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90% Of Project Bounties Are Scams

If I see a project that appeared in 2018 until now has experienced a very significant setback. Most of them are con artists. Fraud that often occurs in the form of postponement of time, not paying the completion of the campaign, not being listed in the exchange, locking up tokens for a very long time, even some who cannot make withdrawals.

There is also something that happens with changes to the wallet payment to the platform in a short duration, so we did not know there was a change. And when we ask easily they answer the distribution period is over. Really we are like dealing with extraterrestrials.

They make campaign participants like their helpers. Change the rules of work as they please, some even delete from the list of campaigns, even though they have worked for up to a month.

Do they not think that we spend a lot of time campaigning for their projects.

All they have to know is that the services of campaign participants are very large towards the success of a project. It is they who continue to provide information to the public.

I hope the bounty manager can check each project before it is managed, and for cheat managers, stop cheating.

Could be higher now, the market is down and investors are not looking for new coins so those developers they are just gone after getting funded we have so many projects recently that scammed so many investors like Adab IronX, if the project is scam so are the bounties, you will either not going to get it or if you got it it will have no value in the market.

I was also going to post this 90% is less now they are nearly 98% or 99% as most of projects are not good and attractive and investors also have nothing serious in them most of them are just waste of time nothing else I also have many thousands coins with no worth and they will never been in good in future.

This is no longer news bro, all you need is just try to be careful not to fall in the wrong ones, especially when it comes to investing your hard earned money, if you didn't invest money but just your effort it won't hurt that much, nowadays, it is hard to see a genuine project that is actually committed to provide something to the public,  majority are scam project ready to run at the slightest opportunity.

The market is experiencing a huge correction from the flooding it experience with lots of projects in 2017/2018 and as such, it has experienced a massive downtrend in even the prices of already established coin/tokens talkless of start up projects. Due to the turndown in the market, the investors left are very skeptical about the project they invest in and majority often opt in for already established ones.  I can confidently say some start up projects are genuine but the market isn't really favourable for them and at the same time, the entire cryptocurrency market is an unregulated space where scammers are mostly unknown till they exits scam.

Unfortunately this is the current situation of the bounty market and it has been like this for months and finding good bounty campaign has been very hard now a days still i try my best to find a campaign that is honest and pays all participants, secondly you said that bounty managers should not take bad projects, i think as long as they are being paid weekly in btc,eth or usdt they will not bother about the quality because they are making money.

Unfortunately, there is a lack of respect for many project managers, who treat very bad rewards hunters by not providing them with the information they need. The rules you talked about, they have the right to change, if they announce of course that they have been changed and how they have been changed. A bigger problem is the fact that there are more and more SCAM projects, and the bounty hunters are working in vain.

I feel very bad by seeing this condition of the bounty world! Bounty is not a slavery job but some dishonest project owner and some uneducated bounty hunters made bounty work like a slavery job. Bounty hunters are not getting paid, project holder keeps deceiving the hunters, they keep making difficult the bounty section. I have no idea when all of these things will be ended but it seems it's getting bitter day by day!

I know how it feels to be part of a bounty campaign where we work so carefully everyday and then submit the report of work done every week and this continues mostly for 2 to 3 months on average and then when you are deprived of the reward it kinds of kills the worker/hunter from inside, i just condemn such people who do this to hunters and do not pay their right, the solution can be escrow reward to a reliable third party that will distribute reward after the campaign ends.

Even now there are bounties that do pay but you have to be now more careful and vigilant before selecting a new campaign to promote, you should now research each and every aspect of the project before promoting it just to make sure that you will not be scammed, this way your percentage of finding scam bounties will decrease.

This tread very useful if you give more valid data, if you provide evidence just not a statement. To say a scam also has a difference of opinion. So I think the scam here should be interpreted.

I agree that it'd be a great thing for everyone if the campaign managers looked more thoroughly into the campaigns they're managing (most of the more popular one we see on the forum do), but unfortunately there's so many people out there willing to manage campaigns right now that even the scammiest campaigns are likely to find someone who's able to do the basics of a manager.

As for whether or not these will continue to pop up, I don't think we'll ever see the creation of scam bounty campaigns stop until it's unprofitable to do so. It's been happening even before 2018, and though it can be tough, you'll be able to figure out which ones are likely scams and which ones aren't in time if you're new.

False.
Altho they do play some part, 75% of modern bounty hunters do 20-30 bounties at a time, making their accounts a spam fest which most of the funnels ignore.
Besides, usually when a hunter has 10k followers on twitter, those are inactive bad accounts,

Only thing that could get some traction is a well written article (less than 1% of them) or a good youtube video that goes viral.

Having said that, i do stand by hunters in a way that projects should pay up for their efforts. But the reality is, most BM's can't do shit about it.
And even if the project does distribute, who's to say those tokens are worth anything. Even promising projects fail, or don't get listed

This makes me remember an interesting topic I read in the past which describe perfectly why 99% of ico are 'absolute garbage' because they are giving a good percentage of their total allocation to random people doing specific advertising tasks like Facebook and twitter campaign with most of them full of bots accounts thus they are not generating any revenue and the bigger problem is that even legit bounty doesn't apply any form of tracking to evaluate the effectiveness of each participant.
Also, not having maximum numbers of participants lead to a hard dump on tokens price after launch as know hunters tend to sell their reward immediately when received.

edit: found it,  The fundamental problem with ICOs and bounty campaigns (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4394767.0)

Bounty participants also have their roles to play. You have to be selective when it comes to what project to promote and the bounty manager to work with. A lot of things have been ongoing. Some bounty managers cheat, but there are some that are very sincere with their jobs. Which is why I select the bounty managers to work with. If you are still new in the system, I might not participate in the project you are managing, except I am sure that some measures have been put in place, to check that.
Although, sometimes, you can still find good projects, managed by newbies and pay bounty hunters with meaningful rewards. There have been some in the past, but they are not so many.

Any reputed found involving in shady activities will get exposed sooner or later by the community so they will never risk their account's reputation for some bucks but when a bounty is managed by newbie or copper member then they have nothing to lose so choose wisely when you start with, there is no use of crying at the end.

Well, related to changes in rules, as far as I know, every bounty manager always gives a warning that changes to rules can happen at any time, so as a bounty hunter we cannot blame the bounty manager and dev because that is the rule that we must understand and accept.

We also have to update information, don't miss out on info so that we don't lose the opportunity to claim rewards. Don't just focus on quantity, support and work on campaigns according to your capacity. Be an educated bounty hunter.

Yes, most bounties are a scam, this was why I ran away from bountyhives and choose to participate in a single bounty per time and most cases just the signature because I don't want to stress myself where I won't find any gain. Time is very precious.

It's really sad bounties are not worth spending time on these days. I remember those days back in 2017 when you could make $3K out of one single bounty. Currently, I would not advised anybody to out his heart much in bounty because you are likely not going to get paid or the project will turn out to be scam.

Some projects start with genuine intentions but the condition of the market make them lose their passion towards developing the ideas they had in mind when launching their project into reality. Some projects are also quite good in disguising themselves as legitimate projects just to get the approval of a professional manager and later scam the community therefore don't put all the work on managers.

As a bounty participants you should make the security of your fund and time as your number one priority and not to rely on others to do that for you. Carry-out personal research on selecting quality projects to promote and not associating yourself with any project you see out there especially those with "too good to be true" promises.

Not every bounty manager has the competence to distinguish a good project from a bad one.
I do not agree that 90% of the bounty scam companies are more likely that most of these projects are not already solvent at the stage of idea and marketing.

A good manager doesn't always mean if that will be getting legit project. I have already participated in so many bounties and it doesn't even give guarantee. what gives more guarantee to the hunters was listing. When a coin already listed on the exchange site and the hunters can get a very good guarantee for their payment.
You should not expect a lot when the token is not yet listed and it's running by legit bounty manager.

They do but don't care.  :D  It is ironic but bounty hunters can do nothing. Something that hunters can do is taking some learning from that condition. Then, don't join in the shit-bounties anymore.

Some bounty managers did it but unfortunately, they were also deceived by the projects. While a few of bounty managers may be careless and not doing enough efforts to check/analyze the projects. We are better to choose bounties managed by trusted bounty managers. They must be more thoroughly and apply good procedures to check the projects.

The bounty manager only does the work of his superiors so when there is a scam bounty it is not the fault of the bounty manager but the error of the developer who cannot be trusted and does not value the bounty hunter participants by not paying or when paid but the price is given on the market there is no support from the developer so that the price rises, so most of this is the fault of the developer.

Also I hope that bounty hunter try to analyst first about the ins and out of the project before they start to join bounty. All I know most of bounty manager are use newbie account or the project make a copper member account which is mean they aren't choose someone else to promote their project. If they do that, will you blame bounty manager? Cause bounty manager is part of team. I will agree if the project's developer choose reputable manager like yahoo or Hhampuz because they will learn for the ins and out of the project. And in this case, you have to emphasize as well for those bounty hunter.

Market conditions do have a big effect, so the targets and strategies that have been planned to become messy because the targets have not been achieved.

We must also be able to adapt to the current bounty campaign conditions. Understand the risks and don't expect to be too high. Stop comparing the current situation with 2017, it will only make you weaker and less adaptable. Try to be wiser in choosing a campaign, do a maximum analysis, do the maximum effort but still be rational.

People of course should carefully analyze projects in which bounties they participate because many projects don`t pay for their campaings or don`t develop their project, but just try to get money from inexperienced investors

I will love to add Failed word also. Yes now days it's rare to see a good projects which are paid bounty hunters properly. Now days which projects are  coming they are not good projects (maximum times). So hunters deprived from good payment. It was started from 2018 and still going on. But now days we see failed project than scams. So i will recommend hunters to choose meaningful projects, don't look at their greedy give way, focus on couple of projects not on 20/30 projects. I believe it'll be easier to find a good project.

You sure its 90%. I have seen almost 100% of the people are complaining about the bounty program being a scam. About changing rules, if you read their rules carefully before joining, you will see that one of the rules says that the rules can be changed according to the managers will without any prior notice. So, I guess they aren't doing anything wrong (though I know it is unethical and not right at all).
Participants get deleted probably because they broke one or more rules. They don't get notified when they get kicked?

Despite the fact, that it not only project that run away with investors fund are scam i dont believe 90% of crypto related project are scam because we're alot of experience users which background check most new project posted on altcoin bounty section, we also have the IEO scheme although some exchange site manipulated it by using it to enrich their pocket but it somehow eradicated scam project.

How do we know if its legit

The wild days of projects are over, there was a time when you could  make money with any projects and dump everything on the market but things have changed when the investors understand that they are created to make money for the creators and nothing else and hence you really find investors now a days for these shitty projects.
 
There are limits for the bounty manager too to understand whether a certain project is a fraud or not. It is up to the participant or the investor to know about the team and the concept before jumping into these risky situations.

You're absolutely right,I am also part of Ironx campaign. Listed in their own exchange but no buyers. I dont know what is wrong but all the bounty always like this. Long bearish make a lot of investors do not want to invest in a new project and this fact they use for playing victim and then scam.

Bounty manager can't do nothing about it. His has more experience than you and applied it by research but sometimes could scam. I know still several users can give you some names and all campaign will success which means 100% success. Even if I tell you some names than 85%-95% aren't scam, 5-10 percent scam project doesn't matter to anyone.

so what is your decision right now ??
are you still working on one of the bounty projects?
with real facts like this why are there still so many people joining the  campaign bounty?
for me campaign bounty is a bonus that we get in our free time and only lucky people can feel the benefits, so there is no harm in trying.

true, bounty is one of the side jobs and do not let the bounty be your main job, you can do other things such as creating a website, trading, and playing other online businesses, the results of the bounty are not enough because the results are now a little not like before

many people use bounty as thier main job because they dont have a main job . the advantage is that they can spend thier whole time on the internet joining many campaigns and finding other sideline jobs too  .

that is one fails they still have a hope on the other  but for the people that already have a good job , they can still participate and make bounty as a hobby or a sideline job only . they are also the ones that suggest that bounty shall not be treated as a main job but they didnt know the pain of hunting for a real job nowadays 

 I used to be a bounty hunter before thus I feel your frustrations about these useless projects. Efforts and time were made and yet the team always postponing the payments and the bounty rewarda especially when the market is down. If one participant can just spot if the bounty will turned to be scam or not, we can save some time and efforts. But how? Look for the transparent project teams and a good bounty manager.
 
