Newbies: Stay away and avoid all bounties!

[_BlackStar]

No one can stop scam bounties and the forum didn't moderated scam too, so we're better off to avoid all bounties and we wouldn't get scammed.

I agree with some of your points, but maybe not on the last point ^{[avoiding all bounty].} Most of those bounty programs end in scam ^{[could be],} failure, and being worthless shitcoins, but I still think that there are some really good bounty programs especially when teams and projects are seriously developed. The amount may not be much, but it might be enough to say that not all prizes end up being a scam.

What you need to do is don't easily trust any bounty program without doing your due diligence on whatever they have to offer. Bounty payments handled by escrow may be safe for participants to consider, so you should be very careful when joining bounties.

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[KingsDen]

Take a look with this user Smking1212 he's a bounty hunter maximalist where almost of his posts posted on Bounties section (1296 from 1308 posts or 99%). Currently he already have 518 activity which is enough to become a Hero Member, but he never earn any single merit even he's an active user, that make he's still a newbie rank.

You have a very genuine concern here and I addressed this concern in my last topic Why some promising newbies fail in the forum.

9. Mission to the Forum:
Under this factor, failure is subjective. What others see as failure might not be a failure to the user. If a newbies' mission to the forum is to shill a project, once the mission is accomplished, the user could abandoned the account and we can't confidently say that the user failed. Another instance is when a user's mission is to scam, once the scam is successful, the user will care no more about the account. Again, we see some users who are newbies but have legendary member activity because of only focusing on bounty. We cannot say that such users fail because to them their purpose of coming to the forum is achieved.

I have seen legendary activity users here but are newbies because of merits. It is not that they don't know what merit is, neither is it because they cannot make merit worthy posts. It is the path that they chose. It does not really mean that they don't care about Bitcoin or they don't know it. It is simply their interest with that account. It could be that many of them have decent alts.
I wonder how you think you can convince someone in bounty for more than 2 years that bounty is useless and not profitable.
So, the baseline is everyone has a purpose in the forum. To some of them, the essence of knowing bitcoin is to make money, then if they can make money without knowing bitcoin, it's still cool for them.

[sunsilk]

Just have that mindset that majority of the bounties are scams and you're just throwing your effort on it in the nowhere.

No offense but can you show me where to find a virtual assistant job without much competition? Honestly, I've been around Freelancer.com for a while but still can find such a job. Too much spammer which makes me exhausted from competing for a position

In most of the freelancing marketplaces, the competition for each job is very tough especially with the common virtual assistance. And to outstand with the others, you need to have more experiences and as well as quite competitive rates and skills.

Get out of freelancer.com, it has actually became a place for spammers and scammers. Try upwork.

[jerry0]

Have zero clue about these bounty campaigns but how much money could you realistically earn a month doing this now?  What about back then when it was popular?

[lovesmayfamilis]

And, being a spammer is paid higher than working in a workshop because of the cryptocurrency hype although sometimes you may get scammed. People say that education is the way to escape poverty or somewhat like that. But when poor people find fishing rods with the potential to bring them a lot of money than they ever imagine, they will not think about upgrading themselves or gaining more knowledge.

It would not be so insulting if, as you put it, sometimes projects could deceive. But this happens extremely rarely when projects are really useful. These projects are fraudulent, and to earn a penny, bounty hunters have to create a bunch of alternative accounts, which in turn are caught on the forum. It turns out to be a vicious circle. It is naive to think that, according to the rules of bounty projects that require the participation of only one participant, you can earn a living.
And here you have to choose: either start studying and acquiring deeper knowledge to further increase your earnings, or "work", as the hunters say, constantly being disappointed, being deceived, and deceiving yourself.
Just compare the earnings of bounty hunters. Is this the amount you can live on?

[cryptoaddictchie]

Have zero clue about these bounty campaigns but how much money could you realistically earn a month doing this now?  What about back then when it was popular?

If before crypto explodes to a lot of medium, you could earn a lot like 3k to 10k or more than on airdrops and bounty but now its like a peanut reward, Im saying that more likely its not worth your time now. But if you participate here on forum and become a reputable user youll rank up and given chance to participate on prominent campaigns that even pay btc. But thats not easy you need to be a high rank and has good contributions here.

[ANSEL_2.0]

Have zero clue about these bounty campaigns but how much money could you realistically earn a month doing this now?  What about back then when it was popular?

