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January 2019 we have more bounties at that time but this year January seem to be different, very few bounty projects shows up, I'm not saying scam projects aren't around but this forum seem relieved from many junky projects like that of 2019, maybe scammers are tired of not getting answers in return? Maybe people are now smarter and scammers are starving? I so wish so 🙏 lol what about you?

I think that now even scammers do not do any projects because they can’t get anything if they will create some kind of project. the maximum that they can do is spend the time of stupid bounty hunters and their own. they won’t be able to collect any money simply because now no one is not investing in new projects, and also all people has learned long time ago how to understand which projects are scammers

I think it is really hard for a start-up project to get fund.  Lots of investors had been burned during the crypto winter thus making them to avoid ICO, or IEO.  Scammers will not be hindered by this and they will take any opportunity to scam people aside from that the project if you look at the bounty board are just some copy paste projects.  Probably project that is so potential had find their own ways of advertising themselves than just setting up a bounty here.

I think the number of new bounty projects are decreasing over time as the people are losing their interest in it just because of the crash of the crypto market at present. Obviously there is a little number of scam projects when whole crypto projects are decreasing. But there are still scam projects on the lookout for potential investors. Be aware.

scammers want to raise money, in the past they only had a little capital to make websites, whitepapers and others to get a lot of profit but unfortunately the people in this forum are much smarter, they no longer invest in starving scammers and in the end they leave the project also did not come again another new bounty because I know they are running out of funds, hopefully more projects that will be really serious and have the funds to hold a bounty, at least projects that have real products

Numbers of scam projects are decreasing and it makes me feels so good, new projects are having hard time to raise funds and scam projects aren't getting any penny, lol very soon scammers will have to find their way off here, crypto wallets will still be a target and phising schemes will still be around too

It caused by so many member here have already experience with so many scam project and they become more selective to choose which is the scam project. I'm also seeing that so many members are actively searching for the scam project and then they create awareness to make sure the newcomers will not fall into it. Let those scammers died by themselves. They will never able to scam investors and crypto users again.
I'm so glad to see we are on the right way

I dont think that was the reason, scammers know now that it will hard for them to raised more money thats why they stop doing it.
If they found a new way to scam people they will return again but for now they need to know what kind of investment will be next big thing then they will make thier own also. Also investors is smarter now after failing many times by participating in any ICO they are now learn their lessons.

I still fear for new crypto newbies, i hope they have aims to seek for answers first before spending any money on any project, i hope they can see top altcoins as the right coins to invest on, not new projects that haven't prove anything yet, if this is how many newbies thinks crypto space scammers will dried out

The community is tired of it. Bounties of the new projects have been in bad condition for over 1 year. Almost 1 in 100 may bring you a little profit, the remaining 99 are a waste of time. Since this situation has been going on for a long time, "tired" is the most appropriate expression. Participating btc paid campaigns is more appropriate in this case.

reducing scammers together with reduced ICO projects. They are still there, but now they (the SCAMMER) are looking for new ways to steal investors' money. It is unfortunate, the number of fraudulent projects makes investors, especially new investors, so doubt with cryptocurrency.

Yes, it has been a number of periods back then I felt there was no quality bounty project. In fact there are a lot of scamm in it, but lately I have felt that the bounty campaign will soon improve as the number of scammers decrease due to the increase in the existing security system, if this is maintained then in the future we will not have to worry too much about the existing bounties. But that does not mean we can be remiss, we must remain vigilant.

The activity of the bounty company declined throughout 2019.
It's funny that the fact that January 2020 is very different from January 2019 in terms of the number of bounties surprises you.

This is a commonplace pattern. I am sure that in January 2021 the situation will be much worse.
The time of the bounty of companies is already in the past.

No, scammers aren't tired of what they are doing, just because  there are no much bounties around for this month doesn't mean they won't show up later. The cryptocurrency market has gone beyond the former garbage we saw back in 2018 and 2019.

Scammers are more careful because many were found and catch up with the law, they were punish accordingly. Although, they may still be around us with obvious reasons, just to monitor the goings.

I think this year many bounties will emerge and maybe with a new project still under development so the bounty has not yet been launched.
Still the same as in the past at every bounty there must be a scamer who appears so we have to be careful before joining so I hope this year's bounty will really develop the project well.

I'm curious as to if you have any kind of statistics or any whatnot that can corroborate your information, we cannot agree to that based on just what you say. But if it's true then maybe the altcoin market will improve and the investors will likely be selecting the good projects, making it easier for them to make ROI through the year.

2020 hasn't started bad for the altcoin market, and maybe it's a good indication that the industry may experience a good year, better than last year and the one before it. But investors should still be careful and not take this as an indication that the market has become safe, research is still very much needed.

We can see our current situation that way. But, it doesn't mean that scammers are really tired already. Maybe they are just waiting for the right moment or thinking of a new strategy to gather more victims that they will scam sooner or later.
Scammers are smart as well, especially right now that the market recovery is about to approach us, they must be watching in the shadows waiting to attack.

