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Bounty managers please kindly start hiding emails in your spreadsheet because I always like using new email for bounty participation and I surprised that there are many offer mails in my email account, some are free airdrop some are affiliate marketing offers, I still remember that some people are selling email addresses online, it will be easier for such people to go through bounty spreadsheet and pack the whole email address

You can control the bounty manager to hide the email lists on spreadsheet yourself, you don't need to make post about it on here, I'm guessing that this happens almost every time when a new bounty managers tries to manage a new project, no reputable bounty manager will do such thing

Fortunately, smart bounty managers hide confidential information.
Sometimes they are not the bounties manager, you should check when you do airdrops.
This is when unwanted people get your email.

Email crypto spam is the big problem. Only special email address for crypto could solve this problem more or less

This will solve the issue, Bounty hunter should not use there personal email when joining in bounty campaign. Always expect the worst that there details will be exposed in public.

Bounty manager submit all the spreadsheet information to the project owner so even though they hide it. Project owner will see it and they are the one that selling or giving away user email to other project to have initial user for them.

Agree, I also get useless mail messages every day, and it makes me a little annoyed when lots of free Airdrop offers come to my email, it makes me have to clean my email every day, so I totally agree that bounty managers hide email of each participant who enters the bounty.

Trust nobody, even bounty managers can engage in such act, for extra dollar more anybody can do anything, we are been asked to drop email address for unknown purposes, probably for marketing purposes who knows? But not all bounty managers can be trusted, anyways they are just emails, it's easier to create a new one if the old is full of spams

I agree with you that the bounty manager must hide the emails of all participants who participate with the prize campaign, the number of Airdrops sent to my email may be quite disturbing for many participants, maybe not only me who received the message, even from the number of participants, they must have received messages from the Airdrop that It is enough to disturb all of us, at least the Bounty Manager can hear this complaint so that all bounty participants no longer get Airdrop emails which might be quite disturbing ..

This depends on each BM, for experienced BMs they will surely recognize it and they have hidden it. Usually i see new BMs or projects that manage their own bounty, such projects often bring a large amount of spam mail, so choosing which bounty to join is a concern before.

Yes it depends, if the bounty manager is a new one he or she will leave it be thinking it can't cause any harm, not until bounty hunters raise alarm themselves, my advice is to speak up for yourselves when any bounty manager expose emails in spreadsheet, they might not see it as a threat

I have different email accounts for different things, whether it's crypto or not, but definitely have one main account that "catches" all these affiliate and spam emails. Since I used it a few years ago, the inbox receives nothing but spam. Unavoidable, and perhaps one more reason for you to consider not ever using an email address or participating in a bounty like that.

Just make a separate email account for bounty hunting to avoid getting spammed from your main one.

I'm glad that some bounty hunters are doing this though because I could distinguish either if they can be trusted or not. As you can see, you will noticed that there's a significant difference between a professional manager and a newbie one just by looking at their spreadsheet.

This is true; and bounty managers definitely have to ensure they provide privacy assurances for their participants; but also; as a bounty hunter; you should never use your personal emails for bounty; you must have seperate email for business, seperate emails for banks; seperate email for your CV, seperate emails for your airdrop and bounty participation.  Protect yourself! it is your responsibility

You should send your manager a direct message regarding your problem. Idk what they to do with your email but it's not only you. Im also getting a lot of email about the various promotions too.
They were copying your email from the spreadsheet and that's possible to be done by the scammers too.
I hope that your problem will be solved as soon as possible. Email should not be exposed to the public.

It's wrong to expose participants email address through spreadsheet, scammers will surely go around packing all the email address and start sending phishing and scam offers to them or even sell to spammers, bounty managers should know that this is wrong, of not bounty hunters should raise their voices

Sometimes they even write that they won't use your data.  But they themselves openly provide your mail for everyone to see.  I don't like it either, and I even wrote to the manager, but he ignored my appeal.

I've promoted two bounties managed by jr members but I warned them about the email exposure in spreadsheet and they listen, they hide the emails in spreadsheet, this can happen if the bounty managers are new to bounty managing, you just have to correct them.

obviously our e-mails once published on a spreadsheet are public and therefore visible to anyone that's why I use one created specifically for bounty and nothing else and I don't use my main e-mail and it is useless to take unnecessary risks

Previously, our data on postal mail really remained in many tables and this is quite dangerous for bounty hunters.  I have had my email address hacked once.  Through it you can enter backups of documents, saved account passwords, private keys from our wallets and much more.  Therefore, of course, it is not worth putting our e-mail addresses on public display.  Recently, I no longer see them in the table and this is correct.  We are gradually developing certain safety rules for bounty hunters.  I am also pleased that KYC is almost never carried out.

This is a dilemma when we need to submit our email address or telegram or other data in the spreadsheet, but we have to.
This is the most common thing happens, after that, we will be spammed by hundreds of spam emails or groups to join airdrops and other promotions. And most of them are useless.

Many bounty and airdrop projects do require participants to register their email address in the registration form, but some managers hide their email addresses on the spreadsheet but some publish participant email addresses publicly in spreadsheets so that everyone can see the email addresses we have. That's why every time I follow a project I will use another different email address and the email has no connection to important things, such as trading accounts, personal accounts, or forum account emails, it's too risky for us to provide an email address that has something to do with something important or personal because if someone knows the email address it will certainly be easy to hack.

I encounter that as well, I guess it's much better to use a separate email address for bounty hunting.
I once flooded with promotions and phishing emails.
We should also protect our telegram accounts, as people been using it to their bots for auto-invite.

In this space i trust nobody, even all these so called new bounty manager can make use of the email addresses themselves or sold it to scammers too, most especially all those affiliate marketers seeking for ways to promote their products, they are well known for buying thousands of email address

Even though manager hide the email address still you can't be sure that it will be never shared with anyone so never use your primary email address, Crypto address for bounty related submission because you will end up with what scenarios yiu are currently facing now.

ask your bounty manager to hide the email address buddy,
because if email address shown in spreadsheet for sure, a lot of spam message will coming to your email

I do agree with it. We should never use our email to participate in the bounty. I have received hundreds of spam and phishing email from various parties. There are so many scammers who have been using the auto-invite on the telegram group too.
The scammers have been trying to use various ways to get more and more victim.
The manager should also consider this request. It's not a wrong decision to hide the participant's email from the scammers.

agree with this. to avoid this, you should not use personal email. hiding email is a great thing for things like this. however, we cannot change the rules given. yeah, but if you still don't agree with that, and want to support a project with a bounty, then make a new email specifically for bounties.

i agree with you , such informations like email address or locations , names should be hidden by the bounty managers because there is lot of scammers who would use or sell those free informations using the spreadsheet

When it comes to bounties always have it create a separate email address for that because they will be exposed, there are places online where people buy and sell thousands of email in locked PDF, I've seen people buying them before, do not use your business or office email address, creating a new email address won't cost you more than seconds of your time.

