A sad thing indeed. It just bothers me how one can be able to filter out the potential scammers  . They seem to know how to play their game so well such that unsuspecting victims fall prey into their hands.

We can't sy for sure. Things are still getting into shape. Who knows, Bitcoin or Ethereum might not be the main currencies in the future.

Your criteria for choosing a good bounty should be practically the same as that criteria you would have if you were considering making a financial investment in the project. Remember, even if you're not investing money, when you participate in a bounty you're still investing. You're simply investing time rather than money. And you expect compensation for it. Why would you participate in a bounty for a project you're not interested in investing in? It makes no sense. Overview of what you should look for:

1. Does their project solve an actual need? Do they actually have a business here which they can monetize?
2. Look for some kind of MVP at the very least. Are they actually building something technically interesting? What do they have so far
3. Team. Can they pull it off?
4. Cryptoeconomics. Do they actually need a token as part of their business model. Hint: most don't. Projects like Augur for example do.
5. Who have they partnered with? Being partnered with big names e.g. BitcoinSuisse/AmaZix is a lot better as they projects do much more in depth due diligence and help hold the projects to account. If the project is managing their own bounty, instead of it being professionally managed, what reason do they have to actually pay you?
6. Look for projects that are straight forward & blunt with people. Not projects that vomit out useless marketing pieces about how they're going to "revolutionize the world". Also avoid projects that are too focused on getting your money / giving investors discounts/bonuses
7. Ask yourself if you think the project will be successful and highly sought after. Will they hit their hardcap? If they only reach 1/4 of their hard cap, chances are their token price won't hold up too well.

If these are difficult for you, you could do bounties instead. You wear signatures of projects doing ICOs here on the forum and post a certain number of meaningful posts per week to get stakes which will translate to your reward at the end of the ICO. Then you exchange these tokens fr BTC. This is an easier means. Check out the bounties section for more info.
Good luck.

I'll advise you to focus on getting established on the forum first before participating in bounties. As you are a newbie, you should read the rules and know how to find quality information here. Signature campaigns are not usually advisable for newbies because of their scarcity and very low payout. Continue to interact on the forum and rank up to junior member. Then you can start participating in bounties that are worth your time.
In case you'll still like to check out available bounties for newbies, check this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3051837.0

Forks do happen mainly because of the need to upgrade an aspect of the coin's functionality which can be exploited if left unattended to. While some forks are worth it, most of them stem from the desire to make money. At times, there are disagreements between the team members too.

I'd love to add these, though they are still in ICO/develomental phase. They have the potential to be adopted.
1. Proof of Online: The proof of online algorithm takes into account the number of time a user spends online on a webpage that has the Online.io solution integrated. Online.io is usng this algorithm in their project.
2. Proof of Exercise: Gymrewards encurages exercising at the GYM by introducing Proof of Exercise to the blockchain. This means the more you exercise at the GYM, the more GYM Coins you will earn.

Signature campaigns on this forum are very popular since most of the past campaigns have been hugely successful. I want to know if there are other forums like bitcointalk that have high quality bounties. Anyone is free to share.

People are trying to cut down their losses. Its frustrating to see the value of your assets decrease to a level that it takes 4 or 5 months to recover.

I was trying to sell my bounty tokens some days ago but I discovered that there was only one exchange that was trading it. On reading their policies,  I discovered that it is compulsory to complete KYC before withdrawal could be made.  Now,  all my documents are not ready yet.  I was not ready to send my tokens to that exchange and wait forever to withdraw them.
Though the value of my tokens have decreased considerably,  I'm happy keeping them. I cannot lose them to exchanges simply because I was mindful of the rules.
As you've said,  rules are rules.

At least bitcoin's gains are higher than the others. Bitcoin is still the cryptocurrency that has the lowest risk right now.

Trust and Ethos Wallets have made access to cryptocurrencies easy because it enables one to hold his portfolio on his mobile phone.
However, the private keys are not do obvious. In the event that the companies shuts down (or some unfortunate incident occurs),  how do we get access to the cryptocurrencies we stored in the wallets?

MobileBridge is a unique mobile automation platform that enables two-way communication between customers and businesses and also provides loyalty programs through its broad range of assets.

Customers do not usually use their loyalty points because their value is either too low or it takes a very long time to gather points that can be redeemable. MobileBridge allows customers to transfer the value of their unused points across different companies in different regions on their platform. Users can also convert the points to fiat or any other cryptocurrency of their choice. Thus, money spent on advertising through third-party agents can be spent on customers in the form of rewards.

How Companies Can Leverage the MobileBridge Platform
The platform enables companies to reward customers with their own brand of token or the Momentum Token (which is the de-facto currency that will be used on the platform) for their data, advocacy, insights and loyalty. For instance, companies can give a bonus to customers for downloading their mobile app. They can give them the opportunity to earn more by filling surveys, inviting friends, and other simple tasks. As the points become redeemable, the companies can send them a notification as soon as they are in the vicinity of that company, informing them that they can get free products in exchange for their loyalty points. They can encourage the customers to share their app and post reviews on their social networks. As the customers give their data, the companies use it to learn about their behaviour and send them personalized offers based on their preferences.

Data Transparency
We understand that some customers are unwilling to share their personal data because they are afraid their data will be abused. Mobilebridge uses blockchain technology to prevent customers' data breach while also ensuring that they have total data ownership and full control of their data. At any time, they can determine which companies have access to their data and how it is used. 

To get more information about the platform, visit their [website](https://momentumtoken.io) or [ANN Thread](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2943654.new#new)


P.S.This is my attempt at making the ICO simple enough to understand for people who do not have the time to go through the white paper.

P. P. S.  For more,  you can follow me on Steemit (https://steemit.com/@paulomits/)

I do not have a bitcoin account assciated with the acount, but I put my ethereum address in the Location field as 0xDe72B570f9d2957B092FB243C6277a0b183e80Ec. Thankfully, this has not been changed.

Here are the details of the signed message.

-----BEGIN ETHEREUM SIGNED MESSAGE-----
My account https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1142065 has been hacked. Please reset the email to omitusaf. The current date is 23rd July, 2018.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
Address: 0xDe72B570f9d2957B092FB243C6277a0b183e80Ec
Signed Message: {
  "address": "0xde72b570f9d2957b092fb243c6277a0b183e80ec",
  "msg": "My account (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1142065) with acount name, omitusaf, was hacked on bitcointalk today. Please I need your help in recovering it. I am posting this from a new account, freighttrain. Help me send the recovery email to my former email address(omitusaf@gmail.com).\nThanks.",
  "sig": "0xceec9b314fb910031b0b1399c9229396b4e067880a817d2b285e20fd1b629c684b06a313c53ed 45e9454c3c8d4919ad98cbab89a563dff49adf102f80574aacb1c",
  "version": "3",
  "signer": "MEW"
}
-----END ETHEREUM SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Here is the unedited post where I posted that address: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2838618.msg29268426#msg29268426

I don't like the idea of affiliate campaigns for ICOs. It's very difficult to convince people especially if you're not too experienced and established in the industry. With bounties,  you can earn even while you're still learning. There are social media campaigns, article campaigns and the rest. 

If you intend to mine cryptocurrencies,  ensure you have a very good hardware which can provide you good value for your money. Else,  you might be wasting time. It's usually better to buy them from exchanges rather than mining them.

I did not stake my bitcoin address while I still had access to my account. But I put my Ethereum address on my profile. Can I sign this as well?

I received an email from bitcointalk today stating that my email and password has been changed to a different one.  Immediately I locked my account because I did not change them. I just opened another account now to seek help. How do I regain access to my hacked account pls?