The fewer projects on the market, the more difficult it is for scammers to get lost among their many. Indeed, in essence, scammers are not particularly smart, they copy project templates in the same manner.
In the absence of good projects, the entire cam lies on the surface and is easy to identify. So now they are hiding.

Scamer will continue to exist if a lot of bounties have sprung up, especially now that market conditions have begun to recover, they must have prepared strategies to deceive people with new actions so we have to really be able to prevent that.
Many projects will emerge this year. We must be ready to face it happily, hopefully with the new project, unlike the year before many projects have died because of a lack of funds.

Perhaps because it is currently difficult to get investors to want to invest in new projects is a reason that at least new bounties are emerging now because they know that for now it will be difficult to benefit from the new project bounties and I think many investors are now prefer to invest in the top coins rather than into new projects.

i think the scammers also stopped because the market is so bearish. they do not want to waste their time. when market starts to recover a bit, i believe that there will be so many crowdsales and bounty campaigns again.

I believe it is so, they are now targetting newbies on the giveaways, but now that giveaways are exposed, they will try to find a way to scam people, but I'm sure they will still create scam projects for ICO, because of the newbies coming in, so it's better for newbies to do diligent research, or better do not invest at all because of the current situation.

Aside from the current situation we have in the market, there is no investors are willing to invest anymore. Investors nowadays are too smart that they don't invest immediately after seeing a project unlike before, that is why projects we have right now lacks investors, since they are avoiding it.

Yes ICO/IEOs finally losing the hype. You see fewer projects because there is less money for these projects to grab. I'm sure the total ICOs funding peaked in 2017/2018 and has declined steadily ever since. In other words just like you said: there's no money up for grab for these scammers as people tired being scammed lol.

I'm never actively participated in bounty hunting anyway so it doesn't affect me much but I have had some great moments with it. Like this one time I received about $1,000 in unknown tokens that I didn't know I ever participated in lol and it could be sold easily in an exchange. What a time.

i hope that this forum is now free from scam projects and bounties.  And if that happens bounty hunting  is alive again, i miss the bounty hunting last 2017 were almost all the projects are surely profit.

I would not say that there are fewer bad projects, they are, but even a decrease in their number will not particularly affect the increase of community trust. Personally, I think that you need to change the payment system and then there will be no scammers at all. I suggest that payments be every week and pay at choice, tokens or ETH, BTC, USDT. Only with such a payment system will only reliable projects remain on the market.

I think what you are hoping for is impossible. Right now, we somehow feel that scam projects really decreased, but a total scam free is really impossible. Unless there will be a regulation here that will filter every project. I think that way scam projects will really vanished in our ways in participating on bounty campaigns again.

It might be that the Scamming market is no longer flourishing in this community that's why we only see a few of them posting on the bounty section. Well! this is really a piece of good news because if we won't see them there, we can say that the legit project will have some more exposure in these coming months.  anyway, as far as I know, after the fall of the ICO the number of scam projects are drastically falling since last year.

there are not many new projects at this time. but those who are successful are also not many. even that became hot for the past year also no project sounds in our ears. the market is already different, investment and trade are still going on but nothing can make the market grow as fast as it used to.

Bounty hunters are now starting to realize, because the projects they promote don't pay a penny. and sometimes the bounty hunter is too ambitious by choosing projects randomly then promoting and now it is very different and even needs to think twice about promoting a dubious project. I think this year is a good start for crypto-world, scammers are gone, Bitcoin Halving, Bull run & altseason, everything sounds good.

I am not sure that there aren't many bounties, but there should be a lot of projects popping up and maybe they just aren't willing to implement bounties as part of their marketing strategy.
A little research would do and I found upcoming projects, so there is probability that they'll pop a bounty anytime but don't expect.
https://tokenmarket.net/ico-calendar/upcoming

fraud projects have declined drastically because the trend of investing in new projects has also declined. and the impact on projects that make sales nowadays, they have not been able to raise much of the funds they have. I hope that investor interest can grow again after halving bitcoin that happened this year.

You are right, it seems that the scammer is tired of creating new projects without receiving any investment. Current investors have become much smarter than before so it is difficult to scam them again. With bounty completely dependent on the success or failure of an ICO project, I think this year it is very likely that we will not have any successful bounty.

thats right average new project which is really good is not enough to raise funds because we are still losing investors ,scammers think they will still be there because they are smart enough to raise funds so we have to stay alert in this case ,regarding phishing until whenever it still exists because they raise funds by stealing so we still have to be vigilant too and don't overestimate the excitement

Join at your own due diligence. That is how bounty hunters must think about participating in bounty promotions.
For we are all at good before especially in 2017, bounties surprise us and profitable but it badly turns down when the scam and fake projects are started to flood on the market. I know there are still many scams bounty around but the people are smarter than of what we think by now making scammers starve.

many are like that, many ICO projects are manipulating funds that have been collected so that many will feel cheated because it might also not be transparent, different from the IEO method which in my opinion can provide a lot of profit and can be more transparent because it is purely assisted with a trusted exchange place , do not choose IEO at an unfamiliar exchange and a new exchange.