This is the resolution to those who joined a bounty. When you joined the bounty just provide an email address that is for bounty only not your personal account. This is my issues in my email a lot of offer like networking or ponzi scheme and airdrop. We all know a lot of scam that sends phishing links so better be safe than sorry.

Yes, the problem has always existed，exposing email address does lead to a lot of spam，for a experienced bounty manager，usually dont make this mistake，but if a bounty project is operating by a newbie，it is hard to say. Generally，this problems can only be solved by ourselves, that is creating a new one to join bounty project.

It is really annoying to see open email addresses in some spreadsheets, I think bounty managers need to be more professional because you have our data but how can you forget to hide sensitive data lile email ids? Thankfully enough now most of the bounty hunters do hide them so i would hope that all bounty managers will do the same.

Not all project teams are good, some will definitely take advantage of anybody if they want to, we entrust our email address with bounty manager and after bounty manager's work is done he pass the spreadsheet to the team for distribution, bounty manager can get his hand on the whole email address or even the team and use them to their own advantage, it's good to use fake or new email address instead

If email address can be this compromising how about when we send out our national Id card to centralized exchanges to pass KYC verifications just to allow us to trade and withdraw? Honestly crypto need to start working towards fully decentralization, data will be compromised, that's for sure and there is nothing to use against it.

Sometimes too the experienced bounty managers forget to his the email but if reminded of the mistake they did by opening it, they hide it up immediately. Yes it is not proper to allow participants email addresses to be shown because of hack, sell of the email, etc.

I have experienced this exact thing and im regularly getting spam emails from various airdroppers, phishers, scammers and sellers.
There are many campaigns even now where email ids are exposed in the spreadsheet so maybe we need to ping the managers in telegram or other accounts so that he takes action and hides it immediately.

Why not just use a junk email? It isn't that hard to register new ones. Check the spreadsheet first if you're not yet sure if they show the email address of people.
Though I think showing email is quite bothering, but you can never control how a bounty manager does or manage his bounty.
Only best thing to do is not join or use a fake email address that isn't linked to any of your email addresses so that possible spreading of garbage mails would not happen.

One of the smart ways of doing this is listing participants by their nickname or bitcointalk ID, or at least cutting the domain part of the email to make it much harder for a possible spammer to target them.

I always use different email addresses on sites that I don't trust and if you're worried you could be targeted by spam just do the same. It's more work for you but security comes at a price.

It seems the responsibility lies on both parties. Firstly, the bounty managers should be responsible of keeping the sensitive data like email addresses without exposing those to any outsider. Also you need to use a separate email for for both bounties and airdrops as once you join those activities, your mailbox will soon get filled with large number of emails sent by them. 

I'm sick and tired of email appearing on spreadsheet, professional Bounty managers knows their way and they are very good at their work. The new ones especially the copper members are the ones responsible for this behavior with revealing of one's privacy. Now this email are copied by third parties especially the marketing guys and then resale for to other companies at juicy price.
When these companies want to advertise their business, they begin to spam your email with unnecessary messages without unsubscribe button. It's annoying.

I understand your pain but we want more professional bounty managers in crypto space right? So we can't allow some rooms for errors in new bounty managers? What kind of message we are trying to pass? Bubbalex, Hhampuz, wapinter, etc are all once newbies too and I'm sure they must have made such mistakes before, just correct them and the issue will be fixed.

I think its a shocking news for  all bounty hunter that his personal mail can be steal.
But they can be safe
If they using not his personal mail in bounty you should use new mail for bounties for the safety of his personal mail data.
2nd the bounty manages should be responsible for the safety of bounty hunter mail
Best bounty manager always hide bounty hunter mail.

I am very worried with bounty manager not hidden our email and exposed on spreadsheet with not professional working by bounty campaign manager, so for safety with my data I always use new email without connected in other exchange wallet and never use the email for bounty campaign with social media account. Many bounties campaign show our email on spreadsheet just few campaign hidden with our email, maybe if get with trusted and experience bounty campaign manager they will hidden our email because know how most important with email account and if show on spreadsheet every time got spam and fake link in our email inbox.

It's highly unprofessional for any bounty manager to expose emails of bounty participants. I remember a project then that usually publish email in public. It's unethical. Participants can as well advise the manager to hide the emails.

Thanks for bringing up this issue and i was also amazed to see open exposure of emails in spreadsheets which is obviously something not needed for public, team should only keep them for private record or to send important updates and notifications, displaying them is spreadsheets just do not make any sense.

I don't see the reason why bounty managers will ask for people's email and display them in the public spreadsheet, it doesn't worth it at all. I remember this project Velic when the BM made the mistake of displaying email in the public, then I started receiving Spam messages at will and get to annoying state. This should be discourage if you want their email ask them to subscribe to the newsletter

It is very common scenario to those bounty managers who just started recently,

Compared to those popular mamagers who already know what they are doing, those unpopular managers do require their participants to submit unnecessary informations like email that will be exposed in the spreadsheet. That's why we should participate only to bounty campaigns that do not exposed any important info of their participants such as emails.

For privacy reasons, some columns have to be hidden by bounty managers but it is not possible to hide the identity of bounty participants in long term bounty hunting. There are many possibilities for each bounty campaign but I have respect for bounty managers who did their best in order to protect the forum users. Scam projects can send bomb email for the public email addresses, the best option is to use a temporary email address for each bounty campaign, IMO.

Good request, but I doubt that bounty managers or the project itself will hide your email. Well, bounty managers can hide it, but what about the project, they can have the list for themselves and you don't know if they will sell this to a third party as crypto mailing lists, or they themselves using it to make email email blast.

It's easy to create new emails anyway, so why make this an issue on your end? Just don't used your private email though, because once it is exposed then you can received this junked emails for good.

Bounty manager can simply hide that email address column or reduce column size so showcase only one or two words of your mails. I think this is better solution instead of putting a stop on asking for emails.

