i would say cash for now because most of the people i know that i have something to do with are not into crypto, only few are in crypto so any gift i receive interms of money from the non crypto peeps will most definitely be on cash, but if am the one sending to my friends who i know are into crypto and understand it, i would rather send using digital currency because it will save me the trouble of converting to fiat before sending.

Thanks Yahoo for the kind gesture, by contribution was not even meaningful yet you extend a hand of given, i appreciate, you are a very thoughtful person, blessings to you and all good and hardworking members of this forum.

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Even the project who engage the service of this inexperience bm are to blame, if a project is reputable and cares about this, will try as much as possible to have a reputable bm run their campaign for them, but since most campaigns don't really consider this aspect as important or necessary or rather to stingy to hire a good reputable bm they will settle for less, this inexperience bm will do a very poor job, making things difficult for hunters in the process, can also discourage good hunters to join campaign and promote the project.

The bear market is truly a test of patience of the crypto community in general, both those who have been in crypto for years and those who are just joining the space are being tested during this period, some are able to weather the storm while others just give up and left in search for something new,
sometimes during this period you are tempted to sell because the market keep depreciating in price and your invest just going down the whole, but is selling at loss the solution? No, i don't encourage selling especially when the team are always working hard to keep the project development going, am still hodling my alts despite the price has reduce alot compare to when i bought them, i believe the market will regain and i will recover my investment and profit as well.

How can that be? even though many hunters would have love to require the bounty pool to be escrow it still doesn't make any difference, what is the essence of an escrow on a worthless token? if the project owners run away with the little amount they generated and left the project unattended to, refuse to list the tokens in any exchange, of what benefit is the token to you even if the token where escrow?

Escrow can only be required when the payment is in btc or eth, if not it is a waste of time demanding escrow when the payment will be paid with the project tokens, i doubt if your current campaign pool is on escrow but you still participate anyways, so there is little anyone can do to fight scam, you can always do due diligent but sometimes it still not enough, it is a very difficult situation now.

You have said it all, there is little or nothing to add after that , the reason why people get scammed so easily both online or offline (yes people get scammed offline too) is because of lack of understanding and most especially greed, if you let yourself carried away by the enticing offers given by this con-artist then you will be scammed even before you know it,

when people don't have the right knowledge to detect lies from truth is another issue, some people are so naive that they will believe anything they hear or see without asking question or doing small digging to know more, scammers are very creative and smart so it requires more knowledge and observation to identify them,
people should equip their self with the right knowledge to stay safe,   Knowledge they say is power.

It is not just a question of which project will pay, it is more about which project is honest and genuine, if a project is honest and genuine even if it takes time to achieve a result is more better than having a dishonest project that will give false hope to investors just to take advantage of them.
Probably majority are viewing success from a short term perspective hence the reason why the zeal to invest is low, this is no longer 2017 where the market was very bullish,  this time, real hardwork and dedication on the part of the team is required to keep project alive, also a use case that will give value to the token, otherwise the price will not increase, and to achieve these goals will take time which many people are not willing to give,
If you are looking for a get rich quick kind of project, you may likely fall into the wrong hands.

New exchange have not had the reputation achievement of the old exchange so it is not wise to put your money in there, although it doesn't mean the new exchanges are bad, but give it time to build a reputation, earn the trust of many before taking any decision concerning investing,
besides, old or existing exchanges have the capacity to promote ieo to a large number of users more than new exchanges,
The number of users in binance, bittrex, houbi, hitbtc,..... can not be compare to any new exchange, old exchange has a better advantage.

To me rating don't really matter too much especially coming from this rating sites, i don't know how authentic their ratings are, if they are influence in any way no one can tell, some project with high ratings don't perform according to expectations, some even turned out to be scam even after the rating, so it is not very wise to base investment choice on the ratings from this sites, you might get disappointed, best bet is to conduct several research if you can to determine the legitimacy of the project or just go with your gut feelings.

