All bounty hunters are from Philippines?? (PROOF)

[pat25]

Hello, I have just found this interesting information.
When you look at this bounty spreadsheet (GCOX campaign): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12TJzpkePkRwyRBEIIvjr-mJnZbskkW_wfD2mZNBMm0Q/edit#gid=1544862346 - you will see that almost everyone is from Philippines.
It is not strange? It is not an example of multiaccounting?
The registration form looks like this: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScchFQPaafMx3fVTMYiNs2KuFTrx03Gtuy1RbilqfTFHcPPjA/viewform

Thank you for your explanation .

[hilariousetc]

Obviously not all of them are but most bounty hunters these days seem to be from the Philippines and news of this forum is probably spreading like wildfire through the streets, school playgrounds and offices there. They're the ones who who come here for their 'daily needs' and are quitting their jobs to do bounties full time (if they have one at all in the first place). I wouldn't mind if they just collected bounties but it's when they start copy and pasting and spamming everywhere when they quite clearly can't speak English very well if at all and when they're getting paid to post its recipe for disaster, especially when most of them have little to knowledge or interest in bitcoin other than they just found out you can earn good money here.

[Squishy01]

Hello! I'm from the Philippines and I'm quite surprised of how many Filipinos are participants of that campaign, because to be honest, not a lot of people know about bitcoin in here. I live in Manila - which is supposed to be the most "advanced" city in my country - but even so, the number of people who know about cryptocurrency or that it even exists in this city is very low, even among teenagers and young adults. However, I guess it's not fair to assume that that's a result of multiaccounting. Just my two cents 

[hilariousetc]

Hello! I'm from the Philippines and I'm quite surprised of how many Filipinos are participants of that campaign, because to be honest, not a lot of people know about bitcoin in here. I live in Manila - which is supposed to be the most "advanced" city in my country - but even so, the number of people who know about cryptocurrency or that it even exists in this city is very low, even among teenagers and young adults. However, I guess it's not fair to assume that that's a result of multiaccounting. Just my two cents  

It's probably still a fairly underground thing, but like I said news is probably quickly spreading about this forum there. Next time you see one of the spam threads that pop up titled things like how did you hear about bitcoin? or why did you join bitcoin? they're usually full of Filipinos saying things like my schoolmate/teacher/cousin/workmate/friend told me I can earn here. Once they start earning they then tell all their friends and family and things get exponentially worse as they all sign up often with multiple accounts to maximise earnings. I don't have an issue with anyone earning here and think it's great if it makes a difference to their lives but it's the people who get greedy or desperate and start shitposting with multiple accounts or copy and pasting and unfortunately there are a lot of people doing this. When you can't speak English or know next to nothing about bitcoin it just leads to a colossal degradation in the quality of discussion here and not really many decent discussions happen any more. People don't really engage in conversations, they just write a half-assed post consisting of a sentence or two of rehashed opinion and then move onto the next thread to do the same. Rinse and repeat over however many accounts you have.

[CaptainLance]

GCOX probably have a lot of supporters from the Philippines because one of their major investor is Manny Pacquiao which is a Filipino pride.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

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I don't know if you remember this thread I made a while back, but it pretty much sums up what the worst of the worst here do as far as creating and posting in idiotic spam threads.  Now, I have no idea whether the ones I caught were from the Philippines or not, but I would certainly argue that they're well-represented among the most egregious shitposters.  I strongly suspect that when families and/or groups of friends are all in signature campaigns, they collaborate and do shit like what you see in the thread I linked to.

It's no wonder bitcointalk has such a spam problem, and from what I've seen most of it comes from just a few countries, and the Philippines is one of them.  I've said that before, and I got branded a horrible racist because of it, but it's true.

[Joel_Jantsen]

Being a bounty manager, I can confidently say that most of the bounty hunters are from Philippines/Indonesia/Ukraine/Africa. I rarely have come across participants with good English speaking skills or from other developed countries. Roughly estimating, 70% of my campaign's participants are from the Philippines.