Yes that's why i try not to register with my personal email but strictly a bounty campaign created email which I know even if expose won't be a problem to me, especially when email hunters hijack them and filled your inbox with junk mails,

Usually when it is required for participant to submit their email for a campaign the bm is suppose to immediately hide those mails but unfortunately some bm don't do this and as a result the bad guys will copy everything for their use.

It is pretty annoying to got some spam on emails regarding airdrop affiliation links and i got it everyday on email that's why already flagged them to automatically sent into my spam folder. Trusted bounty managers always hide email information on open public sheets for security purposes and obviously to prevent from email spammers. Just to prevent those spams it is advisable to use secondary email in joining bounty or airdrop so that personal important email is safe from spammers.

Yes, this is most of the bounty hunters concern while showing details in the spreadsheet Email part should be hide so that nobody uses these email Ids to sent spam emails and yes you are right even some people sell these emails also. Ultimately it's bounty manager's duty.

The bounty manager should not need an email as a requirement to join the campaign except for account verification on the website. Even if the manager hides the email in the spreadsheet but I still receive spam and phishing, please use an alternative email for bounty activity

Indeed, all confidential information should be hidden, not shown in spreadsheets. Therefore, every time I join a bounty campaign,
I never use personal email, to prevent my email from being misused. But there are some bounty managers who hide email in
a spreadsheet, so it depends on the policies of each bounty managers.

I don’t think it will help. Who said that your data is not bought from managers? Here I am not all so kind here. Thank God the era of decentralization. And then probably my passport has already been sold 30 times by managers. In general, 99% of those who ask you for an email will spam you there). Someone got the wrong number in the store. I have been receiving SMS notification for 3 years already ...

Just uses an email for this specific purpose. Every manager has their own way to manage their bounties and some of them are newcomers who want to try out being a manager which means they are inexperienced.
Although I'm sure 100% that if you use your email frequently for doing things online it's already exposed somewhere else. Just be cautious I guess by not revealing your primary or important email.

I use my general email address when joining Airdrops and Bounties, yes I receive many spam mails and probably scam deals but who cares? I don't check them out anyways, I only open mails that I am expecting, also I add strong password for my email and even used 2FA so I have nothing to worry about

This is very unfortunate that some bounty managers are very irresponsible in this way they don't hide the email addresses of participants which is absolutely unacceptable they must have to understand that scammers and spammers may misuse the e-mail data of participants unfortunately bounty participants have no control over it. The wise way is they must always use different email addresses instead of their real email so they can protect themselves from scammers and spammers.

This problem becomes extremely simple for BM business because they realize that a lot of spam will be sent if email is published on spreadsheet. However in some cases we still see it appear, i really feel very inconvenient because of that, and if possible i think if you see such cases, please report it to BM and ask them to hide it.

I think you should use different email when you are joining the bounty campaigns I think you can't avoid it and maybe some of the managers are selling this information to some companies so they would send you offers so to avoid it just use alternate email address just for bounty purposes.

I think the best solution is to stop asking for email addresses from bounty participants, because the email address for bounties is not really necessary, unless the manager requires bounty participants to register their website for bounty purposes.

I completely agree with the author, just recently an airdrop Uniswap came to the mail, which turned out to be a scam and I saw a couple of guys who got caught.

I think those bounty managers were new to handling the bounty campaign. They should not expose our email in the bounty spreadsheet, we really get spam emails even we use secondary account for the bounty, it's still annoys me with the spam email trying to lure me in their fake site and offering high ROI platforms.

I am not sure why many bounty managers ask for the email addresses of the hunters when most of the time they don't have any real use with the bounty campaign. Many scammers try to use those mail to scam others. Like in the Injective Protocol bounty campaign one scammer changed my wallet address by telling BM amount my email address which was hidden in that campaign. He must have collected that from any other campaign.

Those who come via email are almost all Scams, so it's better to just ignore them, because a good project doesn't need to send a letter to everyone to participate in it, because the good ones will always be sought after and in demand by many people.

They should not ask your email if it is bounty campaign, I have never participated on bounty campaign that ask for emails because they don't need that they only need your telegram username for update and to make sure you are participating in their chat and your wallet address where to send your rewards and of course the validation post, if they ask more something fishy is going on.

I get these emails, almost every day I receive these messages, it's hard for me to stop them from sending Airdrop messages to me, as long as I receive these messages my email is like junk, even every day I have to delete these messages from my email inbox ..

Never use the main email to follow an airdrop or bounty. Make a special email, because if our email is just exposed in a spreadsheet, there will be a lot of spam coming in. Many people use spamming techniques like this because it works, I have also done it  ;D

Yes, I totally agree with you, indeed bounty hunters are not allowed to use personal email addresses when participating in bounty campaigns, but not everyone who does this uses a fake email address or changes email addresses, because according to them changing email will be confusing if they forget to save it, then after distribution is complete and have to open the email in the dashboard, because they distribute it via registered email.

Yeah, my problem with my e-mail too after joining one bounty before.
Now, I got airdrop mail and a lot of trash.
Well, I have seen managers that are doing good hiding these things.
Most of them are the good ones which also puts projects at higher success rates.
Maybe you just joined the wrong project and manager. I did. Put them all in my spam lists.  ;D

I've never had that experience it's better to use another email to input your data into spreadsheets, hunting for bounty and looking for on easy task bounty and without including email address is a lot bounty. don't be rapacious to pick everything that in there, pick it up what you think is good for your own convenience.

It's not only airdrop but the scammers were also doing so many things like create fake ethereum 2.0 and then they also used paid advertise on google to promote the scam or fake metamask.
There are some awareness about this. Email should never be exposed as it will be included into the privacy of the participants.
The scammers will always steal it to spread the small and malware.

It's a good thing that there are also bounty managers who are concerned about our details and they're responsibly hiding it. It's really annoying to receive emails from scammers especially when we're also using our personal email accounts for our jobs and businesses. Since we can't control it, the best thing that we can do is to report those emails and block them.

So many irresponsible bounty managers who gathers email address but knowledgeable in spreadsheet to hide participants email address. Anyone could simply snatch the email and sell it to other. Or may be send affiliate links to take advantage of emails.

This step I did every joining with bounty campaign and airdrop project never give and use my personal email address, only use new email address where not connected with exchange account, social media account and never use email for joining to but to create something most important, I know although our email is hidden maybe still have chance for bounty manager later will show our email to public because they wanna try to promote with their project.

