Bounty hunters, how much you really earned in the last two years?

[abel1337]

I stopped supporting them years ago because of the fact said by OP. It's worthless, they don't even pay most of the times, they do shitty projects that has no future, they just run a scam project and run whenever they want. All the efforts in promoting them is just trash and worse, you are the one who will blamed by investors who believed about it.
In the past, there are legit developers who seeks a good future in cryptocurrencies, now, its all just about the money and it's sad.

Majority of us here think it's not that worthy the time to join these campaigns. Most of them are just scam campaigns and we see how bounty hunters reacts on threads like this but why do people still join on campaigns like that. I hope future bounty hunter realize how campaigns are running today and hope that they will not attend such crowded space. There are so many multi account users in bounty campaigns that I feel that they are doing the job of bots. I hope that the situation will change and also the quality of the campaign also.

[Coyster]

I open bounty forums every day, but I don't think I can start, I don't know how to choose the right one. I have very little experience and am still learning. I hope that the projects I find can last for a long time. See everyone discussing that the bounty campaign was the peak six or seven years ago...

The thing is, it is pretty difficult, highly improbably and almost impossible to choose the right bounty project, quite a lot of them are scam projects built on fake promises that would never come to fruition, thus people waste their time promoting and investing in them and in the end they only enrich the project owners whilst they are left with only wasted time, effort and worthless coins.

Having said that, if you are a regular in the forum you must have read bounty hunters complain that more often than not they work for free, in that they advertise for a project for months, only for the project manager to refuse them payment in the last minute due to one weak excuse/reason or the other. If you still choose to start bounty campaigns after all you've read people say about it, then it is up to you, but you'd be better off doing something more productive in the network.

[justdimin]

I open bounty forums every day, but I don't think I can start, I don't know how to choose the right one. I have very little experience and am still learning. I hope that the projects I find can last for a long time. See everyone discussing that the bounty campaign was the peak six or seven years ago...

You can do any campaign you want. There are not so many bounty campaign right now to be extra selective. Only few new campaign appear every day, so test your luck with each and every of them.
Just plain numbers - I have earned few hundreds during 2022, but I was selective and probably participated in 15 or 20 campaigns only. I have earned several thousands in 2021, but I think I took part in 50+ social media campaigns. In 2023 - you should join every single bounty to get any significant result.

The difference between 2021 and 2022 is clear to everyone, this year has been shitty for me and I haven't made much, hundreds as a total for contributing to maybe two dozen different ones, back in the day I would make hundreds from each I contributed and right now it is not like that at all.

I believe that the best thing to do about the current situation is just to focus on how we could fix these things, and how we could just participate in crypto as a way to make money by working, and if they do not pay us well then we should not participate at all and when they see this, they will have to offer more or just don't do it, we would at least save our efforts.

[Thomas Kralow]

I say it's very declining. when compared in 2017 and 2018 I can even easily hundreds of dollars in one project but since 2020 until now maybe even just once a year earn hundreds of dollars. But whatever it is we should be able to be grateful and continue to work.

I see a lot of bounty users and bounty managers on the forum. Many forum accounts are new, there are no high-quality posts, and they are purely for completing various bounty programs. What I want to say is that this kind of bounty activity is too watery, and there is no gold content. Regardless of whether the bounty manager makes more money, it makes me feel like this is not the place for project marketing and publicity. This is a pure content discussion platform. It is better to spend time discussing project quality and code quality. According to everyone's contribution, get the corresponding reward.

[asawale]

From my own side here, I still make something reasonable from few bounty campaigns out there, just many of these campaigns end up being a waste of time. The last one whose signature I made over $2,000 from, was neglected by high rank members of the forum and I took advantage of it. It ended up being the second best of my bounty campaign ever. Some campaigns still worth the time.

Wow, you surprise me, while most people, including the legends on the forums, admit that bounty campaigns have become useless and are no longer bringing any return worthy of the effort hunters put in, you say you made $2k in a signature campaign. I am inquisitive about the name of this project because I have been following it continuously since 2020. Until now, there has been no bounty campaign that can bring such big profits. Did I miss something?

According to his posting history, the last bounty campaign he was was Kuwa.io. Spreadsheet shows that he has got 950 tokens. The highest token prices was in the middle of November and it was about $0.0068. Users wallet shows that his token value is about 4 cents right now (he did not sell them). Either he was talking about some other campaign, but definitely not about his "last".

I also looked through his past bounty hunts and I saw a particular one for tdox token https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5407009.msg60624060#msg60624060.

He was literarily the only person that completed the first round from which he got 80% of the allocation for signature bounty. He also earned from the 2nd and 3rd round and that token is currently trading at $0.00000051. He truly earned that. I wish I can also be that lucky someday.

[yazher]

I don't think spamming and creating multiple accounts is a good idea to earn because we in this community are helping both the users and this community to grow and to have a healthy environment with fewer spam posts. When it comes to bounty, there are only a few real projects that pay well right now, and you are more than lucky if you happened to land on a single one because the others are a bunch of scams and frauds because they don't pay you after you promote their project especially when they sense you will just gonna dump their coins.

