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Hello, i was watching for few months now and got that most of airdrop campaigns specially airdrop bots on telegram  don't pay participants with tokens. it's a nature that many airdrop bots don't pay or scam participants after getting them promoted through users. but this time it's different i think. before few moths i received at least 10 airdrops per month and now it has been reduced to 2-3 drops per month although i worked even more harder on airdrop campaign.


What could be the reason ?? comment your ideas specially OGs. this is for you.

There are quite a lot of reasons why Airdrop/Bounty campaigns do not pay their participants all that much these days, but that which is most predominant is that the project is prolly a scam, thus they only need people to advertise their scam project and the moment they have acquired as much money as possible through investors on their project, they take the money and do not pay participants, because afterall they are scammers.

Having said that, nonetheless there are Airdrop/Bounty campaigns/projects that pay participants, but more often than not the tokens are worthless, you may never even get to trade them on any exchange because the devs stall on the development of the project once the Bounty campaign is over. Overall it is pretty obvious that Bounty campigns are no longer profitable.

Ive been into airdrops before and bounty campaign. I could say is before only few are joining the airdrops unlike now that dozens of people are lining up to join it which reduces the reward significantly. Also the value of airdrop before somehow considerable and huge but now its different too. Maybe not enough for a gas usage when you try to sell.

Also some projects are linked with scammers and only trying to use participants as a tool for marketing to execute a huge scheme.

1. bots
2. multi-accounts
3. the organizers reducing the rewards without informing the participants
4. too many people already know on how to participate on the airdrops
5. all of the above

Yes of course. we are scammers too because we promote worthless shits and ,might be some of newbie investors get cough by those scammers who pretend as legit project owners. and the next reason about bounty campaign now days is just a waste of time. I was keep completing tasks for bounty campaign for few months and got only $30 for whole months.

the problem is about airdrop campaigns. many of south Asian users  has created more than 10 accounts and they are vanishing whole things.

yes sir, that is the problem of airdrop campaigns nowdays. for last few months i have completed almost more than 1500 airdrops and i got nothing there.

yes . This sis one of a major problem. most of these multi account owners are south Asian people .... they are ruining crypto

First things you should.

Getting paid for the token, doesn't mean the project are still live. There has some chance, most the time 90% is a scam and you're not getting the token. You are living with "freelance" hoping a freebies.

Don't hope to much, do the work then just hoping sometime is happen. If you want to get paid guarantee, get a jobs is the answer.

Well the foremost reason could be that these projects are scam. They aren't planning to pay. Another possibility is that these projects somehow died in the process. They didn't even survive up to the day they need to airdrop their dead tokens.

If I were you I wouldn't be doing much work in participating airdrops. I'd rather be just flipping burgers and earn properly. At least my hard work is compensated.

Tho projects who are not paying are simply wanting free promotion from the participants in order to attract investors and eventually abandoning the project once they've earned from it. Such thing is not new from faucet days up until the present. This is the downside of 'investmwnt free' projects wherein players will be given an opportunity to earn tokens from projects without requiring them to put money into it. Likewise with some signature campaigns. Frauds are just surfacing this industry because those who are fraudalent takes advantage of the anonymity being offered by this technology.

There was a time the bounty managers request that members will be paid in other tokens that are listed in exchange but many times when they drop the token it is worthless looking valueless for anything to come out from it. Airdrops were profitable when the icos where genuine and honest with bounty hunters but not this time. They don't redeem promise to hunters like in the past and most are shit projects that won't be listed.

I think it has everything to do with the bear market. Most projects back in the day would make some money, not a lot but at least some even if they are bad and they could make A LOT of money if they were any good.

These days most of them suck and they do not make any money at all which means that they just give up, I have seen plenty of projects like that where the owners just give up, because their bounty didn't work and it resulted with them being terrible in the long run and they just do not want to give tokens to people because they stop the project. Same happened here, just doesn't make sense to me at all and would be smarter if it was not participated in at the first place.

Any project must distribute the reward regardless the price is, if they're not give you the token they've promised before, they're scam and you can create scam accusations against those project especially if they're promoting their project in this forum.

However if you think you can get rich through airdrop, you're wrong. These days, airdrop is really wasting time, similar like Bitcoin faucet, it's better if you learn a skill and offer it in fiver/upwork/ this forum.

3 reason I can give you with that,

1. They don't get enough fundings that's why they decide to abandon the project they started.
2. They don't have plan to pay and they only want to get the data's of the participant so that they can use it for other marketing purposes.
3. They just trying to see if there are people will mistakenly put a seed phrase on their sign up link provided to scam people. So for this we need to be more careful checking what we put on the address since sometimes if we are careless instead put the altcoin address we mistakenly put the seed phrase and that is so expensive mistake that we need to avoid.

They're airdrops and that means that they're just there to be given out for free or not at all since you spend no money at all. Those that don't distribute it very well have a problem in management so that means they're not even serious with the allocation for the airdrop participants.
If you're mostly focused on airdrops, it's better for you to spend less time on it for you to realize that there's no certain by allotting most of your time to it. Airdrops and crypto projects themselves are uncertain. If it gets a value, you're lucky so, it's hit or miss.