I don't know the reasons why some bounties ask for email when you aren't really going to sign up for an account with your email address but yet inside the bounty registration form you are asked to drop your email address, very wrong IMO, what is the email address asked for? I'm curious

I think it is not a very important problem because the email can be replaced and not too dangerous, because in my opinion the email sent to us can be filtered, so maybe it has a bad influence because it is no longer anonymous.

In my email there is the same thing, lots of spam airdrops whether it's from UNI or something else, I think it's scammers and I don't care about it, but some bounty managers have hidden a lot of email addresses in spreadsheets

They actually hide our emails on the spreadsheet, but sadly they sell our email information to some necessary organizations :)
My experience is that once participating in bounty campaigns, only use bounty emails. It will help us avoid annoying spam emails and in particular we will not have to encounter any email scam. This is a way for us to protect our own money as well as to prevent hackers from breaking into our computers. ;)

I think the reliable bounty manager will not display the participant's email address publicly, I observe that it is only valid for one day during the initial registration and after that the manager hides each email address in his spreadsheet again. this is to minimize the worst risk, such as in the case of selling email online.

You're right because not only you experienced a lot of spam email in an email account. But I don't think you should pay attention to those emails because the bounty manager will not be able to control other people to expose or sell your email. Even if BM keeps that email but after handing it over to the project manager, it still does not guarantee that they will not use the emails or sell it. Just ignore those email which is not important.

Do you think BM will do it for bounty participants which is one of the requirements for joining bounty? That is called Risk, not only in investing and trading but now also in joining bounty campaign there is a risk that we should take. Just don't mind those spam emails and deleting will be the better solution for that matter.

It's easy just hit the spam button and all their emails will land in the spam folders and will be deleted within 10 days, I seldom participated in a bounty campaign that asks for my email and I use a different email I created specifically for these kinds of campaigns if I cannot avoid it, but you are right that some campaigns are getting your email for the purpose of sending you offers or selling your email, always hide your email or fully secure it.

if most of participants bothered with that, then maybe BM will do it.
if the email is one of the requirements, BM should know which data that have some risk if it show up in the spreadsheet. most of people will assume that email is the important thing. maybe they have important mail in there, but it buried by the spam email. do you think the spam problem will end after we delete all the spam mails ? NO. they keep send you some spam in the next day and will keep sending you everyday. that is must be annoying. trust me, the profesionals BM will not show your email address in the spreadsheet.

bounty programs are almost dead. all good bounty managers who still mananging bounty campaigns do not collect emails or they hide emails. and ethereum adresses.

What do you mean by bounty program are almost dead? Do you know this is the cheapest way for project owners to do marketing about their project? As long as there is always going to be a new project there will mostly likely going to be a bounty program,

And as for exposing of emails, that's up to the bm to know the right 5hingbto do, it doesn't make any sense to expose participant's emails in the first place.

This is something that must be evaluated by the bounty manager, the bounty manager must also start maintaining the bounty hunter data. Email is very easy to target for spam, especially emails belonging to cryptocurrency users.

Almost every day I receive spam emails from airdrops I'm sure they know my email is from the bounty spreadsheet that I joined but somehow the scamer who keeps doing this just to find referrals, however we have to send data to the spreadsheet must be hidden because it's far away kebuh is safe on appeal that publishes it.

Ahhhh, I already keep receiving pesky spam emails, scamer always doesn't stop doing this.

I would suggest not using a personal email for entering bounty campaigns. You can create a dummy one just for the bounty campaigns. We can't really say if the bounty managers are assuring us that our emails are not sold to the dark web. Every time I see those spreadsheets with emails being displayed, it really pisses me off. It means that either bounty manager, hunter or someone lurking from the "dark web" are already gathering these emails and start taking advantage of them. Just saying.

^ To be honest, I differentiate between work email and personal email. So that when they (bounty manager) or other parties see my email in the spreadsheet, it's just a work email.

But usually cases like this occur when a project is handled by an inexperienced bounty manager. Experienced bounty managers rarely ask hunters for emails.

The idea is that the exposure of email address on the spreadsheet, what I understand if they want that to happen or not. For us, of course, that is not good because there's a lot of things that can happen when your personal email address will be exposed, there is a big possibility that some scammers will target you for messaging or spamming you just to get your personal information and that might lead to hacking or worst your accounts or wallets will be hacked. I don't allow myself to join in some bounty campaigns with that rule.

The bounty manager doesn't need to demonstrate everyone's email on a spreadsheet. He has to protect such sensitive information because people are just waiting for the opportunity to get benefits from information like this. As well we as a hunter we have to keep an email aside for the bounty campaigns registration which would help us to protect our identity.

This is an issue from way back then especially when the airdrop was on hype. If you used your emails on these crypto projects, You will surely have a crypto-related email sent to your email. I've experienced it myself and regretted that I used my main email. Because of that spam, I created a new email and make it my new main email. Until now, spam email is being sent to my email. It will be nice we create a dedicated email to be displayed on the spreadsheets. I understand that the bounty manager needs to put it on the spreadsheet, it is because of the transparency and for the community to know who the cheaters is.

This is a good information to some bounty managers especially the new ones because some old bounty managers I know always do hide email details but let's always be vigilant to ensure we announce about giving of email wheneve a bounty demands for such. This is vital and will aid in security management.

Even if they will hide it from the spreadsheet, there's a chance that they're also the ones that are selling it to marketing firms that are promoting ICOs.
I've signed up to a few website and lately, I've received several emails from different ICO projects. And that's the same as merging it with those collected email addresses from those bounties. It's a huge lead for them.

If you don't want your email address to be exposed in the spreadsheet then I think you have to create a new email specifically to join like this, after that you can change your Bitcointalk email account and remain anonymous.

Reading all of this, I just don't see why people would reveal their personal details in this way. If I understood correctly, bounty campaigns are being used to promote certain projects, right? So why don't participants use disposable email addresses that can be discarded afterwards? There are several services available for this purpose.
I don't think there is a need to list them here, you can use google search for more information.

Don't give you email at all the project might use all the emails they've collected to send you offers and links to phishing sites, they don't need our emails only our report and our proof of authentication with our wallet address, if they are asking it that's dubious and they should have a good reason why they are asking it.

Yes, it is a lesson learn to me also for some BM ask for email ad and we do not have a choice but to comply. So? the best thing to do is to create an alternate email which has been only or intended for cryptocurrency. All personal related email should not be used here to avoid getting possible target from the hackers and the phishers that are good in doing at scamming.