 
 I always choose a good and reputable manager before joining. I am not saying new managers are not good enough to handle bounty but an experienced and established bounty manager will lead a good project.

This is true. Bounty campaign has reduced its reputation already due to many scam projects. Good thing we have reputable managers who are looking for legit projects that launch campaign. Well, I have joined miracle tele campaign and earned from it. Too bad that the project known to be scam due to their exit scam. Keeping in touch with potential managers are also advantage but no doubt that they are just paid to handle. Some manager keeps on accepting project to launch though the project is scam as  long as they get paid. If I were you guys, I look for the ones that paid btc or even at least major altcoin such as eth or xrp. Dont waste time on altcoins its different time now compared before.

That is why you should choose the bounty of the famous campaign managers. They will ensure scam-related issues, and you will definitely receive tokens when you complete the task. I rarely encounter scam projects because I have the experience of choosing bounty, besides I only participate in the bounty of a few famous manager in this forum.

That's right 90% of bounty project are scam, the last bounty campaign what I'm working on is Zero Carbon Project and that made me very disappointed because they paid me with a new token which is ZCBC (ZCP Bounty Coin) while their coin is ZCC and has been listed on idex.

Bounty is not entirely a scam because there are still a number of projects that will be successful in the future and as of now I think many projects with new innovations and good goals going forward and for the bounty problem it depends on the rules of the bounty manager.

We know that the bounty manager is now so detailed that if there is cheating it will be deleted from the list of campaigns as well as those who only work for a month they will disqualify it because they do not do it fully until the end of the campaign. middle of the road it will be deleted by the bounty manager.

But for the average project at the moment it takes a long time to develop the project and to enter the exchange also requires a large cost, therefore they always raise funds for a long time I think it's legitimate as long as at the end they will succeed on their own.

Yes you are right, and this is possible because of silly exchanges in crypto space, scammers won't lose out only the investors will, the list their scam projects on cheap exchanges and any amount that was raised will still be profit for them, we investors are the one to become strict with new projects

well, maybe you're right that most of the ico projects or 99% are fraudulent projects. but I think there are still good projects to follow like the Insurance project they have a valid team and a good product. if you are interested, you can reconsider and take part in it.

IEO can sometimes be the thing that lets us know whether the project has potential or not. it's just that, I agree with you. however, there are so many scammers who take advantage of the ease of listing their tokens into a market, so it makes IEO scams easier to develop.

Yes, and as I examine, there aren't many good projects this year, and it can be said that only 1% is worthy of being followed by everyone, even though everyone has their own analysis in joining a new project this year.

Have you calculated that, lol, just kidding. I would say it's more than 90% if you take the word as correct that altcoin market is more complex than we take it as. There are a lot of way to scam. Even though if a bounty pays you and it has been listed in an exchange, it can be a scam project. Look at Nano healtgcare project. They have done everything properly and listed on so called exchange, no volume and nothing for more than 2 years. What bounty participants got, nothing? They are scam too. So, it's safe to say the figure is more than 95%, it's better to not participating any bounty.

Ninety nine percent of new projects are scam this days, crypto space have become a feeding ground for scammers since the successful of many new projects, ICO actually in 2017, right now you only have to find the seriousness of the team first before investing

You could say that, even though there are still good ones. but if it is in percentage, then many fail. and in this case many investors have been harmed, even though the bounty hunter also loses in terms of time, energy and mind to work to promote the project. so, when 1 project was a scam, a lot was harmed.

You don't say. You don't say.  It is however sounding good thees days after 2018 and 2019 scams. IEO today are getting better, they are now giving chance bounty hunters to dump. Not the kind of what happened during the days when they are not really paying. Besides you have to watch out for the project that can potentially scam.  If the project provides insurance, then its shouldn't be the type of project to promote,

I think what you mean is insure project, the one youve wearing on your signature right? Its good but the budget for their campaign is too low. None of good campaign right now can match the rewards of the 2017 boom projects. How I wish I can go back to that era and continue to join the campaigns that Ive missed that has so many good profits.

The campaign now is quite dissapointing and none followed their rules when it comes to schedule and budget for hunters. Not practical to join altcoin campaign for now, just choose bitcoin signature paid which is more convenient on payment.

That nearly chooked me with laughter  ;D. Of course, they have a heart of steel to perpetrate all that they do, wickedly.

This is the sad reality confronting bounty hunters. It's a price every hunter had/has to pay to gain experience and ultimately know how to avoid future pitfalls. The way the scam projects disappear overnight and then delete all social media handles should be a thing of concern to Bounty Managers who have a reputation to protect. BMs should always ask for tokens to be escrowed to them as part of contract term.

I completely agree with you, more and more bounty companies turn out to be a scam and unfortunately this will continue to happen, because scammers who conduct their bounty companies know that they will not get anything for this and therefore there is nothing to be done.

Don't be so pessimistic, right now I see quite a lot of promising bounty running. You can go ahead and check them all out, I see at least 4-5 great projects doing bounty. Insure is one of those projects, and I would encourage you to take part in this project because in 2020, its price will certainly go up compared to the present.

IEO is the same result as ICO more of the project now only want to list to unpopular exchange with fake volume. It doesnt help to locate new investors sometimes they not even get thier softcap they are just claiming they have raised enough which is not. How they will get that amount if the exchange doesnt have enough user's to participate in IEO.

thanks guys for suggestion but may i know if what are the other 4 projects  ? better if you list it also on here so that we users that havent enough time to scan projects can also benefit because we are also been scamed many times so now is the time to make a payback  .

 i hope these good projects will be followed by many other more so that itl attract bounty hunters to work again , also investors which can make the crypto market and its comunities become healthy   .

I have also seen this bounty before, but after checking and evaluating I quickly ignored it. Obviously this project is a scam and it stole a lot of money from investors. And I agree with you, over 90% of bounty projects are scams and if we are not careful, we will waste time with these projects.

I've noticed a reduction in bounty campaign amount. And an increase of number of bounty managers who advertise their services in Services (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0).
I have a feeling, that soon part of "reputable managers" will start to manage "all available" campaign. So I call to check all the campaign you join 2-3 times and dont rely only on a manager.

its really possible for them to accept a bounty campaign in the future but they will prepared to accept only bitcoin payments .
Its really hard for bountyhunters to know how good a campaign they participate if they are always rely only to who manage the campaign they need to know how to review a project so thier time will not be wasted alwayd participating in scam or shits campaign.

That's why it's wise to spend your time and energy on very good or high quality bounty projects, you can easily detect them if you do better research on the projects, this is the only way to avoid bad projects

I also see that many projects don't pay after they finish the campaign. this condition indeed makes the appeal decreases for prize hunters and investors. I think there must be a good authority in screening projects before they are published in this forum, so as to minimize the losses of others. if this continues, it is highly likely that people will leave this forum and have an impact on the development of digital currencies due to fraudsters.

Most of today's bounty campaigns have fewer chances to pay its hunters, and I believe the credible bounty campaigns are only less than 1 percent, and the truth is even those projects that promise to pay in 1st quarter of 2020 is not yet happening, meaning it might not pay the bounty hunters for the job that already done a long time ago. if those platforms are not sincere about its promise how can it be trusted to operate a business?

It's better to choose the best one but this is the main problem when not so many people can't do that easily caused by almost all of people don't know properly about how to choose the right one.
It's so easy to say people must try to avoid the bad project but the implementation is not easy.

That is what the hunters are still worried about and it is true that currently bounties under 10% who are honest will pay on time, but most of now it is in terms of funding first not the product that is seeded so many projects that are operated fail all because they are strong or indeed intent to deceive all investors.
  So we have to choose the bounty when participating so we can minimize the scamer and also the team background must be seen.

I cannot blamed OP I also have a share of scam bounty and there are to many of them of them, I have not known of any bounty hunters who are not scammed by these scam bounties just glad that I'm out of it I still have a lot of tokens in my wallet that are all useless and only reminds me that bounty hunting is just a waste of time.

no one can be trusted. you need to correctly assess the risks of participating in bounty campaigns. you must understand from the early beginning that there is a possibility that you will not receive anything. You should not spend your attention and efforts to discuss unsuccessful projects and projects that did not pay money. create a branch in Scams - describe the problem and forget about the project

Same here. Even I have around 40 different tokens from various bounty campaigns, and out of them only 3-4 are worth more than $10. Others are completely worthless, or worth very small amounts. Now who will take the effort to register in little-known exchanges and then to go through the KYC process, in order to exchange this $10 worth of tokens to either Bitcoin or Ethereum?

We have to find a way around this scams to end it here. May be the moderators can put in more efforts to strengthen the efforts of a few members who have been exposing this scams. I see a lot of scam bursting on the Scam and Reputation threads. Hunters should always look that up from time to time. I have been saved a lot of stress by doing that myself as I escaped a lot of scam.projects.

Yea you're right and when you ask who exactly received these payment's they won't give any answer. I feel such project cts had no intentions of paying the hunters from the onset the reason for such delay and such response at the end of the delay.

Little agree. more now many bounty managers do not sort out a project and rush to post bounty campaign, even though the project they post is clearly a project that can be said to be not good or possibility of scam is very high and main cause bount scam is because of them, but honestly I can't blame them because now there are also many projects that can be said to be good, but they don't intend to hold a bounty program for various reasons, but I'm thankful there are still bounties filled by bounty managers who do sorting and escrowing reward for bounty participants so bounties not completely dead.

There are some of them that you will work really hard for and at the end they will list the coin on a very bad exchange. These scams are getting too much and anyone that wants to be a bounty hunter really needs to be careful to avoid getting scammed like this and days of hard work being wasted. These people don’t even have pity for anyone at all, they will let you work really hard for their project and waste all your time and energy and after that, they will not pay you for that; same thing they do with investors who fall for their tricks.

I totally disagree with you make it 99%, man none of bounty have participated in this year has paid yet, I mean have participated in more than 20 bounties if am not mistaking

Bounties is just capable to help you in the crucial moment, it’s never job for a person i think. But a lot of members are depend on these earning, they thought it’s a permanent jobs. In 2017 bounties was big thing more than jobs when mostly earned such money. Correct, website design and application development and another things are really effective in online platform.                               

Investors are trying to hold their coin or money as of now that is why they do not have a time to invest on new coins. Plus the fact that they are afraid that the coin that they have invested to might not have a value once it is listed on a exchange. Better hold our money as of now and do not invest on the upcoming coins out there.

If we see a bounty scam project, I think it does not reach 90%, because of some bounty projects that I have participated in, there are a number of them that pay, even though they do not generate substantial income, but at least the bounty project has appreciated our work so far. Might be said if the project scam is only 40% of the total existing projects, so this is what makes us have to be careful in choosing bounties for us to follow,  and to make experienced forum members as  we reference to avoid bounty fraud projects.

If the investor has no idea about the risk/reward, it is good suggestion to advise not to invest in the upcoming altcoin projects. If the investor is experienced professional, investing in the right coins will be profitable in the next bull market season.

Actually i can't tell you 90% scam bounty because few good project will live here. we have in bad time right now no have big investors for new project with decreasing powerful team developing. You know this time more bounty hunter already leave bounty participate but their will back again, when the crypto market situation will be back.

It is just like saying that 90% of icos are scams, i think it is somewhat true because many projects have failed after launching in the market and only few are able to survive. Still i think that figure sounds a little bit too exaggerated and perhaps we can say that around 60% bounties are scam that do not pay or pay less or cut the bounty tokens after campaign and make other excuses.

Investors are so fed up with ICOs and IEOs that it is hard to attract investors right now, so most new projects fail.
That is also the reason why the project can not pay bounty hunters and is considered by many to be a fraud project.
Besides, there are many successful projects but they decided not to pay bounty hunters and decided to steal it.

I think the rate of scam aridrop programs is even higher, from 2018 to now we've only witnessed bounty hunters complaining about scam bounty programs.
The best way we can avoid scam bonus programs is to carefully check the projects.
Checking out white papers, development teams, media websites is also a way to help people avoid scam bonus programs.

Even bounty managers cant detect out if the project is paying in the end or not.They might look legit initially but it would still be like a gamble because managers are just also workers on said project
unless if his part of the team then it would really be more risky in that case. 90% doesnt fit out but rather 98% i would say because most projects now from 2018-2020 are total shit and continue to
create the same idea all over again and fooling out investors as usual.They are scam but this thing cant be stopped because there are still fools that do keep up feeding these scammers.

