posters. That is all I can say as advice. This does not mean language only too,,, this means the posters actually use the project and know about it, and are interested in discussing the aspects of the project.

I see so many bounties with empty discussions with posters who have 0 knowledge of the product.

All bounty people look for rewards but if you also engage quality posters they want to give something back to the project.

Usually most hunter looks for high reward in bounty campaign, but now is not anymore because there were many scam campaigns offering high reward.
When i want to join bounty campaign, i will find the most legit campaign without regarding their reward allocation.
If the project is not legit, no matter how big the reward, it will be go in vain.

Try to be straight from the very beginning, no hidden budget reduces, sudden KYC implementation and all that good stuff. Furthermore, a bright variety of campaigns and fair distribution among campaigns is a sign of a quality bounty for me.

I choose and appreciate a quality and serious project to develop, and also the total reward given,
being a bounty hunter is not easy, it requires perseverance and skill,
unfortunately bounty hunters are now underestimated, many allocations have been cut, allocation changes have even been delayed for several months.

1. That is a very fair assumption based on the history of bounty campaigns and the dumps that come with it. However, the total tokens allocated to this campaign are very minimal compared to the total supply, so theoretically, there should be less of a dump when they hit the market. In addition, since they are so closely related to Safe Haven, once they get ramped up, the price is only to increase with it. But then again, this is just me talking as a full supporter of the team and what they are attempting to achieve!

2. If we see a huge amount of participation, this allocation amount can always increase if needed. I don't foresee any projects having a hard cap of the total tokens they allocate to a campaign.

3. I really wish I could remove this, however, it is a requirement in order to run a safe TGE and bounty campaign. Also, if you participate in the bounty campaign, our bounties are all simple tasks that should take no more than 5 minutes total and where you could accumulate at least $10 in PLAN tokens. But again, going through the KYC process is a pain, especially if you have to do it for the majority of campaigns.

4. Yeah we are doing fixed rewards. Like I mentioned in #2, we can always increase the token allocation or just close the bounty when we hit this amount. If we hit this amount, I would be more than happy in general so lets hope I run into this scenario!

But overall, thank you for providing your thoughts on my campaign! I hope my feedback makes sense and answers your questions on why some of it is setup as it is. I think the biggest thing that PlanChain has going for them right now is their credibility and close relationship with Safe Haven, which is already a well-established project on the VeChainThor blockchain.

Thanks for your input! I worked for Bounty0x and I completely understand the frustration and loss of trust from bounty hunters when they hear the distribution is going to be delayed, or the token metrics have changed! It never felt good having to announce this to our community, so I can only imagine how it felt being an actual hunter.

Right now, the token distribution doesn't have a defined date for the campaign I'm holding since the pre-sale is at an undefined date currently. But once the pre-sale is over, the TGE will have an announced date and the bounty will be distributed 14 days after the TGE comes to an end. So hopefully that is clear enough for bounty hunters!

Personally before joining any bounty campaign, I check the project detail first. What is their core product and its use, then the team dedication, how much their team is active on Telegram and updating things about project and third thing I look for is the percentage of reward they are offering, it percentage is low then there is point of joining that campaign even if  project has solid background. Good percentage of bounty rewards is equally important. I all these three criteria meet to my expectations, I join that bounty campaign with no second thought.

You don't know how difficult it is to find these "quality posters". I feel like due to the numerous amounts of bounty campaigns starting every day, people do the least amount of work required to participate in bounties just so they can optimize the number of bounties they participate in.

My goal is to create a private network of individuals that create quality work like YouTube Videos, Articles, Images, etc.. and refer them to each bounty campaign that I manage in the future. I think by doing so, both parties would benefit as the individuals would receive a generous reward while creating quality content for the project. This is still just a thought as I'm just starting, but I'm hoping it can come to fruition in the near-future!

I am usually looking for some good features when choosing a bounty campaign to take part in:
1) Well designed bitcointalk thread or website with strict rules and responsible managers
2) Good conditions, big bounty pool or few bounty hunters involved :)
3) Strong idea, team, whitepaper, general visual impression etc.

I see how many allocations, if it is not bad, continue to look at the condition of project, how their products/ services are, are there any previous reviews or partners. I researched like you want to invest there.

i'm looking for projects i like to be involved in. partly i invest and use bounty tokens to get a perfect total purchase value.
but often i only take the bounty rewards without really investing fiat or cryto. :D

For me, an important factor when choosing a project is its product. If the product is needed and in demand, then this is a good signal. Next, the team is important and who supports the project, that is, partners. The future of the project depends on these people and whether it will be implemented at all. As for earnings, it is important for me here that conditions and cheating do not change, in other words, the project team must fulfill its original conditions for payments, and not change the conditions or find excuses.

I am looking a Bounty Campaign where i am preferred and to fit my self where i am to join. And Looking for any allocations is a must, the rewards, rate and when the tokens are already in the market..and most important is the token value is indeed to join.

Yes but it all comes down to the end of the campaign.
I think what OP is trying to ask here is what would they need in order to get us attracted to their campaign.
And I think all of us would agree to this terms,
No KYC : Because it is hard to give out our personal information and we don't know if they are trusted or not.
Sure reward : Something that would guarantee our reward as a bounty hunter ,Payment like ETH or something that could easily be traded.
Active Team : To keep us inform about the project and all of the important things that is happening .

I am looking for good projects for work. I see that the project has investors, this shows that people trust the project and you can work with it.

Thanks for your feedback! With these key factors, how would you rate/rank the bounty campaign I'm currently managing? I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts on it!

You can link to the Bounty Thread here! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186272.20)

I think you have a mistaken notion that folks just dislike KYC because it takes them extra time or is a pain to do. And I guess to some, it is sort of a pain.

But really, it's simply the issue of giving complete strangers all of your personal information + license or passport. And in your campaign, they even go as far as requiring a utility bill. My bank didn't even ask for that much information from me.

It's just too big a risk for most people.

Answer this honestly, if you were asked to provide all of that info from random strangers, all for a grand total of like $10-$50 in bounties, would you willingly do it?  And also figure about half the time the bounty would be completely worthless. I can't fathom why anyone would bother. It's not like the old days anymore when a bounty could be worth 1-2 btc.

If it is a project that I've researched thoroughly and believe it is worth it, yes, I would complete the KYC for that project. I've done it already a few times for a few projects, and these projects I invested in as well. I've had no regrets doing it either as they turned out to be as good of projects as I believed they would be based on my research.

So yes, it appears it is a mix bag, and really depends on the type of bounty hunter you are. If you are just looking to get free tokens, you probably will ignore any campaign that requires KYC. If you are looking to get extra tokens in a project that you've researched and have thoughts of investing in, KYC probably isn't an issue.

However, if you ever work for a crypto project, you'd understand how important KYC is. I agree, KYC shouldn't be required for bounty campaigns though since they are marketing efforts and not investments, but countries don't look at it that way. Plus, KYC filters out all the fake/spam accounts of people trying to take advantage of the system.

Also, another quick remark from my end, I will never participate in any bounty campaign that doesn't require KYC because the ones that I have participated in have yet to hit the market. So, like I said, it is a mix bag.

for me personally before joining the bounty campaign always looking at the background of the team or the experience of developers in managing previous projects, developers who have a good reputation will be welcomed by users. High prizes and large bonuses are one of the goals of the bounty hunter because anyone does not want their work to be in vain or only paid for $-$$.