Never use your real email but never use your real twitter or telegram neither if you can. I have done that before and I have been hurt by it, and ever since that I have created a new twitter account and email just for crypto and have been using them even though I have the same telegram I would like to change that in the future as well.

I would have to say crypto is not a place that is fully secure just yet, they can take your money let alone your email and face nothing, so to say that your email will be in danger of getting exposed, you would be very right. Plus never use the same passwords and username neither, because since it is so dangerous to give up your information, your username and password could be stolen as well and tested everywhere online too.

There is nothing anyone can do about this email revealing becasue the Bounty Managers doesn't all the time include the emails on the spreadsheet, though we the Bounty Hunters should be more smarter not to use our real identities on campaigns. Agree with the Bounty rules clearly shown that whenever the Bounty Manager hands-over these documents to the projects owners they can sell out these emails or identities to start-up projects thereby exposing our ills or specials details in public.

Maybe that is intentional as they wanted to sell your Emails to 3rd party group so Exposing in Spreadsheet will make it clean from their hands if tons of emails sent to our account because they can easily denied and reasoning is you are exposed in the Sheet.

instead of joining bounties with that kind of manager better find others that will protect your privacy and won't take advantage of situation.

This important thing why do you have personal email and secondary email for joining bounty and airdrop. You can hidden with your personal email connected with Facebook account, twitter and Instagram or still connected with exchange account, but you should have secondary email account for joining bounty campaign, when your email show on spreadsheet every day get notification email about airdrop and get fake link to confirm because I ever almost day get the same notification from scammer.

This is the easiest solution, I remember having tons of email since I sometimes forgot what email I used in a campaign I joined in before,whenever I join bounty I also create new email to avoid scams and protect identity. We should always find way to protect ourselves from scam or any threat of viruses and we can't blame others so we need to do it by ourselves.

This makes sense a lot. Bounty managers should always try as much as possible to hide email addresses on spreadsheet, scammers use them to send scam airdrops, phising sites, spywares etc. Fake Binance website was sent to an email I used for bounties and have not registered Binance account with for me to login, saying I won BNB and need to claim it via the link. Let's be careful with the links we click on emails, thanks OP for making this point.

The bounty managers is always alert. The scammers are cunning. They use different methods to gather information. The emails they send are a complex trap. Attempts at temptation to continue the trend. Restrain yourself and work without stepping on their trap.

This happen when bounty manager not hidden email bounty campaign participants because every time we received scam aidrop link, phising site and many fake claimed coin form sending by scammer. I think have any bounty campaign manage by detective campaign manager and need to fill email but they always hidden our email on spreadsheet, only us know with email using and I think is better if our email hidden on spreadsheet because many bounty campaign participants always use personal email for joining bounty campaign and some time use personal email to join airdrop project.

If bounty managers display email address it doesn't mean they aren't reliable, they simply lack experience and it shows that they are new to bounty managing, though this doesn't mean they can be trusted either, even if they decide to hide email address in spreadsheet they still have access to the full details so they can do anything with the addresses later, it's better not to ask for email address when no one will be needing it

almost all bounty manager already hide the participant's email in spreadsheet, they know its private information if shown publicly. many scammer could send us malicious mail to take our personal information .if ther are bounty manager shown our email, we have to warn him immediately and hide it.

How neglecting act from a Bounty manager to let Email expose in spreadsheet?though maybe the Manager Knows that majority of Bounty hunters are using their  dummy emails so there is nothing to lose.
But still that is privacy that needs respect and having this in front of everyone is really annoying .
Better give the name here so we can Address Him directly for his Unprofessional action being a manager.

Even 2 years ago i used to collect this emails on this method. Because it's easy to collect active emails. And I promoted airdrop, but most of the time bounty hunters don't even click the link. Nevertheless, new bounty manager should care about this to reduce spam massages.

I don't use my main e-mail when joining bounties to avoid receiving spam or unsolicited messages. It is risky to use e-mails that you use on your accounts, wallets, etc. when filling-out forms, just to be safe have a spare e-mail for other activities such as bounties to avoid the risk of having your accounts compromised.

Yes, most bounty hunters do the same. There are so many people who are using other peoples email address. About the exposure of email addresses in the spreadsheet, this is all depends on the bounty managers if they will hide it or not. To avoid that, using a dummy email is a must. This will help us to keep our personal email as safe as possible.

Every day new bounties are coming, and some launched by experienced bounty managers and some launched by my own project manager; those are good bounty managers they are locking and also some of them hiding user data, but this is no possible for all of them to hide emails, this is depends upon you that you are joining those bounties was launched by good bounty manager or launched bye own project manager. So you should secure your email by SMS verification and mark the extra email as spam.

One can easily steal participant's gmail data which is not hidden in spreadsheets and is usually managed by a new manager. If the manager is experienced, has been managing a prize campaign for a long time, it will not display participant gmail data. they will immediately hide the participant's gmail data after the form is complete.

The Bounty Managers can only help in hiding Bounty hunters emails on the spreadsheets but will eventually hand-over these emails alongside some personal information to project owners, maybe these project owners can do without they choose with these mails without the consent of the hunters. As rightly recommended, a perfect solution for this is the dummy mail be use for purpose of campaigns.

Sometimes other than that, hackers break the email because it is displayed in a spreadsheet. I think the bounty manager should hide emails from spreadsheets for complete member safety

I do not see why not hiding email addresses of bounty hunters in the spreadsheet should be a problem. It is one thing to get random mails and it is another thing to want to open them. I get that all the time. The heading is what I look at to know whether to delete them or not. Those not worth my attention I delete at once without reading. The only thing to avoid is not to use an official or important email address for bounty to avoid junk mails. Create a new mail for bounties.

It is clear, to avoid things that are not desired, bounty managers must hide the email of each participant. I personally also use new emails every time I join a campaign to avoid negative things. Usually people sneak into Gmail addresses for some kind of breakthrough notification about airdrops.

it shouldn't be that big of a deal. However, for some bounty hunters, or those who use their main email, it will be very annoying. we don't know what to send in the email we have. however, it could be phishing or spam.

If those affected are just starting out, they should learn from that experience not to use their main email address on a public forum like we have here. Learn and move on. I think hunters should generally avoid using main emails on bounties or airdrops, even outside this forum. Some airdrops do not even send tokens. They are after your email address as they will ask you to fill it in the form. And that ends it. No more communication from them once they get your email address.