Disappointing but don't wonder why this happens because of these things;
 - they are scam
 - greedy developers
 - the project never exist in real life

In fact, this is already a problem many years ago but people aren't learning yet till now. That is why stop believing and joining these airdrops because you are not just wasting your time but also weakening your trust towards crypto. You better find another way to earn money here, there are opportunities that you have missed.

Even if you put money into investing in new projects, many projects will not distribute tokens to you, so with earn free money they don't pay you is understandable. I would say that is very normal for the crypto market.

Working hard is not about doing all the projects you see or meeting their requirements, but first, you need to screen the projects to be involved in. That means not every project will pay you, you need to spend time researching and only participating in potential projects. But I think participating in airdrops nowadays is a waste of time because most of them are scams, as you see, or the rewards are too little compared to the effort we put in.

Doesn't matter if the pay or not, those are shitcoins anyway. Why waste your time collecting those coins instead of focusing on something more productive? The amount of energy and time you waste could have been used to make more money than the peanuts that you would have received. Do you really expect some random tokens that has been given for free to everyone is going to change your life? Stop promoting and helping those scammers. Invest and support real well known projects!

Airdrops are usually uncertain. Most of the airdrops do not pay. It is true that spending time here means just waste of time. Bitcoin is going to be bullish again, so investors should invest at this time due to the potentiality of bitcoin otherwise this opportunity may not come. It is very useful to invest in some good projects but wasting the time for the promotion of scamming projects completely destroy you. With in few months i don't see any one who benefited by participating in any airdrop.

Don't expect anything more from airdrops projects.
Airdrops are an easy project to work on and you can earn Shitcoin tokens for free from working on them.
However, almost 95% of the airdrop projects are scammers and there is very little chance of growth to be able to compete with other tokens on the market.
If indeed there is a token from a good airdrop project that succeeds in developing it, it is difficult to work on and more complicated than other airdrop projects that have no value.
So you shouldn't have to regret so much about what you've done in an airdrop project that still doesn't necessarily develop and give you an advantage.

I cannot believe that airdrops are still relevant these days. That was like 2017-2018 trend back then and I thought they just.....disappeared. When someone tells you for free money in exchange of some information, I don't count on it anyway. Airdrops aren't worth pursuing now, OP. It's almost always a waste of time just for the devs to get participants/followers/likers.

I even recall some airdrops I joined back then that tried to steal my wallet and yeah it was an unsecured one, but still.

Airdrops are no longer profitable. Airdrop participants are not being paid because both the participants and the project owners are dishonest. Bots and cheating have been used by participants. Project owners dislike dumping by paying tokens. Because most project's token price fall immediately after they are launched. As a result, if more Airdrop participants create sell pressure, the price will fall further. As a consequence, this is one of the reasons why airdrop rewards are not paid. Another reason is that the project itself is a scam. So there's no reason to pay for useless scam tokens.

You already said most of the airdrops were just scams and if you see less airdrops these days literally means their scamming technique isn't effective anymore so they didn't try to attempt it any further.

For legit airdrops paying with tokens becomes a headache as well because the transaction fee is higher than what the token value they're going to transfer so this isn't really practical to spend 1000 to send 100 worth of tokens.

Bounty campaigns and airdrops have been problematic since a long time ago. To avoid getting scammed by those campaigns, adopt some safety measures:

Only promote projects paying in stablecoins or reliable cryptocurrencies, make sure the money to pay participants really exist (campaign manager has to show address containing the funds), look for campaigns managed by reputable members. These three steps must keep you away from scams and from wasting your time for nothing.

I've done a lot of airdrops in the past and stopped working on them in 2018. That's the year the airdrops and bounties became 99% scam. IMO
because there are so many new projects that appear and provide airdrops for free, only a few pay and the amount doesn't match what was done. like this year a lot of shitcoin airdrops have appeared and I often get emails about airdrops but when I research it's just some useless shitcoins.
so to take part in the airdrop for now is just a waste of time, and even though someone is paying, it's not in accordance with what is being done.
but if someone is still paying and the price is high like Aptos, I consider it just luck and that's what I call 99% scam, meaning there is still 1% that is not scam.

This is not new anymore, this has been the problem since then and that is why airdrop is not good anymore and they are not paying that much, not unless a big project came in and they have a good plan for their platform. Bounties are still paying though with their own token, the only problem is the value of those token and its hard to if its worth it to participate or not at all. Always choose the best bounty, and know if they have a better future with their product or services, bounty is also a big risk to take and you should be more willing to accept it.

so many airdrops are scams nowadays, all the good rewards are moving over to the staking programs released by many reputed platforms and it could be said that following airdrops nowadays just not worth it anymore, you see the most legit airdrops are usually listed in CMC and you see the statistics of the followers of the airdrops, it just really high and I don't think you gonna make quite the fortune out of it, just invest a little bit and follows staking programs you'll get better rewards in the long term.

