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Hello Guys,

We all know ICO is totally dead, so, there will be no successful ICO bounties! STO bounties are more than shit, doing STO bounty just waste of time, trust me! And then come to IEO! IEO hype is gone, it passing a very tough time nowadays! All the shit exchange's bounty is also shit. Just count how many shit exchange's bounties you did and how much you earned! Good exchange's IEO doesn't have bounties most of the time. So, there left post ICO/IEO or self-funded project's bounties! Those are very few and their budget looks penny! Right now many bounties are running but according to my research, I could not pick 3 good bounties!

So, what do you think about the future of bounty? It looks uncertain to me!

Up until now bonus projects have been very difficult to give bounty hunters a source of income. ICOs and IEOs do not attract investors resulting in the inability to pay bounty hunters.
Campaigns like facebook and twitter are hardly able to bring in any income for bounty hunters, but if you have good English and journalism you can still earn income.

In a bounty project it is difficult to predict because it depends on the development of the project and the bounty cannot be sure this will be good but it will be bad at the end.
I think the bounty in the future will continue to exist but to restore the trust of the bounty as it used to be difficult to come back again and we can only estimate a good bounty from its own judgment.
And I think everyone has their own judgment about the bounty.

You're absolutely right about exchange bounties being a complete waste of time. I don't even touch them with a pole. All the ones I participated in the past turned out to be shitty, some even were scams like the EOSex bounty. However, even with seemingly death of ICOs and IEOs, I still believe bounties aren't going to completely die off. I know that with time a new method of achieving success will be discovered and explored.

Its up to all bounty hunters. Because some of us was not investigate at least cleared clarification of the bounty and how its legitimacy, Many of us was participate because of the price pool they didn't check very carefully before to join so that is why they got a waste of time. If they strained smoothly the every campaign and confirm if its potential or not it was great thing to did on this forum.

Indeed, the bounty will not completely die and will remain in the future, but I believe that in the future the bounty will have new rules or good methods that can minimize the fail as long as we want to investigate it.
If I just think that if the market price has begun to improve, I am sure there will be many successful projects and bounty programs because there are many of them on the grounds that the market conditions are not stable so take steps that are deadlocked.

there are still bounty campaigns though, its just unsure if the team is going to pay the participants. what we saw these days though is that, the team will postponed the launch and listing of the tokens in the exchanges until the market improves like the near halving market. there may be more projects that will be listed soon when the price of BTC rises up to more than $10k.  and probably more projects will also do a bounty campaign too when market gets better.

Your assessments are all correct, I sometimes roam in bounty campaign to check bounty campaigns, but some of them are just duplicate of past projects or do not have potential in the market, I've seen some campaigns that are already in the market, but it's rare if things will not change, there will be no bounty campaign anymore, maybe there will come a time that those coins that are already in the market will now do their bounty campaign.

That true, ICOs are dead and most of the time bounty hunters are victims because they spend their time and energy only to be fooled or to be offered zero-valued tokens. Bounty hunters are partial to be blamed for jumping into any random bounty without checking any details and also I have seen bounty hunters doing all sorts of unethical practices to earn more. I cannot find even a single bounty apart from those few bounties who pays few cents per week which has a proper project and development team.

I also think that way, ICO or IEO projects cannot be trusted now, because I saw in the past that many ICO or IEO failed and their projects stopped without certain news, so for that if you want to join the prize campaign you should look more heartily careful on their team or their vision and mission to ensure that it really goes well in the future.

After google and other well-known advertising platforms banned crypto ads like projects currently running ICO/IEO. this incident is actually bad for the market, but good news for bounty hunters because it has added jobs. and what is happening right now is not in line with hunter expectations. there doesn't even seem to be a legitimate or potential project.
The future of bounty ?   It seems like a promotion like this will still be needed by the project to build a community. crypto will not develop without community or supporters. it's just that for now the project that you are promoting to the public is all just bullshit. rest assured, if there is a good project you will definitely get from the appropriate baounty.

sometimes we really can't depend on one place, because I think if we depend on one ability in this industry it will be difficult. we are freelancers who work when there are projects, so when there are no good projects then we have to look for income elsewhere because it will discuss about the needs when there are no profitable jobs.

Among all options available for raising funds in crypto market, only STO makes sense and they are also somewhat secure than all other options. However, due to their legal structure, it's difficult for an STO to distribute a large amount of bounty and comes with the pain of KYC verification.

So at this point, the future of bounty or even the altcoin market looks really grim. Because the number of scammers were involved in this market since its inception, altcoin/token market lost all its credibility. It's very hard to recover that back and hence no free money distribution is happening either!

Now it makes little sense to participate in generosity because getting into good company is like looking for a star with a finger to the sky. It used to be difficult to predict the success of the company in the future but now it makes no sense at all.

I think that bounty project right now cannot be expected to be 100% able to pay well, I am indeed a bit of a pessimist, but because the IEO project is still around, now I still follow it until someday everything is completely extinct, or maybe the bounty project will prosper again . But what is clear besides working as a bounty hunter, you must have other income to cover all the necessities of life, because you cannot 100% expect from the bounty if you see the situation as it is now.

Yeah, we can't look for profit from Bounty, of course we have to have income from others so that our needs are met, if we rely on the bounty it will be difficult to get money because the rewards at the bounty are uncertain and not even paid at all.
To find a bounty, we must have our own research because that is the main key to join the bounty.

During many ICO and IEO failed on the middle way and some ICO lost chance with lower price listing on exchange market I have check with how many bounties campaign worth with weekly payment by using bitcoin, I found many bounties campaign payment weekly by using bitcoin but still little reward every week about $20 to $30 depend which level your account.

First news ICOs isn't totally dead. Suppose new good projects will launch, what type of service do you want from it. Cryptocurrency has rare problem that should solve. Only few problem left, one is "how to success a new projects in any condition of cryptocurrency". New process should be legit to new investor and new hunters.

Until the market is filled with scam projects, bounty hunting will be dead. It is better to moved on from bounty hunting and find other venues where you can earn more money. Better else, improve your skills so you will not be limited to bounty hunting.