I don't really think that 90 percent of project are scams even though there is so many scams associated with crypto-currencies.There are so many scams projects around and the number is increasing rapidly even more than in 2018 and 2019 but even with the increase there are so many legit project out there .One has to be just careful in choosing the best projects out there.

\Not every project that seem to be legit worth investing in. If a project does not have a good layout or if the intensions are mostly not feasible, it should be discarded. A project might appear o simple, but if it can be actualized, it is better than that project that promises to build a whole world and yet, cannot construct a simple and very small ark. you should watch out for that. Yes, the intention is superb, but it lacks good tools and management.

we just need more carefull when joining in any campaign, airdrop or bounty campaign have same thing. although we read carefully to whitepaper or anything else but if its time to be scamm project we could not avoid it. even project that running smoothly in their developtment suddenly could be scamm project. we often to see it.

Some project never develops instantly especially when they don't have a working product. It takes time for them to find investors and to build their reputation as well that is why many projects will run market promotions to help getting known into the community. That is why we can't tell that 90% of them are a scam, they can be less maybe.

Crypto adoption isn't fully accepted and recognized by the public. The support of the government giving a big influence to the people around and its development but sadly we missed that thing since some of them are in a war against crypto.

By making a post, I just wanted to see the whole history of all unpaid bounty, what is main reason and who is the cheater for not paid. Now I can telling that bounty manager can't do it or check what is going on CEO brain. Most of the project failed because of development and most of the project paid to bounty hunters.

These are just studies, actually there are articles out there already telling most crowdsale in crypto are scam especially in ICO.
This one was published in 2018
https://www.investopedia.com/news/80-icos-are-scams-report/

OP was telling 90% but its his just estimate maybe, because although a crowdsale is successful sometimes bounty hunters are not paid, so they have a lower success rate.

The call is on the CEO or team behind the project, and bounty managers and bounty hunters are just workers, they do what they are told to do with a specific reward, if the CEO scam, everyone will not get anything.

If you point out a specific number then you must have evidence for it.
Example you make a statistical table for all bounty campaigns on this forum, from January 2019 until now, or from January 2020 until now.
How many campaigns in total. How many paid, how many didn't paid, then calculate the ratio.

The projects itself are scams not just the bounty alone. It's true some successful projects do not pay bounty hunters when they reach their ICO cap but they're also some who do not raise funds or run away with raised funds.

Not just those who have bounties are scam. The number of new projects that are scam had grown massively. Bounties nowadays are not as profitable as how it was around 2017. I wonder how some legitimate projects will gather funds if investors don't trust new projects anymore.

He will not have data like that because he only assumed it; the figure could be less or more than 90 percent. I hope there are members of this forum who make statistical charts about this.

Surely they will not be able to call investors in this market. Investors were scared of new projects and they thought it would become a scam in the future. Therefore, if new projects do not have investment enterprises, they will surely fail

Can't say OP is wrong since bounty data from 2018 shows that many bounty projects turned scam and same thing happened last year too, it's not very encouraging to engage in bounties even today but since very few projects still manage to become successful then it's still worth giving the shot

Nowadays scam projects are very smart, you won't be able to see which ones are scam when you check out simple steps like that. They can easily plagiarize and create a fake development team, now we just need to care about the partners of that project. If the projects have large and real partners, then those projects will certainly succeed

It's nothing new to see scam bounties here and there, all we need is better research, choose only quality projects and you will be glad you do when the end result is out, there is no way to get rid of these scammers completely but with research you can avoid them

Based on what I had noticed here, it seems most of the bounty hunters experienced more scam project/bounty during 2018 and 2019. We still have to look forward to this year if we're going to see more scams or not. Even though they already felt the struggles on participating failed/scam projects, they ignore it. They are not afraid to participate again in other bounties although there is a chance that they might end up falling into other scam projects again. I'm already aware of this issue, that's why I now barely participate in the bounty. If I'm going to join again in the future, maybe I will try to pick the best one even if it takes a lot of time to do the tasks. In that way, I can still assure that I can make a good profit, and it can be equal to the time and effort that I allotted on the said project.

Sad to say but on this current year and status of the market, it's totally hard to a find decent project, and I know some investors are already sick on investing scam projects.

That's the reality, but why would they still choose to invest in new projects when the chance of success is very low?
Why not invest on bitcoin, it's more volatile and it's quite stronger than all the altcoins combine, old and new, this year so far, we have seem the ups and downs of bitcoin and surely with timing, they can already enjoy some good profit.

Bitcoin start at $7k this year and rise $10K If I am not mistaken,
It also dropped $4k then rise to $6800

The above example would already let them be profitable if they do the right decision.

Scam projects can grow very quickly, with coverage in almost every corner of the market but mixed in these niches, we can still find good projects and make appropriate profits, many investors may not have trusted it yet, but somewhere, many investors still have good hope and appreciation for some projects, attracting capital is still very stable, the problem is only slower than in the past. Bounty in this era is deceptive or not, the interest of the participants was very low, bounty is just a game of luck, a little bit of trying to test is enough, the results are not of great concern

that is a reason that we can hear for a long time. some projects don't even pay after the project has finished selling them. or bounty hunter gets a token payment that will never be registered in the exchange.

Yep I agree 90% of the project bounties are scam. We are already 2020 and nothing has changed still many scam project operates, it's like they wait for the fish(investors) to hook. Hunters should avoid to promote a scam project.

Well, even though it was hard to admit, it is true that a big percentage of existing bounty projects in the market are scams. According to the OP it is about 90% which is really a huge percentage. Imagine only a remaining 10% are only the legible and payable bounties. Now, it is not surprising why people have this mindset and generalization that whenever they hear about or encounter a bounty project, the first thing that comes into their mind is that bounties are scams. Admit it or not, it is true to state and nowadays it is really hard to find legible and payable bounties among those numerous bounty projects that are existing in the market. What I can say is that to somehow lessen the chance of getting scam, always take precautionary measures like doing research about the project before engaging on it so that you can be able to assess if it is a legible project or a scam one.

Im not finding it difficult to detect scam projects anymore simply because I've fall too much for scam projects in the past, now I know how smart scammers can be to achieve their goals, my advice is every scam projects have something to hide, with right questions you can identify bad projects

it's a little difficult for new people to identify a scam project. for people who already have the skills, of course, it will be easy but until now I am still having trouble. however scammers prepare everything very neatly, that's what makes it difficult to distinguish. but for scammers who are careless and just from making a project, I think beginners can also recognize it.

Fraudsters uses various methods and techniques in order to get money or personal information from investors. It's the reason why it's a struggle for a person who doesn't have enough knowledge to identify a profitable project, except if they are willing to make some time learning things that they need to consider before investing. Personally, I've been deceived multiple times, but I finally learned my lesson that's why I consider my experiences as one of the foundation of my decisions.

Maybe it's because of the current market situation. Investors are not in a hurry. The market is also downward and most of the projects don't have any potential on it. Maybe the number is now 95% or more but there are some project that has something o it. If you use some of your time to do some research then you will find those unique project

2019 was the worst year for the bounty hunters because there were more than 80% project which came with the same concept to work that were already in the market. In that situation , project do their funding and just tried to list their any exchange to satisfy the investors. But in the long run, many of that project lost their potentiality and also team were in the shadow. It was the worst for investors as well as the hunters. Nowadays, i see that it's happening again because many projects start with the same concepts which are already in the market. Also this projects start their bounty and many hunters are in confusion which project we should  choose to work. Not only this but also many bounty mangers appear in the market who are just launch any shit projects bounty without any research. That's really bad for the hunters. :'(

I've had experience of searching for worth spending money project and there were a couple and I invested in 'em.
Unfortunately, none of them were good enough to make it out there.
So at this point I'm not bothering myself finding another place to invest in, I just choose between known projects/stocks

I think it has always been like that since time past, 90% of bounty program have always been scam or none paying.
The reason why it is obvious lately especially this year is because there are fewer bounty programs, and the gap is greatly felt.

Regarding rules change, it has been stated already that rules are liable to be changed by the team.
Just dyor, understand the rules before participation

The current market space is difficult for emerging projects to compete in, except in the case of ieos on big exchanges. These bounties end up amounting to nothing because the projects struggle to make it to an exchange, struggle to get trade volume.

It's a really sad thing for bounty hunters, sometimes people work for months but don't get anything.
A thorough inspection of the project before joining can help us reduce the risk of encountering fraudulent projects but it cannot guarantee that we can completely avoid them.

Yes, fraudulent projects now have a lot of tricks to bypass inexperienced people, they can steal ideas or fake media websites.

This is probably a very good idea, but very few projects get there. On the other hand, there are projects associated with major exchanges, but as soon as they go to the exchange, they pump and then dump.

There are multiple risk factors associated with the bounty campaigns. If any of these factors get activated, then you may not receive the bounty reward. First of all, only a small minority of the new projects are successful. So what happens to the others? They fail at the market and those who participated in the respective bounty project will be left with some worthless tokens. And even if the project lists successfully, there is a good chance that either the campaign manager or the promoter will refuse to make the reward distribution.

In my own opinion, it is not exactly 90% maybe only just a 80% of it. The reason why other participants only thinks that a project is a scam because they don't receive their rewards on time, that is why they assume that the project is only just a scam, and sometimes their token don't have any good value in some exchanges.

I agree with you. But here is another reason. Many times good projects and their ico cannot be successfully completed. So they cannot be listed on large exchanges, because they have not big money to do marketing and pay listing fees. People who do Bounties get the token but they cannot sell it because the price of the token is low. In the current market situation, 99% of projects are not successful. So it's not fair to expect much here.

Really it's sad thinking for everyone bounty hunter who is depends on the totally bounty work. Actually many people in here no have knowledge trading or invest choice good coins. More people in here depends on the bounty work, and exactly it's to sad their can't participate available every project.

That has been the order of the day now, and sadly enough almost nothing can be done about it. They always add that, they can change the rules if they pleases and they won't say anything about it till the end of the bounty campaign then they will start enforcing rules which will please them which ranges from extending payment to locking payment or even not paying at all while giving excuses and when asked you will be banned. A project which struggles to have a successful sale and afterwards reduce allocation is justifiable and vice versa.
Any project which finds it hard paying for workdone lacks trust and reliability and if a project is not ready for any campaign, then they shouldn't launch it in the first place.

Bounty now isn't same as bounty 2017,2018 and partly 2019. Bounty isn't paying like before the many are scams, many would promise to pay and ends up not paying hunters and many will list, scam investors and run. Some will pay half of your rewards after completing kyc and others will take years before they distribute. Bounty isn't like what we know. It's only few that pay as promised.

I know the Binance team has charged one new project 50BTC a year ago but have no idea about the current listing prices on the Binance exchange. The price matters a lot for bounty hunters, if they can't sell the tokens to the buyers, they will complain in all possible social media platforms like "when Binance?".

Most of the bounty running now can't afford to get listed in Binance, unless they use Binance platform on their IEO, but there are only few project using that since Binance are very careful in terms of evaluating the project as its their reputation is on the line here. What we actually need is an altcoins season, that would boost the altcoins market and would help few exchanges to gain trading volume.

to reduce the level of fraud that does not pay bounty participants, the moderator must apply new rules to new bounties who want to do promotions, one of which might be to ask the project team to send tokens to the escrow or bounty manager

Yeah, most of the bounties right now are scams and the era of successful projects are done, I mean there some projects are getting successful, but most of them are not and there are some fraudulent projects that gets the attention of the investors.

I will agree that 90% of bounties are scam and only 2% of all bounties that are becoming successful. I don't like participating in bounties because of the risks, what kind of risks? It is the risks of wasting my effort and my time. I will only join in bounty that is look promising and also bounty thathave good promotion and project.

There is no way to avoid scam projects in new industries. When people don`t understand what is crypto there will be frauds who just want to steal people`s money. Bounty hunters and investors need to learn how analyze project and choose only trusty one

Too few successful projects in this market, and successful projects delay the token distribution because they are afraid their tokens will collapse. It's too hard for bounty hunters to continue to work in this market, if they lived on bounty then I think they wouldn't be able to survive.

