THE GOOD AND BAD SIDES OF BOUNTIES

[TheHas]

I only participate in bounties where I do not have to give up any identifying information. So signature campaigns, maybe blogs or article writing - that kind of thing.

I wouldn't participate in facebook campaigns and give out my personal information like that for a no name coin that may not have any success in the future.

[94K]

There are good and bad sides of bounties. The good sides of bounties generates more profits and the bad sides make you lose money especially when you join and participate in fake bounties.

[tabas]

The good side of bounties
1; you will definitely make lost of money campaigning for good projects.

Lot of money, I guess this is what you want to say. Today? no it's not like 2017 anymore.

2; you might even get rich on the long term if you are good hold and able to detect good projects.

Don't tell this, it's very impossible these days to become rich on bounties. Don't give false hope to the readers.

[Rasa nanas]

hacking is not a bad side of a bounty, it is a risk that must be faced by someone who saves digital assets. do not save your assets in an exchange to avoid hacking. all things in this world have risks 

[pinoy.bolanon]

For newbies in the crypto business, you must Know this. make sure you never associate your exchange email with your bounty account.  make this a top priority. i advice hunters to have more than 3 gmail accounts.


The good side of bounties
1; you will definitely make lost of money campaigning for good projects.
2; you might even get rich on the long term if you are good hold and able to detect good projects.

BAD SIDE.

1; whether you like it or now, your social media accounts will recieved login threat(someone trying to login to your account from a different location)
2; hackers will also play with emails that was exposed while registering on bounties.

3; if your account is secured properly, you will lose everything. even your wallet.



Guys i just got HACKED on my hitbtc exchange account.
login location United Kingdom.
i never u.k have hackers too.

I agree on the statement you have provided, me too i encountered a lot of logins in some of my exchange accounts like OKEX Kucoin and all others, i dont know what to do now, but the good thing is that, i never hold any of the tokens or coins in the exchanges, im just being practical this time because of the incident lately that many are trying to login in my accounts, lets all be aware that some hackers are behind the project we are promoting.

[slaman29]

Good side is mistaken, in my not so humble opinion. You will NOT definitely make a lot of money even if you happen to promote good projects. Of course, it depends on what you mean by a lot of money. I know in my country a small amount goes a long way, but I've seen people do really stupid work for a lot of money and vice versa, little to do with the project itself.

[Claude46]

Good sides and bad sides are really part of the bounties. Its just that we need to be careful to avoid being hack as well as being scam. The good sides you mention was true as long as the project where you in was a good project like the dencoin and alot more were really put you to have a good money investments. While on the other hands, which is tje badsides what to do with this was make sure not to join in a project that has s low maintainance team so that you will avoid  a loss in the future.

[Amejoaquim]

Agree, if we participate in bounty our email will get a lot of spam from hackers. Next time dont use your main email for bounty, better you use another email for participate on bounty.

[dark08]

For newbies in the crypto business, you must Know this. make sure you never associate your exchange email with your bounty account.  make this a top priority. i advice hunters to have more than 3 gmail accounts.


The good side of bounties
1; you will definitely make lost of money campaigning for good projects.
2; you might even get rich on the long term if you are good hold and able to detect good projects.

BAD SIDE.

1; whether you like it or now, your social media accounts will recieved login threat(someone trying to login to your account from a different location)
2; hackers will also play with emails that was exposed while registering on bounties.

3; if your account is secured properly, you will lose everything. even your wallet.



Guys i just got HACKED on my hitbtc exchange account.
login location United Kingdom.
i never u.k have hackers too.

Yesteday i did had somebody to log in my hitbtc account (it was from UK aswell )  , but i was using my old password and i knew somebody will try to login there anyway , thats why i didn't hold nothing there . Never use password that you was using in other websites , forums or even game profiles like blizzard , steam or something like that . My password was leaked public from old forum i was using like 4-5 years ago and i was dumb enough to use same password on some websites =D Ofcourse i did change it now and trying to use different passwords on each website now

Same scenario here someone using my Hitbtc account even without my 2fa thats why I never use again this exchange site and I'm leaving being a bounty hunter because of a treat in my personal identity like email and password. For being a bounty hunter for almost 2years I experienced a good and bad project in the market I earn a good profit but I also pay thank you for my effort and hardwork to promote their project in the social media and this forum site.

