Can we talk about airdrops?

[pakhitheboss]

I would never say airdrops are bad. There have been a few that I personally participated and have earned a good amount too. But, most of them were back in 2018-19. Nowadays most airdrop are just scams or are shit tokens. It does not mean that good ones do not exist. They do exist but they are not free. You need to do more than just join telegram and follow social medias of the project. You have to perform actions like bringing in new users through the referral system or invest a little in that project and earn free rewards. Always remember before joining any such airdrops you need to do your own research about the project.

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[tvplus006]

...Are they good? Are they bad? Are they worth it?..

Currently, only those that distribute projects among their early users can be called really profitable airdrop. You have obviously heard about such airdrops that were distributed by Uniswap, 1inch and ParaSwap, the profit from which was estimated in thousands of dollars. And this list is not exhaustive, since there have been many such airdrops and there will be many more in the future.

[BernyJB]

...Are they good? Are they bad? Are they worth it?..

Currently, only those that distribute projects among their early users can be called really profitable airdrop. You have obviously heard about such airdrops that were distributed by Uniswap, 1inch and ParaSwap, the profit from which was estimated in thousands of dollars. And this list is not exhaustive, since there have been many such airdrops and there will be many more in the future.

Well, I actually just heard about them on one of the courses I'm following on the computer, so I don't know the first thing about them.
Initially, it looks like a good way to make your coin known, but it's not a surprise that scammers and other criminals have noticed them. I guess (like with everything else) I'm gonna have to do a lot more research in the near future.

Thank you all for the replies. This gives me a lot to think about. 

[BITCOIN4X]

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You will learn a lot from the experience of others, but you should have the ability to do your own research in these cases. I also wouldn't say all airdrop are bad especially if it's done by a big project to increase more traction to their project. I haven't joined airdrop since 2018, but will never regret when some airdrop generate thousands of dollars for participant like Uniswap and others.

[Munir575]

Airdrops are shitty nowadays, a lot of them are scam works and they are not profitable as they use to be. Most Airdrops end up not paying at all while few pay worthless tokens or tokens that are not listed on any exchange which usually end up being useless in your wallet. I don't think they are worth it because its difficult to find a reliable and profitable airdrop nowadays.

[isaac_clarke22]

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If not shitty as in scam, they're just going to attempt to phish you to their fake MEW page wanting you login your wallet in their page. I had that kind of scenario long time ago when I attempted to join one.
I guess it is better for it to be just nothing, rather than attempting to steal your wallet.

[Mahiyammahi]

Today's airdrop is like giveaways. Project manager made a winner list to pay their airdrops. If you really wants to check your luck then try it. You can earn good if you work hard. Not every project can give you fat profit.
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But you can try it.

[Issa56]

Seriously am not really a airdrop fan am not really the type that's into airdrop but I believe lot's of people are still making money from airdrop but just know that not all airdrop will pay and currently issue of scam and wallet hack is really rampant now so lots of people are using airdrop to scam people now that's why you have to be very careful if you are participating in any airdrop.

[Natalim]

So I searched the forum and online. The world seems to be divided (not surprisingly) between airdrops lovers and haters, and not much in terms of actual data a newbie can use.
Could anybody please help me out?
What are they?
Are they good? Are they bad? Are they worth it?

Any info (ANYTHING) will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all in advance. 

I didn't stop people from joining or participating in free giveaways like airdrop but I never suggest it that is my opinion about the airdrop. It wasn't that mean that they are worthless and only a scam but I just want people to realize that they are wasting their time for them. Were already aware I think about these free giveaways and we don't have to be blind not now we got crazy for their offer as it is likely impossible that they gain market value over $0. If they care about their time, then they have to think about this.

[Trojane]

Well to be honest with you, I have participated in claiming alot of airdrops; one of which was supposed to pay 100dollars as per referral and I had 15  but......          The whole story turned bitter when I was in great anticipation of getting those few dollars to make up with, it didn't work?!
 So what I'll say bout airdrops is that these is relatively paying the token cloner instead of the promoters so if anyone is waiting on airdrops, well, probably you would have to wait for another century
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[libert19]

I can tell you which ones to avoid. Drops where,

- ... you have to compete tasks to get reward (they can't be called airdrops tbf)

- ... it depends on luck to get reward

- ... where you get $5-$10 worth of tokens

- ...where they say - you will get these much hundred $ of tokens. This value should not be taken literally as it's usually taken from their 'ico' price, which these tokens rarely reach.

Most 'drops' feature one of above things and you are better off them.

[kanayaTabitha]

I would never say airdrops are bad. There have been a few that I personally participated and have earned a good amount too. But, most of them were back in 2018-19. Nowadays most airdrop are just scams or are shit tokens. It does not mean that good ones do not exist. They do exist but they are not free. You need to do more than just join telegram and follow social medias of the project. You have to perform actions like bringing in new users through the referral system or invest a little in that project and earn free rewards. Always remember before joining any such airdrops you need to do your own research about the project.