I fully support your point of view. I met with similar problems and still meet, unfortunately, but less often. Apparently the forum moderators work many times better by filtering a scam. Thanks so much for that!
By the way, I already have a blacklist of nicknames with whom it is better not to associate and not spend time on them. And I advise you do it.

but not everyone relies on prizes or knowledge in trading & investing in crypto. it's just that everyone has differences & characteristics with each other. crypto world is free, even we all here don't know each other whether you or some of us are really real & honest?

I recommend to join to the bounty campaign that manage by the trusted and have a lot of successful campaign because for sure they are checking and reseaching about the project before they accept that. But there is still a chance that a project is scam or you did not get any reward but that is not fault of the manager because first of all it's your decision to join and no are forcing you to join so participate at your own risk.

For this year it seems that it has not yet gotten income from the bounty, many projects have postponed payments for various reasons. besides that unsatisfactory prices become its own problems, because indeed the current situation is less conducive, where the world economy is experiencing problems

Well, you are in a bounty now, maybe that is your lucky moment.

Actually ever since the altcoin market has been dump, I've never seen the normal success of the fund raising again.
It's too far away compared to last 2017 and early 2018, it seems like the interest of the people was not here anymore and they choose to invest on old and high volume coins, particularly bitcoin and some good altcoins as well, reason why some major altcoins has still survive until now, but I have not seen them grow yet.

especially the Corona Virus problem. as we see today that the world is haunted by a corona outbreak, there is no activity, some countries quarantine their people, the global economy is declining and also has an impact on the crypto market industry.
but it cannot be denied that this year there are absolutely no profitable ICO projects, many Scam projects and even more painful participating in successful projects. Project tokens have a high sale value in the market, but do not pay participants for some reason.

In my opinion, these Bounties hunters should work on themselves to stop their greediness towards scam projects across board. We have said the time without number that: researching the entire project before promotion will save the investors money and equally save the hunters of the stress of work without payment.

Let's all come together and be more careful with projects without good team members and real world case use. Let protect ourselves and also the investors, please.

They should plan it very well before they launched their campaign or even their whole project. Its matter of planning how they come up with any scenario that can collapse their projects and because of that many investors are now afraid to invest in projects right now. Its resulted for a few success projects and coin offering. Some projects are good, but they launched it's not survive in the market. Project team should be focus in project development and how they will compete to others.
We should avoid and make our own research so that in the end we will not blame ourselves.

I have seen a lot of new rules, but there are still too many scam projects in this market. No matter what bounty managers do, they will face scam projects and failures. I think we should wait for the market to be better so that bounty can succeed like it used to be

It is indeed very difficult now to find a legitimate bounty campaign that really pays for its participants without any reason or anything. And also it seems like some projects also postponed the sale of their tokens/coins because the current conditions do not allow it, and if forced maybe the target will not be reached and the bounty hunter will also not get paid.

It is even tiring,last year was even a bit fair, you could do some bounties and hope that you would be paid and at the end you get rewarded though so many were also scam,this year I doubt if I investors want to invest in new projects because some have exited scam,so they would rather invest in projects in coin marketcap,so since no new project success, the same applies for bounties too.

It will certainly never happen now, if their IEO project or ICO is successful, they will continue to postpone payment for bounty. I don't understand why they do that, if they don't want to pay for bounty then it's best not to create it.

Not all companies that open their ICO are fraudulent from the very beginning. But in the process of working, they face problems that they cannot solve due to the lack of proper experience and knowledge among the team members. These are the companies that lose control over the management, and then lose interest in the project itself.

Since the year of 2018 the number of scam projects have started to increase, that is why investors and bounty hunters have lose their trust in new projects because most of the time the team members are making a lot of excuses when there are some delays in distributing their rewards and some team members have run away.

It is true that in that year many projects failed and have taken investors' money and even in my opinion almost 70% of the projects ran away I think there is also disappointment of investors and hunters towards new projects now and some of them have stopped choosing new projects as good profit.
Maybe now investors will choose the best according to them and not focus too much on new projects because it takes a long time to develop a project in the near future.

some projects give hope like that. who knows what their purpose is, but they are only looking for profit for themselves by not paying the part that has been allocated to the bounty hunter. many reasons, unless they failed to get funds and could not continue the project.

The rules on bounty are too lax, which gives scammers too many opportunities to trick investors, the most realistic correction and improvement in recent years has been the appearance of IEO, creating a protective shield for both investors and projects. But as soon as investors had a little hope of returning, the association with the poor exchanges then started the IEO process, which pushes investor profits into a deep pit, that's like a new scam, lose faith in the project and bounty again appears, bounty is probably hard to build trust back with projects right now

As far as I know now, binance doesn't charge listing fees anymore. If binance list any coins, they write on the announcement the listing fee is 0. But I think listing the coins in the binance requires huge funds. Binance charges it any other way. However there are many exchanges besides binance, new project have not ability to list their coins on those exchanges.

I think that there have always been many scammers, it’s just that even scammers used to collect a lot of money and it was not a pity for them to pay bounty hunters. Now people began to choose projects better and therefore we begin to think that there are more scammers. in fact, it is we have become smarter

Let's get used to everything going on in crypto space, scammers will always be around but it's left for us to stay vigilant and try to avoid any unnecessary mistakes by doing better research, if you aren't ready for better research your chances of getting good reward will be low

Being ready in terms of keep doing your research will bring much higher chances to participate with the right project, even the percentage for good
project around but there's still some project that will provide good rewards.
You need to learn everything in order to be well inform about project that you'll going to participate.

That is true and I think it is a bit higher maybe 95% should be okay. It baffles me when people who calls themselves project team launches a bounty and then play funny once it gets to paying up. Some project team always claim bounty had no positive effect, then comes the question, why launching and sticking to it till the end? In my own view, a project team should focus more on how to make the platform attractive, enhance products and services so that when the platform is being promoted by the bounty hunters, investors will see enough reasons to invest.

Sad to say but it is true. Almost 90% of bounty right now are just a scams compared to the past years in which the bounties are boom or in a boomy section so it is very good but now, the bounties are dead because of the failed and scam projects and also because many bounties are not paying their bounty hunters so they are kind of having a hard time dealing with this problems.

totally agree,,,thats is the reason i left doing bounty campaigns but i recenty joined again just to give one and last chance to it....because there are some which are legit ones....you just need to make some research before investing your time in it

Why the percentage of scam might have increase is the reduction in IEO/ICOs as a whole. Smart bounty managers that can analyse project and detect scam are virtually inactive, so the available bounties are mostly handled by inexperienced bounty managers. Asides the fact that they cant recognize scam they also dont know how to strike a deal with good reward, cant have token in there custody or hand it over to escrow. They are also push around by bounty participants with bad decisions.

Yes some are scams, but let us dont forget the projects that  are legitimate out there.

I encountered some scam 4 years ago and it lts looks legitimate as Ethereum, that I still got bags of it because its promising.

Yes this is true. At the moment most of the work is getting wasted 😣. There are two types which I see due to which which we are not getting benefitted from bounty campaigns.
First is projects turning out to be scammed. And second is projects failing to raise enough funds and getting closed.
We as individuals should have responsibility to avoid participating in such bounties. Moreover bounty managers should also be responsible selecting project for bounty promotion.

I somehow dont agree with you on this part because we all aware of the market status during the year 2018 and theres different between fraud project and the market not appreciating which also affected every crypto in the market and also make some new project owner to skip some of their tasks/payment.

No reasonable bounty or campaign manager wont check each project before make an agreement to advertise their project and i think we also need to understand that the managers are not super man or a machine, they human like us, what they need is our support by searching the genuine level of project advertise on this forum just like ICO ethics and the rest does.

When we say scams, sometimes this differs from person to person judgement.

Some would consider a project a scam when it lost its value or its trading volume, but in reality those projects are just struggling and there's still a chance that it will rise once the market begins to be consistently bullish again.

Did you mean ETH is a scam? Since its inception, ETH has done a great job, and ETH has moved up to second place in this market quickly. It has helped a lot of investors get profit and you are thinking that it is a scam. There are no projects comparable to ETH, for me, the projects at the moment are scams and no future.

In the past years, there so many scams projects that being launched and it's very frustrating. It's affected a lot of bounty hunters and investors if they not research about the projects. There are some projects that legitimate but after the crowdfunding it's failed which included the others a form of another scams. It's different now, in previous projects they show how much fund had been raised over the series of crowdfundings. It's proves that ICO is processing and know how much is needed to raised before the ICO ends.
I recommend to join for projects that manage by most trusted bounty manager in this forum.

Yes, It's all getting worthless day by day the unfortunate thing is mostly bounty participants especially newbies are not trying to understand and getting involve in the bounties which are absolutely worthless and their useless attempts are creating hype for scam bounties which is not a good sign for dedicated and creative participants.

   I don't think there are just newbies involved in promotion of any bounty that appear here
on forum. Many times I saw how senior members and some lower ranks promote bounties
that are scams, but they continue to write their reports in bounty topic. Even after the end
of bounty they continue with promotion! They don't read the topic, they don't do the most
simple research, they don't even open a site of bounty project. But they cry when they are not
paid. In most bounties I participated I got paid, except one!

Presently bounty hunters are painfully faced with the presence of dodgy bounty projects.  It then means that a lot of bounty programs out there, when properly perused are not genuine.  However, if you navigate properly, though, you will come across many genuinely amazing programs which can earn you gluts of cash. However, any experienced bounty hunter or trusted experts will put you through that there is a lot of garbage out there set to frustrate and waste your precious time.
Infact,  bounty hunters have lost faith and have expressed serious reservations about joining further bounties.  They are rather now exploring other sources of earning.

From 2017 - 2020 bounties are getting worse day by day. I really struggle to find a genuine project even already had a research i still cant pick one. Is following a good bounty manager history still legit? Im done doing research to be honest.

Indeed, if viewed from another angle, the bounties project of the campaign delivered was less heard by investors but more inclined to other campaign participants. But in another corner this campaign is an effective thing to popularize a project so that a project can be known by many people.
It is very true that we are like dealing with extraterrestrials, this project starting in 2018 on average does not produce anything, like the points you said above as not listed on the exchange.

Yes, most bounties are a scam, But some bounties very good result same like tokoin Bounty a huge profit, same this  ixinium (XXA) a big profit ,I hope nowadays dacx exchange good result. Yes mostly scam same like Canlead , drifee ,Idlv, Mycrojobs  etc. sure time is very precious.



 

Indeed for now many projects that do not pay the participants of the bounty and I also experienced such a thing, in the year 2019 is indeed an average of many projects that are not successful and we as a bounty hunter feel disappointed because a lot of time has been lost just because of the scam project, but in this year there began to change because there are some projects can get satisfactory results.

I agree, Since the trend of bounty campaigns, instead of having development in bounties, we are now experiencing the worse. It is rare to find a legit and better bounty compared to what we have experience in the year 2016-2017.
Following a good bounty manager is still good but I doubt that every campaign they manage is still legit. There are too many good to be true projects out there, you must be good enough to find one legit project.

It is true that this year it is increasingly difficult to find legitimate projects, in my opinion even 95% of projects are scams. Even though
the situation is like this, I remain optimistic that the future of the bounty will improve. We just need to be patient, wait for the price of
bitcoin to improve and hope it will have an effect project bounties also improved. About 5 projects that I participated in have proven to be
one of them are scams. So be careful in choosing projects.

What is the plus of our project, the fact that the investor can sell his tokens to the company from the first day, without waiting for the exchange, and taking into account the fact that the investor receives 0.7% of the amount in the account according to the compound interest principle, even very good profit is obtained

Look at what the DT members are doing on the forum with similar managers in whose work a "random" scam project was discovered.
They instantly receive a note in their trust, which they do not remove later, which means that this is a mark on the manager’s reputation forever.
If you take responsibility for conducting companies, then it depends on you whether this is an honest company or another scam.

I don't know if it's intended that way but yeah most of the projects  bounty are turning out to be that way. Sometimes the project members prefer to extended the bounty duration just when the bounty is about to end by a month which is extremely unfair . And sometimes they just don't give bounty .

I think you don't necessarily care about their rankings. They may have high ratings in this forum, but they have no experience of bounty selection. In 2019 I saw a lot of cases like that, they joined the shitbounty and promoted it. They then weep and blame these scam projects

We are knew that most of the projects since in the 2018 upto 2020 are scam because many scammer are enter crypto to scam us and use us. They are going to use us by doimg promotinv their project and the all benefits is only to them because the bounty hunters did not earn money if the project are scam and the worst of that is the investors who invest more money .  So we need to be careful of what project we promoted and invested.

