I think the bounties could help Decent. Especially since it's being released 3 months after the launch hype.
Look at DeepOnion, they release their coins ones a week. Originally I expected big weekly dumps, but the price tended to go up because people get hyped up. The community is strong, they get hyped.
The release of the bounties means Decent going back into the awareness of the bounty participants. Many who have forgotten about it. If they are able to look at the roadmap, see the future value in Decent, then that's extra people coming into and being active in the community. So rather than dump, they hold and become active members.
Whereas if the bounties were released say the same week as the launch hype, then it wouldn't have been nothing special, and all the dumpers dump.
Many people wanted cheaper tokens and this is their chance which appeared totally unexpected. There is no doubt that future holds plenty of potential and good things for Decent project. They have delivered lot of content and still few things are under development. We need to learn to hold as crypto is turning into serious investment.
"Appeared totally unexpected"? Seriously? People have been waiting for upcoming dump from the start. Who would buy in premium price now if bottom could be 7000 sats for all we know.
why the bottom could be on 7000?
It's very well possible if we see a dump when the bounty payments get sent out. It'll most definitely be a bear market for the next month or so.
maybe sending the bounties in smaller batches could avoid strong dumps.
anyway not in a hurry for this one, just HODLING...
I usually don't dump my bounties as well, why dumping something now for little if you can just hold it for a while (months/years) and have the chance for it being worth much more...
What I've learned from the DeepOnion airdrop that I'm currently involved is that awareness and a stronger community is built by spreading out in Decent's case bounties. That community is very solid.
Partially sending bounties, say 1/3 of a participants bounty every two weeks could be a good idea, if the goal is to make them join the Decent community, letting them become aware of the promising future it has.
Instead of going straight to the exchange and dump, it will be more like, "I got 1/3 coming up in 2 weeks, let me see what's doing with Decent. The App store, Naughty America." Bounty hunters are like strangers who are not aware of what's been going on, their focus is to flip their bounties, so don't really bother looking deeper into things.
Decent should start contacting bounty participants now, letting them know that they are releasing it later this month, that way they can start looking more into it.