[xtraelv]

Hello! I'm from the Philippines and I'm quite surprised of how many Filipinos are participants of that campaign, because to be honest, not a lot of people know about bitcoin in here. I live in Manila - which is supposed to be the most "advanced" city in my country - but even so, the number of people who know about cryptocurrency or that it even exists in this city is very low, even among teenagers and young adults. However, I guess it's not fair to assume that that's a result of multiaccounting. Just my two cents  

When there is poverty people will do anything to make a living. Unfortunately some people either don't have the skills to learn how it works or lack the interest.

While they may not have heard of bitcoin - I can remember the pesobit craze last year which originated from the Philippines.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pesobit/ A lot of people lost their savings.
Unfortunately people who haven't learned the pitfalls of crypto and follow bounties blindly often also fall victim to pump and dump and other scams.

Yet  -while there may be a lot of Filipinos chasing bounties - I would also like to point out that one of the top merited posters (theyoungmillionaire) on here is from the Philippines. (Probably some others too) Not only does he write good posts in English - he has also translated quite a few posts into Filipino.  Hopefully the knowledge he brings to the local board will convince some of others to get more seriously involved with crypto other than chasing bounties.

Being a bounty manager, I can confidently say that most of the bounty hunters are from Philippines/Indonesia/Ukraine/Africa. I rarely have come across participants with good English speaking skills or from other developed countries. Roughly estimating, 70% of my campaign's participants are from the Philippines.

There are a lot of people in the Philippines that speak a high level of English. A lot of call centers that service English speaking countries all over the world are based in the Philippines.

[finaleshot2016]

If you're familiar with the recent fight of Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, the Matthysse vs Pacquiao, fighting for the WBA World Welterweight Title.
During the Face-off (Weigh in) of Matthysse and Pacquiao, that's the first time I heard about the GCOX because they've announced it on tv. The announcer stated that it's a cryptocurrency so I searched and found out that this project is supported by Pacquiao. GCOX is the world’s first global celebrity cryptocurrency exchange, has signed Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao as its first boxing celebrity.

This is the reason why there are many Filipinos in the bounty of GCOX, because of him. Filipinos always support Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao on every fights since his battle with Morales and others. Some people around the world also liked him especially when he had a fight with Mayweather Jr,.

Pacquiao is also a Senator in the Philippines so don't be surprised if there are many Filipinos in the GCOX because Filipinos really like and support him. It's also broadcasted in national channels so there are many people already familiar with it.

[cellard]

If you're familiar with the recent fight of Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, the Matthysse vs Pacquiao, fighting for the WBA World Welterweight Title.
During the Face-off (Weigh in) of Matthysse and Pacquiao, that's the first time I heard about the GCOX because they've announced it on tv. The announcer stated that it's a cryptocurrency so I searched and found out that this project is supported by Pacquiao. GCOX is the world’s first global celebrity cryptocurrency exchange, has signed Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao as its first boxing celebrity.

This is the reason why there are many Filipinos in the bounty of GCOX, because of him. Filipinos always support Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao on every fights since his battle with Morales and others. Some people around the world also liked him especially when he had a fight with Mayweather Jr,.

Pacquiao is also a Senator in the Philippines so don't be surprised if there are many Filipinos in the GCOX because Filipinos really like and support him. It's also broadcasted in national channels so there are many people already familiar with it.

Im pretty sure that there were tons of Philippines joining all kinds of bounties, ICOs, translation work, giveaways, spamming stuff on social network.. before Pacquiao made that announcement you talk about.

You have to put yourself on their shoes: Would you do that if you had the opportunity, or rather be exploited in some menial minimum wage job which is draining all energy away from you?  People will always tend to minimize energy spent per money generated. Can't blame them. Of course if I was them I would at least make the effort of learning some decent english before posting on the non-local boards. If they fail to do that then there's no other way out but banhammer, at least for these that spam too much.

[mk4]

It could possibly be a good number of people using multiple accounts, but I wouldn't come into that conclusion immediately. Philippines is a 3rd world country with high unemployment rates and high poverty rates. Minimum wage is more or less $10 a day. Most people find themselves lucky enough if they're receiving $15 a day. So yea, expect filipinos to be active in places where they can earn money without much effort.

[harizen]

What Im seeing here are:

a) because of that GCOX exposure during the fight of MP and Matthysse (it was also seen in the ring post), usual bounty hunters from the Philippines make a hype about it to their social media friends resulting for those inexperienced people in crypto to try what doing bounties are. I have seen a Facebook post about it with some good speculations and most of the people's comments are asking questions on how to do bounty as they will try to joined the GCOX campaign. And the rest is history....

b) maybe multi accounts but not all. just my one cent.