And sometimes you just forget that you are expecting a bounty from a certain campaign.
If most of the bounty campaign will extend the distribution and you'll fail to monitor them timely, you might miss it as sometimes they will add some rules to qualify for the distribution and if you miss the period they give, this could mean goodbye to your effort.

Right, scams target you. During 2018-2019 there were indeed many scam projects, it could be due to fraudsters in disguise, it could be due to poor market conditions, and the changing ICO trend. Successful projects with bounty programs are few, such as CEDEX, Content Protocol, while others delay distribution and rewards, and eventually disappear.
We must realize that trends always change. We can still get money from the bounty, but it takes patience and more effort. A good bounty at this time, in my opinion, is the weekly payment in BTC or eth, the rest we must be more prepared to be patient and accept the risk.

Not just the bounty manager alone that needs to check the legitimacy of the project he's going to handle but most of all, we the bounty hunters because scam projects are not really worth of our time spending. There are a lot of projects that seem to be very potential at first but when it almost ends, suddenly it breaks the line and turns out into a scam one. This is the sad reality we are facing at the moment.

I don't agree with the trend part of your post due to the increasing number of bounty scammers and exit scam projects. Finding good bounty is hard, even if the hunter convince himself about the existence of good bounty, catching one is big deal due to the limits by bounty managers. Effort is not rewarded in the delaying bounty distribution and many tricky options are used for increasing the time delay before the real distribution phase.

That is why ignoring the bounty campaigns can help us to maximize our time and effort, I've been scammed due to participating in bounty campaigns and for me it is the rigt decision if I will just ignore it. There are legit bounties but it is hard to find especially if most of the projects nowadays are full of shit and scams. It is hard to find legit bounty and for me you need a time of researching.

I miss the old good days where altcoin bounties are really worth it. No extensions, no KYC, no lock time and ready to be traded. ICOs had died because of the number of projects that are scam. That is why most investors are avoiding bew projects. Even thos projects who are legitimate and dedicated to dekiver good services and products are having a hard time gathering funds because of the fear ICO scam had brought.

I strongly agree with your opinion that many ICOs have become scams, so many are starting to leave even though it is not up to 90% because there are still some that are also good and can succeed. the time is quite long also the period of the scam project has occurred and continues to grow can not be completed because there may be no joint participation to be able to reduce so that no scam project. true your words really miss the good times when altcoin is very valuable and well valued, hopefully things like this can come back again even though now the epedemic corona is also disturbing.

2018 and below is ICO's best year, 2019 and above and maybe onwards ICO will no longer be profitable, it did not occur to me that ICO in the future would be the same as ICO in 2018 below

investing in coins that have entered the CMC list are the best at the moment, don't give your money to con artists

Who can find out for sure whether this project is a con artist or not. we all don't know. sometimes if you see the concept of a peni project [u also have a concept that is no less good than a real project. all we have to do is find and select projects in this forum, by reading, researching very carefully

Re: 90% Of Project Bounties Are Scams, I'd rather reserve judgement for later and I'll just leave it all to speculation for now on whether or not it's actually true.

Nonetheless, that's why I stay away and not bother myself with doing any sort of bounties, to avoid any heartbreaks and disappointments later.

Agree, we will know whether or not a scam project after they do not make payments to the bounty hunter or developer team is no longer active in the group. At present, it is difficult to distinguish between scam projects and not because they have planned it neatly

But we will never go back to the past and the past cruelty will never be repeated because the ICO scams has caused it to disappear, and projects that are truly legitimate must now work harder to be trusted by investors

Well, the longer, the harder it is to find a project that is truly successful. however, it's quite natural if we see so many scams since 2018. Because of this, many people suggest being cautious about choosing investments. Yeah, but when crypto recovery occurs, I hope that there will be many promising projects in the future.

all projects have a good and interesting concept. it's just that a project is constrained in raising funds to progress the project
such as failing ICO / not achieving soft caps. until the project has the potential to be a scam

I agree that we have too many bounty scams running in this forum. But if you are an experienced person in this market and have experience in choosing bounty then I believe you can completely avoid those bounty scams. Should participate in bounty carefully selected

We can't decrease it but if we want we can avoid all scamming project, a bounty hunter will very sad if a project going to scam after successful token sales. So we need carefully mind for kick every scam project then one day it can decrease.

As long as you are very careful when participating in new projects, I believe you will never be disappointed with it. You need to do research before making decisions, now I see there's quite a lot of good bounty. You can go to the bounty section and make your own reviews

Several times I did it, but this is very hard that divide by percent all good and bad project. Suppose I put Buzzshow project isn't very good project but this project is listed after developing everything. When some team didn't know that they can do everything possible as roadmap. If you make a research from 2013-Now that could be possible.

related to the ICO project then I can say that most ICO projects are fraud. Unlike 2017, 2017 is a good year for bounty projects, many bounty hunters make a profit at that time from ICO projects. but after going through that period including in 2018 to 2020 the bounty project experienced various problems, such as fraud projects, delays, not paying participants, and corona outbreaks have also affected this industry.

This is Our problem right now, BM don't want to check detailed of Project before managed their Bounty program, i have participate on many crypto bounty but only some project make a success, another project only want to get free advertisment.

It's extremely pitiful bounties are not worth investing energy in nowadays. I recall those days in 2017 when you could make $4K out of one single bounty. At present, I would not exhorted anyone to out his heart to participate much in bounty since you are likely not going to get paid or the project will end up being scam.

Yeah, I remember those days when it was possible to make a 1 BTC within a month but the rates are lowered and suspicious requirements are asked by bounty managers in order to avoid paying high reward in limited bounty hunters participants joined the campaign.

Though there is shortcomings from the bounty manager himself, I think the deciding factor also is the bounty hunter himself. He should also do his part of digging about the project. Because most BMs actually are after for the payment. Not many BMs here will do their job of studying the project first.

So it's on the hunter himself whether he will participate or not on a project without doing any kind of research. Sometimes you can't blame also the BM because the direction of the project is not based on him but the developers themselves. I have encountered also here that some BMs have no idea that the project will exit scammed and turned out to be a victim himself. So if you want a guarantee, just join bounty programs managed by reputable BMs here, maybe paid by btc or eth only.

and that is the reason why investors today tend to decrease because they have realized that most of the Ico projects are fraudulent. I think project investors in 2018-2019 or prize hunters have witnessed how the ICO project worked at that time. almost all are frauds and only a few successful projects.

I haven't even seen any successful projects in 2018-2019. They all got a lot of money from investors but they became scam soon after or survived for some time but disappeared. It is the ICO that has made the market situation worse than it is now because investors have lost faith in altcoins in this market.

Nowadays bounties are getting more and more attention if it requires work but not money, so bounty hunters are a lot more common and they are everywhere since it require any money at all but it requires time and many people think that it worths to put time into something and make money from it instead of putting money and make money from it.

Unemployment or lack of a job is a bigger issue in many places of the world, you may work for 1 dollar per hour for your free time because in the end you do not have a better option available, not everyone lives in USA to make 10 bucks an hour at mcdonalds type of simple job, so they accept anything they can get with 1 dollar per hour on 10 hours a day, that is 10 bucks a day and 300 bucks a month and probably higher than some minimum salary in some nations.

If we think about the current lockdown which is happening around the world, i still see bounty as another alternative to make money rather been indoor and idle. However, making money while no investment is involve is still awesome but i think bounty hunters still need to be careful though when selecting project they work for.

I went through my laptop today and I saw a couple of videos of Ian Ballina and some Crypto founders eating steaks, drinking wine and make merry and all I could remember was how much people have lost in ICO projects. Crypto is young anyways and still has a long way to go alas

bounty condition from year to year is very alarming because indeed of the many bounties only a few are successful and that's it have is often been the case in recent years. many bounty hunters cry and many of stop being bounty hunters. maybe we can't blame the bounty manager because he's not part of the team and maybe we can blame the bounty manager for promoting a scam project.

we will never know what will happen after the project we follow ends. whether to be listed on the market or whether to pay because it is the greatest risk that prize hunters must accept. but don't despair and keep trying even though it always falls in the same hole because not all projects end in fraud.

it is undeniable that the worst period for all ICO projects, because most of the new projects are growing, only looking for a momentary profit by committing fraud. unfortunately this can not be done any action, from maybe the one who understands and maybe who can act, so the fraud project becomes very significant.
although we also have to be honest there are still projects that can be completed properly and can complete their responsibilities properly. when it starts to grow, the corona epedemic develops, which at least is quite disturbing too, hopefully this epedemic will quickly get back to normal. there is still a good future for good projects in the future and must be optimistic.

Im sure they have many campaign manager who reviewing the project befote accept it but they still many project who cannot determine the project purposes if it's real or fake. A scammer are become more smarter and upgraded in the last few years ago and they invented a new ways to hide the thruth so still many people ways their time and also the money.

There was an increasing number of participants even before lockdown but yes I do agree that lockdown increased that number even more.

This is probably the easiest way to find a job, sure it may not end up paying too much but at least you are not really entitled to make them believe on your CV here, all you have to do is follow what is required and do what bounties ask you to do and just prove them that you did the work and get paid. Maybe it will turn out to be a good amount, maybe it will turn out to be tiny, that part is the risk hunters takes.

There are many successful projects in 2018-2019. But those projects do not run bounty so you may not pay attention to it. And the bounty running project has failed in the last few years, not too many projects exist until now because they died after only a few months listed in the exchanges.

this reminds me of something I read 1 year ago on this forum, it was a scam accusation and the person who was making the charge said: "most of the owners of these projects look at the work of the bounty hunters as something insignificant." I looked at that phrase and talked a lot with someone who was running an ICO and realized that it was true that many people who run these projects have no respect for bounty hunters.

I think 99% of projects that run a bounty campaign is just a waste of time because mostly of those projects are failed and  turned to nothing. This so very frustrating in the part of all bounty participant that gives their full effort and time  but at the end it's totally waste of time. But despite of all those scam and failed projects,i'm still hoping that this coming years good and reputable projects will come.

So if you find this as true nature of Bounty now then better stop joining perhaps?because these scammers can continue their Works if there are still Fools that joining their project and spreading their company to lure victims.

This is the problem about Bounty hunters because they are carelessly Joining Bounties but when they scammed then followed By asking people to Help them .

Agree that there are many bounty scams in this market, but if you have experience and analysis of those projects then I believe you will stay away from those bounty. Always carry out research before engaging in their bounty, you will definitely not waste time on pointless projects.

Even after all the scam projects some bounties still survive till date, if you can spend time to do research you will be fine, yes you can't completely escaped scam bounties but with research you will get better doing research

Scam bounties will always appear in crypto space every year but if you are so good and calm with research you will easily burst some fake projects, I did this myself this year and safe my neck from scam projects

Yes or even higher than that,

I haven't seen any successful bounty campaign for the past weeks or months. Though some might say that they have participated in a certain bounty and it was successful, but for me, it is not yet considered as legit if after having a successful launched they will just forget about the project and enjoy themselves with the money they raise.

If you do well, I believe that you will avoid most scam projects in this market. I also participate in selective bounty, I do a lot of research before making decisions to join because I don't want to waste time with bullshit projects.

Well, bounty managers are really checking the projects before they start managing it. But the outcome of the project is not in their hands and they don't even know any internal plans of the project team. So, even if they think that the project seems legit by investigating the project, the outcome will still depend on the project team.

Let us just say the reason for this is because of unsuccessful completion of most projects. Just as you have noted. Alot of them have been around for awhile but the token they give hunters are either locked or even not tradable. Many of them do not even raise up to 2 ETH. I know a particular fantastic project called Gymreward. They could not raise any money and up to date, the dev team are still working to give the public something to smile about.

I think for now the bounty scam is more than 90%, and I also agree with you if the bounty manager has to be more careful in choosing projects, if you may suggest to the bounty manager to ask for a token before the campaign can be started through escrow or directly to bounty manager so that hunters don't worry about their payment problems

It is no news again that most of the projects we are having now are just out to scam people and disappear. Most of the projects don't have anything to offer to the community, they are here to take from the community and run away.