[Oneandpure]

Have been three years faced bad moment with Bounties campaign during 2019 until 2022 not any Bounties campaign worth and received payment above $500 each campaign. Have chance or not in this year 2023 with Bounties campaign back to era 2017 where many campaign worth and have higher payment for participants.

Lately, many user move their habit from Bounties Altcoin campaign and active with signature campaign service, seems they want earn stable earning with service campaign than joining with bounties altcoin campaign without guarantee about payment worth. I think have another opportunity looking for altcoin bounties campaign worth at the future and participant can earn payment than their expectation.

[drac970815]

Still zero. hope to win Big bounty and at least cover my degree.

[WalkerIVIV]

the reward has significantly reduced for sure, but I guess it's mainly because the current trend, if I recall correctly before this massive bearish many projects are giving out massive airdrops and then alone could already such worthwhile rewards for doing some simple tasks, but nowadays these airdrops are rather rare, so basically the trend matters in this case.
moreover if you see, in bullish the staking programs always offer tremendous rewards unlike nowadays.

[Rodriguezan]

Bounties earning are almost good as nothing these days. Gone were those days when bounty hunting was an average lucrative side-gig. Payouts are in BUSD which are very little at the end of the day

[wiss19]

There is really so much more better ways to make money from crypto if you start to work on yourself. Bounty hunting is simple, it doesn't require you to be qualified for anything and you just need to have accounts in some places and that's it. Like if you have social media accounts, bitcointalk account and a telegram account then it's probably enough and you will just click some stuff and you get it.

How much you think you could get paid for that? But, if you work on yourself then from known things like designer and developer to less known things like voice acting to business registrar in certain nations, there are plenty of work you can find.

[lobo13hf]

Bounties earning are almost good as nothing these days. Gone were those days when bounty hunting was an average lucrative side-gig. Payouts are in BUSD which are very little at the end of the day

yes, definitely requires more than just following bounties in getting big rewards, nowadays even in bullish every project requires money to either stake and follow their programs in getting the big share of their rewards because nowadays, there are simply too many that follows bounties and airdrops I doubt it could ever be the same like in the past anymore.

[nurilham]

Bounties earning are almost good as nothing these days. Gone were those days when bounty hunting was an average lucrative side-gig. Payouts are in BUSD which are very little at the end of the day

For bounty paid in altcoins, it is true that they are no longer profitable. Most bounties are only scams, or they failed to develop and the tokens end up with zero prices or too low prices. I see there are many bounty hunters to stop working because they realize it is not worth it anymore. They prefer to develop their accounts and focus on campaigns that pay the participants in BTC or top coins. Although paid in BUSD or BTC is smaller, it is better than get nothing after working for months. No lucrative bounty anymore, it is only an old story.

[Vaskiy]

Bounties earning are almost good as nothing these days. Gone were those days when bounty hunting was an average lucrative side-gig. Payouts are in BUSD which are very little at the end of the day

For bounty paid in altcoins, it is true that they are no longer profitable. Most bounties are only scams, or they failed to develop and the tokens end up with zero prices or too low prices. I see there are many bounty hunters to stop working because they realize it is not worth it anymore. They prefer to develop their accounts and focus on campaigns that pay the participants in BTC or top coins. Although paid in BUSD or BTC is smaller, it is better than get nothing after working for months. No lucrative bounty anymore, it is only an old story.

Very few have gained good market among the bounties. Those bounties have got limited slots. So, the old days of earning isn't possible with bounties anymore. Those old days won't come again, because that is the initial point at which the spread about cryptocurrencies happened in large scale as well as we had good number of cryptocurrencies reaching the market. Many have disappeared and many that came into the market during those days are in the lead.

[MFahad]

Bounty earning totally depends upon project that how this project progress. most of the project will give you Token for doing work and they are new project in market. If they success  then their token rise very high from initial price like Dego and many other.
I Earned more than 5k in 2 years but some bad trading down my portfolio so much

[bakasabo]

Bounty earning totally depends upon project that how this project progress. most of the project will give you Token for doing work and they are new project in market. If they success  then their token rise very high from initial price like Dego and many other.
I Earned more than 5k in 2 years but some bad trading down my portfolio so much

5k is a great result. Was that amount achieved only through signature campaigns participation from token/coin based bounties? As I see that you did only join them, and skip all the social media campaigns. I am trying to get rid from a habit of taking part in Twitter and Facebook bounties. I saw a lot of people post that testnets and running nodes are still profitable (yet it is also a lottery). Dont you happen to know about the earnings and success rate from participating in them?

[SquallLeonhart]

Have been three years faced bad moment with Bounties campaign during 2019 until 2022 not any Bounties campaign worth and received payment above $500 each campaign. Have chance or not in this year 2023 with Bounties campaign back to era 2017 where many campaign worth and have higher payment for participants.