Whenever something related to bounties and airdrops were discussed it is possible to see the year 2017-18 into discussion. Those are days when the people aren't much aware about the existence of cryptocurrencies. By the time the participants were less and now the market have widened in a much larger scale. This makes way for the increased number of participant resulting in low rewards. Among them, once again it is hard to find trusted bounties and airdrops that give good rewards as most of them were trying to use the details gathered through these bounties and airdrops for the marketing purpose as said above.

1500 is a lot and knowing these are all nothing is really dissapointing. Maybe try to join some with really those are high value projects only. Cause doing airdrop now with easy task is not gonna give you money, unlike before that even filling up a form for an airdrop can give you $500 or more in value.

Nowadays most of the projects are giving airdrops to their testnet users. so in my opinion, you should pay more attention to these testnet airdrops instead of these telegram bot airdrops.

Recently Aptos airdropped to their node runners and NFT minters (which was on the testnet) which was more than $2k+

I suggest you follow this Twitter user if you want to participate in testnet airdrops: https://mobile.twitter.com/MingoAirdrop

(Never use your main wallet for such airdrops, rather create a new wallet and don't deposit any funds)

It is very difficult indeed to get an airdrop that keeps its promise like what is offered by developers to bounty hunters, this is because there are many projects that are schemes and don't have the right development or are deliberately made to increase account followers and create communities which can be sold for sale. make it a target market.
Maybe there are some who give the reward but it is indeed very difficult because there are many competitors who also want to get the prize, sneaky actions (such as bot accounts) among bounty hunters also add to the increasingly difficult competition to get into the airdrops winner qualification

Airdrops has change it's ways over the years. I do notice that airdrops with heavy task and task that require you to spend some money such as testnets are the one who pays and most likely has the most value out of all airdrops out there. Those airdrops who only shares there social media, follow people, posting on social media and other light task that can easily do and easily be abused by multi account users are the one who certainly doesn't have any value or worst will not distribute tokens. These telegram bots are widely known for being abused and not paying. Don't waste your time on easy airdrops, There are little to no worthy free airdrop anymore.

For a few reasons they usually do not make payment one is that falling of project that will not be able to collect the expected money against their project. Another, if it is only a scam project, then they will not pay you or no money will be available from that promotion. Some projects try to do well but do not survive and some projects are created only to scam. Another thing is to keep in mind that if the market condition is bad, the projects are usually not succeed. As a result, it is useless to promote or join at any airdrop.

Its time for you to stop doing airdrops these developers don't have to intention to develop their platform and put their shit token in the market, they just want to grow their social media accounts because these airdrops will ask you to do tasks before you qualify to their airdrops, they are actually selling these social media accounts or they use this accounts to promote scam projects like Ponzi scheme.
The definition of airdrop in Crypto has drastically changed it used to be you leave your address and they just send you your token but now it's more of a bounty campaign, you have to do a lot of tasks, airdrops are wasted effort and time.

There's simply just a lot of you guys in the airdrop that only some are receiving the rewards.

They are not not paying, but you may have just joined a little late for the party. There are still some projects out there that pay out a reasonable sum after a bounty goal has been completed or reached, although you're right that they're few and far in-between. If you're already allotting much time in pursuing these airdrops, then you may as well double your time and effort because it's really hard to find one which tokens are still valuable and really worth your while.

Or better yet, do not chase airdrops anymore because they're not worth it for the time you're giving it.

Just don't participate random airdrops you don't know about. Some of them don't care about bounty hunters and looks like a lot of them have moved to model where they "randomly" pick 10-100 or such winners and divide airdrop with them. I have a hard time understanding why people would waste their time joining such obviously rigged raffles but maybe i people aren't reading the terms of the airdrop either when they are just participating as many airdrops as they can.

In addition, several airdrops deliberately target people who are easy to deceive by giving away useless tokens.
Sometimes, some airdrops also provide conditions that must be met before the project sends the token.
There is also an airdrops program that requires people who join to do KYC to get tokens which they claim could be very valuable in the future and it really isn't worth doing.
So it's better to avoid such airdrop programs and look for other projects that may be more promising in the future.

All airdrops rewards are steel by indonesian, Indian, Pakistan peoples. I have one of few friends from most of asian countries they cheat major airdrops community well. Even in AMA and bounty also. Once one of my friend gave me a tg bot. It can add up to 30 tg accounts. So what i need to do that go to telegram ama channel and give that group joining link to bot. Then all the tg accounts will join that channel auto and once they unmute the group that bot posting unique question regarding the project. So most of ama is eassy wining.

Also there are lot of indian/bangaldesh commiuinties about airdrop.There are people who provide airdrop bots reff for 2-3$. You can get 300-350 reff eassy by paying 2-3$. My advice is if you are doing airdrops now you must learn how to cheat otherwise you will not win and also waste your time.