I have the same opinion as you where for me scammers will still exist and they are currently looking for gaps or weak points that they can use to generate profits for themselves, now they know that new project bounties can no longer be used by them to produce money because many investors today will not easily believe in sweet promises and big bonuses but investors now look more into their products especially products that have real use cases because you can say the project is really serious about developing the projects it brings.

2020 may be a good start to reestablish what's been lost, we should learn from mistakes and be intelligent enough to distinguished the scam projects or not. Too discipline to set goals in investing and trading. And be attentive to news that may affect the market.

I hope that is the case, even though most of the new comers who invested in alts have gone though hell a lot than expected we still have a chance. There is a little bit of spark in the altcoins, maybe this time it could give positive outcomes and feedback. Therefor a lot of new investors will be coming our ways and that means more money. Maybe the scammers are all caught, even some of them are still out there maybe a only a few.

especially what is expected if a legitimate project is difficult to get investors.
I believe that scamers will remain in the crypto space, but for now investors are smarter in taking action.
I hope that the new project being built at the moment is indeed a project that has a future and is not just nonsense.

See it as experience gained from mistakes.  Now, in a certain time frame, many of us have learned a lot from working with scammers.  In comparison with previous years, we can see many things that we could not see in the past. So, they started to decrease because we didn't cooperate with them. We are smarter than last year.  8)

That's right, maybe the main reason is because many people already know how to deal with the scammers and they are already trying to avoid those people that they think will cheat on them or even will scam them. People nowadays are getting more careful and intelligent in terms of many things so that they will not be able to get scam again just like the old times.
Due to the common mistakes that was done by everyone, they are sharing many thoughts about it so that the people are getting more knowledge from everyone who are experiencing the same scamming events or doings that they have experienced.

Yep we have been able to experience from the scamer how he tricked me in a vicious way and now I understand about all that.
Lots of experience from before so that we can avoid the scamer and we also always discuss about problems or anticipations so as not to get caught by scammers.

Good if the hunter is smarter to choose the bounty project as a good start up capital so that it's not wrong to choose work and invest.It could be that the lack of projects indicates a good thing.There is no project  the gift of a cheater.Hopefully this year there will be no more fraud projects,so that it will make good things for all parties

yeah, bounty campaign right now is rapidly decreasing because alot of bounty hunters is too tired to waste thier time and effort just to promote scams project, alot of 2019 bounty campaigns is scam, hope that bounty legit campaigns will back soon.

Well,  Scammers are smart now and they can create legitimate ico or ieo campaign and then scam at the end or do exit scam.  So don't trust immideiatly because of the good project concept or idea.  They need to prove this first or pay us weekly with coins that have value to be fair to us! Because it's hard wasting time and effort on bounty with no real rewards recieve.

Maybe they are preparing for something bigger?  Or maybe not. Yes it feels different, it looks good at some point but kind of sad on the other end though majority of projects are scam but it kind of feel alive back then since there are tons of project to watch. But now they seemed exhausted, maybe this a fruit of people having more knowledge than before because they knew already how to pick a worthy one.

You ain't the only one noticing it, it is very obvious, most scammers are even very tired of wasting the little resources they have as it doesn't yield any profit, investors are now very careful to falling to scam project, so this would have really helped in reducing their in flock and as such reduction in bounties also.  

Since 2018 til 2019 majority of the project that has been arise in cryptocurrency became not good to the majority of the community here in the forum. Even up to now there are still ugly project appeared in the bounties section only few of them still are good to be consider but not good enough to say it is a legit one, so better be careful still choosing the good project, good luck.

The investor will be focus on bitcoin halving yeah again I say bitcoin halving will give a huge effect for bitcoin price. So as for those who knows what the effect when the halving come then they will buy more bitcoin as much as possible and most possiblity they will ignore another investment. That is way there is a few project that popped up at this year.

yes that's right because i feel the same way and i think it is a good progress because imo, there are already many projects in this circle with different ideas so why else to create a new project just to use the same idea

Maybe back then was the peak of cryptocurrency related projects and the peak of making alternative coins as the ideas were too many to count. Yet, as some team or group of people have thought of as many as they can possibly make, the projects that have turn onto campaigns often ends up either unnoticed or had a lot of various investors in which the team scammed them affecting also those who makes sense and were serious projects. Maybe, sooner or later, old and unnoticed projects would be noticed and remade by someone willing to take each and every risk just to make some project successful. And with this, bounties may soon rise again as it gives a huge help in promotions.

I don't think scammers will get tired convincing peopel. If you're a scammer, you are willing to do all things to get what you want. If we're seeing a peacefulness here in forum, that's great but that doesn't mean that scammers are also decreasing generally. They can still scam outside the forum so don't be to careless.
And with the lesser scam projects, it's a good opportunity for everyone though.

Scammers are also not getting money anymore from new investors, they could be relaxing for now and will be back when the new users in crypto are addicted to sending ETH and BTC to new projects they think can give them profit.

Or it could be that their scam technique is not working anymore. They are losing money by hiring people to write whitepaper and create websites for them but are not working anymore so they now stoping the scam.