I might prioritize point 3 before the other points. it can determine the success of the project that we support, because even if a project has a very good design, but does not have point 3, then the risk of failure may be greater. besides, as long as the reward is given is worth enough, then I will support the project. Although everyone has opinions, and views that differ from this, I think point 3 is the core thing for choosing a project/bounty.

If you thoroughly researched the project, would you consider doing KYC as long as you deemed them professional and trustworthy?

To say the truth, the first thing i always care about when looking or doing research on a bounty project is reward, how any tokens im going to get and how much its going to be in USD? then i will move on to how real the teams are

Please don't take this in the wrong way or anything, but I'm curious, how has this worked out for you, if you don't mind sharing?

If you read through all the responses, you'd see that the responses are quite contradicting of one another. Some people highly value the project and its team before even considering bounty campaigns, while others like yourself, only look at the reward and then worry about the other conditions.

I don't have enough cash to flow into altcoins and yet i want to be prepared for crypto future especially next altcoin season, what i planned to do is find very good bounties and hodl on to the tokens maybe the project will survive but no way to know than taking the risk

Most hunters do chase bounty campaigns that have high reward estimates and most of them are less concerned about MVP or the like, I myself chose Bounty not thinking too much about MVP, but during this project I feel a little good and the rewards they offer are high I will follow.

I stop promoting promising projects, most promising projects i have promoted ends up a big failure, its kinda like projects that will work out in the end don't bother giving out promises to hunters and investors, they stay focus and belief that whatever they are going to achieve is up to them,not promises

What Are You Looking For in a Bounty Campaign?
1. Real project
2. Quality products
3. a solid team & developer, with a good background.
4. Good gift

But the question for you, are you part of the project that you are referring to? I feel that you are very sensitive about your intended project. It seems you want to introduce your new project so that many people are interested and join in it? well, if so you have good marketing. but remember that now investors are smarter and more selective before taking part in projects. they will not put money in the wrong place let alone the project you are referring to in the new project category.

@TanakabZX, @acepro, @Novatech8, @Doranile432, @Kezacky - Based on your feedback, do you mind commenting with your thoughts on the campaign I'm currently managing and providing any input on what you think of the project, rewards, and rules/requirements for the campaign? All this would be very insightful and good to know for future campaigns!

You can access my bounty thread here! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186272.0)

Thanks in advance!

Reward is a talk on this, too low budget will not be a good thing to have, atleast a decent or average will do as long as the project is good.
Most Participants now are looking on a project which will be listed on an IEO ( with good exchange ranking).
A softcap reached is an addition. the time of campaign is also an issue, 3-4 months is enough. 2 is better while 6 weeks below is the best target

1. Goal of the project and solutions
2. Quality of website design and whitepaper
3. Bounty budget
4. Verified team(IcoBench, IcoHolder)
5. MVP(Not so important, but if there is - good)
And finally I just sum this all and make a decision.

For your first three points, how do you determine if they meet your expectations? Do you research anything specific like LinkedIn, ICO reviews, etc..?

As for the bounty campaign I'm managing, yes I'm sensitive to the project because I want to see it succeed. A lot of this input I've been receiving has been very valid and has lead to a few changes to the bounty campaign. For example, just yesterday, I convinced the PlanChain team to allow me to double the rewards because I thought they were too low.

However, the meaning of this thread was to receive feedback on the bounty campaign and not necessarily persuade people to join it. I've shared my bounty thread with multiple users to ask for their specific feedback on the rewards, project, rules/requirements, and other bounty related information. But, I have never asked anyone to join or anything as that will come once I have the bounty campaign tailored to most people's needs/expectations.

So I've noticed a decent amount of people touch on the budget of a campaign. I can see why this matters if the campaign was stake-based and there were a lot of participants. This would result in a lower than expected reward obviously.

However, if the rewards are fixed, does the budget even matter? Also, wouldn't a lower budget be a good thing as it would result in less of a dump, if that project was to ever hit the market?

I will always look to see firstly if the product or service is something that can get a good market share and there is a need for it. Also, I like to check to see how good the caliber of the Team is and if the Team are active and professional enough to grow the business that they want to take to market. I also check to see if there is a good and growing community that is standing behind the project and of course I will check to see if the rewards are worth my time because, at the end of the day, time is of the essence. We need to value our time more so it is imperative that we find a combination of both good projects and also a decent remuneration package for our bounty hunting activities. We are providing our time and service, so we should get a decent return for investing our time. I do feel the one in my signature is a fine project as it is really filling a much-needed niche market.

One of the main criteria in a bounty is a professional bounty manager who knows what he is doing and keeps track of time. As far as the project itself is concerned, the finished product is important.
And also the planned listing for a specific date and for a specific exchange. The list of partners with confirmation of partnership will also not be redundant.

Do you mind providing more information on how you determine if the bounty manager is professional and everything? Do you go based on their profile and other bounties they managed? Do you look them up anywhere else outside of Bitcointalk?

This would be very helpful information for me to know, so thank you in advance!

But have you willingly given complete strangers all of your personal information, including a copy of your license or passport, plus utility bill, for $10? I'm not talking about ICOs or exchanges, or where there is a chance of making decent money. I mean bounties that usually pay barely anything. If yes, you are taking a greater risk than most. If no, that means you wouldn't even do your own campaign for free coins ... and that kind of answers your question why it's not exactly taking off.

If you have done cheapo bounties, then I'd recommend you re-evaluate your criteria there and consider the risk involved.

Forget if a project looks like it's worth it ... a zillion scams out there, and plenty have looked like decent projects. There is no way in the world I'd trust complete strangers here like that, no matter how fancy their website looked.

I hope you can at least understand where I am coming from. And why many feel a similar way. It's just too risky for most people. Now if doing the ICO thing, at least then some may take that risk. But nowadays most would prefer going for an IEO ... ICOs, unless from some well known company, probably isn't such a good idea. And you are asking for tips on a bounty campaign, not ICO, so KYC for an ICO is one thing (which I still dislike)... but KYC for a bounty seems ridiculous to a lot of people.

Anyway, I'll mention one other thing that bounty folks tend to like -- a real plan to get the coin on exchanges. So if the team can get the coin on an exchange while the campaign is ongoing, even if it's a smaller (yet not completely dinky) exchange, it's a plus.

Apart far from BOUNTY Budget, I always look if the project has a chance to be successful and be listed on the exchanges. It has a huge support from the community, the communication is constant and the rule of the bounty is clear from the beginning .

Similarly with my experience. Almost all of the grandiose ICO projects ended in nothing. Even if I counted a lot of tokens, which should have amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, in almost all cases I did not receive anything at all. At the same time, ordinary and unremarkable ICO projects with not very large amounts of tokens bring a good profit.
Now, in ICO projects, I primarily pay attention to what the team will do, that is, what is the idea of ​​the project, whether there will be a real product, whether their token will be in demand. I also draw attention to the possibility of having passive income from this project. In that case, in addition to constant profit, the token should not fall significantly in price, I do not like the race for the profitable sale of new tokens. I like the stability of profit, even if it will be small. I think that the future lies in projects with passive income, following the example of stocks.

I have a different perspective this year for any interested project, the most important thing is if team can raise the fund in this market? I have bounty managers I follow, I think sapta wont want to be involved in projects that will soil his name as a staff of this forum. Then check if the team have no record of scam and they are credible. Their is a different to reward,this also depend on the stage of the project when the distribution takes place.