With the way, things are going the future of bounty is blinking. Even now it is difficult for some campaign to pay bounty hunters. Bounty campaign is gradually fading away and that is why we all need to empower ourself for the wind of change that is about to blow.

all talking about the fact that the ICO project's reputation really looks bad, this year I didn't see much about the project which was very profitable, if you look then just mention it because as far as what I see no ICO project really succeeds in this market.

right, i just feel like the bounty program or whatever like it doesn't have a good future because we need to be more aware of this market and to focus more on improving performance or adoption in many elements, because it's time for us to support old projects or coins to continue growing and get a good impact from the real use that is done

Do you mean not all ICO succeeded in this market because there are ICOs out there who excelled despite of the rampant scams to almost every projects. Those scammers really giving a bad records to the ICO industry and is a toxic that keeps spreading like a wildfire. There is no chance that ICO would totally change, there's no future to the other projects here.

me too. All negative thoughts are surrounding me now. 1 year ago, I was totally dependent on bounty, I didn't need to work part time but still got a lot of money. but now it is different, there is no campaign to help me earn more than $ 100! campaigns often scam bounty hunters by delaying or forcing us to buy some of their tokens to unlock. I'm feeling depressed and about to give up this bounty job.

in fact it is true, it can be said that the future of the bounty looks unclear. There are a lot of fraudulent projects, projects are delayed, projects do not pay participants and there is also a cut in the allocation of prizes when the project is completed. I hate to say this, but the fact is like that.

The main reason we saw ICO and STO dead was that they were means used by scammers to siphon fund from investors and later disappear with their money. IEO came in as if it was going to be the deliverer, but in the real sense of it, it is a trend. What is noticed was that a lot of investors, although, they knew that it would die too,, they also wanted to use the opportunity to make more money. Bounty hunters lost on both ICO and STO and there were no more projects to promote on them. The same will happen to IEO. It is gradual.

All garbage, regardless of whether it is ICO, IEO or STO. I have earned about $300 from all the ICO bounties I've participated since mid 2018. It is very difficult to earn money by participating in the bounties of new projects as before. Existing ones on the market is more preferred, less risky and more profitable.

You are right! Bounty hunters are passing a very bad time. No new good bounties to hassle right now, therefore many projects are not paying its hunters, like the Digitalbits! It's bounty was ended about 8 months ago but still, they haven't paid us! All are shit IEO bounties are live now, nothing exceptional! I don't know what gonna happen this year, but I deeply want a better condition in the bounty!

Paying weekly btc this is not a solution because very limited higher rank members can able to participate even who guys confirmed first so what about low rank members. And it’s just a few weeks special campaign. You will get find 2-3 bounty projects will pay weekly instead of hundred projects. The future of bounty campaign too much dark. Now very difficult to we depend on the bounty money. Definitely we have to find out another earning source in the different platform.             

The future for bounty is  indeed uncertain  as the era of ICO is gone but with IEOs there might still be some hope left for bounty hunters but this won't be readily available  as it were in the past. I think the next profitable thing would be to invest in some good altcoin After doing some reasonable research.

Agreed.


Participate in those you're actually interested in, don't blindly chase bounties you think would make you rich and get you a steady income.

You're just making the markets unhealthy and stay as immature as they are right now. Research & hunt bounties you truly believe in, and if you REALLY think it has a potential, you wouldn't care a bit about its current price because its future is what truly matters.

You are right and bounty campaigns can only boom if there is 100 percent transparency and no scam, i mean bounty participants should get paid what they were promised regardless of how much was raised in ico or ieo, to ensure this there should be an independent authority which can also act as escrow between team and bounty hunters, secondly, it is a hard fact that bounties will become alive again only when there is money in the market and people have money to invest in icos and i think it can be realised only in bull season.

The only time i see bounties bouncing back is actually if the cryptomarket begins to pickup momentum say BTC hits 15-12k again Atleast then some investors can look the  resurrection here and there and also more better project will be aroound But for now the risk is actually too much for investors I think

you kidding me ? totally dead   ? omg but i think you are lying because why i still see ico bounties and ico scatttering around the web  . you dont hold thier success but investors are  . fewer ones were still succesful

havent see sto bounty yet but i heard there are sto's before   . ieo isnt also gone but yeah the hype was slowly sinking  but that is normal, look at what happen to ico's  .

You can't pick 3 good bounties can you mention them, while I can only pick only one ans that is Emirex and that's because is already listed in the market, if it is not listed I cannot pick any bounty campaign that's worth joining and with many bounty hunters joining and limited bounty allocation I don't think it's rewarding at all.

We are on the same page. The future of bounty isn’t bright at all. With all those shitty projects coming up and going down, it’s just a matter of time before Bounty is given little or no attention. However, I still think ICO can still work. Especially when the market starts booming.

You are absolutely right. Bounty success depends on project developments. If a project does no good, then no one can save bounty hunters, that's why people should investigate as much as they can to find a better project and its bounty! I agree with you that in future bounty will exist, but again without good sale system, bounty hunters won't earn much money and people will leave the bounty job!

you better try to trade, it is very good if you trade because it can be your daily work, bounty is still not good now, but someday there will definitely be a good project, so always update

Yes the current situation is very difficult to survive as a bounty hunter hare. because the golden time was gone for bounty hunters due to more projects not able to get success in any platform like ice, sto or ieo because of inventors lose hope in those platform. and  there are many reasons for that like scam and more.

It is uncertain but as long as the market will be good looking, there will be more of them to come trying out their luck if their project will be the same as the first ones that also conducted bounties and reached success. Let's all accept it that time will come and these bounties will eventually dry and will be gone out of the scene of crypto when everything looks stable already.

I don't count on bounty now. let's just say bounty is another fun job. no need to overdo it and not main job. so for me it's not a big problem with bounty. A scam is part of a bounty risk.

what will you expect in this time were scam ico, ieo are gradually rising almost everyday, bounty hunting nowadays is not anymore exciting compared to old days were almost all bounty are profitable.

I can say that there are still good projects out there, that is for sure, but it is very few compared to all the projects (ICOs/IEOs) that offers different kinds of products and services. The name of ICOs does not sound good or attract investors anymore, those projects cannot be trusted anymore, thanks to scam projects  ::).
Well, right now there are still few good projects that pays good amount, yet you have to make your own research about it.
I still believe in these projects.

True. Gone are those days for bounty campaigns who gave us good profits before. For now, there are still few good projects left but i know once the market gets better and the value of the coins will rise up again, bounty campaigns will be worth joining again.

As long as you are doing a good research and you can earn decent money from the bounty campaign. The best think right now when you can to do both when you are trading on the market for the daily profit and at the same time you can bet on the bounty campaign to get an additional reward too from there and it's worth to try

Good bounties will surely pop up again once the market will shift from bear to bull but right now let's just focus on few bounties that offers a promising reward and have the potential to succeed.

There are very few so we need to be wise on what to join or you can just join a bounty that give an ETH or btc as reward. Most of that campaigns are signature, be resourceful and patient and I'm sure that you can find a good one.