The rate at which scam project is increasing is beyond what i can bear. That's why have decided not to participate in most of bounty program this days and an the little one i take part in, i make a thorough research.

Yes, making a research before reaching the answer level is necessary due to the appearance of many scam bounty campaigns on the crypto forums. Nowadays, it is not hard to separate the good and bad bounty campaigns but not everyone has the same knowledge level to see the difference.

Scammers know each other with checking the details of bounty campaigns, they usually share the common things: Fake team photos, plagiarized whitepapers, and the same website UI/UX. Research is very important and every investor needs to learn this through a hard way with getting scammed a few times. What I advise to keep the losses minimum before running out of the business.

I supposed to think that not all coming from 90% is a scam project. We are just making in quick judgement seeing an unsuccessful project is a scam already. I know their devs don't want this thing to happen with them but it is also because of the worthiness of their project that hasn't seen or being considered by the investors. But the worse thing is that their market image has been ruin already because of the said failure.  

Oh. It's 90% now? That's astonishing. I really don't see why the need to rant. The entire cryptocurrency market is down at the moment. So any new projects will have difficulty getting investors to buy into their projects. There's no one to blame. It is what it is. Even some bounty hunters are quitting the business today

All bounty manager has good campaign, he didn't get it without any research. If you found anything scam in any projects, let the manager know first. All bounty manager should throw us a task that rewards will be provide if we found any scam project in his running campaign.

No, lately I have not seen a lot of fraudulent ICO projects. Therefore, the figure of 90 percent is too exaggerated. Fundraising through the ICO - IEO is now very difficult. Investors are in no hurry to invest in new projects. At the same time, ICO teams come up with various additional responsibilities for bounty hunters and this pushes them away from participating in these projects.
ICO projects need government regulation in order to regain investor confidence in them. ICO teams must undergo appropriate registration and verification by state bodies, then the attitude to this type of activity will change.

if talking about the project in 2018 is not so bad when compared to 2020. maybe if you have joined for a long time in this industry, still remember the project in 2018? like the SESISA project can be said to be beneficial for investors and prize hunters. and in 2019 maybe like Ixinium, I just heard it, but I didn't participate in the campaign. the point is that not all projects are scam and of course there are still good projects out there, and that depends on how you research and how dev works in developing their projects.

Agreed, but a slight disagreement is that the scam project's content may be even lower. I have participated in almost all of these campaign projects from the beginning of the year 2020 till the end of the year 2019. One of them will hold me firmly in my place of frustration. Because I participated in each of their categories, I did not get a good percentage. As a result, I will be wary of them.

Agreed, and the rest 10% still makes me hunts for more projects, I can promote 10 bounties and only 2 turn out well, this won't stop me from been a bounty Hunter still, we are not in the good bounty eras anymore but few projects still manages to turn out well

Agreed your mind after 2017 year later we received more scam project and the mainnet still running. Therefore this is the mainly bounty job not good deal at this time so we need others job. I leave bounty social media work almost two years over and now i am in work trading.           

bounties are dying. i am monitoring only for one bounty manager and participate only in his campaigns. it means that last  year i almost not participate in bounties. find your bounty manager.

Not only bounties are dying, but it has become less projects that require blockchain on cryptocurrency to be involved. Compare announcements topic amount in 2017-2018 and 2019+ years. The amount has decreased dramatically.

Also, scammer understood that it is better to find another way to scam, than to make another project that runs ico and collect investors funds.

Personally i want recommend you can participate bountydetective manage her many trusty campaign, but absolutely you can inquiry before joining. You know many bounty group death longer time so we need participate only real project like adding good exchange.

You are right buddy, many scam bounties these days, I do even prefer already trading projects to those yet to list as many are there for promotion and to gain recognition and get in investors mind, once they see what they are looking for all run with the funds they have recieved from investors. Very sad to see bounty of this period.

Right now participating bounties completely waste of time because they have nothing in return most of projects are scam or nothing so better use of your time for learning some skills and have good earning from this instead of doing this all golden era already end and now its very difficult we have any good project in near future until this Corona going to end and economy is going to be in very positive way for investors.

Never rely too much on bounty managers. Sometimes they make mistakes and manage bullshit campaigns. You should do your own research and choose the best campaigns to join

we may be apathetic about the number of participating bounties affected by scams, so that it seems like it's a waste of time, but if we look closely I believe there are actually good and true people who can complete it to the point of getting rewards.
the situation suddenly changed because the arrival of the epedemic corona made all that was actually well affected by the situation. because the country is not conducive due to the impact of epedemic corona, so many are delaying until the situation in the country returns to normal.

No one is perfect, even trusted and experienced bounty manager sometimes miss out on detecting scam projects, so you should not base the legitimacy of the project based on who is managing it.

That's right, it's just that sometimes the famous bounty manager chooses projects that are more promising than others. Yeah, but the most important thing is to do your own research. even when it is the best bounty manager, they cannot really guarantee how good the project will be in the future.

At least the trusted managers will always try to implement a few layers verification purposes to avoid the possibility to get a scam project. I have seen some managers were applying very strict veryfication is still exist these days while those were not doing it just gone. This will actually affect the reputation of the managers. That's why experienced manager is really needed.

The perfect question is are you willing to take your chances with the remaining 10% ? Don't say NO, I don't see any reason not to take the advantage of that remaining 10% because few bounties will still be profitable this year

Many bounty projects scammed us, but I think there has some legit project to continue the bounty job. I am still learning how to find a better project until then I will follow big people and will do what they do.

Always use your research on every project and bounty, because that will obviously help you also from scams, because following people who are big alone will obviously not be enough for you to avoid the scam of projects or bounties.

Actually there are handful of bounty projects that are coming out this year than in the previous years and they are actually doing quite good like Cartesi which is currently featured in Binance Launcpad. Bounty Detective has some quality bounties as well and some others too. You only have to make a proper research to avoid those red flags bounties to get rewarded.

yes you are right, a few months ago I joined a bounty campaign run by a well-known manager but instead I worked with a crap project, not paying bounty participants. doing research is more important than just trusting the bounty manager

It's quite unfortunate that there's no eyes that can fully differentiate between a scam bounty and a good one. In everything we do in life, there's always a bad part. Just do what you can and leave what you can't. And also, don't put too much hope so you don't feel too bad when something goes wrong.

People need to appreciate their own time more and respect it. There is nothing wrong with wanting extra income and being willing to work for it is great. The problem is these mindless drones of people just signup to any project and just use spammy accounts. This ruins things for other hunters and many times these people do not even check if the project is a scam or not. Sometimes I feel people like wasting their time.

Please take the time to do full research about the project you do bounty for. You work for money that you invest into tokens or you work as a hunter and earn tokens. Either way, you work. So do not work for no reason.

Just because the vast majority of bounties fail doesn't mean they're scams.

Most bounties state quite clearly that there is no guarantee you'll get paid anything at all. They're a numbers game, or if you know what to look for you, you can minimize the risk of failure.

You should expect that 90% of bounties will fail, so you better ensure that the 10% that succeed sufficiently covers the effort you put into all the bounties you work with.

Alot of campaigns are fake, and some people might not be able to dictate scams, presently in this period that the market is down, people should just be very careful

Even if they fail and their altcoin doesnt worth 1 satoshi, why not still send reward to bounty hunter? I would not mind having this worthless token in my wallet. Who know who would create a buy order on etherdelta or forkdelta for example.

For example lets take Miracle Tele scam projects. There are numerous proofs that it has failed, but trades still goes on according to contract

Even if we are on a bull market, we will see a lot of scam projects appear here. It is important that we have experience for ourselves and choose good campaigns to participate in, to avoid wasting time and energy.

you always have your eyes. when you will be in the cryptocurrency market for a long time, then you can easily see the difference between bad and good projects. and your scam bounty campaign statistics will be much lower.

This is absolutely the truth, many bounty this days are full of scams, I have done many that ended up being nothing and some that were something but team out of greediness refused paying hunters, it's just few bounty that pays and that is bounty with good team and considerate mindsets.

I don't think that all bounty campaigns experience scams. Many bounty managers don't pay for them, but I am sure that of the many scam projects, there are still bounty campaigns that are successful and can give pretty good results.

your words was sound good two years ago. now only bounty manager you trust. everybody make mistake, there is no bm who service 100\100 profit and good projects. i do not know new bms. most of them do not give a sh8t thair project scam or not, they was payd with btc or eth, not projects tokens.
working only with guy you most trust.

I joined this forum 3 years ago and have participated in bounty campaigns. I make lots of bounty campaigns but only a few projects pay me valuable tokens. Most they don't pay for my efforts to promote their projects to the community on this bitcointalk forum. I hope the well-known bounty campaign management teams will select reputable projects to promote. As such, it helps the bounty hunters like me have more confidence in new cryptocurrency projects.

If we throw the question to everyone or all bounty hunters, of course the answer they give is willing, not not, because everyone would want to profit even though only 10% of the potential is in the current bounty project.

What should we called projects that are listed and trading on exchanges that failed to distribute to bounty hunters? Scam too? it's really not easy to become a bounty hunter, payment is not guaranteed

the reason I chose a bounty that already has a market is that now it's hard to find bounties that really pay. the potential of bounties that already have a market is greater than those without a market because if they don't pay, it will only damage their image, especially if they have sales in popular markets. so far, not many bounties like that. choose a bounty that already has sales in a large market.

I see now there are still many bounty projects that are scattered and already listed on the exchange, maybe that could be our chance to take part in the promotion, therefore don't assume all projects are scams and don't pay hunters, maybe it's just a few and the rest pay with right.

Such a project is not said to be a scam by investors, because investors are certainly paid if the project is successful, but bounty hunters will still call such a project a Scam, because their rights are not paid by the team or the manager who holds the project.

Yes, being careful is very necessary, but we also have to act to find out whether the campaign is fake or not, because if we only sit out of caution, we will also not get anything in the current conditions.

Well.. there are a few such projects. And know what... these guys will always be having some stupid excuse for doing that. Sometimes they will make KYC mandatory at the end, despite not mentioning about it in the beginning. And in some cases, they may delay the payment by a few months saying that it is being done in order to prevent the dumping of tokens by the bounty hunters.

In cases of fraud like this, Bounty manager is not entirely to blame. Because a manager only manages the bounty until it's finished, then all tasks will change hands with the bounty team itself.
Indeed, bounty fraud is very much happening, and they do various ways to destroy the dreams of bounty hunters, even when the bounty is running, Bounty Hunter has a very important role in promoting their project. When the bounty ends, they do various ways to fool the bounty hunters, and make bounty hunters like beggars who expect their mercy.

That is true. This is where the side of an investor and the bounty hunter will be divided. It is indeed true that the investors get their investment as there will be no problem because they are the priority of the project, and on the other side, the bounty hunters will think that the project is a scam because they are not being paid. In this case, this is already a scam wherein the project cannot provide what they promised and the name of the project will have a bad reputation that can even reach the investors' attention.

Those usually can't develop a good altcoin so joining the bounty is not worth it since the coins are worth nothing.

I have followed the bounty from 2017, from the social media campaign and the signature bounty campaign, having a prize that was not small at that time, I be grateful in 2017-2018 is a good time, but for 2019-2020 I think the bounty is indeed not a good, and I don't think 90% scam, you are wrong

the situation is expected. Crypto is largely an unregulated space and that's why there are so many scam projects. Its the human nature to behave in such erratic manner till a governing body emerges and supervises the activities. But until then, the onus lies on participants to use their vast knowledge and experience to sift the grains from.the chaffs

Why are you saying that OP is wrong? Apparently from 2019 until now, more than 90% of bounty is scam. You can go to the bounty section and do the check, it is difficult for you to find bounty successfully in that period. But 2020 is a great year for bounty, I'm seeing a lot of good bounty running. It is completely different from 2019

2018-2019 many bounties with failures that occur due to serious failure by the developer so that the project does not run smoothly.
But this year many bounties that have appeared are already listed on the stock exchange, which means there is a good increase this year, hopefully this year there will not be many failures in the bounty program.

Apparently this year bounty has been a lot better. But there is still a lot of risk that bounty will not make distribution, we will have to wait a few months to be able to make the most accurate comments.

It correlates with the number of scam ICOs.  ;) Because in most cases we are promoting ICOs. But, you waste only time, instead of ICO investors that are loosing real money. And because of that, we earn very low rewards - noone trust in ICOs, noone would like to buy our earned tokens.

