yes, the bounty situation in 2017 is different from 2018. the profit that I got from the bounty in 2018 is far different from 2017, in 2017 there were many successful ICOs, so the bounty hunters got a profit. at this time many ICOs failed, leading to a modest profit from the bounty. I hope the end of the year will change
the end of the year is already near. I do not think things will get better. Another important reason why bounty earn less amount compare to 2017 is the huge number of participant but real and fake user signup multiple time to cheat and those that copy peoples work to get reward. All this affect the earning from the bounty. even if the price of crypto went up again and people start to invest more in crypto, hunters will still earn less compare to 2017 due to large numbers of participants.