The Good the bad and the ugly side of airdrops

[glendall]

I agree with all your opinions from the good side to the bad side,
but as we know from the start we will follow the airdrop and there will definitely be projects that are useless and don't keep promises, even though we have strictly selected,
for me the airdrop is a lucky gift where we only do one job without doing the next or continuous thing, for me as long as I don't spend money providing detailed information following the airdrop it's not a problem

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[n0ne]

Airdrop is just a kind of gambe. If we're lucky, we'll enjoy good profit out of it. If not, the received airdrops will be sitting idle in the wallet and never gets listed anywhere. In some cases we never receive the rewards. It was during the year 2017-18 where more users turned themselves rich through airdrops. Nowadays the airdrop is being much limited as well as made to be very available for limited number of participants. In some case selected members are availed with rewards. So, expecting big out of airdrops could end-up with disappointment.

[Hildentine]

In this case i said that Airdrop are many types some airdrop are confirmed in the form of Test Task , Claim nft , subscription ect but according to my experience is that its not confirmed you got some thing through Airdrop but if a project are good and honest team so they definitely give profit his hunter and some time a simple airdrop you done a few simple task and they give you huge amount profit.

[molsewid]

In this case i said that Airdrop are many types some airdrop are confirmed in the form of Test Task , Claim nft , subscription ect but according to my experience is that its not confirmed you got some thing through Airdrop but if a project are good and honest team so they definitely give profit his hunter and some time a simple airdrop you done a few simple task and they give you huge amount profit.

Not all airdrop now pays people. Most of them uses this kind of strategy to gain people in their community and to reach more investors, and once they are already in an exchange they will change the rules and will requires people to do KYC, in which I can say that very unfair for us. I also see some airdrops asking for passport, people need to be careful for their identity and they need to keep it secured and do not be deceive by small amount of money or any value of it in exchange of your identity.

[AakZaki]

Yes, I feel this myself, the fact that is happening is that we have to make more effort to make us really pay for participating in the airdrop. But I'm not complaining about this because I didn't spend the slightest capital to do this. You are right now interesting airdrop by running testnet and node. I am a member of several groups and indeed from tesnet and node the prizes are now more attractive.

Even though you didn't spend a dime for the airdrop, you volunteered your precious time to work on the airdrop task. time is also a valuable capital, because every second is precious. But even so, all the time will pay off if you get an airdrop that really pays properly and even gets a big airdrop with a sizable fee. Running nodes are the most popular airdrop option at the moment. After several successful people with APTOS, there is more interest from hunters to work on Running Node Tesnet.

[Kelvinid]

All of these days, I haven't seen any airdrops that are worth participating in. Might be too harsh to say they are worthless but that is the reality now. Some developers try to offer airdrops to promote their non-working projects and promised huge rewards but you can just sell them if they become successful. And the question is if they become successful. Because mostly it turn into a broken promise and after the airdrops, we never heard any updates from them on whether the project succeed or not, and where we can trade our free coins.

[Silberman]

All of these days, I haven't seen any airdrops that are worth participating in. Might be too harsh to say they are worthless but that is the reality now. Some developers try to offer airdrops to promote their non-working projects and promised huge rewards but you can just sell them if they become successful. And the question is if they become successful. Because mostly it turn into a broken promise and after the airdrops, we never heard any updates from them on whether the project succeed or not, and where we can trade our free coins.

And that is a huge problem, I have seen in the past airdrops in which people participated for a period longer than a year and they did all what they could to make the project a success, and once the project became successful the developers simply refused to pay the rewards they promised or they reduced the pool of the rewards to ridiculous levels, so even if a project succeeds you do not know if you will get paid, so it is not surprising people are not interested in airdrops anymore.

[Smack That Ace]

All of these days, I haven't seen any airdrops that are worth participating in. Might be too harsh to say they are worthless but that is the reality now. Some developers try to offer airdrops to promote their non-working projects and promised huge rewards but you can just sell them if they become successful. And the question is if they become successful. Because mostly it turn into a broken promise and after the airdrops, we never heard any updates from them on whether the project succeed or not, and where we can trade our free coins.

And that is a huge problem, I have seen in the past airdrops in which people participated for a period longer than a year and they did all what they could to make the project a success, and once the project became successful the developers simply refused to pay the rewards they promised or they reduced the pool of the rewards to ridiculous levels, so even if a project succeeds you do not know if you will get paid, so it is not surprising people are not interested in airdrops anymore.

It's like you invest in an altcoin project, even though you invest money and you support the project to make the project successful because when the project is successful you will also get a bigger profit. But things are not as you think, you work hard to maintain the project but the developers try to pull the project down and take your money. That is the risk in investment we should accept, participating in the airdrop too, as long as it is related to money and benefits, people will defy it.
Airdrop, although no longer brings significant profits, but still exists to this day, proves that there are still a lot of people participating and making profits, it's just that we are no longer suitable for it.

