Everything in this forum takes risk when it comes to earning money, but it takes on a different level. The lesser the risk the lesser earnings you can make, but if you want to earn a bigger amount of money, then you have to take more risk. Remember, the higher taking the risk, the higher of success you can achieve. If you really want to be a successful investor or trader or whatever you want to be here in this forum, don't be afraid of taking the risk, because it leads you to success.

Yes of course, bounty campaigns having a different campaigns like signature and social media campaign. And every campaign having a different rules, like on signature campaign, you need to be at least a member rank, because mostly are not accepting a participants having a lower rank like newbies including the jr. members. And when it comes to social media campaigns, you have to reach of their required minimum followers for every account that you have to be able to participate.

I have no doubt that ethereum is one of the most reliable cryptocurrency besides from bitcoin, and i do believe the ability of ethereum to create a higher value in the future, just like in bitcoin. But it can't surpass the bitcoins ability, it might reach the market value of bitcoin at this rate, but it can't surpass bitcoin even in the future.

There is no guarantee that you will surely paid when it comes to bounty campaigns, but you can do some research about the project that you want to participate in by reviewing of their whitepaper and identifying the members behind the team. It helps you even a little to determine if the project is just a scam or legit, because mostly campaigns that are scams are having a fictitious members and a very favorable platform that are unbelievable to trust.

There is no doubt that participating to a multiple bounty campaigns is one of the most profitable job here in this forum, but i can not imagine leaving a permanent job just for crypto. All i can advise to you is, don't leave your current job, because it gives you more stable income than working to bounties that are more risky and it's quite a long time before you get your rewards.

The best thing that you should do is to find an exchange that is more efficient and legitimate crypto exchanger that will help you to buy bitcoin. And i prefer you to use binance, it’s a community that focused on exchange which is a friendly user that will easy to learn by beginners.

When it comes to investing to an ICO, you have to make sure that it's not one of those scam ICO's that came just to scammed people. You can review the whitepaper of the project that you want to invest in and identify those members behind the team, if they are not fabricated only to be sure that this ICO is legit.

And here's a thread that might help you to expand your knowledge about crypto trading, which contains a different characteristics of a trader that will help you to be a good and a successful trader in the future https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2842850.0 . Hope it'll help you with your journey.

It's to early to lose hope with bitcoin, this sudden dropped of bitcoin is just a normal flow of its price. Because we all know that bitcoin has a high volatility that makes it pump and dump of its price at an unexpected time. And no one knows what will actually happen to it's market value because of it's unpredictable characteristics, that makes it so risky.

You can participate to any campaign in a bounty campaign, like signature, Twitter, Facebook, translation, and etc. But participating into signature campaign needs a higher rank than jr. member, because mostly signature campaigns doesn't accept newbies including the jr. members. And when it comes to social media campaign, you have to reach their required minimum followers for every account that you have to be able to participate.

The best thing that you should do is, read and research more articles or thread that are more related to bitcoin. And you can do all that through the help of this forum or researching on Google, just take your time to learn, don't be hurry on investing, because it takes so much risk that can cause your failure.

I think there's no easy way of earning merit here in this forum, even though that you make a good quality post or thread, it doesn't mean that you will earn merit. Because most of the member of this forum are just holding their smerit and not sharing to others, and this is the big problem of this newly implemented merit system.

Report: Twitter Prepares Ban on Crypto Ads

Twitter is reportedly preparing to prohibit advertisements for ICOs, token sales, and cryptocurrency wallets. The new advertising policy is expected to come into effect in a couple weeks. The microblogging site is said to impose a ban on ads for crypto exchanges, as well, bar a few exceptions. The policy change is yet to be confirmed officially.

Some Trading Platforms May be Excluded from the Ban

Following similar moves by Facebook and Google, Twitter is now preparing to ban crypto-related advertisements on its platform. The new advertising policy will be implemented in two weeks, Sky News reported without revealing the source of its information.

Report: Twitter Prepares Ban on Crypto AdsThe upcoming rules will likely prohibit advertisements for initial coin offerings (ICOs), token sales, and cryptocurrency wallets globally, according to the report. The reasoning behind Twitter’s decision is unclear. Other companies imposing restrictions on crypto content have cited concerns over illicit activities and fraudulent ads.

The ban may also include advertisements for cryptocurrency exchanges. The report suggests, however, that the new policy will be launched with some “limited exceptions” in regards to trading platforms. There has been no official confirmation of the policy change yet.

READ MORE here: https://news.bitcoin.com/report-twitter-prepares-ban-on-crypto-ads/

You can get tokens from bounties by participating on it in some campaigns like signature and social media campaigns. Mostly bounty campaigns are distributing the rewards or tokens to the participants after the ICO, some are weekly but only few. And regarding to the payments, you will know your qualify for it, if your username is included on the spreadsheet of the bounty that you're participating.

If you want to play safely without taking any risk or nothing money to issue, then participating into bounties is the best way to earn money. You only have to make your job until the ICO will end, because mostly ICO's are distributing the rewards after the ICO ends and it takes a month before you receive it. But it's reliable enough and you can make a lot of earnings specially when the ICO was successfully done.

I think there are millions of people or maybe billions who actually knows bitcoin around the world, but still so many are not believing the ability of it, that's why even some people already knows bitcoin, they don't invest on it, because they don't trust bitcoin. Because bitcoin really have a high volatility that is hard to trust of someone.

This forum is the best place to advertise your upcoming project, and i prefer you to make a bounty campaign, because it's the best and most effective way of advertising an ICO project and any crypto related. And you can go to this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2727673.0 you can find a different services that can help you managing your project perfectly and smoothly by the help of those services that you may get on that thread.

Of course, doing bounty campaign is profitable enough for some ICO teams, specially when a project having a very good platform and very useful product to someone. The reward they distribute after the ICO is just a small amount compared to their total token distribution, so it will really give a huge profit to the project if it will be successful.

There are so many different ways to earn money here in this forum, there are many services that you may do. But it needs a lot of knowledge and abilities to do a crypto related services, such as managing a campaign or bounties. If i were you, you should do a lot of research first and know all the things that you need to know about cryptocurrency, to be able to know everything in crypto world.

This is really a good strategy of yours, if you want to play more safer, i prefer to choose your first idea. Get the 50% of your profit in bitcoin and invest it into real state for more safer and stable income, but investing to real state is quiet expensive and you need to draw a big amount of money to start.

Bounty campaign is the one with the most followers here in this forum, almost all members here are working to a different bounties and trying to find their luck with some bounties that they are participated in. Some bounties are truly reliable but i can't deny that when it comes to bounty there are so many scammers that just came here just to scammed people and absolutely no plans to pay with their participants.