I don't know for sure why most airdrop campaigns are not paying anymore but i can take a guess. I think that today the crypto space is just flooded with scammers and new projects and of course probably at least 95% of those new projects are totally worthless meme-tokens that either never even get going or that will be dead within a few days again.
Airdrops are usually done by such bad projects because the good ones don't need to do an airdrop because people are interested in buying them anyway. Back in 2017 or 2018 i also joined some airdrops but i started doing that a few years ago because it is just not worth it. Even if their are legit airdrops then most of them are only worth 1$ because of those professional airdrop hunters that are having 100s of fake ID's to participate.

I assume airdrops have cooled down because the market has reached the disbelief phase. To simplify it, airdrops is considered an advertisement sort because it increases awareness about the token. The most recent example is Aptos airdrop, which made big noise around the project as many people managed to get it freely and posted that on the social media making everyone hear about Aptos token. Now, as the market has no serious capital inflow, it's not an appropriate time for projects to release their tokens. When there is new capital inflow in the market, projects will be encouraged to release their tokens including airdropped tokens.

How do they trick people into making them work for basically nothing. The token worths absolutely zero, and they say things like "we will give 25k tokens worth 25k dollars" and people all are like "wow so much money! I want to join!" and they work for them to get 200-300 dollars worth of tokens, and when they do, it worths zero.

How is it not obvious from the start that the tokens would worth zero, I mean they literally trust your work to make it worth something to begin with. By that logic I would make my own token and make others work for me instead and get something? Isn't that simpler and easier to make money? Why am I working for you?

Before joining airdrops you should check the project full detail. Most of project are scam and airdrop are just to increase number of social followers. Telegram bot Airdrops are 99% fake and scam so don't waste your time on these. I wasted one year on these telegram bot Airdrops and did recieved one cent. Gleam airdrops are 70% real but they are randomly choose winners and number of participants are large.
I will recommend you to try official exchanges Airdrop like Binance, Kucoin,bybit,Bitget and other. Follow their announcement page and try be FCFS to get guaranteed Airdrop which you can instantly sell and convert it to fiat

Sometimes when you think about it, it's the cheapest way they can get to gain promotion to be honest. It's pretty much a waste of time and you would be better of investing your skills somewhere else where you make more than what hundreds of airdrops could potentially give you (assuming all those hundreds were legitimate :D).

Actually when the market is in its toes or dipping pretty bad, many would be desperate to get cheap coins and I am not surprised that a lot of these projects are going out suddenly.

I trust airdrops launched through exchanges such as Binance, KuCoin, Bybit and other exchanges rather than looking for airdrops from telegrams, social media or other websites because those exchanges provide airdrops to their members and this has been happening for a long time. Many of these airdrop promos expose people to fraud after they provide detailed information about the project. At the same time, the project does not give them anything and only promises to wait a while.

Why they aren't paying participants with tokens?
Because they don't want it to in the first place.

What do you think? If you participated in an airdrop campaign, you will get the tokens automatically? It doesn't work that way unfortunately. At first place, most if not some of the projects who are launching an airdrop campaign doesn't want to pay those bounty hunters their tokens because they don't want it to.

You're working hard?
It seems like you are working very hard but aren't being paid at all.

There is a problem with you. You are working hard, spending too much time in promoting these scam campaigns and yet you aren't paid at all? Maybe it's time for you to think another way to earn money and don't rely on airdrop campaigns only. I wonder why you posted this kind of thread? Are you depending on airdrop campaigns too much?

Most scammers are using the Telegram platform to seek their target victims. Scam projects are fake pages and launch fake airdrops so their project would look legit. To be honest, lots of scams and fake airdrops are all over Telegram nowadays and it's too disappointing that you won't get paid after doing all the tasks that they would ask you to do. It is better to do research first and check if a project is legit so you will not fall for the trap of fake airdrops.

The answer is pretty simple it is because the project is a big scam.
If they couldn't even keep up to their words on the people that help them how do you expect them to follow their road map?
For me airdrop is the easiest and cheapest way for them to promote their project and if they couldn't afford to pay for it how do you expect them to continue?

Talk with yourself about what's wrong with you. There are only scam airdrops in the market. It seems like that you were joining airdrop without even seeing reputation of project that did airdrop. That's your fault

The reason is you have been working on the scam airdrop. This is the main reason why you were not receiving the tokens. Why don't you try to do something better like play to earn or bounty campaign? Airdrop campaign was pretty much the same like gambling with your luck. Sometime you get paid but in another time you will be scammed and i think most of airdrops were scam. Scammers can create new tokens easily and used airdrop to attract followers and they will not give what they have promised.

That's because most people can't read the tokenomics or valuate the project in any way. I've seen so many times that bounty managers (or the teams) have valuated the project to hundreds of millions so that they can basically name their token price. When or if i confront them about i usually get kicked out from the discord/telegram for fudding.

IMHO there should be a system that prevents teams bounty managers to make up valuations and numbers. Now the whole bounty section is kind of free for all and anything goes. Worst thing is when the project doesn't even have an announcement and we can't give them negative trust for it. Sure we could always blame the bounty managers but that's not a road most of us want to go.

