Topic: Bounty Hunting for beginners? - page 2. (Read 321 times)

"If looking for security vulnerabilities is your shtick, go around Twitter and look for reputable projects, read their source code (99% are open-source), and go look for vulnerabilities. A lot of them pay handsomely especially if you actually found a critical vulnerability."

Yes, this is more along the lines of what I'm looking to do; I understand it's very competitive - I guess my follow-up question would be some good tutorials explaining spotting vulnerabilities, how to find them any other useful resources.
 

If looking for security vulnerabilities is your shtick, go around Twitter and look for reputable projects, read their source code (99% are open-source), and go look for vulnerabilities. A lot of them pay handsomely especially if you actually found a critical vulnerability.

"But what do you intend to do like making some applications, websites or anything else bitcoin or crypto related as a whole?"

This will probably sound like a noob response, but I would like to help crypto project owners find bugs and report them.

I'm a big believer in the crypto + blockchain tech, but bounty rewards in crypto or rewards, in general, is not my sole drive to learn how to do bug bounty, I do want to challenge myself.

I appreciate your response, and hopefully, this will provide clarity my goals to learn something new, that I can add to my bag of tricks to help others. 

There are many who doesn't have any technical background here on the forum but still there is lot if ways you can gain knowledge about them.You have little knowledge about creating websites on Yahoo back in those days.But the thing is what you intend to do like making some applications, websites or anything else bitcoin or crypto related as a whole?

This is bitcoin discussion forum and you only need to take active parts in discussion or learn through various guides available here to enhance your knowledge so don't worry about it at all.

They might sound attractive to you but they are not profitable at all and waste of time according to me and bounty hunters on the forum usually remain on one side of forum restricting their growth on the forum.

The thing is you will have to share promotional tweets or post on social media platforms having good followers and you will receive stakes according to it but when the time the tokens are listed on any of the exchange they get dumped soon by the whales or the founders so you are either forced to sell at very low prices or they will be lying dead in your wallets so what profit you get out of it?

Instead of it the best alternative I give you is to learn more about bitcoin and crypto stuff on the forum with extensive and useful guides from senior rank members ,ask your doubts and can answers to it whether technical or non technical and slowly you will get results and see your knowledge increasing but you should be dedicated towards it.

But you should also read the forum rules before making any post : Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ

Rest you will learn lot with time but if you are still interested in bounty hunting then visit Bounty

I don't come from a coding background, maths, or software engineering background; in fact, the "first" website I ever built was on yahoo GeoCities, back in the day.

But I'm fascinated by bug bounty hunting and helping people, whether there are rewards attached to it or not.

Are there any helpful tutorials you would recommend for someone like me?

Thanks for the suggestions.