So much true, approx 90 project is failed within a hundred. Now it is high risk to invest on ICO or IEO project as well as The bounty hunter is suffering though they are losing interest in working.

yeah i like you say that. Bounty is only a side job and I don't really care if the bounty that I follow will end up being fraudulent or not because I don't really expect the bounty for right now. at the moment I am more focused on trading because that's it is more fun and I am also trying to mine BTC on various mining sites. :)

If the time must come, i think people really should look other business. This thing must known by people since bounty come at first. For some people, they will change their bounty rewards to real business. Like  me, i am try to buy sheeps because there are a celebration which moslem people will sacrifice their money but into cow or sheep.

We'll, that could make sense if you, yourself is not wearing a bounty ICO signature, because I believe that you are still trying to pursue gaining paid by these bounty, considering the fact that it is too hard for now to search promising project that really pay. And take note, if they pay bounty hunters, it is does not mean that the project is legit in the first place. So to sum up, choosing bounty should start with choosing best projects, not just only those that pay, but could stand in the long run because not all bounty hunters dump the tokens, there are some decent bounty hunters that believes to the project that's why they hodl.

That's was too hard to trust some bounty because they didn't succeed unlike 2017 that almost all bounty do paid. For now, if you need money then do invest for bitcoin or other top coins but you can't earn free money from this forum if you have a lack of knowledge and experience from this forum.

Hopefully that soon it will be back and become more better because it can change someone's life into a good future.

I don't know if it was me only but I do still believe with STOs since ICO, and IEO were more than just a half failure thing. STO is somewhat on the edge over the said givens because it does have a foundation for at least for somebody to join with rather than having the token alone. Yes, somehow uncertain but the hope is still there igniting a bit.

is there a project that was successful with STO? some of the initial STO projects did not seem to be good for the investment market. no investor is interested in this system. whether the problem is the system, project, or market that does not provide support. but STO is not so good I guess.

if you trade a token from ICO there is higher chance that you may lost higher than joining a bounty. If you check all of the successful ICO only few maintain its price . More of the ICO lost 80% or more from thier ICO price thats why its not recommended to trade the token from ICO.

Some people may take the bounty as their main job as so many people are also coming from the 3rd world countries too. I have a real job and that's why i can say that to do a bounty is not so important as others who consider this as their main job. Im also doing a short term trade in major exchange site but, according from your statement and isn't it how profitable your mining in bitcoin blockchain will depend on the how much hashrate you have gotten it from your mining rig? That doesn't make sense if you are always changing from one to another pool anytime.
Im feeling curious about this. lol

From what I am also observing, bounty may one day cease to exist. Because is like bounty no longer worth it, I remember very well during 2017, bounty was a very good source of income. You can make as much as $3k when you participate using Signature as a full member for 1 month.

You made a valid point here until the cryptos market turns green before bounties becomes very rewarding recalled in 2017 when the market was bullish a lot of ICOs reached both Soft and Hard Cap invariably paid bounty participants while some of the coin were listed on time in some exchanges thus it was season of harvest for participants however when the market nose-dived to bears things changed, for now the OP and other hunters have to research thoroughly to avoid ICO scam bounties else all their efforts would be fruitless.

Fewer and fewer ICO and if you looked don the bounty section there's hardly one opening in a week's time, in 2017 there's always a new one opening daily, time will come out that there will be no bounty anymore, the only good bounty now are the gambling sites and those that are paying Bitcoin like Bitvest and the likes.

I don't think bounties will die, because there are still many projects that need bounty hunters as a promotional tool for their projects. Maybe later there will be new provisions for bounty hunters.
Therefore, in fact, we as bounty hunters should be compact to be paid with btc, eth or anything that has a price. So the uncertainty of the results can be removed. So the projects that have sprung up are good projects.
Sometimes many projects that just want to try their luck for their ideas are funded here. When the funding is not successful, then everything is ignored, including bounty hunters. This is what makes the bounty atmosphere so bad.

Indeed you are totally right, we are no more in 2017 and also lost of bounties offer their tokens and a share but the problem is that they not have value and we don't know what will happen for sure with new coins.

This will be the case because most of hunters are only focused on the profit they can earn from the project. Almost every project fails because their only goal is to earn and not to expand or adopt or jump into other industries. It will all matter on how well they manage their limited funding. If the dev team or ceo does not have plans for expanding the use of that crypto, they will soon hit the wall and then the prices and trade volume will also decrease until they will be added in the pile of dead cryptos.

yep, it doesn't really hope for me either. I used to earn a few thousand dollars for a project, and the time went by and my wages were greatly reduced. Up to now, a project I don't even earn 100 $ after 2 months working. I was so depressed, it was time for us to find official jobs and find a new opportunity. The current crypto market only exists for traders and sharks, they constantly tear each other up. Now there are no more fish to invest in new projects and our bounty will end soon.

that year is the most exciting and the most profitable part of being bounty hunter,  where almost all the bounty on that year are good. But after days and years have past the excitement turned into frustration.

I felt the same I stop bounty hunting most of the projects are failed either not meeting softcap or turned scam just a waste of time, As you say only bounties that have IEO or self-funded projects survived. But only IEO on a reputable exchange, IEO on small exchange seems like an ICO, even worst the exchange turned exit scam after raising a decent amount from IEO, so don't trust this new and low volume exchanges. But I guess if we are in bullrun, projects that have no funds can raise a decent amount and bounty will be worth it again.

We have the same feeling about bounty program but now several payment program using popular coins already exist, but the rules is hard to follow. Now every country try to make their own coins, if success bitcoin will abandon and that's bad reality for bounty hunter. Make alternative income out side bitcoin market is necessary, such as forex, blogger and on line shop. We need to keep use bitcoin but there's risk someday we will leave it. Don't fall in love too much with bitcoin because all economy activity ended with currency.

2017 is indeed a very profitable year for many people in cryptocurrency and doing a bounty campaign is a very exciting thing because we can get very valuable rewards or you can say we can sell at a good price and very profitable if we participate in the bounty campaign. For now indeed the rewards that are earned can be said to be improper and also most do not have value and disappear.

It's mostly because of a lot of scam project. Those scam projects drive investors away from any new project. New bounty campaign even can not pay bounty hunters. Bounty is in a very hard time because of real project and investors.

Scam projects are the reason why bounties and offering dies.
Both investor and bounty hunter got tired of being scammed so most of us decided to stop supporting and promoting them.
Since 2018 only few of the projects have been successful.

How unfortunate for the bounty hunters out there. If I were you I'll focus more in investing of course and now start trying signature campaigns at the same time. Becauase in reality, sig campaigns got higher chances of being legit compare to bounties, plus, they are mostly handled by reputable managers so you can assure that scam and real ones are filtered very well :).

if indeed you think the bounty is not good and all ico / ieo is bullshit, why do you still use your bullshit signatures.
come on man you're like a hypocrite here.
in my opinion as long as the project still needs development the bounty will continue to exist even though the number will decrease

but for me, it's good to see campaign managers are just people who handle projects. while the screening will focus more on the participants who follow the campaign. so don't expect more for screening by the manager because it would be better if we were able to assess the project and also do research inside.