[Miaallen]

The good of airdrop you didn't include is that it remains one of the oldest form of making an earning in the cryptocurrency community with little efforts or contributions. And the bad sad of it is that many are just a bait to lure the newbies into getting scammed. Lot of people have gotten their wallets hacked as a result of connecting and approving transactions on dubious dapps all in the name of claiming airdrops.

One needs to be careful and do his research well before participating in airdrops which require approval of transactions on once wallets through a dapp.

[len01]

Looks like you've been missing out on a lot of potential airdrops lately like the latest Uni, Para, DXdy or Aptos. I can say that the form of the airdrop has changed, forms like telegram tasks and spam tasks on social networking platforms like the old bounty campaign are gone, it is replaced by testnet or retroactive. About the reward, I don't know if it's big enough for you but for me getting 2k to 3k for an airdrop is huge for example aptos paid to hunters. These are just the notable projects and there are many more with rewards ranging from $50-100 per campaign.

that's right because I very rarely take part in airdrops.
but the airdrop you said (Aptos) is still the same as the airdrop in the past. I mean isn't $50-$100 randomly distributed to members who meet the criteria or qualify only? so it's like a waste if you have done the testnet airdrop task but only selected or random people are given free tokens (meet the requirements)

It is not a random distribution they will distribute to all participants and complete the task. It's like you participating in the signature campaign, you have to meet all the requirements that the campaign requires, and you can't get the reward if you don't complete all the tasks correctly. But I have to admit that finding such projects is very difficult and there are many projects that offer difficult tasks, it is not as simple as the old airdrops.
Recently, another new form of airdrop is running testnet nodes, very few participants and bigger rewards than many testnets bring.

sorry about that.
after I searched what you said it turned out that the testnet airdrop was not random distribution but like there was a task to be completed and if the completed task meets the requirements then the member gets a reward.

after all, it turns out that many testnet airdrops think that airdrops are a bit complicated and not many take part in airdrops like that (TestNet) so that the participants are few and the allocations that are distributed in large quantities are distributed among the few participants.
It also seems interesting to see airdrop testnet opportunities like the new hype airdrop

[Xal0lex]

Unisawap, Dydx, Muse, Aptos, others just forget but made a profit from them, some of this you need to make some transactions means you have to either deposit or make some trades using their platform, live or testnet.

Most airdrops are just a waste of time, because they do no good. The examples you gave of successful airdrop are either retrodrops among early users or testnet participants. The various airdrop from gleam, or twitter, unfortunately do not belong to the category of good, or even promising airdrop. It's all a pursuit of measly cents that are not worth the time spent.

[Warkop]

Unisawap, Dydx, Muse, Aptos, others just forget but made a profit from them, some of this you need to make some transactions means you have to either deposit or make some trades using their platform, live or testnet.

Most airdrops are just a waste of time, because they do no good. The examples you gave of successful airdrop are either retrodrops among early users or testnet participants. The various airdrop from gleam, or twitter, unfortunately do not belong to the category of good, or even promising airdrop. It's all a pursuit of measly cents that are not worth the time spent.

There were no valuable Airdrops in 2017, different from this year, even counting a few Airdrops that have value, because interest in airdrops to the public is greatly reduced at this time, so that's why more and more years are disappearing even a lot of fraud is spread on several social media and spammers on telegrams promoting several Airdrops..

[Hildentine]

I think airdrops are a thing which are not confirmed if you  participated in  airdrops so not anyone say that definitely the will receive a Airdrop its a half half system and according to my experience is that sometimes airdrops are give a huge reward but some airdrop thousands airdrops are ongoing everyday but mostly are scam airdrops.

[klidex]

I think airdrops are a thing which are not confirmed if you  participated in  airdrops so not anyone say that definitely the will receive a Airdrop its a half half system and according to my experience is that sometimes airdrops are give a huge reward but some airdrop thousands airdrops are ongoing everyday but mostly are scam airdrops.

The airdrops project is a very easy project to work on and can give us free crypto from participating in the airdrops project.
But for now expecting more from airdrops will only be in vain and a waste of time because almost all airdrops are useless. Even though there are indeed some airdrops that have value and store gold hidden in them, to be able to find airdrops like this has a 1 in 1000 chance or very hard to find.

[cytpoway121]

I think airdrops are a thing which are not confirmed if you  participated in  airdrops so not anyone say that definitely the will receive a Airdrop its a half half system and according to my experience is that sometimes airdrops are give a huge reward but some airdrop thousands airdrops are ongoing everyday but mostly are scam airdrops.