I do agree, back in the days are drops are really worth it and they are giving away real tokens with values and listed on DEX and CEX.
Airdrop nowdays is mushrooming and the shit projects are everywhere, sometimes they are just giving away shit tokens to hack our wallet if we trade it on swap platform.
And most legit airdrops has hard task to do such as refering many people and other things. So it's not really worth it anymore in the current years

[cryptoaddictchie]

Yes they worth it maybe before. But now only few got the airdrops with worth valuable. Yes there are some do giveaways but the prizes aren't that enticing anymore. Before you could get an airdrop worth more than thousand usd. But now it's quite impossible only when you are joining airdrops with require of interaction on their platform. Usually dex tokens are doing this, but the airdrop is usually unannounced and a surprise only.

[mk4]

Airdrops today has moved to giving tokens to users of certain protocols; which is a lot better if you ask me(far less spamming everywhere).

Yep those actually make sense, as you are rewarding those that are actually using your platform. Due several quality airdrops like Uniswap and ENS, people nowadays started to using just about anything, like doing 2-3 trades on any shitty dex just in case they decide to do an airdrop. I have couple of friends (that have higher six figure number in crypto) but still doing those, in hope that another Uniswap-like airdrop will happen.

Yea, people have now been trying to sybil projects using hundreds of wallets to farm the airdrops. Projects now have to become a lot more strict on choosing criteria on which addresses get to claim airdrops; like how ParaSwap did(though they overdid it).

[The Cryptovator]

Airdrop benefits vary from person to the person actually. It's because Airdrop isn't worthy to me, I don't have enough time to comply with their task. Most of the Airdrop project turns into scan means I have to lose my time. It's like a gamble, perhaps you might get some dust or might lose your time. I really don't have enough patience to do Airdrop.

But it would be worthy for them who have enough time to spend. Those aren't worried about losing time and they don't have any work to do. So they might get some dust from Airdrop. It doesn't matter who loves it or who hates it. It's a matter of time and patience. You have to think is Airdrop fit for you? Do you have enough time and do have any works?

[isaac_clarke22]

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Curious to what tasks do airdrops wanted you to do these days.
I won't bother checking it as I already had a bad experience long time ago when one project just attempted to bait me into their phishing site.
The tasks I remembered were only joining their TG and following their social media platforms.

[tvplus006]

Airdrops today has moved to giving tokens to users of certain protocols; which is a lot better if you ask me(far less spamming everywhere).

Yep those actually make sense, as you are rewarding those that are actually using your platform. Due several quality airdrops like Uniswap and ENS, people nowadays started to using just about anything, like doing 2-3 trades on any shitty dex just in case they decide to do an airdrop. I have couple of friends (that have higher six figure number in crypto) but still doing those, in hope that another Uniswap-like airdrop will happen.

Ethereum second-tier solutions are of greater interest than the new DEX. The service can serve as a good assistant for research https://l2beat.com, which I use when deciding to spend some ether, for the sake of a ghostly airdrop. But since I do this by choice, luck bypasses me.

[nakamura12]

Just leave it alone if the airdrop tokens you got needed payment like minereum wherr you have to pay to be able to send your minereum to sell or trade whatever you lioe but the truth is you won't be able to do that. In short, it is a scam attempt where they send you a lot of tooens then you must send a fee as explained earlier.

[Yamifoud]

Just leave it alone if the airdrop tokens you got needed payment like minereum wherr you have to pay to be able to send your minereum to sell or trade whatever you lioe but the truth is you won't be able to do that. In short, it is a scam attempt where they send you a lot of tooens then you must send a fee as explained earlier.

It doesn't make sense actually if that he needs to pay more for the fees moving to the exchange more than the token he has.
I really don't think how these airdrops are worth participating with. They are almost 100% worthless and scam things. Yeah, you may receive a 1mil token, that was really huge but the price is $0, not even listed to any exchanges, that seems useless.
But in the first place, we could think also who would like to give that? Who would like to give money freely? That is why we never have to expect airdrop to gain value but just only $0. 

[PX-Z]

Just leave it alone if the airdrop tokens you got needed payment like minereum wherr you have to pay to be able to send your minereum to sell or trade whatever you lioe but the truth is you won't be able to do that. In short, it is a scam attempt where they send you a lot of tooens then you must send a fee as explained earlier.

It doesn't make sense actually if that he needs to pay more for the fees moving to the exchange more than the token he has.
I really don't think how these airdrops are worth participating with. They are almost 100% worthless and scam things. Yeah, you may receive a 1mil token, that was really huge but the price is $0, not even listed to any exchanges, that seems useless.
But in the first place, we could think also who would like to give that? Who would like to give money freely? That is why we never have to expect airdrop to gain value but just only $0. 

I would ignore such tokens received out from nowhere, there are incidents that this token is meant as a smart contract scams/hacks. Once you want to send the tokens out, you will touch the smartcontract and will collect the balance of your wallet, and will be successful transfer once the address has enough balances for fee.