But for now I think it is difficult to get a good project because most projects fail and it is difficult to attract investors to invest in the project. Maybe only a few projects that can end well and can provide benefits of course for bounty hunters and investors who invest in it.

indeed the success or failure of the project can be seen from the developments they have planned while in the future many projects have bounty campaigns but few are successful and many are scamming, technological developments have no interest so many fundraisers fail and make bounty a scam.

I dont think there is any future for bounties for ICO or IEO's. ICO bounties offer their own coins and people are very less interested in getting something for the job which will have none or very small value. The established projects should create a bounty and increase their footprints in the community and increase the awareness about themselves, only then we may see good bounties for workers.

Also don't forget that we are still in the bear market, that's why bounties are somewhat dead at this point although it is continuing, it doesn't have the traction it had like in 2017. Lots of project in 2018-2019 has raised so much money, but still the price is way beyond their supposedly ICO price.

But we all know that bounties won't simply disappear in the forum as it is one effective way to gain traffic and exposure to investors. If someone thinks that bounty looks uncertain, then stop joining one and go on trading or something that will make you money here in crypto-space.

Actually, at this time we are not able to choose a good bounty project, because the developers make their projects with a very neat appearance, as if it were a very good project.  After the ICO season ends, I hope in IEO, but until now the IEO project also cannot satisfy the Bounty Hunter, and this makes us confused in choosing a good bounty project.

I wouldn't say that ICOs are dead.

All of the other venues of fundraising still comes down to being an initial coin offering. Whatever provisions that going under an STO or IEO gets you at the end of the day is fundamentally no different to ICOs. And the reason why ICOs are suffering is due to the lack of investor interest and taste for high risk tokens, which is expected in this bear market.

I do think that the bounty scene is only going to be rescued if big name ICOs pop up and utilize bounties as a viable means to promote their project. Unfortunately, with a lack of good ICOs in recent years, that is not possible. The last large scale ICO that I've seen conduct a bounty is probably Antshares, and that goes way back.

I'm not optimistic. Because in this day and age, good projects can be funded by angel investors from institutions, as opposed to having to appeal to grassroot investors.

The future of bounties is determined by many factors. Aside from factors from the project holder, of course from the participants as well. Just look at the growing number of wild participants, not reading the contents of the rules first. If we have confidence for mutual benefit, there will be no such conditions. Giver of bounty will not be able to just believe with bounty participants to see the current conditions. We better change the current mindset, if the project is successful then the bounty will indirectly have a good impact on the bounty participants. Don't get your hopes up with hundreds of dollars with just 1 or 2 bounty projects.

actually, I think so too. other than that, besides BAL, I haven't seen a project that really deserves to be supported. other than that, some bounties that were already running in 2019 had quite a problem. however, I am still waiting for a project that is quite certain that can provide benefits like 2017. But it seems like it's quite difficult.

It is still very difficult to say what will happen to the bounty companies, but of course over the past year or even two years, the number of bounty companies has fallen sharply and this is of course very bad, but so far there are still companies that conduct bounties and we need to use it and we should not leave this sphere because perhaps soon the bounty companies will disappear altogether.

I think bounty is over since ICO hype passed. There are not much project doing to reach their roadmap target, or those target might be useless for the crowd. This lead to that people feel boring about ICO and i think bounty will no longer worth to join. Bounty hunters should start to do airdrop because i think any project want to grow, they should have huge community with demand on their products and airdrop is the fastest way to get huge community.

I can't says anything because this is the reality and OP says was very correct that ICO was totally dead although there was potential upcoming ICO but eventually investors will not interested anymore to invest and also about IEO when people thought this can be good solutions to restore people confident but the results are beyond people's expectations that IEO not so different such as ICO even maybe half dead and these situations makes bounties program also near to end

Bounties always look worse than they did back in the good old days of mid 2017 when I started. I think they were probably much better before 2017, too, although I wasn't around to see it.

This is partly a consequence of market conditions; we don't have that hugely bullish sentiment any more. It is also partly because crypto adoption has increased, so initial prices are much higher now, and the chances of a random bounty coin going x100 are quite remote. Partly also I'd imagine there are more participants now, so everyone gets a smaller share of whatever is available.

We are now really frustrated in choosing Bounty, almost all of the Bounties currently available are scams, or only produce tokens that are not valuable in the market. I think ICO or IEO are the same, neither provide profits to investors or bounty Hunter.

For me personally the bounty will not disappear because it is a great way to attract investors by giving exposure to the project and also becoming a place for developers to promote their projects even though we often encounter projects that eventually turn into scams and then have an impact to other projects that become difficult to get funding from investors to develop the projects they bring.

ICO and IEO become similar, bounties continue to struggle from launching a successful project.
It is like there is no chance at all, and now investors are even trying to avoid it since they can't guarantee their profit anymore.

Indeed, looking back in recent years, projects have become too poor quality, they only try to attract as much money as possible and ignore quality, bounty has also gone down since that time, a lot of projects have been vacant and not listed so far, only a few have been listed, but the success of them is not so much. Although the arrival of IEO creates hope but it cannot bring the bounty back when projects are constantly late, the road ahead of bounty is probably very unpredictable with negative factors in the market

As the market trend goes right now, I dont see bounty campaigns will do good. It looks like bounties will totally be dead in the months to come. I agree that STO nowadays are some total scam but we still haven't seen a STO trend which are regulated and well-managed. But I think there will be still some projects will do bounties, example of this is the projects that are already in exchange but just want to continue promoting their project.

It will be hard to see very good projects to promote now because I think developers now lacks the idea of what to introduce into crypto space, if you want to focus on bounties then be on look out for those that plan to list on top exchanges like kucoin or okex, this is a good way of predicting the outcome of a bounty project, the rest are just based on luck

Yeah, of course you still need further research regarding that certain project. What I want to emphasize is that sig campaign managers are somehow helping on picking the right project. Imagine, they are only offering/introducing qualitu projects to us thus we don't now need to worry about or doubt whether we will fall into a scam or not. That's a big deduction on our burden as investors, right ;D?

The future of bounty has stop looking uncertainty since last bull run but till now many bounty hunters still come out with flying colors and by that I mean many bounty projects still gives good rewards to bounty hunters, I don't plan on stopping and I'm sure I will make something out of bounties this very year, this year should be better than last year I hope

Thats the spirit  8)
I also won't stop here maybe if in my country I already don't have internet I will stop here lol
I also hope that this year there will be a quality project and of course launch an attractive campaign so that we can start working again with enthusiasm

Looks uncertain because of a lot of scam ICO's that became so rampant and investors lost there interest in investing to the token they have released in the market that causes bounty hunters to go unpaid also. But as i have observed the bounty campaign are slowly rising again.