Investors have suffered but the bountists have a lot of patience) It’s a pity that scammers have badly damaged the reputation of the cryptocurrency but I really hope that there will be less fraud in the future because we learn from mistakes.

It seems I also felt that last year there were many projects that held bounties and yes the email was full of notifications about new bounties, but at the beginning of this year I did not mention this kind of thing, but I think this is the impact of the old projects in Q1 this year, many are being running mainnet, maybe because of this , new developer prefer not to make a project because they realize that investors will see the old project compared to the project, but this is just my thinking because I'm not what actually happened.

Lately, projects are not getting funded like it was a few years back. Maybe, this is the reason there are less and less bounties getting run now. The benefit is scammers are less motivated to create dummy projects to scam people. Only legit projects would try to get funds. Bounty hunters should try to get other ways of earning because bounty hunting is getting less and less profitable.

i think bounty hunters become really smart because of the past experience
as a bounty hunter i will also stop supporting the project without advance payment or escrow
it already happens a lot of time in the past where you will not get any payment and I think everyone is also tired of false promises.

Well, it might be somehow true that January 2020 has not really seen a lot of bounty projects been launched. But that doesn't mean scammers are tired of developing scam projects. There will always be scammers in this crypto space due to the nature of the entire crypto ecosystem. We in the crypto space investing in crypto projects just have to be more careful and knowledgeable before investing into any project.

It's like that from the beginning! Scammers are trying old and new ways to take money from people, naive people. Bounties are just one of the tools that scammers can use, but not the only way. Except bounties I can add telegram as a place where many scammers hang out, and that is the place where I received zillion private messages from people that wish to help me, or they wish a help from me for all sort of reasons, of course every time it's about some financial aid.
Let's hope that this year will be better, but I doubt. We need to be careful with our money, if we don't protect ourselves nobody else will.

We should not underestimate scammers just because it feels like they are already surrendering or getting tired of creating scam projects because no one is investing on them, determined scammers are more dangerous and they can go any length to deceive investors

if that's the problem because scamers are tired, on the contrary I like it. than many projects that end in fraud, it's better if fewer projects emerge but can generate profits for their investors. I hope that by 2020 there will be no more fraud projects that pollute this cryptoqurrency space.

I think less bounty project show up is normal because we are not in altcoin season yet, so not much junk project want to show up. If a project is good, they have already plan when to do bounty, so it normal right now because this year most of project must already do their project, show up now maybe too late.

I think investors and bounty hunters are now smarter. They have learned which projects are scam. So scammers are not able to collect any money from their projects.

almost the same like i think that only little bounties in this month and the legit bounites you can count its only one or two from any bounties. and this conditions make bounty hunter difficult to earn money from bounty campaign, makes investor not trusted with ico/eio anymore, ICO not reach the fund raise and make ico die, automatic bounties die slowly

That can be the possible reason. Maybe also, people are really avoiding to join or get engage in any bounties to save their own from getting scammed which scammers have noticed and it will be hard for them to create such effective schemes because even them are still exerting effort of imitating or making their so called project that has no real value make legible and promising. If they keep on creating such but no response from the crowd, they are just tiring their selves out with no pay back. It is just that there is still an after effect which might be traumatic already due to recent experiences that is why people are taking another option or way of earning profit from cryptocurrency aside from getting engage into a bounty. Also, people are still observing the Altcoin market status and project developers are waiting into such time where people will bring back their interest on earning Altcoins because as of the moment, people are focused into earning Altcoins that belong to the top ranked to assure that they can have safe and secure investment for the part of Altcoins.

That is indeed the case nowadays where investors have begun to lose the confidence to invest in a new project because it can be said that many new projects have ended in failure and also many new projects created only for personal gain without any desire to develop their own projects. so that many people today will be very careful and would prefer projects that have good products and will really be developed.

youre right on that, were there are only few bounties that are legit from these days , out of 100 bounty campaign  maybe 2 or 3 are good the rest are all scam this is why some bounty hunters stop from participatung in bounties.

We have the same idea. In 2018 and 2019 there were too many fraud projects, it seems that investors have lost enough money to realize that now they are all fraudulent projects. This is actually pretty cool, but it's a disaster for bounty hunters like us. We are really hungry when the last few months haven't had a really good project. There are still a few scam projects, there are still vague projects about the bounty pool, ... it looks like we should be looking for a new job.

Well I think its better to have few projects rather than having a lot but majority are just scam.

I see that investors now are careful when choosing what project to support maybe because of their past experiences of being victimized by scammers.

Even the current market is not that good, some of us are more focus on btc because of the coming halving.

I think scammer will find another way to steal money, people nowaday knew about how to identify good project or scam project. Or they will playing safe with trade on big 5 coins. Well, let see what happen next in this indrustry, wait for new "trend" coming to crypto world.

Right, now the scammer project has been a little difficult in finding new victims through their project, so now the scammers have thought of new ways to lure the victims, so we must also always be careful to believe in a project.

yes I also think that the bounty project is drastically reduced. because investors and prize hunters are not interested in this gift project because of the many scam projects and I think that bounty hunters are also more selective in choosing gift projects. they only choose bounty projects that make payments directly with bitcoin or dollars. or perhaps the reduction in gift projects due to the bear market. I hope this year we are on the bull market that can encourage the growth of gift projects.