I've read a lot of peoples comments on here and I see that many are rich that's why they are saying bounty isn't rewarding as before, that's a big lie, a project from Cryptopreneurbrainboss named sphere gives people over 400$ for a 4weeks campaign, I believe this is the first I've seen this year that paid that much, not all projects will bring money but some are fine with even 100$ per month.

[Lucius]

I've read a lot of peoples comments on here and I see that many are rich that's why they are saying bounty isn't rewarding as before, that's a big lie, a project from Cryptopreneurbrainboss named sphere gives people over 400$ for a 4weeks campaign, I believe this is the first I've seen this year that paid that much, not all projects will bring money but some are fine with even 100$ per month.

It’s not even disputed that some bounty campaigns pay even a solid amount of money and even have escrowed funds - but no one wonders what they’re actually promoting, does it has any purpose at all and how many people will lose everything they invested at the end of the story? If 9 out of 10 of these projects fail within 2 years (probably before), is it moral to say you don't care because you're well paid to promote them?

[Widdop37]

Avoiding all bounties is a wrong advice, some are paying their participants in Bitcoin not those shit tokens, the job of moderators on this forum is to get rid of any shitposters and spammers that won't heed warnings, that's not the members' job, if people like getting paid in peanuts its their own problem not mine or yours.

[ShowOff]

It’s not even disputed that some bounty campaigns pay even a solid amount of money and even have escrowed funds - but no one wonders what they’re actually promoting, does it has any purpose at all and how many people will lose everything they invested at the end of the story? If 9 out of 10 of these projects fail within 2 years (probably before), is it moral to say you don't care because you're well paid to promote them?

Many bounty hunters only care about the amount of money they make and will sell all tokens or coins as soon as possible after the payment is made. Most of them probably don't care about what they are promoting because they don't do an analysis of the project, and here different things are certainly done by investors where developments and good potential in the future are the targets they want in the long term.

Investing in any cryptocurrency is an option that investors have considered, they know what the risks are and I think they will be responsible for whatever they will face in the future with their investment. We are not responsible for the success and failure of an altcoin project that investors are interested in, so only they will be responsible for whatever results they will get in the end.

[death69]

It would not be so insulting if, as you put it, sometimes projects could deceive. But this happens extremely rarely when projects are really useful. These projects are fraudulent, and to earn a penny, bounty hunters have to create a bunch of alternative accounts, which in turn are caught on the forum. It turns out to be a vicious circle. It is naive to think that, according to the rules of bounty projects that require the participation of only one participant, you can earn a living.

That is my mistake to use sometimes.

And here you have to choose: either start studying and acquiring deeper knowledge to further increase your earnings, or "work", as the hunters say, constantly being disappointed, being deceived, and deceiving yourself.
Just compare the earnings of bounty hunters. Is this the amount you can live on?

Changing someone's mind can be considered an art, especially if it becomes their belief. Such beliefs have set a root in their mind and the longer they stay in the same stage, the stronger the root. They create a safe circle for themselves and resist any attempt to change, to alter it. Moreover, not everyone acquires the growth mindset. At this very moment, they might be pleased with the current situation and are in a different developing stage than us.

I do not know whether I'm using this phrase correctly: "Ignorance is bliss". They do not deceive themselves at all and if they are happy with their decision, how could we make any judgment on them? What we should do is persistently provide knowledge and experience for anyone who pursues it, and teach and guide others. That is why we are all here, in the "Beginners & Help" section

[sunsilk]

Have zero clue about these bounty campaigns but how much money could you realistically earn a month doing this now?

No exact amount.

It's just an incentive and you can't be sure if the project bounty you'll join is going to be successful. There's uncertainty on it if you're going to focus with it.

Much better to have a full time job while if you have some spare time then you can use it to join into those bounties that you think are safe and will become successful.

What about back then when it was popular?

Majority of them were good and successful but not anymore today and, the game has completely changed.

[Kasabus]

Thats depend on you how to become active here and used your time. Yes there are bounty hunters whom wasted time on posting just for sake to earn money but not all hunters are like that. There are some whose still remains as human and talk like one and were able to continue a good standing here. It does not mean that if you are bounty hunter your only purpose is to interact due to monetization alone but become an active member too contributing to this forum.

Bounty hunters are not all just for the rewards alone, but some have still made great contributions through their brilliant ideas that the forum needs to know. Maybe most of the newbies today may only aim for the money, but those bounty hunters who have been here for years have learned to realized that there is more than money in bounty hunting, knowledge and experience especially from the legends are also making the bounty more educative for all the newbies.