This is a really bad thing nowadays doing many bounty managers. I also faced problem for this ,A lot of spam mail is coming every day which is very dangerous.Bounty managers should private our mail in spreadsheet so that no one can collect our mail and sent spam mails.

apparently not only me who complained about this problem, i also always received some kind of spam giveaway messages, airdrops, contests, about ico etc. even though every time I join the bounty program using a new email but there is always such a bots message.

I just join this bounty thing, i should be more aware of this issue, thanks for sharing. But, im pretty sure this issue was caused by unproffesional bounty manager which need more practice to manage a bounty.

Thank you for letting them know this, but like seriously, do bounty managers still expose email addresses in spreadsheet this days?? The last time I experienced this Last was way back in 2017, after that, every campaign I've participated, email addresses hasn't been ever exposed in spreadsheet, if there is any bounty manager that still exposes participants email addresses on their campaign spreadsheet, I think such a  manager need to be enlightened on the dangers of this act.

It's quite annoying to delete emails sometimes especially in email platforms like Yahoo Mail.
I gotta scroll all the way down to each and every junk mails that were not needed.
I guess it is also platform's missing feature but still "prevention is better than cure". Use another email address. It is just that easy.

Yes, this is understandable, but over the course of 2-3 years I have received quite a few messages in the mail, such as bounty airdrops. Scammers are so adept that they create the most beautiful messages.

Yes, there is no need to control the manager, calling their attention and make them understand what bounty hunters want like hiding the email addresses can be solved just by approaching them. Most bounty managers do understand the situation especially for bounty hunter, they do their job as bounty managers but bounty mamagers also do what is right for the bounty hunters.

You cant do anything if the manager do have their own ways neither they would hide or show all of informations in the spreadsheet but i do agree on the point that there should be some sort of privacy but it can be helped because they would stick out to their rules. Therefore, we should use our common sense and make use of new email everytime we do participate in bounties and dont make use of your main email because that would really be prone to be taken and received lots of junk emails.

When I was active int he altcoin bounty hunting I seldom encounter bounty campaign that I ask for emails but there are a lot of airdrops that asked for emails if I encounter one I just use a spare email where I created specifically for my traffic lists and airdrop offer, most of these offers just landed in the spam emails.

Hey guy, you are very right.
My email is full by such kind of sms.
Whom I never subscribe they send me sms all time.
It is very irritating.
Of course bounty manager should follow this.
It is important to hide email address.

Don't expect all new bounty managers to be that smart, some of them don't even know how important proof of Authentication Posts are, these new bounty managers needs our help, we need more good bounty managers like Hhampuz so let's keep supporting and also keep correcting any bounty manager that make few mistakes

This is the reason why I avoid some bounty campaign or airdrops. The email address I used can be seen by anyone and it's possible that someone will hack it so I can't guarantee that I'm the one that is going to benefit from that campaign. I'll just join it if the bounty manager is well reputed in this forum so I'll be at ease that my effort won't go to waste.

When I participate in bounties I normally don't see email been exposed but still, I get many messages on my email account. Recently there was a mail saying I have only two days to accept a token which I don't know when I participated in such airdrop and bounty for me to qualify for any token.

Before joining in a bounty you can check the spreadsheet first before and see it if it's hidden or any one can view  it. If you see it show to everyone you can ask the manager to hide it or don't join in that kind of bounty.

You can also use other email if you really want to join in that bounty in that case they will only send spam messages to your fake email that only use for bounty .

When I participate in bounties I normally don't see email been exposed but still, I get many messages on my email account. Recently there was a mail saying I have only two days to accept a token which I don't know when I participated in such airdrop  for me to qualify for any token.

if we see any campaign show our email in their spreadsheet its better to tell bounty manager to hide it. i am ever warn bounty manager about it and they directly do this. its our privacy , hackers could send our untrusted link to trap us . if we careless, our personal data could taken by them. so checking is best way than we avoid the campaign.

For me I really think the email addresses should not be exposed publicly and if so they should ask first the participants if they are aware that their email will be post publicly and if they accept it. Since someone can take a copy of it and can be use for advertisement purposes I think the best way to avoid it is to use dummy email address.

yes I agree with you,, I mean if you join the bounty campaign then use a new email or not with your main gmail because it can be risky with your data too. But still, even though using new email there are still spam attacks from various airdrops and other spam messages.

You indicate a very good point.  Like you, I also get a lot of airdrop or different service email every day.  It is very risky to open these emails.  Like you, I think bounty managers should hide bounty hunter's email address from the spreedsheet.  Because no possible path should be left open for scammers.

I agree with you that many spam e-mails come to my e-mails and the rewards are very tempting.
But for this problem in my opinion it depends on the BM of the project. And my advice to all BM please hide all Emails in spreadsheets.

Indeed this is a problem，my E-mail receive a lot of junk mail about crypto frequently，it drives me crazy. Now think about it，maybe the reason is i am using this Email address to join in bounty project and airdrop project.

Why would even bounty manager or a project needs bounty hunters email? If they want to get rid of multi accounts or cheaters, then it wont really help. Emails can be created or bought in bulk. If they think that this could be used for users identification, then identification of a hunter by wallet address is more than enough.

I've seen managers ask to "use same email while registering on projects page to get the reward". Don't know how that will help to fight cheaters. Still many dashboards simply allow to bound any wallet address to get a reward. Imho, forcing to fill email field in google form while registering in bounty is stupid and useless.

indeed this can make scammers have a lot of targeted email,
yes this is like a home address for someone, and will be used by scammers to steal,
I regret if there are bounty projects that don't hide.

That what possibly it takes, they can sell it in the black market. A reason that I won't make any participation when asking email addy and I suggest for hunters not to do as well because this also risking our personal identities 0r possible ruin.
I can't imagine if someone, a uniform personnel will bring you to their office for interrogation for a crime that you never know. That possibly a worst-case scenario that I am afraid of.

We don't know the reason why asking for such important information and if we care about ourselves, should we have not to do this.
Bounty managers also will have to think about this as well and for the welfare of their participants unless you are to have a bad intention.

I think, professional Bounty managers know their way and they are very good at their job. What is especially new is the copper members who are responsible for this behavior by disclosing one's privacy. Now these emails are copied by third parties especially marketing people and then resold to other companies at attractive rates.