The future of the bounty campaign looks not good at this moment, but the situation will not be the same always! With the bitcoin grows, there will be many good new startup project and to promote them, bounty campaign will be needed. You may not rely on bitcointalk bounties, many good bounties held on Medium, twitter before! Therefore IEO is not dead yet, good exchange's IEO bounty is enough to make a good amount of money like the Harmony or Tokoin or Sero bounty! So, hope for the best.  

The current situation of the market and number of scam campaigns affect bounty campaigns quite a lot. Even in campaigns which are successful, the reward is usually not satisfactory. Also, the number of successful projects has decreased significantly due to the market. In this case, it reduced the number of successful bounty campaigns too much. And i think unfortunately this situation will continue in bounty campaigns until the market improves.

many markets have gone bankrupt and closed because of the bear market in the past, it has raised more enthusiasm for this year where the market is really recovering and will start to be bullish, but we know not even many ICOs, IEO and others have succeeded in attracting investors to buy, many options have made enough piles of lost scammer projects and left their projects to become piles of garbage

but one day there will be many new projects coming to compete when the market is really bullish they will come back with a unique project of course also with something different, we just wait for that time to arrive, not sure also the bounty will die because they need people bounty hunters to introduce the project and they will compete to give you big money, that's what is usually done when the market is really bullish, they will compete to find you bounty hunters of course with a different and strict system

a lot has to be changed from the bounty, that's what needs to be fixed before the time the party really starts

It is quite indeed that it is so hard to find a very reliable bounty that we can join, I dont know any bounty that I will invest my time and effort. It is affected by the current state of bitcoin, bitcoin is uncertain also that is why most of the bounties before failed to have a good and huge sale because of that. Since halving will happen I hope that good bounties will come out.

What you are talking about is not suitable in this year, these words can be suitable for 2018 when maximum ICO were a scam! 2019 was good for bounty hunters and IEO gave new hope to the crypto industry! But at the end of 2019, IEO & Bounty both started falling down and now I can't see much good bounty campaigns! So, the bounty campaign is not rising, we are passing a hard time.

Bounty is now like ICO and IEO, its hype is over and there aren't any successful projects and paying participants. I have not seen any successful bounty in 2019 until now, most of them have failed. If want bounty live again, we need the altcoin market to grow and from there investors will be interested in newer projects than before. Otherwise bounty will also die forever under current market conditions

Life was full of uncertainties as well as to the bounties. We cannot give 100% assurance that you will earn something from bounties but there are still bounty campaigns that are good and fighting. Some bounties are not scammed projects but they are under-funded that is why they failed. I think if the trust of the investors and scammers will be eliminated or lessen then there is still hope in bounty campaigns.

The Hype from bounty campaigns (altcoin paid), IEO and STO are now over already and do you know what is the future right now when it regards to bounty campaigns??
Bitcoin-paid campaigns.

If you will observe, there are few Bitcoin paying signature campaigns right now who are still here after how many years (including my current signature campaign). They are still here because they are paying Bitcoin, the most trusted cryptocurrency right now. If bounty campaigns will do the same, then the future of bounty campaign will not be uncertain anymore.

Yes, the market is always unpredictable. The quality of the bounty at the 2017 forum was very high and the gains were very impressive. It was hot. Since the cryptocurrency market has become a bear market, the bounty is the same as before. I think that with the recovery of the cryptocurrency market, bounty will still be able to return to previous historical levels. There will be many excellent projects added to the bounty.

The future of the bounty is still good for choosing a project that is really good. Not only because they hold IEO or STO or ICO in exchange does not make the price of the coin is expensive depending on community feedback and investors who become the success of the coin. I hope a good project is not the origin to hold fundraisers on the exchange trash.

Many ICO / IEO campaigns are turning into shitcoin because nobody wants to invest it because of the scammers who have ruined their name. It is better to have regulations governing them to prevent today's ICO / IEO bounty campaigns.
To revive the momentum of bounty campaigns and gain new altcoins that will help crypto currency developments.

that why i quit since august last year, too many shit project and also i have bad action because i still hold the shit token from reward rather than sell it after i get it.
about the future of bounty,still faintly visible.

Well, as you have said, it's certain: certainly dead :P

I can't see any reason why anyone could expect another great bounty hunting time after all these ICO/IEO that mostly flopped. I definitely wouldn't waste my time and energy hoping for bounty and would use my time to develop another skill instead.

I don't think this halving will bring back good bounties from dead. Heck, even a new ATH for Bitcoin and major alts probably won't do either.

the number of errors and scams of ico and ieo in the past before this, making confidence decrease. with the impact of all this, the new project will also think twice about launching a new project for fear that their tokens will not get high liquidity. so in my opinion this unclear future of ico is the fault of the scammers in the past and I am sure they will get a reward because the effects of their actions will affect the future of ico, ieo or STO in the future.

Can't say the IEOs hype is goner now, but I would say that the way that IEO works is still greater than ICOs.
It lessens the possibility of scams due to investors most likely looking for projects that will be listed in reputated exchange.
Now unless there's like an inside job for these project and the exchange itself, it would be pretty much better investment rather than ICOs back in 2018.

August 2019? A bit late in my opinion. I quit almost a year before that. The second half of 2018 was the time when the failure rate for the ICOs increased by manifold. Along with that, the success rate for the bounty campaigns went down the drain. I had participated in 2-3 campaigns during that time, which never paid me any reward. Had enough with the bounties and decided to quit.

One thing is very certain, by the time that this year will be over many will have good news to share about bounty rewards once again, instead of complaints about uncertain future of bounties try to adjust to present condition

If we could just focus on helping out the good projects we believe in instead of trying to collect as many coins from as many different projects, we could have better future but people are just too greedy. I have seen people who have entered every single bounty they possibly can to make money, it doesn't matter if the coin they are supporting doesn't exist yet, it doesn't matter if it worths less than 1 litoshi, all they care is having as many coins as possible from all those worthless bounties, just for a chance to one day get rich if one of them actually worths something in the end.

Most of them end up being garbage, almost all of them are garbage, no proper coin would try to get bounty from bitcointalk (except rare one or two), we should try to be more picky but I fear that won't happen.

The gift projects right now do look very bad, most of them don't make good profits. I have looked back at some ICO projects that might have been successful in the past year such as Harmony, Sessia, Colletrix and maybe there are still more that I don't know about. but I believe of the hundreds of projects that have been launched today, some of which may still be feasible and profitable for investment.