Projects now announce airdrop events in advance, you just need to pay attention to their social media handles; For example; Celestia is presently running an incentivized testnet event for their node; while we have projects such as Onomy, Starknet announce same incentivized testnet event as welll.

And yes, projects announcing airdrop does not mean they cannot be fake because they can; a good example is the nightly solana wallet scam that took place just yesterday.
Always dyor and make sure to create a testnet wallet for these events

[crzy]

I think airdrops are a thing which are not confirmed if you  participated in  airdrops so not anyone say that definitely the will receive a Airdrop its a half half system and according to my experience is that sometimes airdrops are give a huge reward but some airdrop thousands airdrops are ongoing everyday but mostly are scam airdrops.

The airdrops project is a very easy project to work on and can give us free crypto from participating in the airdrops project.
But for now expecting more from airdrops will only be in vain and a waste of time because almost all airdrops are useless. Even though there are indeed some airdrops that have value and store gold hidden in them, to be able to find airdrops like this has a 1 in 1000 chance or very hard to find.

Its no that easy nowadays as they required additional documents and to qualify for more rewards its better for you to invite more participants which makes this airdrop even harder. Anyway, there’s nothing to lose though and you can just use your fake identity as long as you provided your correct address information to receive the reward, some bounty hunters are still aiming for the airdrop hoping that they can get lucky on it.

[goaldigger]

Its no that easy nowadays as they required additional documents and to qualify for more rewards its better for you to invite more participants which makes this airdrop even harder. Anyway, there’s nothing to lose though and you can just use your fake identity as long as you provided your correct address information to receive the reward, some bounty hunters are still aiming for the airdrop hoping that they can get lucky on it.

Airdrop is not just about giving your receiving address anymore, it requires more work like sharing it online and following their social media platform, you still exert effort on that which can’t still guaranteed any return. Many are still hoping for the golden years of airdrop to come back, I’m not that lucky to receive any profitable airdrop so I also hope that one day, I can experience this one too.

[nakamura12]

Its no that easy nowadays as they required additional documents and to qualify for more rewards its better for you to invite more participants which makes this airdrop even harder. Anyway, there’s nothing to lose though and you can just use your fake identity as long as you provided your correct address information to receive the reward, some bounty hunters are still aiming for the airdrop hoping that they can get lucky on it.

Additional for this one, It is much better to never join an airdrop. This has been discussed many times and joining airdrop is no longer the same as before where we can earn free money just by completing some simple steps compared to this day. I am sure that you know airdrop is very trending before where many people joined airdrops to earn some money. Honestly, I joined airdrop before and I did earn some money until it is no longer trending. Airdrops will be started when a project (mostly ICO that time) wanted to do some airdrop for everyone.

[posi]

Its no that easy nowadays as they required additional documents and to qualify for more rewards its better for you to invite more participants which makes this airdrop even harder. Anyway, there’s nothing to lose though and you can just use your fake identity as long as you provided your correct address information to receive the reward, some bounty hunters are still aiming for the airdrop hoping that they can get lucky on it.

Additional for this one, It is much better to never join an airdrop. This has been discussed many times and joining airdrop is no longer the same as before where we can earn free money just by completing some simple steps compared to this day. I am sure that you know airdrop is very trending before where many people joined airdrops to earn some money. Honestly, I joined airdrop before and I did earn some money until it is no longer trending. Airdrops will be started when a project (mostly ICO that time) wanted to do some airdrop for everyone.

Old forms of airdrops such as spam on telegram or social networks can be said to be outdated and no longer bring any worthy rewards to participants. We should stay away from it to avoid wasting time as well as being scammed.

Nowadays, people have chosen testnet or retroactive as an alternative, maybe not every project pays to join, but the rewards are also very commensurate with the effort we put in. Those who still want to earn free money can try the testnet or retroactive, the chance of getting the reward will be higher than the spam airdrop and bounty.

[nakamura12]

Old forms of airdrops such as spam on telegram or social networks can be said to be outdated and no longer bring any worthy rewards to participants. We should stay away from it to avoid wasting time as well as being scammed.

Nowadays, people have chosen testnet or retroactive as an alternative, maybe not every project pays to join, but the rewards are also very commensurate with the effort we put in. Those who still want to earn free money can try the testnet or retroactive, the chance of getting the reward will be higher than the spam airdrop and bounty.

That is true that old forms of airdrops. As I have said, most of those airdrops is because of ICO once again ICO is a thing a few years back and it is what I just explained just now. Anyway, there are airdrops we can join right now which is a not legit airdrop unlike those old airdrops I mentioned but we can't deny that airdrop is not a lot. Honestly, for a country with a fiat currency like dollar won't be a the same as other countries where in dollar is a small amount but in other fiat currency then it is not that small amount of money. In short, don't waste time in airdrops.