Bounty programs are incentives offered to an array of participants for various activities associated with an initial coin offering (ICO). ... The incentives can take the form of cash rewards (usually rare) and free (or discounted) tokens which can be cashed in later when the tokens are listed on an exchange.
Broadly, there are two stages to an ICO. In the first stage, which is also known as pre-ICO, the offering is marketed to prospective investors. These include social media influencers, blog writers and Bitcointalk Signature Bounty marketers.
But in short whatsoever people notice is thriving they take advantage of it. Though they are scammers but not up to 90%. You need to critically look at a project before venturing in to it with like of there white paper, manager, and the team. This can little bit pave way for someone not to be scam. So that is it

Maybe 90% of them ends in a scam, but for sure at the start of those project, the idea was to make a clean business. But why do these bounties ends in a scam? When the people see how their token is making tons of real money, then there are no more reasons to spend a big time and effort to the business, at that point is easy to hit and run.

It's sad but that's the way it is.

May be some really wanted to come up with a clean business but there are always scammers and if they find an opportunity to cash in they will jump in and that is what happened in the ICO market, it was easy to get funds if you had an novel idea for a project and that attracted all the scammers, only regulation can prevent the scammers from exploiting the market.

although this year many projects have been registered in the market but there are some that are not in accordance with the distribution schedule, I follow 2 bounties that have been registered in the market but for sending coins to the bounty hunters late even some have to wait for up to 3 months

Yeahh.. i hate when this is happen, the project is already list in exchange but they always have a reason to delay distribution.. and i joined this bounty since a year ago and we must past KYC 2 times first by their BM and now from the project team ::) But waiting is over (maybe) because distribution day is almost come i hope there will no more drama for the distribution..

I think it's a good thing to keep the price tokens not dumps, indeed distribution with period 3 months does make us annoyed to wait, But if that's the best for the Project then we must also support their planning. It's better to join a Bounty that is already registered on the Exchange than an unclear Bounty where Exchange will be used.

Developers should make it clear in the first place that bounty hunters need to wait a long time to receive their bounty but instead they just change the terms and condition of the bounty campaign to mess with bounty hunters, i can understand the price will dump if bounty hunters will sell but they shouldn't lock the tokens if the volume is high.

We cant avoid losing investors. Imagine how much money are those investors are losing on investing on ICOs? The bounty works if the project succesfully launched money and if the tokeb create demands. But we cant earned money if those ICOs that we promote never get succesful. OP is right most of the bounty are becoming scam and from that we cant rely anymore on bounties. Maybe we should seek other ways aside from doing campaign, social media is a powerful tool and most of these projects are depending on it. Maybe create more serious skills and learn more tough experience would let us advance than simply doing bounty.

Right, for now it's better to join Bounty where their tokens are already listed on the good Exchange, some Project teams have postponed the distribution Bounty tokens due to incorrect time, because Bearish situation or various other negative situations. And now maybe the reason because Corona virus is the reason they give for us.

I support this topic in a different way.The bounty manager can check any project well beforehand.Hunters need to be much more aware.Most good projects provide payment.This would have been possible if the payment had been confirmed.Then it is possible to avoid it.

This year might be different, honestly I've came across many good projects this year so far and 70% of this year bounties are all trading on exchanges, this will encourage people like me to keep trying and never think about giving up

yes, they are. most of the bounty projects nowadays are a scam. The owner just wants quick money and tried to scam people. so before joining any bounty project first try to identify that they are legit. because don't water your time on scam bounty project and you may get red trust for promoting scam bounty project.

Agreed, the majority of Bounty projects are scams, but it is usually quite easy to identify 100% scam projects. The most of them do not even make a quality website.

Because they don't have the budget, but be careful on those who are really good but they are scammers in reality, being a bounty hunter, you will not be at risk but the investors are, they will suffer if the team will just leave.

let's say they were able to raise a good amount, they paid their bounty participants, they pump the project and they leave it.. that's the end, but they will be back with another name and start their scheme again.

entering early 2020 there is a high sense of optimism that crypto will begin to return to passion. what you say that this year is different, it must be recognized. many projects can be completed to the finish and are listed on stock trading. unfortunately in the following month there was a disturbance that was quite disturbing activities that were going well, namely epedemic corona. many projects have to postpone, some have extended their time so that the situation in the developer country can be effective first. but that will not dampen because they remain optimistic that the project will be completed. because indeed the passion for improvement is already visible.

Agree that there are many bounty already listed at the exchange. But I'm still a bit worried, I'm afraid they will still be like the bounty not listed at the exchange. Delay distributes and forgets it like previous campaigns did

I believe that 2019 was a turning point, because in 2018 the amount of fraud in the cryptocurrency market increased and many investors lost their money, and most cryptocurrency users during this time became more careful in choosing projects for investments and more competent in the Technical analysis of the whole  available information.  In addition, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the cryptocurrency market has noticeably revived over the last period and therefore developers have much more chances to implement new projects and therefore the balance is shifted in favor of new existing projects, and not towards scammers.

They may delay payment, but I believe you will receive them. They will not lose the reputation of the project with only a few tens of thousands of dollars from bounty. If they scam bounty then you can denounce them with exchanges, I believe the exchange will unlist those projects.

Delaying the paying is breaking the contract although there was really no valid contract like the usual where a lawyer will notarized, but there reputation is at risk when they break their own rule. Also, the confidence of the investors will drop, why would they delay the payment if they believe the project will succeed, bounty allocation is just a small amount or a small percentage.

Sometime delay to distribute and the prices in the exchange was going to dip if we receive our bounty rewards. Ill always experience on it an when Im participating some bounty campaign and then the distribution it take to long, As of now there some bounties are trusted to participate but we cannot tell yet also if these will be the same from other campaign that will take to long receiving our bounty rewards.

Presently, the Token Development Campaign is a major coin launching activity, which means promoting propaganda for someone here. I am very happy when an approachable project is evaluated and its trading speed is noticeable. But the opposite is the danger. However, the current statistics are the majority of the scam project .

Yeah, there are not enough good project that has bounty campaign running.
If we compare campaigns on 2017 and now, we can be very sad because there are no campaigns like that anymore
I think we must carefully choose what campaign we will join on these days to save our time.

2017 to 2018 Bounty World has passed a golden time. The market has faulted since the end of the 2018 Year.And investors have all turned their backs.Investors have lost confidence in their investments due to accidents at many large exchanges.But I hope this is due to the current time lock down.Everyone is a prisoner at home.The market is back and the bounty will be successful again.

I think same. In fact, at the end of 2018, the market began to fall. This creates mistrust among investors. As a result, most of the bounties are not succeeding. At present, the whole world is suffering from the epidemic caused by the corona virus. I hope the market will be normal when this epidemic is over, most of the bounties will be successful.

That is reality, many campaigns were not successful collecting the money from investors, and they didn't pay the participants.
Bounty manager should not accepting bad project, and they should research about the project first, so they can manage to pay the participants.

I don't think the Bounty manager will think that the project being managed will become a scam or not pay the bounty campaign participants. I agree that 90% of bounties projects are scams but I think there is no harm in joining bounties as long as we do research first

After the golden period, scam projects began to emerge that wanted to deceive investors. Many projects are able to reach millions of dollars in sales but the performance on the exchanger is very disappointing, besides that many projects are not listed on the exchanger after selling tokens

that's why sometimes I prioritize bounties that have been listed in the market rather than those that are still planning. it can increase the likelihood of being paid rather than not. it's because their reputation can be ruined just because they don't pay bounty hunters. however, I have my own research to avoid bounty scams. trying to get 10%.

We can't blame that much the bounty managers as they need also a money and the happenings is only natural knowing that the market is in bear for the past 2 years but the percentage will likely to increase once we can hit the bull season again. As fellow bounty hunters, it is our job to find the best project to support and make sure that they have potential.

If we find any abnormality to the project then we can leave anytime we like so we can avoid losing too much time and effort for the scam projects.

That would be nice if we can find out early, unfortunately it does not happen most of the time, what happens most of the time is we just find out after the crowdsale, ICO or IEO.. so the effort has been rendered and we get nothing.  :'(

I think Bounty participants need to understand that what project to promote and the bounty manager to work with. A group of bounties enjoy been ongoing. selected bounty managers cheat, but at hand are more or less that are exact sincere with their jobs. Which is why I pick the bounty managers to effort with. If you are banish new in the system, I strength not participate in the plan ahead you are managing, except I am confident that roughly actions receive been put in place, to tab that.

I personally believe that most of the new projects in the cryptocurrency space are not legit. These are the same projects that invites bounty hunters for campaigns, only to walk away without paying the hunters or paying an over dumped tokens which are worthless. I must confess that I'm reluctant about bounties lately and the morale to keep Striving for good project is lacking.

I think that in this forum it is necessary to create a commission, that will consist of authoritative people of this forum, which will check the bounty campaign for scam signs. Because now there is no bounty campaign regulation mechanism

but it's very rare for projects that have been listed on several exchanges to do a bounty, so don't just rely on waiting for projects that are already listed, doing your own research more thoroughly is a great way to avoid scammers

In my opinion it's better not to do bounty than having to promote a scam project, even though we have already done research but it is very rarely a good project.

It is a matter of great regret that Scam in bounty projects is not a new problem, it is running from long days. But you should be selective in choosing your correct job. If you analyze the project and history of the bounty manager before participating in the program, you will realize that is scam or not. Any good member never want to spoil his/her account. So, the best solution is be technical before participation.

This has been answered many times by theymos. If you can see the ad slot space, there's already a note that says.
They won't do that because you have to be responsible for joining one.

Bounties are mostly scam today, the only solution is still escrow but can projects will never allowed it, popular bounty managers should start forcing escrow on new projects, this is the only way that bounty hunters can get paid after bounty ends

that is why it is necessary to know the bounty you are participating and the campaign manager responsible for it. they bounty managers that are working with scammers. it is an organized deal. the scammers designed a fake project, launch a bounty, after a FAILED token sales which they will lie that  was successful, they proceed to list on exchanges like Latoken, p2pb2b, vindex. it is a routine task for them. you are should know this by now.

No, this can't be implemented

To be fair dude, most popular bounty managers want a great project, unique and have strong team. Because of this three thing he can speculate when the ICO has listed in the exchange the token is valuable and can be traded.

What if the project is poor and don't have good team? Popular bounty manager will refusing this project. Since he doesn't get popular bounty manager, then he will offering to any bounty manager who want to manage his project

As simple as that

But this is the bread and butter of many people here, they have made a lot here in the past and they are hoping that the glory days of bounty hunting to comeback, bounty hunters should be very careful if they keep on projects that are tagged as a scam, they will also be tagged as promoters of scams.

there are some who make payments even though the price does not match the expectations, so it seems not entirely true even though after the release the price can drop very dramatically.
That is why you are better off choosing a manager that you already trust, even if the project fee is small, at least it will pay off, rather than promoting a scam project with a large payoff.

a crap idea. No one will be free to implement your ideas, no one will be able to control their new and bounty projects. If you participate in bounty, you need to take risks of scam projects. If you're scared, it's best to give it up and look for another job

Yes, i think you are absolutely right here. We spent our valuable time behind the project to forwarded them to mass investors. But when payment time come they lock the sheet or token or token give their exchanges where buyers did not go. This is very very shame.

But as a bounty hunter we can not wait for until payment time, we look for next bounty and that is way maximum time we are payment less. So i think every bounty hunters should work specific bounty which may give payment in time.

Right, few bounty hunters made bounty as a slavery job but this was not at all slavery job rather it was respected task two or three years ago. Now maximum bounty hunters are doing bounty with altaccounts. If you find in any spreadsheet, you will find huge cheaters. This cheaters made bounty as a slavery job now and some bounty managers also responsible for this conditions. They made their campaign rules huge task but payment is too low to cover costs.

There will be controversy over this but in fact I think the 90% figure is quite accurate, and possibly even larger. I joined a bounty hunters group, which the group projects that participated in this year were largely unpaid.

We are all facing this problem before 2018. This isn't new problem but later this pump scam project was incredibly increased. Lunes wallet did the same thing but I had trust this project is average. First paid in their wallet after update nothing left there. I think token or coin distributed many projects but those token or coin had no value.

