This is your personal experience with bounty hunting but not a guide to beginners in bounty campaign. As a bounty hunter, nothing is certain. You only get payed if the project become a success

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A good method to determine whether an ICO is scam or not is to look up for the partners of the particular project, especially on their marketing agency. Usually, blockchain startups don't have their own marketing department, therefore they hire other companies to do PR, marketing, content creation, community management etc.

Make sure you don't lose money on these seminars themselves. There were a lot of them during Bitcoin's bull run and several were cash grabs.

Blockfolio is good another alternative is Kryptographe. It is also good one. Charts, comparison,

There are a lot of factors that affect any prices in the world. Studying these factors is a whole science.

However, somebody can simply believe in the theory of conspiracy and spend all his life looking for a source of insider information.

 May the Force be with you.