The scammers will always be there, waiting to search a new way to steal the people's money. If we cannot be careful, we will get in their tricks, and we will give our money to them without we know if they will scam us or not. The scammers itself still searching the other way because they think that people now become smarter than before, so the scammers need to improve their tricks. As long as we can protect ourselves from something that looks suspicious, and we don't do anything before we research or find more information, we will not getting scam.

Not much of a time to check the bounties but recently I have been there and there is still a large number.

If what you say is real then it is a good thing.
Take out the broad competition, it is not healthy for the crypto currency market anymore.
We can now filter it thoroughly and we have higher chances of making some profits out of the bonus they give during pre-ICO.
Prevention of being a victim of a scam will also be minimized.

if those who already have experience it will be easy to be able to avoid such scam projects but for new traders who do not have the experience it will be susceptible to scams even today there are many false cryptocurrency investments that aim to take all the assets of the investors.

I don't think scammers are tired but the problem is now people don't invest anymore in blind and this will help step by step to lower as many as possible the scammers, i agree that maybe there are some bounties who maybe will help new people to get some money and are different from last years.

I think almost all projects launch airdrops and a little bit of launching bounties, because I saw that from 2019 to the present there were a lot of airdrops. But in my opinion the bounty campaign will still be there continuously until later.

Aside from that, there are many projects that is not announced in this forum.  They used Telegram for their platform and use other platform for their announcement such as Reddit, facebook etc.  If you check a site where ICO/IEO is listed, only a few have their bounty campaign announced here in the forum.

Probably, the scam is getting smaller, partly because the number of projects has decreased significantly, and on the other hand, people have become smarter in crypto and quickly identify a fraudulent plan.

It's not just you, there are most likely less projects on the horizon due to the regulation that is clamping down on the market because of all of the potential securities violations there might be. In 2017 there were many more bounty campaigns than there were probably ever before, most likely due to their being little to no regulation or guidance at the time, plus the rising price of Bitcoin inspired a lot of projects to drop that year.

Actually many good projects have been promoted and advertised but especially investors now choose to trade directly, yes at least they join in the IEO which is already held by some reputable exchangers.
Too tired if you continue to dwell on the bounty, most bounty results a little, the bounty is a little participant very much, while the allocation of reward is limited. The bounty that lasts is certainly more selective to choose participants and should be like that. When we look at the year 2017, it is very far when compared to the present situation. When it was though a scammer coin would definitely have a value in the market, in a different way to now for a scammer project and coins I think there would be no place for them.

yes, there were no new projects discussed at the beginning of this year. I think this is the effect of the failure of most of the bounties in 2019. I think with so many scams, investors and bounty participants are starting to lose trust. and this will probably become a new era, where new bounties will come up with ideas and models that are fresher and certainly will never happen again. if not, then the bounty might disappear forever, because without an investor, ICO, IEO or STO will be difficult to run.

Those scammers does not want to start a scam project again because they all know that their investors will not gonna invest to them anymore because they have set the mind of their investors that whenever there is a new project, higher chance that it is a scam like what have happened in the 2018. They are being mindful to the projects that they are going to invest to since they do not want to happen it again.

there are many shit projects around, so there are many shit bounties which not pay bounty hunter
Bounty hunter and investor are lied by that, they just waste their time if still following this

So, dont wonder if the project is almost dead right now. Who's people still get lied everytime?
I think no more. People are getting smarter every time. They have learnt from their experience

I agree with you I thought I will not find a good bounty like Emirex, Emirex is already listed in exchange and it's not hard to promote it since it's already in the market, compared to bounty campaign that is just starting out with no uncertainty.

There are still many scam projects today - about 90% of all Bounty campaigns are held by projects which are potential scams. At the same time, people has become smarter since the beginning 2019, so these scammers are getting less and less profit.

Now the market is very bearish. I think there are very few people on the forum. It is indeed a lack of funds, yes. In terms of bounty. Funding for new admissions is very important. I hope that when the bounty may become active, the market will be able to recover by the time Bitcoin is halved. I also hope that there will be fewer scams at that time.

People became wiser this time because of those exposed scam projects that everyone seen for the past years. But truth be told that there are still bounty hunters that doesn't stop joining those bounties although they can see the resemblance and hint with those early scams.
They are forcing themselves to join although there's nothing left for them to hope for it because they look at it as a luck base kind of bounty today. If they list it on a good exchange, good for them but if not, I guess it's expected.

In the middle of 2018 and 2019 many projects were scam and this was detrimental to investors and bounty hunters. At the moment, I don't think there are many legit projects that hold bounty campaigns and I think we have to be selective so we don't work on scam projects.