Some Bounty managers still do not hide email addresses which is awful. Last week I received phising mails containing cloned Kucoin exchange link, asking me to login to claim KCS rewards for a Kucoin campaign I didn't join. What if I ignorantly used the kucoin scam cloned site to login, my account would have been cleared. It's very important to hide mails on spreadsheet or at least hide a part of it. Security is very vital and hence should not be taken for granted.

I have the same situation, but only with a telegram account. Constantly someone writes in private messages with "super profitable" offers for the purchase of something incomprehensible. And this greatly interferes with finding the desired message from some, for example, a manager who should have contacted me. Therefore, I also believe that those responsible for the bounty campaign need to do something about it, at least hide the ways of communicating with people from the spreadsheet.

Yes, I also faced issue due to this.
I'm a crypto investor and bounty hunter and there are so many bounties which need email address and also BM shows them on spreadsheet and maximum time I get email of advertisements, scam offers and many more. All BM should need to take care about this because it's again privacy also.

I also receive messages from different people who ask me how my life is and how I’m doing, then they ask if you want to make money on passive. Therefore, it is necessary to close access to mail and telegram.

Mostly the emails are hidden and I have never faced such a situation yet but if some manager keeps it open in the spreadsheet that is very wrong not only participants will get spam but it also exposes their personal or private contact details which should not happen.

Addition to email address exposure, some managers ask to fill country you are from in joining google form and later expose that in spreadsheet. What is that for? Is this a "short" KYC ? While email is often enough to connect person to his deeds, exposing his country will greatly deanonymize him. Ever see confusing lines in bounty joining form - skip it. You identity cost more than a chance to earn.

I'm ok with email because you can always create emails specifically for that campaign but asking more for your nationality or anything related to your personal info is not good if you are not a fan of KYC don't join this campaign that will compromise your sensitive details, but on a legit project, I will have to cross the bridge when I get there.

Bounty managers are essential to a bounty program. They should think about us on many such matters.
Our personal information must be protected and we must not be exposed to spam messages.

Looks like mistakes have been around for a very long time. It's not just a matter of emailing the spreadsheet, but we also need to be careful about choosing projects. it could also be that the data we provide when registering a campaign is misused by the project manager or team to carry out a scam marketing project via email. someone may also sell email documents to other marketing projects.

It's better to start make another email address (alt email) for you, so when you participate in a campaign you can use your alternative email to register and have different email for your main use, example for exchange, website and others. We never know if bounty manager will use our email for phishing purpose, its better to aware to that kind of thing. 

I have always been critical of displaying my personal email on the spreadsheet. Most of the regular bounty managers have stepped up and are aware of making it private from the start yet many of the new and old bounty managers just doesn't care or gives out various excuses before actually making that private. The bounty managers and anyone that needs to view that could be easily shared while keeping the email column invisible to the public. They just need to learn using the google forms a bit.

maybe the bounty manager you follow doesn't know about it, because now I see many bounty manager who have hidden our email in spreadsheet, so you better tell the bounty manager not to display email address in spreadsheet, then in the future the bounty manager will already know about it and will not do it again or my suggestion is that you better create a special email for use in bounty, so as not to affect or interfere with your main email when the bounty manager displays your email address in a spreadsheet.

Any participants have the right to make complaints to the managers if they are not feeling good with the exposure that already made by its managers to the their email. I think that if the hunters can talk with the managers directly. there are still some managers are revealing the email of hunters.
There are so many scammers these days and these scammers are sending various phishing link to the participants.

I very much agree with you. Now, my bounty email address has been exposed, and I receive a lot of spam in emails every day. This has a great impact on my personal life. I suggest that bounty hunters should pay more attention to the privacy of our bounty participants. Protect our information. This allows us to better participate in activities.

They more likely than not got messages from the Airdrop that It is sufficient to upset we all, in any event the Bounty Manager can hear this grumbling so all abundance members presently don't get Airdrop messages which may be very upsetting. Concur with the Bounty decides unmistakably demonstrated that at whatever point the Bounty Manager hands-over these records to the tasks proprietors they can sell out these messages or personalities to fire up undertakings consequently uncovering our ills or specials subtleties openly.

indeed, while participating in the bounty, we can be sure that there will be risks that we might receive because all the data is there and is clearly visible in the POA when registering, not to mention in a clear spreadsheet that many see to ascertain the stake we will get. but it all depends on our own to diligently delete all spam e-mails that enter our address. because there's no other way we can do it.

Or maybe we can use an email address that we don't use for interactions at work, because that's probably all we can do. but sometimes if the email address is not used often, if there is information that is important we are late to get the information.

New bounty managers are making these mistakes. I had this problem. After joining the bounty many offer links come to my email. At last , I sent a messages to the manager to hide the email row. Later I saw that he had hidden. In my opinion, it is the responsibility of every bounty manager to hide the email row.

Even if bounty managers hide the emails it doesn't mean that the BM can't use the emails to his or her own advantages, they can use it to spam or for advertisement, some will even sell to those buying thousands of email address on the web, it's better to use separate email for bounties, that's the best advice

You can go for masked emails or disposable emails with a timeline of a year or two and use that specific email for bounty purposes alone and you're fine. Though, I agree with your initiative to start hiding email addresses of users because we definitely love our privacy and some users don't have time to even create a masked email and they simply give out their real email address in the form.

I think its obvious that you are always going to receive junk emails and promotions maybe even scams to email addresses that are available in a public spreadsheet. Its always safe to use a separate email for these purposes.
Also it would be better if bounty managers mask the email details .

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Most bounty managers have hidden emails from campaign participants. some are not, but I don't think it's a problem when you always change your email to participate in the bounty.
but such situations can also be orchestrated by bounty managers who do sell the data in their spreadsheets to certain parties. we can't accuse all bounty managers like that. but I think some of them (bounty managers must have done it).

Maybe it's true that sometimes I get spam emails from people I don't know or subscribe to before. Maybe people who see our email in the spreadsheet take it and pass it on, but some managers also understand this problem and hide our email from the public.

- Blaming the bounty managers is definitely a mistake in this regard because when they became managers, they gained trust from the project but maybe they had little experience, so displaying email in the spreadsheet is a beginner's mistake, we can't complain about them, I also had private messages with a new manager about this and they immediately hidden the email address column. Bad guys just wait for these emails to show up and start sending spam messages, even links that steal accounts, the managers have also realized and the project is not asking for email right now

This is a good and bad idea!
Good idea in the sense that it promotes transparency and accountability by the campaign manager and also respects ones privacy which means you not exposed to phishing attempts or receiving spam for whatever product and service advertisement.