For $10, no. I agree with that, but I don't think it is relevant to my campaign as the Twitter bounty on its own can pay out up to $30 minimum if you fully participate. This doesn't include any other participation from the other bounties which are just as easy of tasks to complete and earn more tokens. So I completely agree and understand your argument, however, I don't think it applies to my campaign since the rewards are reasonable in my mind. But then I guess it just comes down to how much someone is willing to give up their personal information for.


I'm not sure about while the campaign is ongoing, but at least some type of discussion or agreement at the end of the campaign would definitely be ideal. At least for my campaign, since it is on the VeChainThor Blockchain and closely related to Safe Haven, I believe it is highly likely that OceanEx will list it shortly after the TGE concludes. But unfortunately, that won't be determined until late in the campaign.

A project with a better product's likely going to reward you better in the long run as well, especially if you plan on holding your rewards for a longer period of time. You could be sitting on a significant sum of money in time if the project you advertised becomes successful and its token or coin price rises. Lower rewards would be fine in that case. I also look for a well-developed campaign and one that's backed by reputable members of the community when applicable, and ones that I notice with lower-quality posters I usually steer away from. That's a sign that there's carelessness with the bounty manager or even with the project, which is never a good thing.

So it sounds like you participating in campaigns that have a low budget, high rewards or low number of participants, and with tokens that actually have utility such as passive income chances?

Recently, I can’t determine the prospects of a Bounty company at all due to the rating of managers.  I have repeatedly met such information that managers receive their remuneration for the work done in dollar terms, as well as in Bitcoin or Ethereum, and the participants of the Bounty company receive tokens that no one needs, because the project managed to refuse their tokens, therefore  I found a new product concept.  There are different developments, but I can determine the prospects of the project only by a deep technical analysis of all available information.

Very interesting concept and I couldn't agree more with your outlook.

As for my campaign, I'm getting paid in the native token of the project, which is PLAN. I agreed to this because I like the project and believe it will be successful in the market and in adoption. So I can see how it would be a bit sketchy to partake in a campaign where not even the bounty manager gets paid in the native token. Would be kind of sketchy in my eyes as well.

If you have the time and don't mind, I'd be very curious to hear more of your feedback but more specifically in terms of the bounty campaign I'm hosting currently. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

You can access the bounty thread here! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186272.0)

Your response matches your merit.

I commend you.

Of course I see from the best projects and the products they run, the team must also be able to promote even more and to glance at investors is very important.

For bounty rewards, yes indeed we are looking for a larger allocation of funds but we must look at the rules first, the rewards must be in accordance with the work.

I am looking for a good project and always involved in selling initial tokens, if the project is good then I will participate for a long period of time and will always see project updates.
At the moment the bounty campaign is still good and managed well by trusted managers, I always join projects that I think are good and will leave the project halfway if the project looks fake

For me bounty campaign just one of method to involve in crypto project, especially to promote and grow them. Sometimes i still used their signature even their ico/ito has finish and not pay again. But there're some point for me to join any campaign such as

1. Better products, is this real or not?
2. Better market, this is main key. Sometime better products but not have a better market. This is related with goal and roadmap
3. Management Team, this is second key. Better product, better market will become only dream if their team lack of capability and not honest
4. Reward ratio. i need to calculate with their reward ratio, softcap, hardcap, and etc.

In 2018, there's ico named "Buddy", I participate in their bounty campaign. Because of they have good product amd good market at the time, i still used their signature until 8 month after ico finished. But now, Buddy token and Buddy team became scammer. So i put Management Team in no 3, before i participate in bounty

1. Obviously for the bounty hunters, what matters the most is the payment. They are ready to work hard in order to advertise a particular project and they expect the campaign managers to make payments on time and in an honest manner. With so many of these campaigns refusing to honor their commitments recently, many of the bounty hunters are reluctant to participate in these sort of campaigns.

2. No one wants to promote a substandard product. But in the end, if the choice needs to be made between promoting an ordinary product with good reward and promoting a great product with very low reward, then hardly anyone would be willing to choose the second option.

3. KYC is the biggest hurdle in getting a large number of campaign participants. Many of these bounties make KYC mandatory (sometimes just before the campaign is about to end) and the participants may not be willing to undergo the process just to receive $5 or $10 worth of tokens.

i look for blockchain innovation and team transparent whether they have LinkedIn profiles and attend blockchain events and their road maps

For now, the reward doesn't matter. Bounty manager and participants focuses on the legitimacy and percentage of success in every project not the rewards they can earn from it. But be sure that the team is very legit and will not run away just like others project did. That's not a healthy for our industry and if this exit scams will to continue we might not see cryptocurrency in the future.

I think the amount of reward in a bounty campaign should be satisfactory. I'm also think that the bounty menagers should try to answer all questions. And I think the spreadsheet should be updated in a week. Finally, some projects require KYC. Therefore, at the beginning of a bounty campaign, it should be stated whether KYC is necessary or not and I think that this statement should not be changed in the future.

Is there a link to the bounty thread?
What I look forward to in bounty campaign is knowing that funds allocated to the campaign is in escrow to avoid working and no pay at the end.

I'll look on the concept first, then the team composition if they are really experts in their fields, these two issues are the one that can make or break projects, they failed to present projects that can stand for long term, if you are going to launch a fund drive better show to investors how good the project is, and the people behind it are real too.

I would like to earn as much as possible, that is everything what I am looking for. I do not have problem to work harder for more money. Because I understand that now I have the last opportunity to earn a good amount of Bitcoins.

if you want to try to get as much money as you can then I suggest you should be able to work hard because hard work will give you a lot of results and of course you should be able to get jobs in the real world so you have lots of jobs that can make money.

Awesome, thanks for the feedback! I'm sorry to hear about how "Buddy" turned out, however, you always learn from these experiences and know what to avoid now!

Thanks for your feedback! If you don't mind, could you review my bounty campaign and provide your input, specifically about the three points you stated in your original comment? I'd be very curious to hear what you think of the rewards, the product, and if you foresee KYC being a huge impediment to the campaign.

PlanChain Bounty Thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186272.0)

Thanks in advance!

i will choose a value project with a better product over a project that giving away higher reward,
i trust whenever the project that have product success it will give impact to our campaign, the value of token that given from doing bounty will not drop when hit market

I thought filling out the form for each retweet would be more user-friendly for bounty hunters over the weekly report?

The weekly report normally has a strict deadline of having to submit all your work that week for it to be considered. If you forgot to submit it, then you are out of luck for that week. The way I have my campaign setup currently, you can submit your work at any time. Plus, the form only has four fields to fill out, so I didn't think it would be that intrusive.

But I appreciate your feedback and will consider changing it if others feel the same.

the reward , I try to find and look for any campaign,, but i laso look for the quantity for the project..

I can congratulate you on your first project and first work. This is a very interesting and responsible occupation. I would advise you to be attentive to scammers who steal tokens in the participants' tables.

Well.. I didn't looked in to the project in detail, but it looks interesting. One thing that I have noticed is that the review about this particular ICO is not available in any of the major ICO review sites. This lowers the success rate of the project. Also, I have noticed that there is no upper threshold for the number of participants in the social media bounties (Reddit, Twitter.etc). This can prove to be costly later, if thousands of users join with bots.

One thing that concerns me is the vagueness in the timeline. For example take this:


The Nov 24 date is not a fixed one. Also, this one:


IMO, you need to give fixed dates and not assumptions.

Also, I have noticed that there is a KYC requirement. This is going to discourage more than 90% of the users.