Not just only the number of projects had been decreased for the last few months. There is also a total loss for the side of investors, therefore many of them had been quit also in funding a project. Crypto is gone and it's popularity did not stabilize because of these scam projects. They are the black that marks the potential success of genuine ICOs and IEOs.

the decline of investors in investing in new projects because of what you said, plus the market trends have not been able to show good potential. so new coins will be difficult to grow, because of that investors lose a lot and their funds are only largely stuck on the investment that is not running. maybe we should wait for more time to see investment growth in new projects

I'm not looking at bounty hunting on ICO anymore, because there's nothing interesting in there anymore, projects are not interested anymore you can easily tell it's a pump and dump coins, some projects are just copy of projects that long been gone, many feel that it's game over for bounty campaign now.

Somehow you have a point that scammers will be lessened because they also experienced profit drought when investors stopped supporting ICO and IEO. But I don't think scammers will totally stop scamming people, they will find a way to generate income in any way other than bounty campaigns. I guess we just need to be very careful still.

alright investor better to move with altcoins than invest on ICO/EIO because altcoins has listed on many market. more safety than invest on ICO/EIO
difficult to built ICO season again, because when investor not trusted with ICO again it will failed if to do
no problem, hopefully for the next there will be the new project as successful as like an ICO

Not so many as 90% are scam there's just some good projects who eventually fails due to lack of crowd funding or lack of investors maybe because people are too cautious now but can easily be deceived by a big number of profit which is almost too good to be true. Scam projects these days are become lesser compared in 2017 and 2018

The bearish market push investors away from investing in crypto projects. This creates low return from project startups causing also less proportionate rewards to bounty hunters. Scammers get attracted to big rewards so they also shy away from projects where they could generate little returns from scamming activities.

Having less project is good and those creating all these projects should have it in mind that they should stop creating projects if they don’t have what it takes to keep that project running. Sometimes the reason why some projects fail is because the creators run out of capital, when there is not enough capital and they can’t continue to run the expenses they give up and leave their investors desperate. People has to be very careful now, even if it seems like there are no scam projects you still have to be careful on the projects you’re choosing some just fail and finance is not the only problem.

What I am thinking is investors are now having doubt about lending their funds in some project due to the fact of what they had experienced back in the day. Scammers are not getting tired probably there are just finding some way to steal someone's money that is why we need still to be aware. Besides, we are still in bearish trend and scammers are only attracted in big profits so I don't think they will stay in bounty projects.

If we talk about the period from December 2019 to January 2020, the number of bounty campaigns has decreased with the same period a year ago, but their quality has become higher. But while these are only the first impressions of the projects, it remains to wait whether they will pass the test of time.

yes I really hope that scammers are destroyed from this forum, and hopefully there will be promising bounties.

It's right. On the one hand, much less new ICO projects began to appear, because investor activity fell significantly due to the current poor state of the cryptocurrency market and the still high level of fraud among these projects, and on the other hand, people learned to recognize fraudulent projects more. Everything is changing and investors are also learning from their mistakes.

Projects back then were too many. People have thought of all possibilities that they can use as their project's ideas and as time goes by, those ideas and proprosals they imposed were getting less attentions. Investors have already learned that not all project ideas were good and mosts great ideas were turned onto the investor's biggest nightmare. Therefore, last year was a of great bounty ideas, yet this year was already the year of knowledgeable investors. But sooner, people might bring back the same ideas that were trashed back then and remake it.

There are really a lot of bounties back then, but most of them are not worth it to participate with because most of them are scams and unsuccessful projects, that is why we lose a lot of investors. Today, there are really few projects maybe because a lot of people started to stop making their own proposals and ideas in making a new project, and there are now few investors and bounty hunters who participate.

That is the marketing strategy, you may know 2017 was the promising place for bounty altcoin. You will find a bunch of the project who will give a lot of profit, because at that time bounty campaign was something new but it was give a high effect for the project. When the place has been known by a lot of people until there is many bounty hunters who want join the event then the developer will give a low reward but they will accept as much as bounty hunter to promote their project.

2019 has already passed away should people already be other minded and smarter in the year 2020. So more spared from scammers and crap projects can not get stuck on them. Scammers are already tired of what they can, but still a moment there must be, so beware.

No one knows for sure, it is still January, so it is quiet because there are many projects that have been running since 2019. We can observe it in Q1, is the Bounty Project still massive?

The most common projects these days are IEOs, except if the project is self-funded and for an IEO to succeed, it must be done in a good exchange. Scammers are therefore afraid of going on exchange to reveal their identity because they must do KYC. Also, they are afraid of their stolen fund being upheld by the exchange. They do not have much ground to succeed again. SO, I think we are gradually being relieved.

But not all IEO success, big and reputable exchangers can not necessarily be a guarantee of the success of IEO, talking scammer surely it will always be present, ICO has been much abandoned, and now the era IEO then scammer was looking for a way to How everyone is interested in the program they are creating. Can be seen a lot of exchangers appear that organizes IEO in it. IEO and ICO are limited to packaging only.
And of course KYC is one of the tools to secure the assets, but back again in some new exchangers that held IEO, there is no procedure to complement KYC. And I am sure this is a scam.

with the reduced number of gift projects I think this is good. so only good and quality projects will emerge. and as you said I think some con artists are tired of making bounty projects because they don't get investors and prize hunters to promote their projects. now investors prefer to invest in old bitcoin and altcoin. and hunters are also more careful in choosing bounty projects.

this is because many new projects fail or are fraudulent projects, so they prefer to invest in bitcoin for the security of their funds. I agree, with the lack of investors there will be a screening of projects and finally only good projects can survive and develop

scammers might already know if investors already is smarter and they decide not to make any projects scam again because it's no use. they might be able to fool prize hunters but not for investors so don't be surprised if in this year looks different from last year. I am happy to see if not many garbage projects have appeared in this January.

