I come across different posts and allegations that bounty hunters are dumpers and they make projects lose it value upon exchange listing. But from my experience with bounties most projects don't offer bounty allocation of more than 5% of the total token sold. So how will 5% dump have a huge effect on the remaining 95% price. And what about projects that don't have bounties but still dump hard on the exchange, is it bounty hunters too?
The bitter truth is that most projects dump because of the ridiculous number of bonuses the team have offered during the tokensale and pre-sale period. Imagine giving investors 70% bonus for their investments, they can decide to sell everything off and be happy with the 70% profit.
I cannot agreed less with your opinion here. You re even very polite in choosing 70%, I have seen a lot of projects given investor and presale whooping 100% i.e you get double of your investment. Why they are blaming bounty hunters for the project failure is what I am yet to know, when most of them only allocate 1-2% to airdrop/bounty. Only very few you can see that will give 5% to promote their project. My advice to the upcoming is that, if your are giving away huge discount to early investors (50 - 70%), their must be a lock-up period to safeguard the integrity of your project. The lock-up period will now depend on the entirety of contribution. Some can be 6 months, 1 year and 2 years respectively. To those who contributed largely, they might have access to some percentage at interval of every six months. This harassment on bounty hunters that brings the project to the limelight of global entities should stop.