I am glad that on your first managed of the campaign has been good in result till the end.
One of the factor that I look for the bounty are such as follows:

- Always update the spreadsheet to all categories of the campaign, but be aware to those cheaters who are exploiting the
account of others.
- always give an updates what is going to the project campaign.
- The campaign must live during the IEO, ICO or whatever so that the community has an idea of ow many funds are raising at
- The whitepaper or road map must be realistic and unique

I just want to thank you in advance for even reviewing my bounty thread and providing feedback. I really do appreciate your input and your time doing that!

Just to provide some information to the points you brought up:

1) PlanChain is very early in the startup stages in terms of being listed on ICO sites and other crypto-related forums. They've been hard at work developing the MVP the past few months and have just recently began the process of getting listed on these sites and forums. I completely agree with you that it is hard to be a credible project if you can't even find any sites with information the project! We are on a few now so hopefully this won't be an issue anymore.

2) There isn't a max number of participants per bounty because I wanted to make it unlimited for now and possibly cap it if we ever get to the point where we are getting close to the total tokens allocated. I have a running count of the total tokens rewarded every week so I will know as soon as we get close.

3) The end date of November 24th is fixed. The statement of "or until all rewards have been assigned" was just for safety measures in case we did see a large participation rate and had to end early due to exceeding allocated amount.

4) There were a ton of people who mentioned the same thing about having a defined date for the distribution. Unfortunately, at this time it can't be defined as we have to wait until the pre-sale ends, which isn't defined either. But, as soon as it ends, I've already told the team that a date will need to be specified immediately due to everyone's concerns. So I will have to update the thread as soon as I receive this date so all participants can be reassured on when they will receive their tokens!

Again, thanks for your feedback!

Of course, I will study all the information that you have provided to me.  I hope that I will be very interested.  But I want to assure you that my words are not categorical and do not reflect reality 100%.  Of course, I only expressed my opinions about the situation that I had to face.  Of course, there are quite a lot of Bounty managers on the bitcointalk forum who deserve respect as people and as professionals.

I participate in bounty campaigns partly to make more profit, partly to find good altcoins for long-term investment.  But now I have realized that altcoins are difficult to grow in the market because of the large holdback of BTC.  It's hard to choose a good altcoin to grow except for the top coins.

At this point now, both for the investor and for the bounty hunter, what we really want to see is the quality of the project and then, the geniuses of the team member which they have to prove beyond the normal thing they have been doing, all these you said of them being a very good project has been said in the long time too by some projects that has  failed and disappointed so many people, and right now, we are more being careful about just what we read here in the forum by the manager and also on their whitepaper.

One of the thing we would like to see is the team themselves, we need to be able to verify that your team is actually genuine, and one way to do so is show themselves to the world publicly in real video footage and not all those pictures they have I mean that is the next thing after we are convinced that the project will be a real working project.

Personally, I do not like that there is no clear date for the distribution of awards. As practice shows, projects that do not set a clear date are able to delay payments up to a year or more. This will clearly scare away many.

I have make up my mind to always promote projects that announced the exchanges they are going to list on because it matters alot, if token get listed on good exchange it will surely be tradable with good volume, after that i will then look at what the project have to offer

You are really right, because you need to pay attention only to those projects where there are still reasons and grounds for their future prospects.  If the exchange already advertises a project, then undoubtedly the listing of these coins will be on this exchange.  First of all, I would pay attention to the announcements of the most promising exchanges, such as Binance and Kucoin.

I don't like it either, but where we currently stand, a date hasn't been set as we don't want to rush the pre-sale and public sale. We are more focused on these rather than setting a defined date for distribution.

However, as soon as we have a more definitive timeline, a date will be set immediately and all hunters will be notified.

Undoubtedly, the product of the project is very important to me. But I will be very happy if the development team pays me a good reward)

It all depends onthe condition of the bounty,
As you could see there are some who already announce it before the bounty starts,
And there are some who would announce it after the bounty ends.
If they already state it from the very start and the one who are managing the campaign is well known bounty manager then I might consider it after all it is thebounty manager's job to make sure that what he/she or they are holding is legit and trustworthy.

As a hunter, we always wanted to promote a legit project and that is the number one concern for most hunters. Also, this includes a good working product and a superb team that working on it. I like projects that heavily focus on product and services, not just a project that focus on its token sale activity. Yes this is also an important factor but you can sense if the team only focusing on their sales and trading priority of the token their launching. Use cases is a must and must be shown to the public so we can assert some points on how the stance of the project will be.

Before participating in a bounty program, it is very important to know about the project hosting the bounty program. This can only be done through the performance of thorough research on the project in order to know the authenticity and potentials of the project. Knowing these will then grant a certain level of confidence and assurance of the success of the bounty program.

Project with good product most likely be able to achieve its goals, I think once should go for them. Before starting any bounty campaign visit trusted sites (https://www.coincurb.com/bountyc/?cat_id=188), you will find good bounty analysis. As there are so many scam bounty campaigns available now a day so it better to be on a safe side.

I think the problems about the bounty campaign nowadays is about the allocation of rewards as well as the time of distribution and if it's vesting or not. Bounty campaigns often change the allocation and timeline of distribution, there's no certainty that the bounty hunters will have a good payout and chance to sell it. It doesn't matter how good the project is most hunters lost interest on it because of the above reasons.

especially is a big prize. yes I think most of the prize hunters or crypto users have a goal to get a profit in this market, including following a signature campaign or in the form of investment. but on the other hand insight is also one of the important factors when being in this forum so that it can adapt better and at least be able to avoid the wrong hole.

Good point, before participating or supporting anything you must be more aware of things that will bring the project to be more successful. Having those usages allows investors to jumped in and bring big support from the project, bounty hunters should be aware of possibilities and make it more comfortable to work with projects that will bring a good outcome.

I don't bother myself with high reward bounties because they will never achieve that price on bounty allocation, good bounties always have very low bounty allocation like 50k or 70k, veil project was an example, these projects know that the coins they are giving out have better value thats why they arent giving out 200k to 500k worth of coin.

Although the payment of bounties and rewards is one of the important points, the first thing that concerns me, or maybe most people, is the concept of the project. a good project with the best concept has many supporters, especially if you have a good reward. the most important thing about choosing a bounty project is whether the project has the potential to develop or not. besides that, we also sometimes see teams, and also partnerships.

I don't know what to look for anymore, every single experience about bounties are not helping or stopping me not to fall victim to time wasting projects, all i have left in me is just gut to keep trying my luck because thats what bounties are based on this days, simply luck

Actually I stopped trying to be in any bounty campaign that’s paying with their own currency or tokens because all of them are scammers,sorry for the terms but the last 5 bounty hat I joined are all scams even at first looks so good and handled by prominent Managers in this forum

So all in all?never join or handle bounty campaign now unless the will pay either bitcoin or other ranked currency and must be escrowed the amount or else this will be another scammers

I suggest you should invest in your whitepaper because that's gonna talk a lot about your concept. High rewards sound tempting but not really what make people get the buzz going.

Higher rewards sounds deceiving and so is whitepaper, many project are already scam or dead but they have astonishing whitepaper that are far from copycats but still they failed, these points are not going to guarantee that a project is what they claimed to be

For me

First - Manager must be legit and high profile

Second - white paper must be legit as well and I will study deeply before applying or even investing

Third - the team must be TRUE and not fake because most of the project now has fake team

Fourth - Road map should be transparent and truthful

But that's the common way people approach a project right?

The first thing i look for in every bounty campaigns is what will make the project have high demand, working product is a must for any coin to have higher demand or adoption now, especially now that altcoins are falling hard if the project is not strong enough it will surely fail

Im looking for a campaign that has a working product because its an indication if the project will succeed or not.

