Bounties are sometimes hit and miss, MiF. I would rather just spend those 3 months researching for the best coins that I could buy rather than wasting my time sharing and retweeting useless stuffs around Twitter only to end up in a shit coin or even shit NFTs. That would be hella depressing. What's worse is it could even be a scam and the project team would just runaway along with the exposure they got in social media while owing every participants in their bounty with nothing.

Take it from someone that did bounties before NFTs were a hot trend.

You still need a job regardless. Yeah, we all know that crypto has been not just on the rise, but also popular throughout the recent years especially when we're talking about decentralized investment like Bitcoin though we should consider how volatile its price can be at any time and that is not really something you wanted when we're aiming for financial freedom.

You can't be financially free with something that is volatile. It's quite contradictory. Crypto ain't going to give it all to you.

This is the first time I heard of that coin, Alliance Block, but the experience of your "brother" is quite similar to what I experienced back in 2017-2018 when I was still trying to aim for cheaper coins just like what you usually see in ICO projects. Waited for bull market, but then it went unexpectedly worse than I thought and what's even worse is that I tried day trading at that time which was also a bad call for me.

What's the play? Welp, try to avoid altcoins if you can buy Bitcoin anyway.

@OP Since the market cap was so low, that should have been already an indicator for your brother to get his funds out as soon as possible

That problem is kind of not related to crypto at all, not sure what you meant by it being able to affect climate change since I do not think that crypto would even be able to mitigate this kind problem. Maybe we could think of mining for the climate change, but that alone won't solve food shortages since climate change is not the only factor that contributes to food shortages. Let's count - unemployment, poverty and some conflicts within countries.

This whole problem alone requires a lot of consideration to discuss and it is not just all crypto.

Well he still has the option to find another "well-paying job" if not really "high-paying ones". Back then, I had a couple of interviews asking about my salary preference and they were quite shocked to see that I was like "overpricing" myself and they said that they would offer me below my preferred salary but with "increase yearly" and I would not really go for that kind of scam especially that I do software development. I did my research on how much should be my starting salary, tweak it a little bit and stick with it to whoever interviews me. Stop underpricing yourself since it will hurt your career and sanity in the end.

If there's no possible interviews coming right up for your friend, take the job BUT don't let it stop him from looking from another ones or just like what mk4 mentioned about getting a side hustle leading to multiple streams of income. It is going to be also a good financial "cushion" in case things went south for your friend, which we hope don't happen.

I am going to be a bit neutral in giving OP an advice, since s/he was not inactive for almost a week after posting this. I don't want to sound rude, but this might be another one of those users abandoning their accounts after posting a project that they "think is great" plus giving bland description about the devs.

In case any other newbies are reading this thread, just take OP's point with a grain of salt and do you own research or just go with Bitcoin. I might sound bias, but we're all in BITCOINtalk forum anyway.

Dealing with KYC with Bitcoin in web wallets are the most pet peeve I ever had. Considering that it takes a lot of business days just to process it and sometimes the team is not even responsive that they won't be able to cater you right away only to find out that your application was rejected.

And yes, it kinda defeats the whole pseudonymous (if that's what you meant?) of holding cryptos, that's why crypto like Bitcoin is never going to be the primary or even the global currency.

Not signature related, but this kinda reminds me of the days when I worked as a freelancer in LaborX back in the days. It sucks that they don't support Bitcoin though so I was paid with Ethereum that time from my Virtual Assistance work. Never tried to get paid in stablecoins in that platform since I was not fan of it either.

Either way congrats, OP regardless.

Considering the difficulties these days, overtime is like another way to make up with just the expenses you would incur for the next month's bills. Though it is still way better somehow to just freelance instead of doing overtime especially if one resides in a third world country due to the dollar value.

I had done this kind of stuff before and it was hella worth it in my own end. It would even be a plus if you're managing your expenses reaaaaallyy well since you would be able to still get your "wants".

It's money, what can we expect? They're going to take it of course regardless of the risk. A Youtuber with a fair amount of subs would bite into this and just disappear into thin air since they got their money and this is why content creators are not your friends at all.

If we're talking about investment, I won't be driven as such by these so-called influencers at all. There might be financial advisors out there, but it is waaayy different from your usual content creators that Youtube usually recommends in their algo.

They could be the old gang during the old days of Bitcoin and just was really expecting Bitcoin to reach at this price or maybe they just needed money that's all.