Specific airdrops might have their specific problems but in general airdrops are often scamming their participants after collecting some sort of personal data from them in the first place. It is the cost of being greedy for the so-called "free money". While you could get some legit coins through airdrops who were running properly, you are less likely to find such projects nowadays.

Be on the lookout to make money but if it is given for free, be careful that you dont end up giving away your own data to such an extent that might get you into trouble. Because there are loads of low income country users in this forum who just want to accumulate shitcoins hoping for something big, they easily get fooled by such airdrops.

The crypto space is no longer what it used to be few years back. Scammers have infiltrated the cryptocurrency industry using it to scam and defraud people. Basically, most projects that end up not paying the people that helped them to promote their project is very likely a scam project. It simply means that such project may equally rug-pull/run away with people's funds after ICO, IDO, etc. It is unfortunate that negative events are being witnessed in the crypto space because of the nature of the technology. From not paying airdrop participants, hacking of crypto wallets, to the FTX collapse, are all pointing to the same thing: insincerity, deceit, scamming, and other vices infiltrating in the crypto space. I am hoping for a better technology that will even make airdrop participation, bounty campaigns, etc. to be a smart contract activity where promoters work will be rewarded automatically without human element intervention. I think it is important to research before participating in any airdrop if you have to.  

I think its a very clear if any admin and the owner of projects ect which can't want a distribution to there users and some cases are that Admin can't satisfied to a work so they cheat a there participant and then they can't pay a reward to there users its a very wrong way so be careful of these scam projects.

Projects that don't pay their airdrop participants won't pay any charges so it will be another way for them to save though it would ruin their reputation. Another reason is, most new projects nowadays don't survive so there's no sense in paying their participants with coins without good value. Scam projects are also everywhere these days so no wonder why many participants end up getting unpaid. Cheaters and scammers will promise us a lot so we also need to be wise or else we will only be wasting our time doing all the tasks that they will ask us to do.

there could be parties who take advantage of the airdrop program, this is the first reason.
then it is also possible that the airdrop provider only takes advantage of many participants with the main goal of deceiving even though they promise to pay each participant to be more active in working, even though by using the services of their participants they have succeeded in attracting many investors. I think ridiculous things like that no longer need to be done by airdrop providers, at least they can appreciate what participants who have campaigned for their Airdrop or project have done.

Would up this again if I would since one particular project tried to  even steal my MEW wallet back in the days and thankfully I was not fool enough to just be baited into their phishing site. I know people still fall for those, but come on, that was like an old fashioned way. :D

Kinda scary to those who really went all in and disclosed their personal information though.

Actually, airdrops themselves have started to decline since 2017. However, there are still many projects that also provide airdrops to make promotions, especially those who really want a hype scheme. Airdrop can be a fairly effective method. Lately it may be different because of the decline in crypto projects, especially during the bearish era, most teams don't want to release their projects or just develop them. But what is certain, isn't the airdrop not always promising? especially new projects that do not have the guarantee to grow and survive in the market?

If there’s no plan to pay the participants better not to make any promotions are all because some participants are doing their best to participate on airdrops as many as possible but since a lot of scam projects, it ruins the reputation of airdrop and yes, this might not be worth it anymore. Anyway, if you are participating on any airdrop better to be more careful giving your personal details and to be safe, don’t expect that much.

I am a bit late to share an answer for this one but I would still explain why most airdrops don't pay participants with the tokens being airdropped by the project owners. To tell you honestly, it is a complete waste of time if you want to participate or join in any airdrop. As I have said, airdrops not paying participants is one of the reason why the participants not getting paid which is very obvious. The second is that the owner is either very busy managing the project, very lazy, telling lies to people where they said they pay their participants when they join the airdrop. Third, I don't think that airdrop is still a trend until today unlike few years ago. Fourth, airdrops doesn't reward that much or you will only receive small amount of money minus the transaction fee and more fee.

^In addition, because it depends on the project itself if they have a failure, they will not get pushed through which means most of them will abandon if seeing they did not succeed which is all projects now don't have a real utility or it is repeated by other projects.
It could be the main reason is project failure, or once if they will succeed, they will pay only a small amount, because not all projects will have an amazing value after listing on the exchange, they will eventually encounter failure which if they don't survive that is the reason they don't have value.
So that is definitely right don't waste your time in airdrop hunting, it is worth nothing as of now.

There are some airdrops like that but most airdrops I participated before and all the airdrops I have seen so far is a complete waste of time. I was going to sell it when I see the cost of transaction fee is the same value of the airdrop. Let's just say airdrop I have is worth $5 where the transaction fee alone already cost you $5.

Yeah it that is also true. Forgot to mention this one which is also a possibility of why the participants are not getting paid even a cent.

there are certainly many reasons why these projects airdrops devs didn't keep their promise and surely rugpulls and scams is one of them.
the thing with airdrop is that it's already not worth it, it has declined so far that it's just not worth it anymore following airdrops, there are many things that's just better than airdrops because the devs right now aren't really concentrating anymore in airdrops but they are more concentrated in other things like marketing through big platforms.