Lately, many user move their habit from Bounties Altcoin campaign and active with signature campaign service, seems they want earn stable earning with service campaign than joining with bounties altcoin campaign without guarantee about payment worth. I think have another opportunity looking for altcoin bounties campaign worth at the future and participant can earn payment than their expectation.

I mean it makes sense that we want to have a stable income, these days it's as high as 100 dollars per week for some of them, meaning 400 dollars if you work for a month there. Have you seen anything that would pay 400 dollars for a months work in the bounty section? When was the last time you seen it?

I have to say I haven't seen something like that in over a year, nearly 1.5+ years ago was the last time it looked good enough, and probably over 2 years ago since it was amazing to join. Which shows the proof that services section provides better payment signature campaigns than bounty section could ever provide, and it will stay that way until the big bull run comes along.

[LogitechMouse]

I have been participating in nearly all bounties by julerz12, and some other reputed managers, which means I havent participated in much bounties this year, and I could say that totally I have earned around $100, maybe $150 this year from participating in twitter and facebook bounty campaigns. Not much, previous year was definitely much better.

In my opinion, Bounty performance in terms of budget and payment to hunters has been on the decline for the past 10 months. Out of many campaigns that I have participated in (for the past 10 months), only about 5 campaigns made payment in the range of $10 to $40, while two campaigns paid in the range of $200. Most of the payments are less than $1. On the average, for every ten projects that I have participated in, five ends up being scam, or will have one issue or the other despite doing some research on the project before participating.
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From my own side here, I still make something reasonable from few bounty campaigns out there, just many of these campaigns end up being a waste of time. The last one whose signature I made over $2,000 from, was neglected by high rank members of the forum and I took advantage of it. It ended up being the second best of my bounty campaign ever. Some campaigns still worth the time.

Browsed the whole 5 pages and these are the only person that answered the question of the OP. Well, I might skip some of the answers but...yeah.

Some or most are saying "The earnings aren't that much anymore" or "The earnings from this year isn't the same as last year blah blah". I mean OP is asking for numbers and from bounty hunters only. Some of the answers are irrelevant.

Just basing with the 3 answers that I quoted, I guess we can say that you can still earn a few bucks from bounty programs and if you're lucky like the 3rd quote that I shared, you can earn 4 digits still from one campaign. AFAIK, bounty campaigns aren't worth it anymore at least for me and for others here. The time you are spending advertising them isn't paid or if it is, it's very low.

[swogerino]

I see that there is still a big rush on bounty programs. I wonder if it's worth the effort.
spamming the forum, creating multi accounts, buying merits... is it really worth that much?

as far as I've seen, most of all "projects" are mostly worthless and their tokens most often never reach any value. that's why they're called shitcoins for a reason.
I would like some of the bounty hunters to share their personal experiences and state publicly how much real (tangible) money they managed to earn from participating in these campaigns. Of course, using only one account and following the rules of the campaign.

I am not referring to tokens that have value only in the whitepaper, so only what has been converted or can now be converted into Fiat, Bitcoin or some stablecoin. also, earnings from bitcoin signature campaigns are not the subject of this discussion.

I was always curious about this too.I have been in a couple of bounties before,but that was about 3-4 years ago and not in the last 2 years,I remember that one token which I don't remember the name now and that the signature of that bounty ran for 4 weeks,the coins had a value which could have been exchanged to Bitcoin or FIAT in the likes of 52 dollars in total,I think it was 0.8 dollar for a coin as we used to get 60 at that time.

I still am interested to know because at that time 3-4 years ago some people by doing these bounties were earning much more than us who usually do the signature campaigns that pays in Bitcoin.

[abel1337]

I say it's very declining. when compared in 2017 and 2018 I can even easily hundreds of dollars in one project but since 2020 until now maybe even just once a year earn hundreds of dollars. But whatever it is we should be able to be grateful and continue to work.

I see a lot of bounty users and bounty managers on the forum. Many forum accounts are new, there are no high-quality posts, and they are purely for completing various bounty programs. What I want to say is that this kind of bounty activity is too watery, and there is no gold content. Regardless of whether the bounty manager makes more money, it makes me feel like this is not the place for project marketing and publicity. This is a pure content discussion platform. It is better to spend time discussing project quality and code quality. According to everyone's contribution, get the corresponding reward.

If you are pertaining to signature campaign, I agree to you. I can see that signature campaign members doesn't have any motivation to do a high quality post and it seems that they are not afraid of losing the campaign because of their low quality post since the campaign has a high chance of not paying well. It is the same on their social media campaign which is most likely braindead posts just to qualify for the task. Signature campaign on bounty campaign are significantly reduced since then, I believe that it cost the project owner a little bit of money to run even they are paying their native token to the campaign. Signature codes and profile avatar cost to make that's why most of the campaigns now doesn't have signature campaign. Overall Bounty campaign isn't that much worth it to join, Some bounty hunter just survive because they have multiple account.