COMMON MISTAKES of BEGINNERS during ICO, AIRDROPS, and BOUNTY CAMPAIGNS

As I hear success stories of earning huge sum of money by joining airdrops and bounty campaigns, I grow excited and hurriedly join some of them. Unfortunately, my journey is not a walk in the park. There are so many hiccups here and there. So many mistakes, lessons learned, and things to improve. Because of these, I want to share some of the things that I discover.

COMMON MISTAKES of BEGINNERS during ICO, AIRDROPS, and BOUNTY CAMPAIGNS

1. ETH Address vs Private Key

Note that your ETH Address is different from your Private Key.
Your Private Key is your way of accessing your wallet while your ETH address is used to receive coins.

Sample ETH address : 0x46678053A1C1F1A3d46d916f93Fd74dAe1c2aF6B

Sample ETH Private Key : a96bc7487e7bd325e0a2dcf1a7adc9a04ecb2ada74cc49604aa2e95c3122e523

2. Bitcointalk Profile

When you want to see your profile by clicking the “profile” in the home tab, you will see this URL : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile.
This is NOT your bitcointalk profile link!

There are two (2) ways to get your bitcointalk profile link:

a. First, you need to go to your profile.
On the left corner you will see “summary” then click it. You will get a URL like this : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2171254;sa=summary.
Remove the “;sa=summary” and the new URL (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2171254) is your bitcointalk profile URL;

or

b. Go to your profile then on the left corner click “show posts”, it will display your previous posts.
Click one (1) to show your previous post with your bitcointalk username on the left side of the post.
Click on your bitcointalk username and it will direct you to your profile. The URL is your bitcointalk profile link.

3. ERC20 ETH Wallet

Bounty campaigns and airdrops use ERC20 ETH wallet to distribute their tokens.
Note that ERC20 ETH wallet is different from the ETH address that you can get from an exchange.
https://www.myetherwallet.com/ is an example of an ERC20 ETH wallet.

4. Forgetting to post your result

You need to take note the day of the week that you need to submit the result of your campaign!
Failure to do so will make your effort be in vain, the bounty manager will not credit what you did for the previous week.

In my case, I always document my bounty campaigns using google docs.
This helps me to manage and sort out one campaign to another (to avoid mixing them up).

5. Quote vs New post vs Same post just edit

Aside from taking note on when to post your report, you also need to be mindful on the matter of how.
Some bounty managers will require you to make a new post every week hence a campaign having a duration of four (4) weeks means having four (4) posts for reports, one (1) per week.
Others will require to just edit your proof of authentication post making it just one (1) post for the whole duration of the campaign.
Lastly, I also encounter others that require you to make a new post every week and quoting your previous week/s.

SHARING IS CARING
How about you? what are your stories?
I would like to encourage everyone to share their stories. Stories of success, failures, great accomplishments, heartbreaks, and anything that you like.
The intent is for each of us to learn from one another.

“Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.”
―Gina Greenlee