Because there are a huge number of scammers in telegram who profit from free coin lovers, especially with bots. This type of Airdrop should be forgotten for a long time, because there are much more convenient and honest ways to get Airdrop in the industry, be it sites like coinmarketcap or specialized sites like Gleam. There is a minimum of fraud there, so if you want to take part in some cryptocurrency giveaways, don't use telegram bots for that.

For years I have been dealing with most airdrops that don't pay the rewards they promise. And that's why it continues until now because scammers or exploitative people know that there are many gullible coomunity and don't think properly about what to let in.

This kind of airdrop just steals the time we have and takes advantage of our weakness when it comes to knowledge about this matter.

But sometimes they are just playing tricks on people who want to participate in the Airdrop, you should look in detail about what they are asking to collect data on you. Maybe all this is just a way to sell your data.

True, based on what happen nowadays many airdrops project take advantage how to grow up their twitter follower by giving task need to follow and make their pinned post tweet. Few days later they changed twitter official name and actually they have get real follower after many people participating on airdrop.

Another bad thing about airdrop required KYC and how risk when our data collecting and use for selling on dark market. I think enough joining with many kinds of airdrop project if need KYC for earning their reward payment. Not only without earn payment but also we spent time and energy without get reward and the airdrop platform success collecting our data.

Kinda feel if those who participated in the airdrop were actually wasting their time. Sometimes they were wanna collecting your wallet but some scammers using airdrop as a way to increase the followers for free. I meant people being fooled to be promised with free airdrop while scammer was fooling them all to increase the engagement on its social media for the scamming purpose. there are so many scammers were also stealing data from the airdrop participants too.

That's the main target of airdrop owners they just want to outsource data from many people and to risky for innocent individual to participate since they might experience risky situation especially if scammers ask Kyc before they can receive their share. Also they might get scam if they also ask some payment to get more bigger airdrop percentage.

Maybe they pretend to be the organizer of the project, or maybe they just aim to deceive the many people who are already working on their Airdrop campaign. I think for some airdrop providers it's just looking for investors and they will disappear after getting the money.

Dude, all they want is your data, they wont ask you to solve math problems to help with their kid's homework. After all they want to sell your data or some malicious intent that we should not talk about. Either way you are opening the risk. The more information about yourself that you give to strangers the more attack vectors they can prepare for you and one day you might end up in a bad situation causing you to lose money.

No number of airdrops justify what they are doing and besides you should not give away your data for something as low as a shitcoin that has no future. Invest in bitcoin and dont waste time on these shitdrops.

Maybe you have a lot of free time so you are very enthusiastic about participating in the Telegram airdrop bot. Personally I am not interested in participating in such airdrops because the time and results are not worth it. The main reason why many airdrops don't pay their participants is because of fraud. Another reason could be that many participants use a large number of bots when participating or even some are deliberately deceptive just to increase followers on their social media channels etc..

That's creepy then. Maybe they are only using the term airdrop but this is their real intention? Hmm. Newbies should be warned about this and they must be educated that their data is more valuable than the penny that they can get on these airdrops. A real airdrop never asks for our data except only the wallet address where they will send the tokens.

There are still companies who buys people's data. If we don't really mind our privacy then better if we can go straight on them as they can give a better value about it. One of the main reason on why there are people who do airdrops is because they don't have a money so how can they invest in Bitcoin? But there are Bitcoin earning opportunities out there which could be worth their time better than the airdrops.

just forget airdrops and invests instead, you'd get many advantages over just following some random airdrops that honestly aren't gonna make you rich except some coins like aptos but that's like finding needle in a haystack.
even investing and holding could unlock the chance of getting something from staking like in platform like binance where they usually offer some good deals in regard of holding certain coins for period of time and you'd get the coin which is worth the money than just following some airdrops that usually doesn't guarantee anything.

Airdrops nowadays isnt worth for your time and effort unless if it does only require few clicks and doesnt involved some kyc and some small fees then it wont really be that bad on making yourself getting involved

with it.There are still people surprisingly dealing up with bounties and airdrops on which they do hope that they could still make some huge money out of those freebies but as expected that we do have lots of scam

and fraud projects in the market which it would be normal that not all the projects that you had participated in would really be ending up on paying or transferring those peanuts into your
wallet.So expect these things to happen and never make yourself that expecting that much so that you wont be stressed out and disappointed.

I'm curious why some people prefer to get native tokens from their own projects rather than getting stable coins or top coins as rewards from airdrops. Is it possible because the probability of the tokens is greater? So this can be considered a kind of gambling because not all tokens from airdrops will really be worthy and have a price on the market and with good listings on exchanges, right? Indeed, sometimes the results are very promising when we are able to sell at the right time even though it is only a listing on the DEX, but how many percent can we actually get this?

In my opinion, the probabilities of being scammed, shit tokens, and also not worthy results will be for those who give the rewards on their native tokens, right? This is really like gambling where we are not sure which project will give us worthy values and result actually.