Airdrop and bounties are born from the same source, it is the same project that are hosting bounty campaigns that are making airdrop to people, so if airdrops are no longer worth anything is because the projects hosting both airdrop and bounty are not worth it anymore, when a renown project that is considered legit decided to host an airdrop there will be some value attached to the airdrop token because the project is genuine and legit, so it all depends on the kind of project we have in the market today.

Maybe subject project owners to proper vetting before running any project, some sort of kyc for teams as well, not just investors or bounty hunters alone should be subjected to this process,
as a result of easy access to creating a project is the main reason we have too many scammers in this ecosystem, no regulation, no control, and since this is totally the opposite of what blockchain represent i guess we will just have to deal with it,
the only way to subdue this menace is through control or regulations but how many people wants to have regulations or control in crypto?

Yeah, big exchange like binance are giving better returns to investors through their ieo's, they have large number of participants to buy and make ieo very successful, but in a way the similarity with ico's is not too apart, because once those ieo's tokens get pumped to some point the price will dump so hard, if you are not careful you could get stock and loss a lot of money,
So aside from the security aspect ieo's are not very different from ico's except they are well organize by exchange for a quick pump and dump from my personal observation.

Yes it was a factor but you should know that this does not just apply to investment in crypto only, anything that carries a lot of attention and hype normally attract people, lots of people where attracted to investing because of what they saw, but no project promise to anyone any grazy gains after investing, people just assume about it.

FOMO is base on choice, if you let it be a pressure to you is entirely up to you, it is nothing similar to the other kind of pressure where you are not left with any choice, so tell me where is the pressure there? just human greed to make more profit can't exactly be regarded as pressure, Nobody will ever push you to invest what you can't afford, people taking high risk investment is their personal choice, no pressure from the project owners or from the crypto community whatsoever.

Since some can hardly tell the difference between private and public key such common mistakes are bound to happen, the overwhelming of receiving a few worthless tokens distract the ability to think properly,  why posting priv key just to prove a point when he/she can provide the public key for scan, I can only imagine what must have transpired after such silly mistake.

I have never come across any ico that promise any crazy gains openly to investors, I don't know where you get that notion from, this grazy ideas was born from the experience of 2017,

ico's where successful because people invested in them willingly without being on any pressure, I bet most project owners back then where not expecting to see such financial support, some couldn't handle it and got greedy, others try to make meaning out of their's,  

Majority of projects turned out to be unsuccessful because there are no genuineness behind them, the teams saw unexpected money that they have no clue what to do with it, well except to squander  

The truth is everybody wants to give and get something in return, nobody will be give away money for what they won't get any back, if people are fed up with ico's because of lack of grazy gains - in your words - what makes you think they will be interested in given away money without caring what they do with it, you are still enriching the project owners nevertheless.

Yeah that explains it, we have good reputable bounty managers in this forum that will do a very good job if hired but some project would rather go for a newbie to handle their project, since this are the kind of bm that can easily manipulate they rather go for them than hire a reputable manager, this is what most project do this days.

The must be doing everything possible to clarify things with the sec as soon as they can, the number of investors on this project is much and they can't afford to let such number of people down, I think they are the only project to raise such amount since bear market, too much anticipation on it, I am also looking forward to seeing the outcome,
I am hoping to buy some GRAM when hit the exchange when the price is low.

The only necessary thing for sylon to do now is to lock up this thread, it is clear that this guys are not going to pay the reward and many discussion has already been done about it, now all we have here is repetitive post,
Jinbi team are not ready to pay, everyone can accept and move.

So you are saying any ieo not held on binance is not worth investing on or paying attention to? I sincerely don't think so, binance is not the only exchange that have had successful ieo, besides not everyone can meet the requirement of binance to participate in their lunchpad,

And may I ask what's so wrong about sto that you think people should stay away from? I get ico already soiled their reputation but sto still have a chance in the market,  note that ieo are not far from imperfection.

Well some managers has a questionable behavior  towards the bounty they manage to the point that you can't help but wonder what exactly is the reason why they behave the way they do, i have seen a bm defending a project he/she manage so hard like he is part of the team, because the participants where complaining about the payment procedure and the sudden dump in price even though bounty rewards are yet to be fully distributed, he took every question ask so personal, and that makes me wonder .