The team should be transparent with advisor that has previous success project record.

A reputed manager who will manage the campaign is important too because usually its a sign of legitimate project.

You are one of the few!

Nothing but just a certain vision that I know will carry towards exchange. It’s just time waste to put efforts with something that brings no rewards. So, I will really not want to join any Bounty Campaign (https://cryptolinks.com/airdrops) where I don’t feel comfortable in terms of their vision and rewards. So this has to be 100% on the mark. If this is not right, it will just not work at all in our favour. So we need to be wise with these things.

You've said it all. In addition to what you've started, the record and credibility of a Bounty Manager is another factor to consider. A project can be good in everything, but coming to bounty campaign, a bounty manager can be so good in frustrating hunters. Some of them don't even know how to screen a project before offering to manage the campaign for them.

How do you determine if the bounty manager is credible or not? Do you look at their history on here, Bitcointalk, or do you look them up via some other resource like LinkedIn? I'm asking as I don't know where to build my portfolio for others to know that I'm credible and professional.

During the early days most of the time I look upon the trust of the campaign manager and used to join the bounty campaigns. This further changed when I get the bounty rewards and those weren't worth nothing even after holding for months. Some even go without getting listed to the exchanges.

Later I started to study the project and the core industry upon which the project is associated with. By this time I started to participate on bounty campaigns run to promote exchanges. Those gave me better results than participation following specific campaign managers.

Now however we go and research it is quite hard to segregate the best and the worst. Because what we think unworthy is succeeding while the one which is been expected big goes unknown when the bounty campaigns gets over.

I'm sorry to hear you've been scammed so many times. However, for a startup to offer anything but their native token is pretty hard to do since most startups don't have the money to offer this right from the beginning. I understand the concept of why it is better, but for a real project that is focusing on building their platform/product, the money should be spent towards that rather than a marketing effort.

How do you view a bounty manager's past work? Do you look up on this platform, or do you look at a different site?

There are several factors to be considered but to mention a few, first,  the team backing the project, that is paramount, the token metrics of the project,  the bounty reward and also the duration. Sometimes the bounty manager attract or make people not to join. No one will see a bounty manager that has never managed a project that is productive and continue to join his bounty.

I look into the project, not bounty manager nor the high rewards! If a project has a reputed partnership, a unique plan, and unique catchy website, I will choose that project's whitepaper to read it! After then if the project has a real-life use cases plan, then I will do that bounty! I do a very little of bounty, but I am happy with it!

Things have change now, there are different aspect we are need to know now.
First, which will they use? IEO or ICO? I will definitely pick the IEO.
If that so, on which platform they will do it? the bigger the better, will pick that instantly if they are with Binance or OKEX.
Is the budget good or too low? what is the softcap?

For you, the tangible difference in ICO and IEO will be that after  ICO tokens will gain price for years, and after IEO you will be able to earn profits the next day.

In looking for a quality bounty project, of course we have to look at it from various aspects, such as the idea of ​​the project being developed, the allocation of funds, and also the bounty manager, because if the product idea offered is quite interesting, I think the project will continue to grow rapidly but it is also needed teams that are reliable in handling the project. If the project continues to grow, by itself the value of their tokens will continue to increase in the market, and this will also automatically benefit their token holders later.

Join bounty needs complex consideration. First, I always compare the allocation with the duration of the bounty. Long duration with little allocation will end up worthless, not worth your hard work. Second, I analyze the strength of the project, I would prefer projects with working products or projects that are real use. Third, I am also selective in choosing bounty managers and careful in reading the rules. I tend to avoid bounty managers with a bad reputation, who let scammers and cheaters make it uncomfortable.

Nowadays, looking out for a working product from a project has become very imperative to many investors and bounty hunters because a working product with high demand on the market is what will grant the coin its survival on the market. The team behind the project must also be well-endowed with cryptocurrency knowledge and marketing in order to create thorough and well-organized awareness about the project.

Right ,, I want to add more.

I always see that teams often hold meetings for partnerships

Seeing the sales of ICO or ICO that is running sometimes the bounty is now IEO and the bounty campaign is running together.

Finally, always monitor social media or Telegram so as not to miss updates on the project.

A reasonable budget and have the right number of participants. That's what I look for in bounty projects.

yeah, i think you have said everything i wanted to say.

i also prioritize famous managers, because most of them have good and legitimate projects. i don't judge new managers badly, there are indeed some new managers who also have good projects. but such managers are still very difficult to find.

I am always looking for a legit project and always follow what the project says. For example, the distribution token takes place as mentioned, the listing exchange is not delayed, that's what I need most in bounty campaigns. In this year, I worked on many bad projects, they were continuously delayed distribution until the token price was only a few cents. This makes me feel disrespectful and I really hate this.

Let me tell you this to all aspiring BM in this forum in my opinion most bounty hunters are looking first for the reward of course considering the participants enrolled rewards must be sufficient enough and must be escrowed by a third party escrow services or any trusted forum members the date of distribution must also stated "ALWAYS" this is very important because many bounty hunters needs to liquidate tokens into btc for own expenses we are humans we need basic needs second the legitimacy of the project is also really important before starting a campaign be sure to research first about the team, location, contacts are all gathered and recorded so that if anything goes wrong we all know where we can contact them. 

Most of the bounty hunters are looking for a beautiful project that our hard work, time and effort will not be wasted therefore we preferred a feasible product that could attract more people to invest which mean a higher chance for the project to become a success and of course it should be legit too.

I want a complete package I want a new concept, a new and fresh platform, and a great team and they should have a very good marketing, at this point in time it's not the hype we're looking for, we're more looking for a project that we think we'll go for a long term although I read that Chinese are more on hype it's cool but I prefer concept anytime.

Since not all of us are not daytraders (like me) and don't have so much hope for finding and trusting a possible good project, for me what matters the most is the reward and credibility of the manager :). As bounty hunters/sig campaigners no one doesn't want a cheap campaign with a not so professional manager, right? Of course what we want is a campaign with sufficient payment for our time and efforts :). Plus a healthy workmates and working environment too.

Can i know what bounty do you managed now?
I think many bounty hunters prefer to choose campaign with project running on ethereum platform rather than VeChainThor Blockchain.

you know that you are not a trader  , you might be lacking of funds to trade or invest but why you are not hopeful on trying to find ways to earn without a capital  ?

your saying that your standards are too high  . in reality its almost impossible to find both of that qualities on the bounties of  sig campaign these days .  

like i said earlier , its hard to find a perfect campaing/bounty ,  id rather join a not so good campaign than waste too much time waiting for the impossible to happen  .

stop day  dreaming dude .  wake up dude

In the bounty campaign, I am looking for an interesting idea that can definitely be used in the real world. Also, the project should have a qualified team (found out in personal conversations) and certain developments on the proposed product (prototypes, preferably on github).

Yeah I completely understand everything you stated.

Unfortunately, for the campaign I'm managing right now, we don't have a set distribution date only because we don't have a set public sale currently. The team wanted to focus mainly on the pre-sale, which is live right now, and they didn't want to rush it and set a definitive end date. So until the pre-sale concludes, then we will have dates for the public sale and distribution date of bounty rewards.

So to your point, you would most likely avoid our campaign as it stands right now. That is understandable. However, I wouldn't completely ignore it without learning more about the project and team members because if you got to know us, I think you'd quickly gain trust in us and know that all rewards will be paid out as soon as the public sale is over.

