Airdrops Confusion

[yazher]

As for me, airdrops are one of those works that you are not going to fulfill every week. it is a one time job and after you've done all of that, you only need to wait for its distribution in its given time. Bounties are not like that, you need to work every week to secure your stakes and work until the campaign is finished. As for the term "Airdrop", I understand it this way and prepare to join it than bounty because of the less work you need to do.

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[Warkop]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

I've also seen that in some of their projects there is also an airdrop bounty, even in my email many people have come offering to join Airdrop and have to fill out the form for the project but they don't give any assignments, but I just think positively about this, maybe they just want to hand out free coins to let everyone know the project exists. So in essence Aidrop is actually the same as other bounty campaigns, it's just that they don't give any task to this Aidrop bounty but the prizes we get from Airdrop are only slightly different from other campaign prizes.

[MAAManda]

Many of New Project Run Paid Airdrop Program is Because They are is a Poor Project with no budget for distribute the token for Airdrop Participant, or i think they want to scam the Participant and stole Money.

[celot]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

I've also seen that in some of their projects there is also an airdrop bounty, even in my email many people have come offering to join Airdrop and have to fill out the form for the project but they don't give any assignments, but I just think positively about this, maybe they just want to hand out free coins to let everyone know the project exists. So in essence Aidrop is actually the same as other bounty campaigns, it's just that they don't give any task to this Aidrop bounty but the prizes we get from Airdrop are only slightly different from other campaign prizes.

Be quit when receiving airdrop form sending to your email because I have check many fake form giving to take back our wallet data, every day I received many time email for joining an airdrop project with fill form, but I check is correct website or not and some of email I delete from my inbox, I think many people wanna get scam us because our email connected with some bounty project and airdrop project, next time always use not exchange email when joining bounty campaign, airdrop and subcribe netletr because will give impact with your email hacked and your wallet exchange is stole.

[bitcampaign]

not many airdrops really pay, almost I see full telegram group bounty many users spam airdrop scam there, usually their mode attracts a lot of users after many of their users ask users to pay gas fees to claim their prizes, that's still a lot outside there, to be honest right now I'm not interested in the airdrops that come if not from a big project

[Gotumoot]

We could really consider them as a bounty with a lesser work than a regular one.
But they are still kind of a bounty for me since we need to work to earn their token and not to mention that most of them are also scam so they are really similar  .

[phreess]

We could really consider them as a bounty with a lesser work than a regular one.
But they are still kind of a bounty for me since we need to work to earn their token and not to mention that most of them are also scam so they are really similar  .

So, if those tokens are worth nothing, then you effectively are getting what you invested, which is nothing. So, you end with Nothing for Nothing lol!

[cryptoaddictchie]

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

If the duration of the airdrop is short, I think thats under airdrop. Ive been participating with a lot of these before and normal airdrop is just filling up form with very simple one time task to get or eligble for reward. Buy if its a social media with weekly task and earning stake, we could say that its a bounty campaigning and prize will be depends on the pool of the program.

Same purpose but the duration it is launch what differs thr airdrop from campaign.

[trauchot]

There are still airdrops where you only need to specify your Ethereum or some other wallet, but usually such airdrops are just scams, and of course, airdrops now are like mini bounties, where you need to complete various tasks to get an airdrop, but all these airdrops take little time, so you can spend time on them and maybe they will send something.

[1GUARDIAN]

Yes, there is some confusion in terminology. Many projects call this - airdrop, but its something that looks more like a bounty campaign, since it implies active action on the part of the participants. But often this substitution of terms is done deliberately in order to manipulate people. For this reason, you need to look at which requirements in airdrop, you may not even want to participate in it.

[masterrex]

"In the cryptocurrency world, airdrop refers to a procedure through which a blockchain project distributes a free coin or tokens to the wallets of active members of the blockchain community"

That was the meaning of a "cryptocurrency airdrop" According to Google, so thats true it is confusing because if you are going to fulfill any task in exchange for tokens thats not called "free tokens" anymore because you already fulfilled the task thats why you paid with tokens. IMO, it's more like a Bounty payment in exchange for your work or simple task that you've done. I believe that the true airdrop was the UNISWAP UNI token airdrop because you didn't do anything and then you can claim the 400 UNI tokens for free because using the UNISWAP DEX is a normal thing to do so it is not considered as a task.