I think all bounty hunters are still trying to get money from there, and it depends on them whether they still want to try or not. Not all bounties are bad, I looked at several projects that had high potential for success and saw projects that were already successful.

The higher the risk the higher the gains, that's how i personally feel about bounties, the moment things start getting harder that is the best moment to keep hammering, its certain that success is already around the corner

Bounty has no future since the ICO and IEO disappeared from this market. No more successful new projects so no successful bounty. I expect that ICO or IEO can revive and help the bounty situation to improve better, if the situation continues to be as bad as the present, surely the bounty hunter will not make money in this market.

Ever since ICOs started to fail and get dominated by scammers, the future of bounty started being uncertain. Amidst having IEO paying good profits to people, we cannot still deny the fact that the crisis bounty hunters faced with ICOs will make a great impact on affecting the bounties future in a detrimental way. Things are already getting out of hand nowadays for investors and bounty hunters but we should not still give up on it, better days are soon to come.

It looks like Bounty is almost dead. There are only few worthy projects holding Bounty campaigns today. The main reason for this is the death of ICO format of fundraising as projects holding IEOs on good Exchanges do not need any extra ads.

It's almost dead and hard to joined since most participants got scam. With so many scam projects that's why there is uncertainty in the future of bounty. Even though some project will become successful there's no guarantee that it can be profitable to the investors and bounty hunters. We don't know yet what will gonna happen in this crypto industry but hopefully, there is a good thing that will occur that will benefit the bounty hunters and the investors.

My own way of defining bounties nowadays is bounties are no more for the lazy bones, those who promote a single project and start dreaming big on that single project, hoping the become rich, now everything had changed, to defeat a beast you have to be a beast, this is the only way, do not rely on a single project even if they look promising

Nowadays, if you want a project to become successful, you really need to work hard, and really promote it with all your heart, that's why you need to find a project that you could be proud. I think that bounties will still arise soon once the market becomes great again, but hope hunters have finally learned their lessons.

To work on many projects is not easy. It takes extra time and energy. Because many bounty participants have jobs outside of crypto. Being a bounty hunter now is like playing the lottery. If you get a good project, it will profit. conversely, if you get a scam project or a project fails, it will get useless. It's better not to focus on the bounty to get money.

Choosing which bounty you will join is difficult and is also similar to gambling, it has risk since almost majority of bounties turn out tobe a scam or fail due to less demand in new altcoin. Even if it is successful it is not as rewarding as how it was before. That is why you need to choose wisely because you are investing your time and effort, choose which bounty you will join. Do some research.

Wasting time and energy on unnecessary reason is not lost? If the bounty had provided us some amount without any effort, I would have joined you, but it would not hurt if the project was a scam after you spent 6 months for a few stakes? You should not see this idea as an advantage in bounty selection. Look for a profitable bounty, not harmless.

yes i agree with you. according to this time bounty hunters are also more selective in choosing projects. and on average the projects they are taking part in right now are bounty campaign projects that make payments with bitcoin. most investors and bounty hunters are not interested in joining ICO, IEO and STO projects, most of which are scam or fail.

at the moment, bounty hunters have nothing to choose from. It seems to me that in 2020 the market for bounty campaigns simply died and whether it comes back to life is not clear at all. I think that in 2020 it will be possible to earn only on signature campaigns, and other campaigns will simply disappear and people will not participate anymore in social bounties

according to my personal assessment the current ICO project is no longer profitable for investment, I have seen many projects only offer sweet promises to investors. actually I hate to say that I was one of the victims of fraud at the MiracleTele project at that time, $ 1,500 lost to ashes. and for the time being I prefer to invest in btc rather than with an ICO project.

A project used to develop only when you keep trust only and never make quitting at the wrong time so out good attitude and a good number of projects will make bounty even stronger. People should promote bounty instead of leaving it and making value changes in it. I know sometimes the earning a get become very low but we should keep waiting for good time hope for the best.

I will say more - you could earn $ 15k per month from Twitter and Facebook campaigns, not to mention subscription companies. Such campaigns were rare but the fact remains (now I'm talking about eidoo).

in fact there are many new projects that have sprung up in this industry, even almost every day there are always new projects appearing. but the problem is quite difficult to find a project that is truly feasible, because almost all projects currently look real and promising. my advice to you before investing in a project is always to research first and not spend all your money just to invest in the project.

it should have been uncertain since last year because when I followed the signature I only got peanuts payment from the long duration bounty (months) or short duration (weeks), I was sure if in Q1-Q2 this year there was no bounty from the project crowdfunding that promises to run bounty, I think bounty will really be over and it might become scarce.

Scammers are the reasons why the future of bounty campaign looks uncertain. Most project managers and campaigns are mostly interested in making money rather than developing the project to solve real problems in the financial ecosystem and the world as large.

The death of ICO and the flooding of scammers in crypto space is what makes bounty future uncertain but alas thing will get better this year, i bet we will only see few bounty projects because scammers are not getting feed like in the past.

As of the moment, I haven't heard of anything big about bounties except for they are having a bad impression from the members of the forum due to the recent happenings wherein bounties are being used by scammers to attract potential investors and bounty hunters to promote a project that has no real value but just a trash made to make someone benefit from the investments being inserted into that project. The future of bounties really look uncertain because we cannot say if there can be possibilities that people will get interested into it once again or it will just remain a history. Due to those reasons, people have already a mindset and perception about bounties which have already generalized the thought of bad impression that they are all scams. So, with that, we cannot really tell if bounties can still have a bright future or not.

But it is also sure that without marketing none of the project can get success if they can achieve the target without marketing then they will need marketing after the sale for increasing their users so they will need the bounty hunters in any other form. If they will not do bounty then they will do signature campaign or other paid social media campaign in which you can earn money.

Future of bounty campaign depend with how many time we are getting many bounty campaign manager never distributed coin reward on time, always they distributed coin after price going down and look take opportunity for their self by selling altcoin of ICO assets when higher price, after going down they will distributed coin for bounty participants.

difficult to ICO or IEO can revive and help the bounty to better. because a lot of investor not believe in ICO or EIO anymore. so from what ICO and EIO can help if the ICO or EIO failed. ICO season was ended. in my opinion it will replace with another bounty such bounty from the website or exchange like Yobit campaign, Bitsler campaign, Chipmixer where managing by trusted person and i think worth it.

I generally think that participants in bounty campaigns need to pay rewards by some parts, for example, 10% per month. there are so many fools who sell their coins at very low prices. if you participate in a bounty campaign, then you should see the prospects of the project and that means you should be prepared to wait for the profit.