[hilariousandco]

The Pacquiao fight was last month. The legions of Filipinos haven't just magically appeared recently. They've been here years and continue to grow.

[jonemil24]

This is embarrassing. Just when I thought Russians and Indonesians were the most active forum users, and here are my fellow countrymen; proactive in joining bounties. Some of them didn't even bother to post on our local board.

2. Post Distribution per subsection

The overall historical accumulative distribution of posts per subsection is as follows (derived from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php):



3.5 Local Boards – Posts per day

It is not strange? It is not an example of multiaccounting?

Signature participants from #6 to #45, and #59 to #74 might be calling their friends or relatives.  Or maybe a single user built an army. That campaign needs an eye of the hawk, and I hope coinlocket$ will investigate it.

And I'm pretty sure that the Senator didn't summon or call his fellow citizens to join that bounty.

[LTU_btc]

That's just one campaign... I wouldn't say that mostly bounty hunters came from Philippines. Yeah, there lot of people from this country, but also so many bounty hunters are from Indonesia, Vietnam, Russia, Ukraine. Shortly - not from rich countries.
But I'm curious why this bounty ask for country of origin? Why they need to know it?

[taguig]

Better correct your title you posted All bounty hunters are from Philippines even though you are asking it's obvious and a fact that there are other members from other countries participated in bounty hunting it should be "Majority of bounty hunters comes from the Philippines?"

[Dig Bicks]

Of course they will flood this forum. They live on dirt floors with no running water, they can make a fortune on this forum compared to their normal wages.

[nngella]

Hello, I have just found this interesting information.
When you look at this bounty spreadsheet (GCOX campaign): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12TJzpkePkRwyRBEIIvjr-mJnZbskkW_wfD2mZNBMm0Q/edit#gid=1544862346 - you will see that almost everyone is from Philippines.
It is not strange? It is not an example of multiaccounting?
The registration form looks like this: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScchFQPaafMx3fVTMYiNs2KuFTrx03Gtuy1RbilqfTFHcPPjA/viewform

Thank you for your explanation .

I think this is a hasty generalization on your part to make a claim of multiaccounting.

I am a Filipino and I can say that the high knowledge in cryptocurrency that we have right now is mainly because of the awareness of the international news (one more point is we are known as multilingual people).  Most of us are very fluent in english and even some are fluent in more than 3 languages.

I have a decent job ( I am a licensed Civil Engineer) and I am here in this forum to read and learn about cryptocurrency.  I also do trading and have ripples and monero coins.  In addition, I am part of lots of bounty campaigns here but I have only one account ( how can I manage multiple accounts given that my work as an engineer is already tedious).

Many Filipinos are familiar with cryptocurrency but there are only minimal supports from the government (we do not have our own established cryptoexchange yet but some startups are initiating to become one).

[darklus123]

I can simply prove that if not all mostly yes most of the bounty hunters here are from the philippines or any other third world countries gaining the benefits that it can give to them.

I've been into social groups before. When we started that groups from twitter and facebook at first it was just fine but when the bounty hunting started plus the fame of bitcoin started in the philippines. All suddenly most of the groups was being burned by bounty hunting posts. Then some of them was able to found out that they have good opportunity on this forum since it promotes a bounty hunting threads. 

I guess we can only prove that one if we monitor the posts from altcoins. Maybe adding an analytics to that section?

[selezneve]

Hello! I'm from the Philippines and I'm quite surprised of how many Filipinos are participants of that campaign, because to be honest, not a lot of people know about bitcoin in here. I live in Manila - which is supposed to be the most "advanced" city in my country - but even so, the number of people who know about cryptocurrency or that it even exists in this city is very low, even among teenagers and young adults. However, I guess it's not fair to assume that that's a result of multiaccounting. Just my two cents 

Nice to see a very relevant comment here from a member who can give real insight to the current situation.

Just because someone has mentioned in the spreadsheet or his profile that he is from a certain place, it does not become true. However, I was not much surprised to read OP. Freelancing is on rise there and thus some people might be doing this with multiple profiles. If what Op claims is true, there is a strong possibility of this only especially after this comment.