And this is also a bad idea as some bounty hunters can act in bad faith and enroll several accounts using the same email addy disadvantaging other users.

we sure do love transparency and that is one of the aim of blockchain to provide transparency but there must be a limitation .

 emails are too personal , they are like a phone number and if we dont want to share our phone number to prevent unwanted calls we do need to hide our emails too to prevent spam mails  .

they will get caught if they will use the same email because the manager will see it when they post thier application in the campaign thread or when ask for their email addreses via pm

Of course, hiding the email address in the table is necessary because hackers are very interested in our email. Personally, I've already had my email address hacked twice. We are all targeted by hackers because of our cryptocurrency business. In e-mail, many store passwords to forum accounts, wallets, platforms, exchanges, secret keys from wallets, and more. Therefore, I no longer store all this on my device.
Recently, the tables no longer indicate the email address, it is often not even required by the ICO teams themselves.

I personally usually use email which I really specialize in just following the bounty or airdrop and the email I use is not tied to a forum account, exchanger or anything personal, because I realize that every manager has its own policy to publish or not email participants bounty, because in this case we cannot protest so it is better to use a separate email address that is devoted to bounties or airdrops, because if you use a private email address, of course you will be very vulnerable and disturbed by the entry of spam messages and it is not possible to get messages that are contains a phishing link.

I think OP has indicated a very good point. There are some bounty managers who hide email addresses from spreadsheets and some do not. As a result, our email addresses are being added to Google Groups offering various promotions. As a result, we are constantly receiving emails with various offers, which is very annoying.

Is there any chance to breach an account with an email address only? I know some bounty managers who are willing to hide your email address and other information in spreadsheet as long as you will message them in telegram.

indeed, a lot of spam mails will come to our emails, if our email address exposure in the spreadsheet
and this is not good, because sometimes a phishing link will come to our email too

I've been through the same thing got spam by email even though I have closed my email meeting but when I found out my email was taken from the bounty that I followed maybe this problem is quite simple if the bounty menanger asks for an email please don't show it on the spreen sheet so that the email of the bounty participants remains confidential

Do you really think that projects, that wants to do a promotion by airdrops, buys email data bases to make a mailing? Since I've flashed my email in bounties/spreadsheets, I do start to receive airdrop related emails. But they are all filled with referral links. And most of them look like an obvious spam. Even if I receive such "emailed" airdrop, its value would be around $1, and I would spend more withdrawing it. I always skip such emails, because completing airdrop tasks from them will only make someone richer, but definitely not me.

I am also favor of hiding email addresses in the bounty spreadsheet cause I found it unnecessary to be include in the sheets. Exposing emails can be used by scammers to scam other people by sending fake emails, sending links which may lead to pishing sites. But the decision is still up to the bounty manager whether he/she hide the email address or not.

I often receive some strange emails after I register my real emails to some of the airdrops and bounties that I have joined before and the result my email is like the garbage of spam messages. You don't need to click all the links to check if they are real or not. instead, don't gamble your email to check those stuff and just delete all of them when you are not sure where you get those messages. Usually, they tell you about your account on another website that it needs to change its password and that's their strategy to access your account because what they gave you is a link from a phishing website.

Maybe that bounty manager is new, he didn't know how risky to exposed the email addresses of the bounty participants in the spreadsheet. He should hide it because they will get spam emails. I advice to the bounty hunters that do not use your main email when joining bounties, just use a second email for it.

We should ask the bounty manager to hide the email Id column in the spreadsheet but It happens in some bounties some bounty managers are smart they do hide the emails in the spreadsheet without asking but some are careless they should know hacker or promoters copy the emails to send their phishing links or promotional links that I hate to open it. I usually avoid all such links until and unless from a trusted source. Even we should know there are sellers who sell the email list in exchange of money So we have to use different email id for the bounties.

I don't really care about my email being exposed on the spreadsheet, because it's just a work email, not a personal email, and I don't check those emails very often. so there is no problem.

It really is part of the job of a bounty manager to hide information like personal e-mail adresses from the public.
For some bounties there is KYC required, which means you also need to provide an e-mail adress and even way more sensitive data too.
So it's very important that boutny managers don't just copy and paste that info into their public spreadsheet.
The only thing this spreadsheet should contain is your forum name, twitter name, telegram handle or whatever identifies you and the address the payment goes to. Nothing else.

Well not all people here are using different emails or work emails just like you. If you're not having any problem then good, but some are having real issues. And bounty managers need to be aware about the spreadsheet that they are publishing in public.

And you may not now check your mails but don't wait for the time where you accidentally click a pop up email coming from an unknown sender and then boom, lost some of your precious stones. So you better need to have a problem about it.  ;)

It's nice if the email is hidden so email is only for a certain project you are promoting. On the other hand, you are right that we should separate personal email and for bounty email requirement so our personal information will not be compromise.

When I was still actively participating in bounty, I made sure not to use my real email as I want to be anonymous and that's what I like to promote being in the crypto space, so we should be smart at the same time while joining a bounty campaign because we cannot control the bounty managers.

I agree. Email spamming is so annoying sometimes hackers send some phishing links on it that is why creating special crypto email is advisable for your convenience, safety and privacy. This is not just the bounty manager's obligation but we can request for them to hide our emails but it is also on our part to be aware of this.

Dude if you deciding to join the bounty campaign i think u smart enough to not use ur real email.. You can use a new email just for bounty, how can you use ur real email for bounty it will be a lot of spam coming into ur inbox.

I don't think anyone who works in cryptocurrency submits a personal email. Everyone submits work email. But the problem is that some times we may receive phishing email. And if you click on that phishing email by mistake, your crypto asset can be stolen. Also, emails with different offers seem annoying to me.

I think your writing can be an input for the bounty manager you are referring to. I agree with you.
  Manager should be able to hide bounty participant e-mails should not be displayed in the spreadsheet. because it can be misused by other parties

I don't even know for what purpose bounty managers collect email address data from bounty participants, if only in the future to send spam or something else. To weed out bots, it is enough to publish a link to a PoA post.

Some projects, that distribute rewards to dashboard, identify users mostly by email. They match email from spreadsheet/registration form with the one user created account and confirmed it. The false opinion is that bounty hunters are identified on the dashboard by adding their ERC20 address to it. But that is not true. Because if this was, cheaters will search spreadsheet for highest reward and add its ERC20 address to their dashboard account.