It seems you already know what campaign I manage as we are running on the VeChainThor Blockchain. So as you probably looked, I am managing the PlanChain Bounty Campaign.[/b] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186272.0)

I agree, I believe most bounty hunters prefer ERC-20 tokens as well since mostly all hunters already have a ERC-20 compatible wallet. However, I wouldn't make this a deterring factor in terms of determining what campaign you participate in or not.

VeChain is growing and increasing their adoption more and more everyday. They have a very close knit community and strive to help all their dApps succeed. All their dApps are currently trading and are successful, except for 1. There also is a VeChainThor dedicated exchange called OceanEx, which will be more than likely where PLAN gets listed as soon as the public sale ends.

Quick disclaimer, I am a VeChain supporter. But morale of the story, I think there are plenty of other chains out there that deserve to be noticed even though they aren't Ethereum.

So I noticed the majority of responses state that they look for a credible bounty manager before considering a new bounty campaign. This is completely understandable because if a bounty manager has a good reputation of managing high quality projects and getting rewards out on time, then there is no reason to doubt that participating in any of their future campaigns would be any different.

However, I've asked this question multiple times but haven't received any answers yet, so I'm hoping someone can at least answer me from this post.

How do you determine if the bounty manager is credible or not? Do you view the post history on here, Bitcointalk? Or do they have a separate site or portfolio like on LinkedIn that you view?

I would really like to know this so I can begin taking the necessary steps to building my portfolio and assuring bounty hunters that I'm one of these credible managers!

You should look for bounties that have strong team and unique ideas for more innovations and improvements that will soon make the project be stable at all times even if there are consequences to be faced with.

Here are my criteria for looking a good bounty campaign such as follows,

- Having an escrows is an advantage, but not a mandatory things to apply.
- Bounty manager must be credible its also an advantage too.
- The whitepaper must be unique and not a plagiarism copy or revise only.
- The campaign should be transparent and always give updates to their community as well.
- The usage of the utility token must be attractive by the mass adoptions.

These are the things that I've been looking for a good bounty project.

yes I agree with you. added I will see the team if they are experts in their fields because the team is very important in running a project. After that, the concept and then I am interested in projects with better products, or projects that give higher prizes.

Wise hunters pay big attention with how the project will be usable, the purpose of doing your good research will help you to avoid supporting those scam team that will only cause you to waste your time. Most of the time investors are working with how the team manage to develop and how they will follow the road map, if the team is working confidently the surviving of the project will be much higher.

I personally feel like the best way to research a project is to obviously read their whitepaper and what not, but to also join in the discussions with the moderators or even team members in Telegram. You can learn a lot about a team when communicating with them as their commitment to the project can be really apparent during these discussions.

I'm not looking to rewards anymore or I will be deceived if I do that, everything starts with the whitepaper, because this is where you will find everything about the project, and many fail on this subject because their whitepaper is immaterial and some of them are copy from old projects

Rewards will not have an impact I remember receiving over 400k in the Konios bounty and that reward is only worth $50 in the market, when it should be  $800 according to their price


Fake and photoshopped team, bad reports, and of course copying of whitepaper.

Hi - Thank you for your feedback!

Based on the determining factors you pointed out above, would you be able to provide specific feedback on the bounty campaign I'm currently managing? This would help me even more by understanding what I need to target and what I can improve the post on.

You can view my bounty campaign here: PlanChain Bounty Campaign. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186272.0)

Thanks in advance!

I look for a bonus campaign where the reward is commensurate with the task, if there is a payment project in Bitcoin, Eth or USD is the best.
I don't like mandatory KYC bonus campaigns, because I don't want to provide personal information to untrusted people.

All very valid comments!

Just a quick question, do you automatically ignore a campaign that requires KYC, or do you at least still look over the project and determine if it is worth it first or not?

That's important, yes, but:

The most important thing to look at before joining a project's bounty is the team. No matter how well written Whitepaper, no matter how good the bounty manager is, the team of the project comes first.

I must say that a project's team is Asian based are more likely to be successful. Because Asians respect blockchain technology and work hard for it.

what do you look for in a bounty campaign? Well, of course the project gives a high reward, because we are a bounty hunter, but I also hope that the project will produce something useful, not only produce waste,

Allocation distribution is important as well as the token price and support volume if its an already trading coin or token but most importantly to me is, Team. The quality of the team and their developed working product assures me that I won't be working for a project that will fizzle away one month after the bounty

The sad experience most bounty hunters have had has waned reduced and dampened their zeal in joining bounty projects. But to join I think what I look out for is the team behind the project, if they have a track record and if they have successfully ran other projects

I also tend to choose bounties with working products and are supported by an experienced team and advisor. Working the product guarantees that the developer team is responsible and the project is real. Moreover, the market is less profitable, it is better to do a maximum analysis before joining.

Projects that have something useful to give the audiences should be your first target as a bounty hunter because scam projects know that the only way to create better awareness for their projects is to lure as many as possible bounty hunters to do the work so they always claim to give out big bounty rewards

I usually do not care about the project itself, because I do not invest in new projects. I care how much money he can make himself and how much money he can pay bounty hunters. It is also important to me how realistic the goals set by the project. If the project wants to raise $ 10 million for the opening of the exchange, it seems to me an unrealistic figure and it is better not to participate in such a project.

Behaving like a Zombi in the bounty campaigns is the commonly known tactic for the many bouty hunters and these bounty hunters like to hide behind the hidden rules of the bounty campaigns. The bounty managers don't like to check the every single bounty hunter's profile and they usually prefer to not answer the bounty distribution questions by the bounty participants.

Money. More money, more happy I am.
Especially now in the bull market because more you earn now, bugger possible profit you would have in the future when Bitcoin hits ATH price again.

I look for a little assurance of being paid after the campaign. I look for projects that are viable, projects which will be worth my efforts at the end of the exercise when it's listed on exchange.

Now even those projects that are already traded on exchanges do not give any guarantees that they will pay money to bounty hunters. Projects become very rude with bounty hunters

First and foremost, the project social media accounts updates since the account creation is always my first priority in choosing bounty to participate. Most of the unsuccessful projects are mostly those projects that create accounts prior to the launch of their project but, those I have seen so far succeeding are those that have existing social media accounts before the launch. More also, the team of the project is one essential part I consider before joining any bounty and team profile must be public and not private. Things have happened in this industry and, one can no longer take things for granted.

I need real cryptoqurrency that can later become money if exchanged. yes money is a basic need of every human being. including in this industry most prize hunters want big money from every signature project they promote. then what about you?

This is something interesting, as a bounty manager (just like you) i did run a signature campaign for a project called DSTRA, the results wasn't really as expected. Here's what i've learned from that experience:
- The payrate should be high, no less than 15 usd/week per member.
- The Coin/Token must be a high quality token.
- The Coin/Token should be listed somewhere strong, in the best exchanges.
- There must be a fast reponse to the peoples asking questions, try to be kind when users ask about the bounty requirements.
- The Graphics of the bounty thread must be high-quality graphics.
- Try to do the bounty with a partnership, you could host the bounty in bounty related platforms or hire a highly skilled moderator/bounty manager.
- The project/bounty manager should be a trusted guy.

The final thing is that the peoples are looking for the value, they want dollars, if you give them what they need, they will join.

Most people are looking for money in a bounty campaign including the faithful investors. Yes indeed, as you above mentioned earning money is very difficult, because we are right now in the bull market. l see bounty campaign like chance. More than that when BTC price would get up, that means, the profit would get up too.