[Dragonfund]

Sorry bro, there is nothing absolutely free even in free town.
Airdrop is way of marketing and promotion by this projects as awareness, you do a task and in return, they give you a penny mostly range in between $3 to $10 ( that's was how it used to be in the past during ICO boom ) for your time. Though, I don't see them as anything as it something you do once and forget.
However, I don't think we still have trusted airdrops, they turned out to be scam after collection of users data in the form and gaining thousands of followers on their Facebook, Twitter and Telegram channels. Nevertheless, don't do kyc for any airdrop, we have seen how Clipx collected users data and deleted their website and Telegram group.

[tvplus006]

Recently, the conditions for airdrops are becoming more complex and they are already becoming like a bounty program, in which you need to perform certain actions. And now it's not enough just to send your address for distribution, you also need to join various telegram groups and social networks. And it is possible that the main goal of airdrops is to increase the number of subscribers to the channel.

[Shallow]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

To the best of my knowledge and considering the happenings all these years, I will say airdrop gradually lost its meaning.
Yes, you are right, airdrop is giving away free tokens to addresses but then some projects now came up with different ideas of airdropping those free tokens to wallets or users which are supporting their platform. This is where the idea of bots comes to play in telegram, thus with telegram bots and by doing one or two tasks, then adding your wallet you will be eligible for it. Also, Google forms came up as well, where wallet address will be collected after performing some tasks. So indirectly, the whole idea changed because project team now use it as an opportunity to grow their social media accounts while getting attention as well.
Therefore, this idea of filling forms and telegram bots now gave rise to scams where people who are meant to be sent free tokens are now ask to either put their private keys, or send ETH for gas fees etc.
So I would say, airdrop lost its meaning because the whole idea changed, maybe it can be likened to a lesser form of bounty; to make it worst some airdrops nowadays are not even worth it.

[pilosopotasyo]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

That is the right definition of airdrop. you don't need to do anything you just received I don't know how this started working for an airdrop it should not be label as airdrop but bounty campaign, because they worked the same, I read that in the early days of Bitcointalk you just need to paste your address in a thread and you will get your free coins.

[Jaspion]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.
But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.
Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.
Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

Its always been like this as far as I can remember.
I mean even latest big example of uniswap - they didn't ask anything for it except being a user of their service which is already something (you paid fees).
So I don't think there will be any airdrop that won't require one thing, but your wallet address, company wants to get value for the coins.

[Ezravdb]

The words Airdrop are easier to understand in the world of Cryptocurrency in exchange for prizes for doing fairly simple tasks.  The word Airdrop is quite popular, almost all crypto projects call it Airdrop when distributing tokens to their community by implementing very easy rules.  The discussion about Airdrop is indeed quite interesting because in 2017 and 2018 the income from Airdrop is quite satisfying.

[Kupid002]

The words Airdrop are easier to understand in the world of Cryptocurrency in exchange for prizes for doing fairly simple tasks.  The word Airdrop is quite popular, almost all crypto projects call it Airdrop when distributing tokens to their community by implementing very easy rules.  The discussion about Airdrop is indeed quite interesting because in 2017 and 2018 the income from Airdrop is quite satisfying.

It's nice to go back to the past and the income from the airdrop in those days, I remember I earn 0.1 BTC in just one airdrop so I tried harder to join another airdrop and earn more but sadly the hype in the airdrops did not last long and ended immediately because many scams came out.

[santiPOGI]

As I remembered during 2017 it was not actually airdrops but a giveaways to anyone who will participate in it. And by that time you will only fill up or sign-up the form then you wait for the free coins to be send in the wallet they will give. But now it became an Airdrops from giveaways before where it has a lot of task before you receive the free rewards, therefore this is not a free coin anymore because there is a task you need to comply first then if you didn't comply it no rewards to be given after the program, just as simple as that.

[VolkoB]

99 percent of the airdrops are now scam, absolutely nothing worthwhile. And people are already tired of this, so now only few people participate in them. Therefore, the conclusion is that most airdrops are created by scammers, and most scammers participate in them.