2017 was the year for bounties I guess, haven't really anything yet as I'm relatively new. Have a few tokens acquired from a few bounties, but they've not amount to anything significant because of the current market condition. I believe once the market bounces back, they'll be worth something

Bounty hunters aren't the sole cause of the dump tokens experience upon. Remember these ICOs also give huge bonuses to private investors and VCs, some of these tokens have no lock-in periods by these ICOs and as such they dump these tokens at the exchange too.

So projects, can maintain the value of their tokens after exchange listing by doing the following;

1. Have lock-in periods for bonuses ab initio. Should be 6 months to 1 year post listing.
2. Projects should continue with marketing of the project and ensuring it remains in public view. What we've noticed is that a lot of projects simply ignore the marketing angle after their ICO and expect the community to do it for them, which in my opinion is wrong.

This is a classic example of hopping on a topic with a reply without reading a single line! It's even surprising the mods haven't deleted the comment as it's no where near the subject..

With regards to the topic, crypto has been profitable to me since I got knowledge of it with most of the gains made from position trading, which I learned from my mentor. I've made a couple from bounties as well. Overall, crypto has exposed me to whole new realm, the tech, the intrigues, the anonymity, all of it have culminated into a good experience thus far

A lot of these projects had no business in the crypto space in the first place. The scam devs had no plans to further their course. They simply took advantage of the liquidity in the market and the hyoe the crypto space was enjoying at the time to make money out of the system. Truth is, a good project will remain nonetheless, weather it's a bears season or worse. I've lost little money to such scam projects

At this stage of the market conditions, for your ICO to get a shot at gaining any attention, the idea must be genius and with real use case.

Funny how you jumped into conclusion that I do not have another job and focus solely on bounties for survival. You need to really slow down man. I had a life before venturing into crypto and certainly have a life outside of it.

The crypto space is rather unhealthy at the moment. ICOs are getting extended because they're not able to get the desired level of investments from the public. No buzz/hype around a project days to their ICO. Bounty programs also getting extended or terminated midway after weeks of work. As a bounty hunter, I begin to get worried about the project and once these signs begin to manifest.

In the last 5 months, I'm yet to earn a penny from bounties. This is either because the team is delaying payments for fear of bounty hunters dumping them at the exchange and crashing the token price, or bounty got terminated, or an exit scam. This is the current state of the crypto space and it indeed take the brave and patient to remain.

I like the role the SEC is playing to put these guys under checks. It will force mostly serious projects to reach out to the SEC before their ICO, thus presenting a real team, and opening their books to the SEC. This will limit the number of exit scams we have out there in the space. The fear of the SEC coming after them should they flout the rules of the regulations governing them will put them under checks.

The only downside to this is that low income earners like me will be edged out from investing in ICOs as it'll be a tad difficult to make it into the list as an accredited investor.

This is very vital, using PC's with no keylogger or software that enables stealing the clipboard where copy-paste function is stored on the PC is one vital safety precaution that a lot of people tend to ignore. Is there a way to find out and even purge the PC of this malware please?

For me, it's a combination of different strategies...

1. Accumulate a lot of alts I really like and have been following. Over the period I've bought some NEO, ZRX, and STORIQA.
2. I've been trying my hands on trading using just a certain percentage of my active portfolio. Gotten pockets of profits and just a few losses. But I'm staying at it.
3. I'm also hodling some coins from airdrops and bounty payments. Some of them have really dropped in price, and I'm not sure of their recovery time and how soon it would be.

You're most certainly doing something wrong. A lot of people don't read the rules and they hop on bounties and start working. Sometimes instructions on a particular bounty demands you don't mention ICO, some require you include hashtags that are crypto related. These are clear instructions and a lot of people flout them. For such people, chances are they won't receive the desired stakes and they would have worked for nothing.

Secondly, also check that someone isn't impersonating you on the bounties you participate in. We constantly find situations where bounty hunters complain in telegram groups that they're being impersonated by some scammers who are trying to get stakes for the work they did. This happens in mostly in bounties where KYC isn't required to claim tokens earned.

This makes a lot of sense. Even though a bull run has it's pros and cons, steady growth is what we need actually, growth occasioned by adoptions, positive news, etc. Investors who are watching from the outside will actually be weary of a price surge that looks more or less like a pump. This is because pumps are usually accompanied by a dump and a lot of these guys are more concerned about stability of the price of BTC.

You have two negative trusts, and going by the optics around here, it would be difficult for you get people who are willing to do business with you. Secondly, coming from a newbie account, I wondering what wealth of know you must have gathered, enough to impact such knowledge on others. You should submit yourself to learning first, then you can aim to train others.

Someone actually quoted the entire lengthy post just to post a incoherent one-liner. I feel like calling the cops on him .

To the issue at hand, I feel the bounty manager did not clearly spell out what they meant by spam. He may have posted unique posts albeit less than 5 minutes interval, which some people with busy schedules in the real world do, so long as they're not of low quality. I think he deserves to be paid by the bounty manager as no part in the rules stated the timing apart for each post

The recurrent fear of one's documents ending up in the wrong hands is the fear of many and the reason a lot bounty hunters stay away from bounties that require KYC to claim tokens. For some, it's better to lose once stakes and tokens to cheats, than losing one's identity to fraudsters who will use it for nefarious activities and the damages caused can take a lot of time to repair.

Don't bank on it my friend my friend. As it's been said already, Ripple is good for swing trades as a trader an this is what I've been seeing on different channels I belong to. For the price rising till the end of the year, that's merely speculative.

There's absolutely nothing happening in the crypto world that should come off to anyone as a surprise anymore, more like we've seen it all. Projects postponing their ICOs, extending their bounties, ICOs failing and investors getting refunds, etc. All these are a reflection of the condition of the market at the moment, a lot of people are laid back when it comes to investing in projects now. So, this informs why some projects postpone their ICO, as they're afraid they may not hit soft cap

I tend to trust my judgement most while using the only site I trust, icodrops, as a guide. I also read through the whitepaper, and this could me as along as 2 weeks, before making a decision. While at it, I ensure the project ticks all the right boxes in terms of criteria for choosing a project.

Once read someone bought his first Bitcoin at $30 and it crashed right to $2 shortly after. But he still did hodl and he became better for it. Checking the history of Bitcoin shows that the current market conditions isn't new at all. There's no certainty in almost any market, because that will make it a perfect market which in the real world is not existent.

I'll be derailing this thread a bit, and I apologize in advance. You're a Newbie or let's say demoted Jr. Member, but you have 4 negative trusts already. This is actually very worrisome and you should find ways to fix your reputation on here.

About the subject in discuss,  I believe regulations will actually sanitize the crypto space and shape the quality of ICOs that launch on the space. Scam projects will be scared as they need to get certain permits to run an ICO. Ultimately, it will be the gain of investors like you and I as it would limit the losses incurred from investing in shady projects. It will also build confidence in the space and more institutional investors will pick interest.