Good product + more reward = successful bounty
So instead of classifying the choices separately as you mentioned above, a project in which they are gathered together attracts the attention. In addition, knowing the amount of reward you will receive at the end and paying with ETH will also bring bounty to the top. Maybe it is like a fairy tale, but not impossible.

There are a lot of projects out there currently but there are a lot of reasons why many hunters choose certain projects over others. personally what i do look for in a bounty campaign is one the bounty manager in view, how the various campaigns have been designed, date of distribution of the bounty and whether the bounty requires a specific number of participants or not.

This project should have real products and this project is real. There are even many other ICO or IEO project criteria that I want to follow. The team must have an excellent reputation and I won't argue that the project is using KYC or not.

For me, KYC is a real move, but of course, we also have to do the first check. Many companies display website and Roadmap of unclear or unreal projects.

With many projects not yet successful, I think we shouldn't give up. And with the IEO project now, it might be better than the ICO project.

I am looking for a bounty that can succeed in the moment. There are a lot of bounty going on but no bounty is really successful, really tiring for bounty

1st - I'm looking at the project website
2nd - I'm looking at the manager and its history with bounties ( if he has one )
3rd - I'm looking at the total supply for bounty and if they already have the funds or they waiting to see if the ICO have success and if they already have the funds for bounty I'm joining, if not , I don't bother

After I checked all of this I can join the bounty without any problems because I have the confidence I will get paid even if the project won't gather their soft cap ( example : TimeBox - Good project but they did not got the necessary funds but still paid the hunters for the work ). What we should really focus is those signature campaigns that pay users in bitcoin every week even if the rates are low as in time I'm sure we win as the price rises.

if that project has a vechain connection, I would say that it may be a potential project, then in a project it is not only important that we earn money but we must also appreciate why a project is profitable, in The product is very important in a project campaign, because when it comes to promoting it properly and well, it is definitely a long term experience.

I always look out for the success of the project behind the bounty program. A project with high potentials of becoming successful will definitely have its bounty hunters earning good rewards at the long run. The reputation of the bounty manager counts but it is not a guarantee to the success of the project.

Agree but the fact at the moment is that the bounties themselves no longer pay what they should give to the participants. Most Bounties just don't pay. For what reason we are following a clear campaign are the rewards that we want to get by following that campaign,but at this time the rewards that we get are also not so big

The best bounty for me is like mb8coins. it has a repetative manager and a continuesly support of the developer for its bounty participants. they won't let you down with their promises. after sometimes they will fulfill it.

its pity that I sold my mb8coins earlier than the time it listed on exchange.

What i have looking for a bounty campaign is a good reputation in the near future. A project must be seen that has a good future here in the cryptocurrency, most of us wanted only to get a high reward and doesn't determining if it can give a good sociaty here in cryptocurrency but what if we look for it and promote the project ;as if it can give a better future to the next generation of cryptocurrency right? Being a reponsible investors or manager of project (not the scammers) can lead us to be a better bounty hunters.

I do not think a project that requires KYC is more reliable than a project that does not require KYC. What makes the project successful is not the user's KYC, if the project has a good product and good communication then they will succeed.

Ii will join bounty campaign but have faster for distributing, many bounty campaign distributed after price dump and never sent bounty campaign reward with higher price after coin listing on market.

Before joining a bounty campaign i always check the project first, what kind of project is that and also what kind of product that the project will produce. Every person have different opinion about the question number but for me, i always look at the project first than giving away higher rewards.

Most of bounty hunters hate KYC, maybe you should think about that, but i'm okay for KYC.

of course looking for altcoin for free, bounty campaigns are an easy way to earn income too. the rest is no more, because that is the only reason we follow the bounty campaign. everyone must have the same goal, follow the bounty for profit.

Well, I found campaigns to a great source of earning but I usually prefer to check the project in detail first and if it seems promising, then only I participate in it...

of course, what I'm looking for in a bounty campaign is profit. everyone who participates in the bounty program certainly thinks of this. after profit, then knowledge. from a bounty campaign, I was able to find out which concepts are the best and which will help humans in the future

One thing I don't like is the KYC I have never participated or going to participate in a bounty campaign that asked for KYC I'm not getting a huge amount of token compare to what investors are going to purchase, I remember one bounty campaign that suddenly asked for KYC and when I checked my stakes and the token that I was about to receive it's only worth $50 in their ICO price and it could be lower when it hit the market. So it's really not worth ro do KYC.

some people look at KYC just as a thief entering his own house.
Guys remind : Facebok and Google know us better than our mother.
Not aplly kyc everywhere but do not fear everytime.

Yeah, but there concerns are all valid in regards to KYC.

1) It can be a long process depending what all is asked for
2) It requires you to give out your personal information in which you don't actually know how it gets handled after-the-fact
3) Is it worth risking the first two points for maybe $20-$50 of tokens?

I think it all depends on the project, but unfortunately, KYC is a participation killer.

for me, even though they offer big rewards but if it's a rubbish project, of course I won't want to follow it, lately in many  ieo bounty programs from unknown markets like latoken, p2pb, exmarket who offer bounties with big rewards only after The bounty finished their project without clarity and there were even some that indicated scams, it was better to look for a project that offered a small reward but there was potential for the future.

See, the campaign I'm managing has received a lot of complaints that the bounty reward pool is too small. It is capped at $30,000 worth of tokens, which doesn't seem very small to me. Even if it is small, the rewards for each task are pretty high as the tasks are super easy and take less than 30 seconds.

But then again, with a smaller reward pool, there is a better chance the price won't dump as soon as they hit the market. This is another huge key factor in my mind as well.

To be honest, the existence of the bounty campaigns don't contribute to the investor's hard investment decisions. They use the all possible options for taking the more reward from the bounty allocation but teams delay the bounty distribution initially for decrease the chances of dumped tokens by the bounty hunters. Taking into consideration the bounty campaign conditions, applying KYC can deduct the huge applicants from applying the bounty campaign in my opinion.

So my question to you all, what do you look for in a bounty campaign?
Answer: Free money!!!
Do you value a project with a better product, or a project that is giving away higher rewards?
Answer: Better product and higher rewards!!!
Are there any requirements that steer you away from participating in a campaign?
Answer: Easy participating instruction and multi-languages support.

We need to explore more about the team and what is project is about?

These information is must known thing while you are getting participated in the bounty campaigns. Next you need to focus about bounty manager and what is location. Normally I can see raise of number of campaign managers in this forum.
They are not worthy actually I suggest to go under management of European managers.

You are asking for too much  :D

I agree, I’m also applying everything listed by you in the search for new companies, I also pay attention to the finished product, even better if it already works

When I decide to join a bounty campaing, I usually check the distribution amount and the ratio first. So, if the rules are tough and the return is very low, I don't join. In economics, we have opportunity cost. I could do something else to make more money than I will get from the bounty if the bounty reward is very low. So, basically, I just calculate my opportunity cost.

You are doing the right thing, because every Bounty Hunter should value his work, and not give his work for free to someone, so that someone earns on it.  In addition, very often they express the opinion that the work of the Bounty Hunter is a mere trifle, but nevertheless we spend on it not only our personal time, which can be used for other purposes in order to get good income on the cryptocurrency market.  In turn, I always try to look at the basis of the project itself to understand how promising it can be in the future and how much this product will be in demand in the society, because I want to leave the received remuneration for long-term storage until the value of the coins increases.  Of course, if this is possible.