No I do not think it is because of the managers that the bounty campaigns are affected and the bounty hunters do not get what they deserve to get but it is the developers of the projects who do not care for their investors and do not take it important to list their coin on exchanges which have high trade volume. If they will care to list their coins on better exchanges and continue their project according to their promised roadmap then people will have more trust on that project and the coin will not lose its value but will gain the value on exchanges and then you will not worry if the managers will take time to distribute the coins.

Interesting read here. Basically it is quite true. No money are jumping into crypto now. Not just ICO, STO or IEO, many are staying away from blockchain as well.

Bounty is not only needed when ICO, post-ICO Bounty will still be needed to improve feedback from the community
because the development and improvement of the crypto project is still dependent on community suggestions
And Bounty is not only doing promotional activities, there is also Bounty reporting Bug which helps developers to
identify problems with software or platforms

The crypto industry will continue to grow and grow..
And the crypto space has proven to be a very conducive environment for the Bounty program

Whether or not a bounty hunter makes a profit depends on whether investors want to give money for the project. When there are investors, then the project can be generous to bounty hunters. There are simply no investors at the moment. We have to wait until the new bull run begins and then the bounty campaigns season will start.

I think despite the difficulties to find a suitable and rewardable project to work it. it doesn't render crypto bounty uncertain.
Bounty hunting i believe is supposed to be a part time side hustle.

If you make bounty your main job, then you could be in trouble in times like this.
Handle bounties like freelancers, doing it apart from your main job

I also became much less involved in the bounty, because I realized that it does not bring me almost any profit. So I think that we should reconsider your opinion about this direction.

Hard times have come, and investing in projects is becoming dangerous.  The award brings a few dollars, and there is no point in wasting time promoting dirty projects.  I am doing a few bounty in accordance with my old habit, and am in search of earnings, in addition to my main income.

hi everyone,

Other solutions exist to earn free token or bounty are again the best solution for you ?

best regards

I don't think that ALL ICO/ Bounties are totally dead because there are still a few projects that are legit and working but people are just thinking in general. Bounties image has been already destroyed, it is hard to rebuild it until there are still scamming/or fake project existed. The sad note is that investors are now in doubt and just being skeptical to consider new projects rather than to pick the old and running projects.

Investors and traders are now getting smart that makes them very picky about what project they will invest with.

although we do research and make sure everything is fine but we don't know in the future, because it all depends on the team. Do you not see some projects that have been successful in IEO,ICO and when on market but then team suddenly disappears

Definitely a new method will come in the future and we have to be enthusiastic about it, whatever the new is definitely more interesting and its higher hype. Like the ICO being IEO whose hype is high and now subsides. Just waiting for a new method that makes many more people enthusiastic like that. So I hope bounty there will be new methods to share and exchange them in order not only to waste time only when active the campaign.

I tried to convince myself that the time would come for the bounty to be profitable again. I work fully in the cryptocurrency world, and being a bounty hunter is my main focus besides trading. Since entering 2018, revenue has indeed declined because many ICO failed and ended in scams, some bounty rewards were not distributed, some were locked, and some have not been listed in the market. But, I dare say that this is still profitable, in fact, I can still meet the needs of my life until now from the bounty. It can't be compared with 2017-2018s, but we should be grateful as long as we want to do an analysis and work harder :) so don't give up, friend.

Bounties works like this but there are some good projects that works well and distribute the reward on time. The future will depend on the developer, if they will make a shit projects then we can’t expect a big progress. Bounty hunters deserved to be paid well, i hope the good era of bounties will come back.

The future of the bounty campaign looks dark. In addition to these reasons, the rank of the Forum also greatly influences the results that will be obtained, many have withdrawn from this activity, both those who have gotten big profits and who always get a scam. for those who have already earned big debts, the reason is that if the prize they get is getting smaller, for those who always get a scam, they are desperate, for those who still survive, they are fans of crypto. because through bounty we at least learn the world of crypto

What made bounty rewarding had long died. New ICOs are not springing up by the day and old ones are not as successful as before, the usual practice of launching bounties to promote ICOs have reduced drastically. All these have affected bounty.

And it looks even harder to get back the trust that it was once broken. This is the reason why a lot of projects come out but it dies in a few months/or even just a week. It is really disappointing but it never works back if they couldn't show that they are worthy of our trust and could give us assurance. Uncertainty will obviously be their ends.

But, since we can't fully eliminate scam/fake projects we can't stop this kind of irregularity that will happen in the market. It all be saddest part of crypto that no one will ever trust back in Bounties once it never resolve or it even just to minimize failure.

at present the gift that pays is not ICO or STO etc. but other projects, and payments not through their tokens, but by BTC. like cryptotalk.org, it's based on crypto forums. and several bet / gambling projects. ICO is no longer interested, even for a bounty hunter. it's no longer good. IEO, it is not well known ... because many investors are starting to lose their funds.

Yeah, bounties are not in right now very very few projects have a good ratings but the allocation was too small. if i am going to scan bounties for me its almost over for btt right now or maybe there is in the altcoins there is but you havr to find it carefully it like finding a hidden gem in over 20-30+ bounties.

What i hope maybe signature campaign that pay in bitcoin will be hyped again like in past, and for now maybe they will really strict about users that want to participate as member. For me, manage my reward into other things like trading will be already good. People should know it so they not regret when bounty looks not profitable anymore.

I agree that many bounties wont work well. Most of them is just a scam which wont pay any bounty hunter
But there are some 'bounty' like a cryptotalk, chipmixer, etc which pays with Bitcoin. It is worth to join

We must adapt and deal with this. It is needed for long lasting our way in this field
I dont take the problem seriously, bcz I think trading is more effective to get good profit

Yes you are right. Good crypto projects generally do not launch bounty programmes. Only average or shit crypto projects do it I think. Talking about how much bounty hunters have earned through bounty campaigns, we are rich only on spreadsheet. I have not earned not more than 200 dollars since I joined bounty campaigns four years ago. What a handsome earning!!!

Bounties will probably get better with time, there is just a big rush towards creating new coins because people realized that they could make up their own coins and make some money, that is still true today even after 2 years of not having popularity with funding as much as they used to.

Even if you get 100k funding for a project that makes no sense at all, you basically just created a coin that does absolutely do nothing and you still pocketed 100k from just the funding, after that if you could actually present people with a coin that can be listed somewhere, maybe the price will fall but even after falling you will have a chance to sell even more and make even more money, with just some luck if you get people really interested they will buy more and more and you will make more and more. Basically there are shitty bounties because there are shitty coins.

I suppose you're right. The bounty is almost not profitable due to the lack of any good projects that are missing due to lack of funding.
As a result, we have absolutely nothing except services that pay for advertising their services on the forum, such as in my signature.