For the ones behind the airdrops the advantages of paying with their own tokens are obvious and considerable, instead of going through the trouble of raising enough stable coins or bitcoin to pay their participants they can pay them with their native tokens of which they have a great percentage on reserve.

But as you mention the real question is why airdrop hunters accept this? Because this is very disadvantageous for them as not only they need to work for months to get the airdrop, they are not sure at all if it will have any value, and now we need to add the risk of not being paid at all, making airdrops even more worthless in my eyes

there are many reasons that do a project not pay airdrop fees to the participants. some of the reasons for that are because the project lacks funds for advertising, the results that are given are not in accordance with their wishes, they do not intend to pay for it, and the most likely is that they have deceived you. Well, that's an early sign of a scam project. Also, even if they pay, the coin doesn't necessarily have a price. Personally, I rarely look for airdrops for the reasons above. However, you can ask on their telegram or discord about it. but the risk is that you get kicked out of their group.

Airdrop participants tend to prefer receiving the project's native token as they aim for greater returns, the token can be hyped at any time. That can also be called gambling, but not too surprised because if you invest in altcoins, new projects are also gambling. So the participants receiving the airdrop have the right to think of something bigger than receiving meager stablecoins. For me, whether you join by investing or earning free money from tasks, altcoin is gambling with high risk and high return.

Having some sort of issues with airdrops during bear market is common. This was a thing all the way back in ICO period as well, which was like 2018, so nearly 5 years ago and we were having this trouble. So, it is not really a shock to me that we end up with anything similar like that, it's quite normal and shouldn't be a new thing to anyone.

We should focus on the fact that airdrops are not way of making money, and instead we should gain some skills and do some free work at first to grow our follower base and influence and then we can charge for it. I have done it before and it worked out, and I think it would be very difficult for me to start over because I am very tired and old now, but younger people could do it.

What purpose does it serve to reward you with their token if it has no value? There is no money to be expected from an airdrop. Instead of waiting for an airdrop reward that usually ends up being shitcoin, just engage in some worthwhile activities than participating in any.

I've been hoarding lots of airdrops for a year or so, glancing at their pricing makes me angry. I wouldn't dare or suggest airdrop to anyone I know.

There will be many possibilities that one of them won't get what they targeted the airdrop is also targeted to be able to introduce their project so there will be many who will invest but if it doesn't reach it why distributed it or indeed, from the start, the intention was to deceive the airdrop participants, or maybe you haven't read the airdrop rules very carefully because now there are lots of airdrops that only give participants who can invite other people so if you don't invite people you can't get the rewards, but I think airdrops have not given good results for a long time.

Airdrop moment have been over and right now move and forget for joining many kinds of airdrop because waste our time without received payment yet, in these days many kinds of airdrop try to push up their social media account follower and take advantage with giving shit coins and required for following their social media account.

Check with many new airdrop launching several days later, they ask participants for following all their media account and actually they have limited budget reward for participating in their airdrop project. I don't think good ideas keep following and joining with many new airdrop project right now because waste time for receiving new coins from airdrop without listed on market.

This is what currently happening right now and sadly participants keeps joining it hoping that they can get something valuable in to it. If you know or experienced the early successful days of airdrop, You won't think joining here given that most airdrop are just scam or just taking advantage of you. Newbies are just the one who are just being taken advantage by those airdrops owner that is only collecting info, social media boost or any ways that they are taken advantage. Sadly their are still victims of this and there are also people still not aware on how things work on airdrop.

That's basically the main reason. If a project does an airdrop and does many other things before their release, and they get absolutely zero investments or something small, they will just cancel the project all together.

This I can understand, I worked with some people who had a project, they spent about 50 bnb on the marketing alone, and they got nothing in return, zero investments, so they just cancelled the project and didn't do the airdrop because the tokens were worth zero, so why give something that worths zero? You have to remember, the only possible way for you to get paid would be the project and the token being a good one, if it's bad and doesn't get any investments, then it won't work.

Many airdrops now don't produce, I also have a lot of coins from airdrops and all of them have no price at all, it's just a waste of time.
Apart from that, now there are lots of token dusting airdrops, if we are not careful, our wallets will be stolen. My advice, if anyone wants to join the airdrop, be wise in choosing.

Maybe the OP still believe in profitability of airdrops, it had been stated in the forum that airdropping is a complete waste of time it is no longer business as usual, the era of earning decent profits in airdrops has passed, I used to hodl a lot of tokens in my etherwallet obtained from airdrops unfortunately those tokens are worthless and without any value some of these shitcoins had been in wallet since 2019 hoping that it will gain some value, unfortunately remained worthless that is why I stopped airdropping and diverted to another profitable task. I don't think we will have another era of massive profits earned from airdrops again just like in 2017 and 2018.

It's been a long time since I stopped collecting airdrop tokens because it's so rare to find a profitable one that would actually give you a profit and not just a useless coins on your wallet. I just don't know why there are still people who believe or like to collect these useless coins when most of them isn't profitable?

