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January 19, 2018, 05:11:30 PM |
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Personally, we need to have five different categories of Airdrops.
FREE airdrops, Bounty airdrops, Donation Airdrops, Fork drops, and PRIV airdrops.
FREE airdrops are the best kind of airdrops, all that is required is email verification after sign up.
Bounty airdrops are not "free coins", they are more like a job, where you have to advertise their company in order to get coins. So it's not really free if you have to work for it. If a FREE airdrops offers free coins first, then an extra a bounty bonus if you do referalls, it is still a FREE airdrop. However in order to classify something as Bounty airdrop, there has to be no free coin given unless you do the job first.
The third type of airdrop is the Donation airdrop. These are usually scams, requiring you to donate ether before they give you "free" coins. Of course they are not "free" since you will pay ether for them and probably they will never give you the coins you bought anyway.
Fork drops are pretty annoying, but different than Donation drops. For fork drops you need a certain balance in your wallet in order for you to get coins. Sometimes this is Ethereum, other times this is Bitcoin. Usually this means you have to dump some of your altcoins and trade it for ethereum in order to get the airdrop. Now if a fork drop requires a balance of the same coin as the airdrop coin, then it is hybrid Donation-Fork drop. Some of these are pretty scammy meant to just get you to buy more of their coin. Others are legit. But either way its pretty annoying and manipulative.
PRIV airdrops are also annoying, for to get "free" coins you must give them your ID full name phone number and everything else. Its a psychological tactic to prey on your desperation of money. And then another psychological tactic they use is to say it's to keep money safe from "criminals" so you feel guilt about hiding your identity. When the truth is there are plenty of criminals so why would you risk giving your personal info and exposing yourself to some online criminal anyway.
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