When more people will have more experience and the scammer can do nothing to fool us. This is the main part when the self education is playing a very important role in this case.
The fact that so many people are aware about what they must do to avoid the scammer. Scammers have already destroyed.

Scammers here are evolving and day by day they are increasing and i really don't why they need to scam and manipulate people just to snatch their funds and do they feel ashamed on there self. Even  though they will be ban here still they will still create a path to scam people outside the forum.

And i think that people who got scammed learned there mistake and hoping that they will not do the same thing they have experienced for those people who are new to crypto world.

There are majority of investors and users of crypto currencies who are in favor of the screening of projects. This will help investors from getting scammed. Scamming is what scares new investors from entering in the market. There are many projects that appear nice in the beginning but later on they just disappear. I think rather assume that there shall be some firm that regulates projects and this will save a lot for investors.

yes I myself am also very happy to see there is a special topic for scammers, with the information about the scammer project, it is very helpful to analyze it before entering there

Right, because so many people here have become victims of scammers, so it will really help everyone in analyzing projects if there are topics that discuss scammer projects.

i know scammer will become more advanced now on this year unlike on the past.  WhIch is they are now waiting for the rebound again once more prejoct emerging also , but more on high quality than legitimate projects so that no one can determine it easily .  They are so brilliant tbh! And there's no way they will stop as long more investors keep seeking for good investment.  

I also feel say way, but the truth is that time is fast and it evolves quick too.

People tend to take 2 weeks to research about a 5 weeks bounty, then enrol for 3 weeks or walk away.

Likewise, alot of people have lost money, which makes them sit up on night, dig out and research concrete facts before investing a dime.

This is what should happen, fake projects now die a natural death without harming anyone and i do hope the trend does continue.

A lot of cleaning is done thanks to the productive and observant people that help out a lot in Scam Accusation board to easily confirm and determine out the scam projects. Bounty hunters also become more cautious in choosing projects because it's not all about the compensation after all. Investors are also more focus on realistic promises rather than just money.

Too many scam projects makes people (both bounty hunters and investors) must be careful with bounties. So I think there must be less bounty in 2020, it also makes me feel safer.

I have the same thoughts as you, I see that in early 2020 ICO projects that appeared were not so many, different in 2018-2019 many ICO projects emerged and ended in fraud. but I'm a little relieved, that the ICO project currently looks lonely and might reduce my worries about fraud.

It seems like there is maybe less scammy type bounties out there but most of them look exactly the same and copy-paste each other which I do not like. Why not write your own bounty rules instead of blindly copying others?
I still see so many people making post after post in bounty sections with so many pages and sometimes thousands of hunters in one project but sometimes they help the wrong projects. I still think bounty hunters need to read more and do more research before jumping in as well as stop supporting bounties that seem to go on forever and ever month after month.

it seems that investors lose the interest in the ico  as icos are struggling to raise the funds and people do not invest blindfold. Another reason for the less bounty campaigns is spamming and cheating, in 2018 alot of people made their multiple id's on this forum to cheat the campaigns so projects do not offer bounties much

You are not alone, I personally also realize that in early 2020 not many ICO projects were present in this industry. but that does not mean we can be relieved. because scamers are always looking for ways to fool their victims, scamers are still around us. it's important for anyone to always be on guard because scamers will never stop launching their evil intentions.

well there are too many fake projects in 2019 maybe they are looking for ways to cheat using other methods like new exchanges are currently appearing and there are many reports that fake exchanges are manipulating data be careful because fraudsters are everywhere

I agree with you, scammers are really not seeing any hope, lol! I just noticed, today a project called stepchain removed theirs. ANN and bounty thread, that's mean they are exit scam even before launching any kind of ICO or IEO! It's mean those shitty scammers weren't seeing any hope to scam people. We don't need lots of bounty projects, we need only the good ones!

Scammers don't sleep and don't retire, only their ways change. Bounty scams are really a low and unprofitable way of scamming. Real big and profitable scams are on coins that don't even need bounties because they're based on big names and promotions like HEX. These coins give the devs millions of dollars in profits in just a few months and disappear. They don't have to cheat bounties or even respond on bitcointalk. Everything is done on social media.

Because in recent months it was quiet and many bounty participants left or went on hiatus due to conditions that were not conducive and unfavorable. So, maybe you are right to say because there are few participants and scammers are not too interested. However, we must always be vigilant. Choose a bounty that is really legit, don't forget to make sure when the distribution is, is the token locked or not? and if possible choose a bounty that gives BTC, ETH, or other potential altcoin rewards, if not possible, make sure the bounty that you support already has a market and is ready to trade with a good history.