It seems that this is the future of the bounty.

I think bounties are  still profitable, but are much harder to find. The best bounties are most likely those that are awarded to the highest ranks among the forum. The only way to profit is to put in the hard work endlessly searching for bounties all the time, or go the straight and narrow path and try to increase through the ranks here within the forum. I've been here since 2014, and I'm only a senior, member, knowing that I should have been prestige'd a long time ago, but should have, would have, could have, that's all past tense now.

 It seem impossible to rank up, but it's not, just long. I have about 250 more merits to go before I rank up,, that could take years  :-\, so I'm going to start improving my post quality and start putting in the due diligence more  :P

It is hard to find real ICO project with competative rate,ICO projects failed due to poor planning and non professional team.Scammers influnece in ICO projects also destroy the real projects.Bounty hunters work for months patiently and get nothing at the end if get some coins havin no value.I am lucky that found a legit bounty of YOBIT after 2018.Mostly bounties joined since 2018 tokens are still in my wallet but value in fills.Hope for best new projects come with proper planning that investors and bounty hunters get benefit from it.

Bounty campaign are still profitable. Just choose a campaign that is being manage by reputable member or known manager in the forum. Projects became smaller because of the lack of crowd funding all because the investors lost interest in investing their money to any projects because of the wide spread scamming of fake projects back in the day where bounty projects are very profitable.

I refused to believe it's the end for bounty hunters, it depends on how determined you are, it's real that many bounties are a waste of time but at the same time bounty rewards are real, instead of complaining let's keep creating chances for ourselves, do not relax if you see any need bounty that looks promising because you can never tell what the end result of the project will look like

Nah, that’s not true, there are still some good ICO. The problem is that there are scam projects and these scammers are the ones that keeps making a lot of people feel that there isn’t any good projects left. That’s why you have to be careful and not fall for their stupid tricks.

@OP
I don’t think that ICO is dead, there are still ICOs that are up and running. The only ones that have become weak are IEO and STO, seriously I have stopped seeing anyone mention these two and the hype for IEO just died overnight and it has come to an end. There’s still going to be bounties and it’s not going to end.

any bounties but its only little bounties that really paid with good payment and you can count that with your finger. based that maybe people assume that bounty is die. because when people compare now and the past people will feel that bounty for the right now not legit and assume die
bounties will always exist but only few bounty not as many time such ico season.

the manager might be able to become a benchmark before deciding to join a project, because a professional manager of course he can find out a promising project before he can work on a related project

Bounty campaign are still profitable but I want you to understand that bounty hunters personal decision is very important which is the reason why bounty hunters must improve their knowledge in the aspect of selecting good project because bounty manager are not super man and they can also make mistake.

Unfortunately, some participants are they never grow old enough and just keep blaming the BM if that certain bounty fails their promises. It is most likely and bounty hunters should be doing is to understand the situation and not by blaming others coz in the first place nobody is forcing them to join.

As many others say, work at your own diligence...Bounties aren't seemed to be good at all started to the point that investors are losing their interest when they lose money because of their participation in scam projects. It is been started there and from that point, they'll much be preferred to invest old projects rather than having risk to the new one.

Isn't it always look uncertain since long ago? I mean, when bounties were still very profitable, it was kinda easy to predict the outcome. So I get that when you say that bounties nowadays are harder to predict or it's totally different from what you're expecting. Nowadays, doing bounties is entirely different form few years back. You cannot really expect a good income from them, so either you only get a penny or you don't get paid at all.

seriously? but why when i join airdrops that are from legit names like coinbase , blockchain and others , why i still didnt get any coin from them ? i already predicted the outcome that i recieve a coin and a value based on what is stated on thier bannerd but at the end i still didnt recieve any.

 bad projects that i think of are the ones that will shock me because they became succesful  .

Nothing is predictable in this cryptocurrency world because until it completes it's IEO or ICO it is impossible for us to justify the project. I have seen many projects get into scammed even after successfully raising money through their crowdsales. Who successfully raised money in crowdsales went into scam very quickly.

I am totally agree with you. Bounty project team's have to understand that, hunters is working through uncertainty because how many months would work without payment. Even all of successful campaign will pay after a few months or a years. If they will make payment in every month, i think hunters can't sell low price and no influenced will happen in coin price.     

The bounties you mentioned are limited to high ranking members on this forum, there is no room for people like us with member account, the only campaign I can find for them is signature campaign so we are left out, doesn't bother that much, I believe this very year will bring smile back to the face of bounty hunters

Indeed, its our responsibility to be careful in selecting where to participate. Bounty manager is somehow an indication of a good project but it doesnt guarantee anything because we cant predict what will happen in the middle of advertising them. Who wants to participate in a failed project no one right? Having an extensive research is a must.

You are right, bounty managers are another important thing to choose bounty because bounty managers are sometimes given preference to their credibility in researching the bounties, anything can possible in bounties, so we should also research a lot before joining any bounty.

Many bounties failed to pay bounty hunters during the 2018-2019 bear market, the only way to avoid this now is to choose good bounty managers but this doesn't guarantee the success of the projects

Exactly, even reputable and known BM it guarantees nothing. That is why, in choosing bounties to participate with, we also have to look at each member's credibility and not only the person who runs the campaign for this is the only way we are able to know the possible ends of this program.

I am also a victim of this kind of broken promises, huge offerings. Yes, I receive the rewards but it is not a thing that bounty participants want to look after, it is the market value where they can sell their rewards.

To hunt for bounties now safety should always come first that is why bounty managers you follow matters a lot, secondly after picking good bounty managers make sure you still do research on the projects from these trusted bounty managers because some times they might choose the wrong bounty projects to manage

I don't trust ICO bounty managers when it comes to running bounty campaign, because they do not have any control on the distribution, the developers are the one holding the distribution, and these developers are the one that delayed, stopped the distribution, so it's really the project and not the manager if the project and developers are really that good then managers will just follow.

The future of bounty will start looking certainty from now on because bullrun is finally here, what makes 2017 a very profitable year for bounty hunters was because of the bitcoin bullrun that triggers altcoin bullrun right after the bitcoin dominance start reducing, I expect such move this year again so now is the best time you should take bounty very serious

as said by one of the moderators in this forum (I forgot which thread) "Bounty is an alternative way of doing business"  so there is no certainty.  don't hang your future on the bounty, look for a permanent job with your skills or diploma and make bounty your side job or business.

Finally few good bounty projects are showing up and as per my investigation more is coming, the market is finally changing since last two years 2018, now its better to be ready and put in more effort, I feel this year will be more profitable for bounty hunters if they aren't lazy