[tenebriscaelum]

For newbies in the crypto business, you must Know this. make sure you never associate your exchange email with your bounty account.  make this a top priority. i advice hunters to have more than 3 gmail accounts.


The good side of bounties
1; you will definitely make lost of money campaigning for good projects.
2; you might even get rich on the long term if you are good hold and able to detect good projects.

BAD SIDE.

1; whether you like it or now, your social media accounts will recieved login threat(someone trying to login to your account from a different location)
2; hackers will also play with emails that was exposed while registering on bounties.

3; if your account is secured properly, you will lose everything. even your wallet.



Guys i just got HACKED on my hitbtc exchange account.
login location United Kingdom.
i never u.k have hackers too.

This should have been a post to make awareness to the users of bitcointalk that do bounties. As these are not the only things that can be said for the advantages and disadvantages. Though putting that aside and talk about how users that do bounties, specially newbies in this platform should protect their information. As we can tell that every now and then hackers or scammer lurk in every corner of the net, it is YOUR responsibilty to protect your information, if you are not being careful then being hacked will be enevitable. So study first the bounties that you are applying to make sure that you are not comprimising your information, and becareful to the people that you interact with as they might as sensitive information to you that will compromise you.

[ven7net]

In general, you are right. Of course, you need to understand that fraudsters will want by any means to seize access to your PC or to some co-workers, as well as your other resources. It's not enough to create several Emails or wallets, you need to understand one truth, if you want hackers or fraudsters to crack you, then try to keep yourself from clicking on strange links, pictures, downloading files, and so on. It is best to leave your PC or laptop just for work, but for other purposes, use another device. So you have more chances to defend yourself. But in general, I believe that bounty companies have a number of advantages as they make it possible to earn money without investing personal funds.

[Leonardo7]

Sometimes security is a major issue in this cryptocurrency trade and investment. A friend got hacked yesterday, his Imtoken and blockchain wallets were simultaneously hacked and all his fund gone as at the time of chatting with him, $4,000 was already lost. He revealed that he does save his private keys and details on evernote. Am tired of the bounty that requires one to make downloads.

[ivaf]

It seems to me that the bounty campaigns are no longer relevant now. They bring neither income nor satisfaction. And those coins or tokens that can be obtained in them can serve only for mastering work with crypto.

[efrenbilantok]

The stated bad sides so true, some airdrops and bounties that requires you to register for an account are just used for phishing, you must be careful on filling up login details and differ it from your important accounts,

[cryp24x]

I think you just need to be very careful in everything we do regarding our wallets and account. Like every account, we need to secure it with the available security measure against hackers. We should also be aware of the possible intrusion techniques that a hacker will use.

[Adriano2010]

Yes there are bad and good sides for bounties, but now we not have so much bounties like happen on 2017, i wish to have them again if not now on future. And indeed we need to secure our wallets and coins from hackers and scammers.

[silver23]

Oh my god, i am sorry for that if you get hacked by someone from UK. But you are right with good and bad bounty hunter condition in cryptocurrency.
That the point is really make you feel so bad that when your done but don't get a payment, i believe bounty hunter must to feel it.

[qazgroup]

I do not know how anyones exchange account gets hacked especially now when there are strict security verifications at login that include ip detection, 2fa authorization, email alerts, sms alerts and even some offer finger print login ( the mobile app versions). If still your account is hacked you are yourself to blame you should have activated some security options for your account to be safe.

[oseikuf44]

The bad sides you talked about is only applicable to "johny just come" newbies into crypto who will be filling every airdrop form and entering their sensitive data into every form they seems(weather is a phishing or not). With proper security measures in place like using google authenticator on all your accounts it is hardly a hacker can get you.

[Goodvalony]

this remains me of the first project i participated on. shivom bounty. i woke to discover that someone log into my shivom account but unfortunately, i have withdrawn everything from that account.LOL. such person was not lucky. but everyone should be aware of treats and hacking attempts.