I can hold for more than a year depending on the urgency to the need of money and that is why I don't make investment as another "full-time job" since it is an unstable one. You never want to fall behind your bills once they arrived during bear market.

Well it applies to me depending on my situation right now. I usually keep my money and just spend it to what I needed the most since the unexpected things may arise at any point. If I really need some food right now, I would be obviously spending my last penny for it as my starvation might even affect me to somehow survive in finding another income or source of money.

You never want another problem to arise once that sign that you needed to buy or consume whatever that is showed itself. Sure you might hold off your last penny to buy that last burrito, but it will be more costly in the end if you get sick after you finally found another source of income. Kind of a domino effect?

Though Twitter is like the worst place to promote new projects as such. It started just as like platform for some small conversations through tweet replies. I can still understand Facebook being used since it has its own marketplace system like a simple buy/sell, but Twitter would be the last platform that I would promote my projects in if I were a business owner.

Considering that a lot of people there are claiming to be "crypto experts", I would not be surprised if my supposed project gets cancelled by people there just because of whatever they can take out from my history.

Telegram is such a common medium for scammers to use and this is me not just talking about these bounties that are not paying, but also those scam in the site that I am freelancing though I had used it in some legitimate purposes.

Bounties are like hit or miss if you have not made any research to it and it's not even worth pursuing them anymore unlike the good old days since the tokens that are going to be distributed are either low value or just have now value at all. Would prefer earning dusts with values rather than worthless tokens.

That really sucks, OP. I thought it would stay in the gray area like they would not really put people in jail just because they hold crypto, but now that you mentioned it. You got no choice, OP but I guess it is for the best of your business. Not sure if you could still somehow hold crypto in hardware wallets, but I would not risk any single transaction just to get into crypto if I were you.
For your business, crypto is completely out, but in your own personal secret stuff, you might still be able to hold, but again I would not risk it.

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Good to hear that you're still somehow be able to access crypto-related sites though since I kinda expected that the government would tell all the ISPs to block these crypto sites to somehow stop it.

What does it "actually" mean? Well it is pretty much self-explanatory just like on how you conduct your own feasibility study. Doing technical analysis is more of in a trading side actually rather than helping you in deciding whether it is a worth of a coin to be bought (I had used TAs back when I was day trading).

How did I DYOR? Multiple sources and making sure that the sources are also credible so it is not that just simple research and draw conclusion. I had seen plenty of ICO review sites that are just straight up paid reviews. You just pay some advisor to bring good reviews to your ICO project and slap it with "KYC passed" just to ensure your team looks legitimate.

Many do since it is cheap. Back in 2017, people are like fond into pre-sales of ICOs allowing them to buy a lot of those worthless tokens and hope for the best that the ICO would even get listed in an exchange, only to end up in a landslide due to short-term hype. It is not just the scammer that was the problem during those years, it was also those low-value projects and they were soooooooooo many that I can't even believe that people are willing to risk their money to something either worthless or just dud.

Well everyone is going to do it for money so I am not surprised that even a well-known Twitter with a blue mark tick would even fall for this. Quite hilarious that the first letters of the project are spelled out as scam as described by CoffeeZilla.

While I do not know who these people are, it just says always that people should not trust their "worshipped" celebrity in the internet regardless of how rich or even how many followers that so-called "influencer" was.

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The comment section in Dillon Danis' recent tweet is on fire, lol.

I believe we reside in the same country and yeah, companies especially the private ones usually pay monthly. Not sure where I read it, but I believe companies do those habit because it is another work for payroll and considering that in a larger company where hundreds to thousands employees are working in it, it is going to be a pain in the ass for the payroll to run the payments every week plus considering that it is also time consuming.

Worth mentioning that printing documents related to pay is going to costly for the company itself.

It's better to be just in a fixed monthly/weekly income. Due to obvious of it going to stability in your own end especially these days. I personally never felt the motivation to work more in percentage earnings especially in sales work. It might work for some if sales is their forte.

I would like fixed earnings even if workload might be sometimes....too much, because usually the things I would apply for would be software dev/engineering work and I love coding.

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About the weekly or monthly payment, I would prefer weekly if the company allows it. I needed that time off after the end of week. The only thing I could appreciate in monthly work is just like Lucius mentioned. It could potentially give you higher pay when you work on weekends, but as for me looking for work-life balance, I would love to own my weekends so I'll pass on the Monday-Saturday workloads.