[isaac_clarke22]

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I guess it is just one of those people referring people over and over to their known connection or the forum could even be mentioned in the wrong way by other people like "they can earn in this website" instead of seeing it as a forum as it is. It will surely die out slowly, due to scammy projects out there for sure.
There are waaaaay way more websites there that are really intended to be an "earning platform".
Saw your mention about VA. I do freelancing General VA as well as Front-End development in Upwork and I enjoy the work so far.

No offense but can you show me where to find a virtual assistant job without much competition? Honestly, I've been around Freelancer.com for a while but still can find such a job. Too much spammer which makes me exhausted from competing for a position

In Upwork, you don't really need a "perfect" English skill to get through. I never even spoke a single word to my clients and they were all just text chats.
VA hovers around having to do data entry or general tech-savvy stuffs (no coding). It is an extremely competitive field, so I don't think you can find one without any sorts of competition. Luck and your proposals plays a lot of role in that site. You can still give a shot. I started back around October 2021 and still got a gig even after there were around 50+ competitors I had in the job posting.

[Hypnosis00]

Don't forget bounties managed by reputable manager doesn't always guaranteed the project wouldn't scam, below there are some bounties the project turned become scam:

Indeed. And we don't hear any promises from them that it will succeed, only the payment and that is why they use an escrow to secure the funds.

No one can stop scam bounties and the forum didn't moderated scam too, so we're better off to avoid all bounties and we wouldn't get scammed.

Well, it's up to you if you don't want and ignore the bounty but as you have said, bounties will never stop for they have the right to do it.
It is the responsibility of the hunters to choose wisely and promote a project that is legit. Well, some did not and they don't have the right to condemn and blame the market because in the first place they don't even bother themselves to do the searches before joining them.

[Vaculin]

it was worth it back in 2017 but today is just not going to make you money anymore. the teams making these tokens will have to spend a lot of money probably more than they could get from the funds they get to enlist the token to an exchange. while you will have a ton of tokens rewarded to you, you may not be able to trade them. 

it's time to ask the teams for BTC as payment, not thier tokens. time to demand BTC from them or no exposure. 

Bounty hunting has lost its golden days and will never be profitable again. The reason why most of the bounty hunters stay away from bounties as there is no decent income that we can get in exchange of our time and efforts. However, if things get back and owners will start to pay us in bitcoin, then why not? Bitcoin will never be useless and won't lose its value in time.

[laredo7mm]

99% of all bounties are wasting a time for both sides, hunters and owners.
About bounty worthless, I would rather say that it is due to the poor quality of the project itself. on top of all that the whole project starts without start-up capital or with a very small amount, no wonder the prizes are worthless.

I have seen very few projects that run their bounties in BTT and go top in CMC and do something really amazing. I can still remember some big token name that held bounties in the forum. DIA, CARTS, Radix, and Injective Protocol are some of them. There could be more but I can remember only these projects till now. Though most of the projects are worthless forum got a few projects every year that gives hunters really something which motivates them not to leave the work. 

[5W-KILO]

99% of all bounties are wasting a time for both sides, hunters and owners.
About bounty worthless, I would rather say that it is due to the poor quality of the project itself. on top of all that the whole project starts without start-up capital or with a very small amount, no wonder the prizes are worthless.

I have seen very few projects that run their bounties in BTT and go top in CMC and do something really amazing. I can still remember some big token name that held bounties in the forum. DIA, CARTS, Radix, and Injective Protocol are some of them. There could be more but I can remember only these projects till now. Though most of the projects are worthless forum got a few projects every year that gives hunters really something which motivates them not to leave the work. 

You are right, there was Vulcan Forged, Alchemy Pay, HEX, LATTICE, Base Protocol, Amepay, StoBoX and so on, the thing is bounties this days aren't for the lazy, you need to participate in many projects unless they are bad after looking into them from your research perspective, oh I remember Sovryn as well. Do good research and you will have positive results.

[Prosector]

Scammers are everywhere and newbies must be able to gauge how genuine these websites may be. One wrong move and you put yourself at risk. The right knowledge and insight will help gain skills that help protect your funds and make you stay one step ahead of everyone. Read all you can to avoid such situations.

[Crypt0Gore]

OP you are currently promoting the Roobet project why are you telling others to avoid all bounties? Roobet is a gambling platform and you are paid in BTC 🤷‍♀️, the account you are referring to took things too far by submitting links to Twitter posts only, meaning they don't give a damn about contributing and engaging in discussions on the forum but saying people should avoid bounties is wrong.