I hope there is a third party service and the third party is very helpful to hold the total bounty tokens that have been promised by their project to bounty participants, and there is a team that oversees their project to analyze the whitepaper and the performance of the team project whether it is genuine or a scammer

So the point is that the token that was promised to the bounty participant was not in the project team and in the bounty manager, but in the third party

That is why the scam section is one of the most active section with always new thread because so many scam projects are listed everyday, the manager should also have the responsibility of thoroughly, each project he is handling not only because of the profit and the gain that he is going to get.

That means what you mentioned is like escrow to hold the bounty token right when it is distributed to bounty hunters and I don't think there is a third party in the bounty campaign and all that has to be a manager and team agreement on how to give the hunters the best.

Still, most of the bounties right now are not good they are mostly bad projects were their intention only to get money from their investor.
So we must wise in choosing a project where you are planning to invest unto it. I suggest not this time, it is better to buy coins in
the platform exchange that are on top in the market. With this, there are higher chances that we can earn in the future.

We need influential people to change this, now the bounty manager and project have done something inappropriate. There are a number of demands filed:

1. KYC must be eliminated, bounty hunters should not do this, must be another way to prevent fraud, KYC is not the right solution.
2. Distribution, many BMs and projects carry out long-term distribution, some of them always provide distribution 3 months after the campaign is over. It's not feasible for bounty hunters, give us our rights, we work and you have to pay on time.

Maybe someone wants to add to this, let's get proper rights as a bounty hunter.

This is true, there aren't so much project ongoing that are real only for a very small few,also because of the pandemic so much was distorted, hopefully now that we have entered second quarter,we hope for the best and as BTC gains stability,the market will be stable and investors would want to invest in altcoins existing already.

well I would say that the percentage is also much higher, in my opinion it also reaches 99%, since the end of 2017 the bounties have gone worse and worse and their value has drastically decreased and many have become scams, the sad reality is that perhaps the time of ico and therefore of the bounties connected to them is ended forever

Yes, and I think all bounty hunters feel the same way, because in this year there are not so many projects that were born, so that it will be easier for us to make a percentage for all projects, both scam and non-scam projects.

I don't think I agree with you .. 90% is too much of a number to categorize all bounties. I've participated in a number of bounties and I don't think I agree with your statement.. Most times, the problem comes from bounty managers. When the bounties are not managed by trustworthy managers it becomes shady.. I always do bounties by Bounty Detective and I don't have any issues.

we know that 90% of bounties are scams, and that has become part of the risk, everyone must know the risks, and I also know it,
but remember we have 10% to make money at the bounty  ;)

Bounty hunters face many bounty complaints because the project team's impartiality of bounty hunters makes distribution difficult, mostly exactly as described by the OP and some good gifts generally break down the distribution into fragile portions of distribution time every 2-3 months, we expect bounty in the 2018 era will then return in the future.

Yes thats true but also there are times when project owners assigns someone from their team to handle bounty management so that to avoid extra cost they had to pay to third party manager if hires. In that scenario, a manager might take decision that suits their project the best even when its ethically wrong.

Hence always try to choose bounties which are managed by competent and wise manager.

as I recall some time ago I saw you also often become a manager of a bounty campaign and in my opinion not all bounty managers make mistakes sometimes the team of the project itself creates a conflict with the bounty manager so that it creates an agreement, many cases often occur like this.

This is the reason why the coin market is down today. Traders have lost their capital and they are not willing to invest. As a result, careful action must be taken before scamming reaches its level. Thanks.

The new token model is quite interesting, but this seems to be a bit like the IMO model (Initial Model Offering), it's just that the IMO duration is shorter and unfortunately now there are many projects using the IMO model that exit scam because their volume has disappeared and the price has dropped 10x from the initial price.

It's obvious that the majority of bounty campaigns are nowadays either scams or worthless, but despite this fact, there are still a few legal projects and if we can participate in their bounties, most likely we will receive good and valuable rewards. So it depends always on the project's authenticity.

I said "yes" 90% is a scam, I have participated in various bounties and only received a small reward, and of course scam, there are also tokens that I cannot sell, because there is no exchange, sad  :-X

Only bounty manager can't stop it, before participate in any campaign do your best research. Inform admin for any suspicious information in their website or white paper. Few campaign will be scam if you research on some good campaign. Ignore research on over all campaign, just make it short.

This is the reality now. These days, several projects have meted out terrible decisions to bounty hunters. Lot of them have denied hunters their rewards, disappearing without a trace, changing and introducing or substituting harsh rules at the middle of a Bounty Campaign or at the end in an effort to deny hunters their rewards. Some have outrightly denied hunters payments without reasons. This all boil down to the fact that, hunters can't do much in situations like this because there isn't any regulating body. The unfortunate thing is, this is becoming the norm and there is simply to end in sight.

Yeah, I agree with you. Or to be more precise, 90% of current ICOs are scams. Therefore, when you participate in any bounty campaign, please review the project information carefully. Not only did you not receive the reward, but you might also have helped the scammers.

Yeah that is also quite true but I am talking about the bounty manager being hired out from the project's team. The decision will be influenced and will lead to irrational and biased decisions. Bounty manager making mistakes will not make a big deal since the sheets are public and project owners can use that to pay out the participants.

It all comes down to intention of project owners to pay or not.

Maybe more I guess, TBH, I don't trust at ICO at this stage anymore, why? because we have an IEO, the new model which is more safer for the investors, so why would we still go for an ICO.

In the past, participating in a bounty on an ICO project gives real good payment because the market was bullish, but things have change a lot, now, we can't easy make good income from bounty, so maybe we should also consider to find another source of income and just come back when the market is bullish again.

In 2020 there are too many scam projects, even they have been listed at the exchange. But they still do not make bounty payments, need to be careful when participating in bounty at the present time.

It needs to be careful when deciding to join a bounty campaign. Many campaigns don't pay to hunters and I agree that 90% of bounty campaigns are scams but I think we still need to try to follow the campaign because we never know how the end of a new project

I agree that most bounty campaigns from the beginning of 2020 are scams. But a few of them are really good enough for bounty hunters like me to pay attention and find a campaign that suits me. Reviewing information carefully also does not prevent professional scammers. So if I accidentally helped the scammers, I could only apologize to the investors.  :(

follow the bounty as much as you can or follow the many airdrops, if 90% SCAM, then you still have 10% paid, don't worry

I suffer so the opportunity is high. I think Maxim traders are familiar with this term. However, it may be possible to reduce the quality of damage if you have to worry about work.

I think the bounty manager has the same responsibility as the bounty hunters, I mean if maybe there are some difference but it should not be big.
Here's the picture I am seeing, a bounty manager is contracted by the team to work for them, and the manager's job is to get people to work for the task or promotion the team wants to implement, so the brain is the team which are behind the project.

This is a big industry by itself right now, I do not really think that people realize how big the bounty world is when they are not checking each and one of them and there is no data that collects all of the bounties in one website. However this is over 100 million a year in general if you combine all of them together.

Hence, it is normal that 90% of it is scam when they are not either paying you what they said they will pay you, or even if they pay you the tokens they are usually too late and the price dropped like crazy and all of your work becomes 3 cents suddenly. If it was normal and legit, we would have seen millions of people applying because it is basically free money that you chase and that would get a lot of people who would want a piece of it.

Many project come, hold an IEO/ICO, can't get any single penny from it and shutdown the project without paying Hunters.

Even so many well funded projects get out from everything after getting what they were looking for. And in this matter some BM's are also helpless when they can't do anything for their hunters. There have many projects who came, got good investment, pay hunters and keep them waiting by saying that they are going to be listed very soon and runaway before getting listed. Some though list on any exchange, but on any small one, so that it can cost them less, so that they can show that they are not here to run.

I do not understand the term you said, but I strongly agree that someone should reduce the quality of damage if he is worried about his work, just I'm a little surprised about the work you mean, because traders who already have more experience, of course there is always work new to him.

In your words, the bounty participants should be worn on their hands, but at the moment (to be frank) the bounty participants do not bring great value to the project. For projects that conduct bounty - all the participants of their bounty are potential users of the platform, but in fact, the participants of the bounty just need to get tokens and sell them as quickly as possible. This is a fact.

The truth now is that, more than 90% of this bounties are scam. Saying 90% is an understatement. Many of these projects are just out to take advantage of the people and then disappear without a trace. We just need to be very careful in our dealings both as investors and bounty hunters.

Participate in campaigns, work hard, do not care about the projects that failed, continue your work hard, cumulate as much as possible, wait for next bull run and then enjoy your hard earned money.  ;)

indeed when doing work you should be able to pursue everything and for the results will follow by itself but you should know that when you become a participant in the campaign and it turns out that the campaign that you are promoting is a project scam then you will be exposed to the case as well because you have spread the project scam, at least stay careful careful when you want to participate in a campaign.

Doing hard work without payment from a bounty, then how can we enjoy the hard work during supporting the project? working hard is of course because we are only hunters but need to choose projects because many projects ignore bounty hunter

Bounty hunters should act like investors now, researching toward the project first before joining.
That should reduce the chance for joining scam bounties, and value our time more.
In the past, hunters can join any bounties with ease and earn much reward, but not anymore nowadays.

Especially where the bounty needs some Low cap or max cap.
Even though they reach that point it doesnt give a good price for the coin.
And with the stacks of shit coins circulating in the market i dont know how will the old price coin will go back up.
Thats why you need to study first about their project and how is their movement to have a good  price in the future

In my opinion, It's a good thing if have a litle rule at Forum to minimize Scam Project. That mean, If some owner want to rilis  project must be follow rules when it launched it least this will provide an overview and comfort for Bounthy Hunter participants. They are help introduce the project to people and investors for further development.

This can change people's perspective and minimize projects that are scam and does not work in the forum.

that rule is the key and I agree with the colleague above that it should be started, it is clear that scam projects will at least be reduced, because certain rules are made. although it is not easy to implement but it can be done so that this kind of incident does not happen again.
Information forums must be created immediately to provide whatever information is needed about a project that is indicated to be fraudulent. it takes the cooperation of all in order to realize a project that can make everyone happy. it is never too late to make immediate improvements as long as the goals to be achieved are for the common good.

Bounty managers are just bounty hunter like us but they should carefully choose the project, I know it is hard for them to determine the scam but at least try to research the project because we already swarm a scam project and bounties.

It's true that many bounties are crap or scam but there is no way to detect if they are legit or not, even some looks legit and later turn scam, it's all try and see, in the end is when you get the results

Well, at least we need to do our own research to avoid scam projects. If we participate in bounty without doing research, we will certainly participate in trash projects and never receive money from them.

It's common business. People want to become successful because of others

Research is probably an unnecessary part of my mind at this time because most of the projects on the market contain too much false information, this is a strategy from the developer to attract investors, our research is also hard to see these mistakes, what I suggest is probably just a preliminary review, the results can only let luck decide. Quickly finish a bounty project then jump to another, increase our success and luck, don't use time for analysis, it only makes us more anxious in each option

A bounty manager must be able to filter bounties or projects that will be managed by him and therefore I always follow bounties with famous managers because I am sure they will know everything about quality projects.

How practical is this? There are dozens of bounty managers here, and there is a lot of competition in this field. The top bounty managers such as yahoo62278, Wapinter and Arteezy may be selective about the bounties that they are going to manage, but the lesser known bounty managers don't have this freedom. Unless they have prior information that the particular project is a scam, they are going to accept them.

I think consciousness is very much important before attending in any bounty program. If the manager becomes a newbie, there may a possibility to be scam the project. Different inconsistent information may appear in scam project, so you should carefully read the project. Be sure if the offering Token is listed in any authentic and renowned exchanger or not. You should avoid any long term project if the manager's profile becomes poor. Another important technique is to follow the experienced members like Legendary member, Hero member etc whether they are participating or not in the bounty. If the maximum participants becomes new, there may be a possibility to be scam the project.

Hmm, but it's also part of the business. How do you understand the value of profit if you do not lose! So profit is not the key here, but it is worth noting how smart you are in trader .

Yes, nowadays we have seen many scam bounties has happened, it's not that easy to find scam project but there are some users who have founded such project and have been founding it by checking the team and finding parallelism in the whitepaper. Also, we have to start taking such action before becoming part of any bounty campaign.

the probability is now at 98%.. there are project that has a real score in bounty but rewards is limited. its hard to find good bounty in these days