But in order to determine the value of the reward, you have to determine the value of the project. I mean, the bounty could reward you $10 in their tokens for one task, but if the project is low quality and has zero value, then the tokens will never actually hit the market, or they will cost much less than what they were pegged as during the bounty campaign.

I always take an integrated approach to assessing participation in the project.This is the idea and purpose of the project and of course payment for the personal time spent. Your project has components unacceptable to me:
1-KYC for bountists.
2.Low payment. Even a few seconds-it's my personal time. It'is immediately clear that the team saves on a payments for performers.
3.As a hunter, I always distrust  the utility tokens - it's an internal token,which is usually difficult to exchange for fiat.

I support the Bounty company because I want to have a Token,But before joining, I will check the seriousness of the team developing the project,if the project has an impressive product and the seriousness of the Team running the Project I will also invest in a bounty company.some bounties are run just to cheat, so be smart at choosing bounties.

What if the team is in the process of still developing the product? Do you still participate in those campaigns or is having a product before ICO/IEO a requirement for you?

The first thing I look is the team behind that project, it is the most important aspect of a blockchain company. A strong team always does great things in long term. Second, I consider how they treat people in their social media.
 I do no like projects who do not answer question or when they are rude. Also, if they want KYC, I'm a little skeptical!

Well it's common thing at this time now i guess. It's hard to tell which project is traction or which is not. And all i can say that it's your first job so don't worry keep working. Manage some projects you'll understand better day by day. And you can also take some help from another manager for your problem. Don't expect everyone help you but i wish you find some good manager who happy to give you some advice.


Try to understand about their project. Investigation your self that how much worth their idea. Try to find whom people working behind the project. Read white paper properly. Make sure they contact you properly and following their road map correctly. If is there any adviser or partner for their project make sure it's true.


Of course reward isn't the main thing. If some project give you huge reward but they didn't raised much money from their token sale and didn't get listed any exchange then your have got no profit from them.


Bad quality presentation i guess. I mean if your thread is not looking attractive so much people won't show there interest. So try to create a good quality bounty thread.

Whenever I join I look at the requirements the mode of payment, # of participants , credibility of the manager and lastly the representation of the bounty page. The last two is not that important to me, I have joined some campaigns that are managed by new manager and the bounty page is really simple yet the project is good and generous.

1. give a lot of rewards so many people will join, do not be stingy
2. Don't require KYC for Claim reward,

What I am looking for in a bounty campaign is of course a very large prize, we can get a big prize from how we choose a good project that can be responsible and of course we can predict the project we choose will be successful, not least from joining the Bounty Campaign to get a prize that big.

I agree with you, we as bounty followers must be smart in choosing bounties, we must first look at the team and examine the bounties that we follow, because now there are so many bounty con artists, I've also experienced them, I don't want any of that to happen again, don't let us work but didn't get the token at all, we were tired but someone else got the prize.

The team is a nice thing to look at before joining a Bounty campaign.
I also look at the age of the campaign. The older the campaign is usually better.

Most of the bounty hunters are looking for a great project with a reasonable bounty allocation so they can surely get a reward from their work. There are plenty of shit projects right now that pop ups from nowhere, therefore some of the legitimate projects will hire well known bounty managers to manage their bounty campaign in order to gain a good amount of participants.

If you are a fresh bounty manager then that is your barrier right now. You need to prove to the forum that you are managing the legitimate projects and if possible you can escrow the bounty allocation to gain the trust of the bounty participants.

Great rewards are also one of my considerations before joining the bounty. Especially if there are no rules limiting the number of participants. If the project is good, there will definitely be more bounty enthusiasts, so if the bounty pool is small, you can predict what will happen.
Lately I prefer to support projects that already exist in the market, or working products. You know, many bounties have ended up being scams because tokens haven't been listed in the market for so long. If possible, if there are weekly payments I would choose it, but very rarely.

You need more research a project team members and there experience about Cryptocurrency, almost we always looked follow CEO bio and future developing. Which planning they want accept IEO or ICO, how much it will run, which Exchange there want listing in future and also look strong partnership project.

Serious developers is all i need from a bounty project, i need me some good projects that have reasonable ideas and that will attract many investors so that they can have better volumes on trading exchanges, serious developers are now very scarce now and all we have left are just scammers

the most important factor in dealing with bounty campaigns is that the founders and owners are transparent and open with the public about the project. If there shady and hiding behind the scenes, well it doesn't mean that it will be a scam, but it's much higher probability. Therefore do your research to invest your time wisely.

what I'm looking for in a prize campaign is:
1. looking for a real project.
2. the team is valid / transparent, so they can walk according to their road map.
3. Real products on the market.
4. Last is money
I think money is one of the main goals for all forum users here  ::)

good projects will definitely give good rewards and don't focus too much on the amount of prizes to be given to bounty campaign participants... but what is very important for us to pay attention is the quality of products made by the platform or company to be able to develop in the future.. and I will not be tempted by a large allocation but I focus on how well the project will develop in the future.

Bounty manager campaign is most important thing for joining bounty campaign beside have reached soft cap, I got many bounty campaign manager not trusted with their coin, team of bounty and ICO have distribution but bounty manager sell first for them and distribution for bounty participants after price of coin down.

For what is a high reward but ultimately the project will be scam, it is better to have a low reward but the project will be a good project in the future. I think all Bounty Hunter wants the project he is working on is a project that has prospects and potential in the future, so that the token that he gets can become the money.

authentication really matters , a lots of bounty program with good reward might not be authentic, hunters need to try as much as possible to verify how authentic the bounty program is and if it worth joining, testing and trusted campaign managers matters too

if you test to try to be part of many campaigns it will be difficult especially in the signature campaign part because of the rules. You cannot do that and therefore you must be able to analyze a bounty campaign, seeing from many important aspects not just the campaign manager

I just want to work for bonus campaigns that have a clear pool and are accompanied by a legit team. especially does not require KYC and the distribution token must take place as scheduled. That's what I really want in a bounty campaign.

For me personally, of course high reward is something that everyone really wants. But, the amount of reward we get depends on how the product and team behind the project develop the project that was delivered. So here surely the project will prefer a way to attract investors in order to achieve softcap and hardcap on the project to develop the project. So for me, here I will look more at the product and the team behind it, how they respond to our every question and the activeness of the project in updating every information.

Before I join any bounty campaign, I first check the authenticity of the project and the bounty manager managing it. After that, i also check the payment system and the possible value of the amount to paid at the end of the bounty and the duration of it.

For me, the quality of the project is more important, but if the bounty company will be allocated a little money, I will refuse to participate. I think balance is important.

For me it is important that there was a limit on the number of participants.

Before I promote any campaign.. I make sure the campaign budget is realistic.. e.g 5000 to 20000 dollar.. and the project is no longer in search for investors... else.. you'll be wasting your time

Though there are other projects that actually do pays the other way around... but bot common.. I think this is because the bull ain't back yet
I maybe wrong.. but this is just my experience on the crypto space

Of course such things are done by participating participants, checking to enter their site and seeing and reading the vision and mission of the product and the team undergoing the project are also important to ensure their seriousness and check payment in detail.
and join the project telegram to find out about developments and information from their team and you can also ask questions and read the conversations of the team and all participants.

Bounty manager is important, if a manager is successfu in previous projects and he is picky about quality projects, I join his bounties. Other than that I am trying to check team and technologies of those projects and join their bounty no matter what their budget is. Budget does not mean anything, %90 projects fake their budget and let everyone down.