The days of the “Wild West in cryptocurrencies” have passed, it used to be almost every ICO, it could raise millions of dollars in general regardless for what purpose they raised money. Now with this it has become better, no longer outright scams.

It might be due to so many members, investors are getting smarter before joining some new projects nowadays. I actually kinda like it this way. There's not that many new shady projects showing up. Well, bounty hunters also decreasing in numbers day by day because they finally realized that doing bounties nowadays sometimes not even worth their time or effort. And I don't really get what you mean that scammers are getting tired. I mean, scammers are always around us, they are just patiently waiting for the opportunity to arise.

You're right the number of gift projects is decreasing. because most prize hunters have been more careful in choosing bounty projects. only gift projects that have good characteristics are followed. and most investors are no longer interested in investing in bounty projects. so most gift projects cannot develop and become scam projects. and this ultimately prevents developers from making gift projects.

They cannot get a lot because investor don't also rely on bounty. Also because some of manager don't also accept some project because their name getting into worst so they didn't 100% trustful because of the scammer project creator.

In my own opinion, maybe the reason why bounties started to become few nowadays because scammers are getting tired from it or no one would like to create new projects. They also knew that there are only few investors nowadays, that is why new projects nowadays don't have any good value in their exchange.

yes maybe scammers are tired, because people who are on the forums are smarter and scammers are also very difficult to raise funds but at least with at least a bounty we can be more careful in doing research

Times have changed , it takes genuineness for any new project to raise funds because almost everyone is now wiser. That's why there is decrease in rate of new bounties. So if anyone must come out , it must be a good project.

this is my personal reason.
- 2019 too many junk projects. so bounty hunters are tired of looking good. I personally stopped hunting bounty at the end of 2018. because none of the projects that I participated in had paid me.
- 2019 The ICO can't attract investors, so the project can't grow. and ends with a scam.
- the move of ICO to IEO made crypto project eliminate the campaign. so it is very quiet towards the campaign.
- the project in 2019 is no longer interested, from investors or from bounty hunters. because it considers all projects to be nonsense.

So what your advice ?
Just one more day before yobit signature ended sure im sad because not much campaign for now can pay reall money everday .
Should we need hunt ICO bounty again ? Lol im just tired with that

Most participants and investors are now more skeptical and wiser in choosing legit bounties because they have learned too much from their previous experiences. We can't deny the fact that most of us have been scammed by fake projects so we're now more observant and know how to get rid of scammers.

scammers are not tired, they are waiting for the market to recover, so are investors, investors will return to the market when the market has recovered,
and when the market recovers, everything will recover, and of course, we must also be prepared and observant with the scammer project.

This is a natural fact people can be get scammed just one or two times, not every time after that they become smart and aware. Another reason is this that most of the investors are not just investing with closed eyes anymore.. They have become more sceptical and scrutinize before investing. But i'm not saying scammers have stopped launching bogus projects and scammers are still at large.

I just thinking about this situation. I'm getting very project by bounty in this forum and I don't think this means scammers are gone forever. Last year I saw campaign name was "media protocol" and this was almost legit, but failed to funds rise for bear situation.

Indeed, they are not more vigilant than before. If the situation goes like this, it somehow will possibly help to minimize scam and will put them into nothing. That is why it is very important to have a background check before investing in that certain project because that is the only way it helps us to decide to invest or declines.

It's still too early to judge the development of the campaign earlier this year, I'm sure many are discouraged because they are just wasting time in their campaign activities. Regulations became stricter and exchanges began to monopolize sales and promotions only through the IEO requirements of their platforms. If the climate is still the same as the dominance of weak projects from scammers like in 2019, I would choose to stop being a hunter for a while.

I feel that presently even spammers don't carry out any responsibilities since they can't get whatever that they will make some type of venture, furthermore the reason is people loosing there enthusiasm for bounties because of the reality they word testing and acquire little prize at some point no award by any means.

I guess those developers thought that few only investors will invest to them because ICO/IEO are not popular anymore so their time will be wasted if they launch ICO/IEO, bounty campaigns and will not succeed. I hope that more projects in this year 2020.

Indeed, scammers have not gone anywhere and are always around us but it’s good that we started to see and it would be good if investors saw them.

With so many project frauds that have occurred, I am not sure whether investors will dare to reinvest even though the crypto conditions have recovered, we know how smart the scammers are in doing their work so that so many investors suffer considerable losses in investing in a project, I think now investors have been careful about investing both in ieo and ico. And of course we can see the effects that occur on some ico or ieo projects that are indeed unable to meet their sales targets, even though they have done sales in several phases.

Yes, at the beginning of January 2020 only a few prize projects appeared, but that does not mean that we are free of fraud or relief projects that the garbage project no longer appears, as far as I know, scamers are always around us, they will never stop fooling their victims. So, I think even though not many projects came up earlier this year, to remain vigilant because scamers are still around us.

of course everyone is getting smarter, they won't be careless in investing in new projects that don't have clear goals going forward. Scammers will diminish if everyone is more careful in taking action before promoting gifts or investing in projects that look suspicious