If they believe that it's better to collect and collect until you find the best one since it's free then good luck with that but that isn't productive enough at the cost of your time collecting useless coins rather than doing something that could be useful.

It is so rare that it is not even worth it when you find one. Would prefer dust rather than useless ones.

It is just another way of projects to gain exposure or collect your data to be sold somewhere else (most likely deep web) and you would not even get anything from that, lol. I agree to the replies I got from some users in here in previous page. Not sure why people still attempt to take a bite on those.

I joined several times airdrops with the original tokens from the projects, but more than 80% were shit and I couldn't get any money from that. So, why are you waiting and searching for the airdrops? I will prefer to choose the airdrops with Bitcoin or stable coins as payment. But here, there are few airdrops like this. Airdrop is now no longer worth it like in the past. If we are waiting for the tokens as rewards, will it be really worthy and promising for the future? I am always wondering if the tokens will not be listed again in the market.

It is worth expecting if you use some kind of analytics before you take part in an airdrop. Undoubtedly, many airdrop are just a mountain of garbage. You should NOT expect coins that are not backed by anything, not backed by big investors or exchanges, and only listed on one DEX to be a valuable giveaway. Many airdrop hunters waste their time on such projects, thinking that suddenly out of nowhere they will draw liquidity to them and those tokens will skyrocket in value. They won't. If a project does not have good tokenomics, no investor support, such tokens will never gain any value, so why waste your time to get such shitcoins?

I can't still believe people are doing airdrop up till now, I can't remember how recent I engaged myself with airdrop campaign or free rewards earnings. I think you don't have to enroll yourself by doing those task because it would still end up by wasting your precious time, and the volume of participants involved in such airdrop are too voluminous whereby after event ends and rewards may not possibly go round to everyone who took part. What happens is that most at times, only the first 100 to 500 participants are being selected for the rewards and some may not received while some will receive a token that can't be exchanged. After all this stress I decided not to involved myself with airdrop anymore.. all less in some cases where they could only requires some high rank users to partake. Airdrop bot is one of the worst airdrop to partake, because they are being program to receive all your entries and if any is missing it can recorded as an invalid entry whereby you won't get paid for the task.

Since you yourself have already realized this, that currently the execution of airdrops does not bring the desired earnings, you should stop wasting your time on their execution. You need to direct your energy to other ways of earning money, for example, to complete tasks in the test network. Of course, this will also not be a guaranteed income, but if you are lucky, you can get a decent profit

Do your airdrop rewards even worth a single penny? I don't think it even good in current state considering most of the airdrops are just scams.

Especially in these days, most of the airdrops are just for the sake of free-promotion and they just easily don't pay all the participants because it's just how easy it is to make the airdrops to bait some people and then do it for their scummy behavior later on. Although you can get something from it, most of the projects neglect to make airdrop campaigns anymore due to not giving anything in return.

I completely agree with you. The euphoria around airdrops has clearly subsided, and many of these new ventures are only leveraging them to increase their social media followings without providing any genuine value to the participants.

Following and taking part in these airdrops is clearly a waste of time, particularly because many of them distribute subpar coins that are unlikely to ever be listed on exchanges. Instead of merely joining the airdrop bandwagon, it would be wiser to concentrate on initiatives that have actual promise and strong growth.

Ethereum is one instance of a successful project that didn't depend on airdrops. They concentrated on creating a strong community and providing a quality product rather than employing airdrops. As a consequence, with a sizable and devoted community of users and developers, Ethereum has grown to become one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies in the whole world. Therefore, it could be wiser to concentrate on identifying high-quality initiatives with long-term promise rather than chasing airdrops.

Well, looks like we all have bad experiences with airdrops. But the fact is until now there are still very many people trying to take advantage of airdrops to make money. you can see it in the telegram group about crypto. That's because doing tasks from airdrop is easy. Even though it feels like a waste of time, based on OP's experience, he once received 10 airdrop payments per month, and maybe out of 10 coins, 3 of them could be sold, and the rest went to waste. yeah, it's sad, but for the people who just joined, it looks like it could be a good start for them. well, I also started to explore crypto since getting to know the airdrop. But the current airdrop is very different from before.

Anyway, to the OP, it looks like it's time to look for another task that might be more profitable, and not take so much time.

There are many reasons for not getting Airdrop tokens, First of all right now 90% of SCAM or team have no intention to distribute Airdrop rewards, they just promoting their projects without any cost. Even if you will get tokens but there are no guarantee about it’s price, i got so many Airdrop tokens in my wallet but mostly worthless. It seems very difficult to get worthy rewards by participating in Airdrops.

Airdrops are also becoming less and less popular as it is an outdated concept, if we go back to when they had their best days you will see that most altcoins employed this model, so while there were a significant number of scams there many good projects which could be promoted this way and which could give massive profits for those fortunate to participate.

But since then the best coins in the market promote themselves directly at exchanges and they do not use airdrops anymore, leaving the bounty hunter with only scams and mediocre projects to join, projects which are not known for their honesty and their willingness to pay the participants of their campaigns.