Topic: Bountyhunters.io probably will scam their members. Watch out!!! - page 2. (Read 1760 times)

Once again: from November 2018 BountyHunters is an Ethereum dapp. Unlike other bounty platforms.  If you know any solution to work with Ethereum or other blockchain without keys - share it with the community, please, everyone would be grateful.



 Short likbez: //hackernoon.com/solutions-for-private-key-management-in-decentralized-apps-24f95634be16


Thanks for your opinion.
We still are not sure it would help us avoid any accusations, as the word "private key" affects the community like red rag to a bull. It will take some time for people to understand the new system and its benefits. But as we are going to develop our platform as blockchain project (not just an automated tracking system), we are not going to get back to "traditional" airdrops. 

You don’t get the poi point: they shouldn’t even think about asking for the PK, otherwise why are they called “private”?

Makes sense but this is the first time that users are faced with the issue of " you must first give your private key to receive your rewards" all the time we are taught that asking your private key is like asking for all your coins" your explanation is good but it comes quite late if this explanation comes before the  implementation, people will appreciate you for solving this issues, now you have to double your effort explaning the benefits of the  implementation.

Yes, in a classical airdrop model all the transaction are being carried by the sender. And the more massive the airdrop is - the larger are risks, that the token will be perceived by the system as spam. We have already described, why we are going away from it, in our article: https://bountyhunters.io/blog/26

Moreover, to send tokens to let say 3000 users cost about 3000k to our clients. We are working to optimize payments scheme. This way you have two options now - leave tokens on escrow smart contract (still available in your dashboard but not in your wallet) you can consider this the same way like then you are having some funds on centralized exchange.

Then you have an option to claim you tokens to you wallet, the same way like you have withdraw option on exchange, when you are making withdrawn on exchange you pay withdrawn fee, when you are making claim here you are sending a transaction and paying the transfer tx fee, to send a transaction you need a wallet, you are creating a new one, or providing you current keystore data to use it to sign the transaction. All operations take place on a client side (same way like MyEtherwallet does for example). We never transfer your keystore data anywhere, you can easily check this using network scanner.

Next version we will support Trezor/Ledger wallets to sign the claim TXs and MetaMask. We are working hard to make user experience as mach flexible and secure as possible.



BountyHunters is Ethereum dapp on the first place. If you know any solution to work with Ethereum or any other blockchain without keys - let us know.
Just another one useful article for you:https://hackernoon.com/solutions-for-private-key-management-in-decentralized-apps-24f95634be16


Do you seriously think, that in the time of governmental regulations any scammer would visit a blockchain conference or summit?  It wouldn’t be so easy to hide afterwards. We are not anonymous. We are not hiding our faces and data.  And we are responsible for the safety of our users.

I never tried it, but the reportless bounty platform was very interesting and easy to do. the job becomes easier so participants will be full in some time. I prefer bountyhive, some projects have succeeded.
Thank you for giving a warning.

I did the same and still waiting here for an update if they are not really stealing coins from other wallets, this has become a big issue because I believe they are the first one that asked for a private key for their bountyhunters, let's see if they will pass this test.

From the first time i see this I stop working with them. I will do no bounty for them. They even thinking to find a way to lower the gas fee costs. I will never   give my prvt key to these dishonest people. Crypto community just need to leave them alone. I will yell everywhere to keep people safe. Never Give your home keys to any one !

I just relax and take easy for this thing, you guys just create new wallet, give private key to them and check if it's legit or not, done lol. 

I joined the bounty at bountyhunters.io since 3 months ago, and I was also very surprised when asked to give a private key. and honestly as long as I followed the bounty this time I asked for a private key. and in my opinion for whatever reason asking privatkey is a very wrong act. And Bountyhunters.io, and I can't confirm and mention bountyhunters.io is a scam but the one who definitely asks for privatkey is a crime.

I still doing twitter and facebook bounty because I believe in the ICO that I'm promoting on their platform, when it comes to claiming maybe I will use an empty wallet and after i received it I will immediately transfer to my other wallet, so far no complaints about coins getting hacked by bountyhunters.io

the information is very extraordinary, there are so many bounty managers, I think bountyhunter has long been a bounty manager, which has become one of the favorite bounty hunters, I think that this makes their good name very bad, from some irrational answers if you have to give private keys to claim tokens, because managers should give gifts correctly, and don't need to use private keys

Stay safe guys.

I used to participate in some of their campaigns too before, until they update their platform and BAAMM! now they're asking private keys to claim your tokens that's just ridiculous and only fool will do that. Don't fall prey everyone must be aware and stay away from these criminal minds.

No it is unacceptable there is no excuse.

Now they asking for the the keystore which is the just another way to access your wallet. You can use keystore or passphrase or privatekey.

Fuck these guys. They also lied to people face to face at the blockchain summit.

I don't think they are going to take down that page they had an explanation on that issue on their blog, you have the option to create a new wallet and use that wallet to claim your tokens, they claim that it is to make it easy for the site and bounty hunters to claim their share.
The only bad thing is they do not first explain it and they just implement it.

My address is filled and I can't change it. I tried to change in settings to the new wallet but nothing happens still I see the old one when claiming. Maybe I have to wait 24 hours but why isn't this updated automatically? Why? Can You explain?


Like I told yesterday I waited 24 hours for the update to be implemented. Today I see this in my account:



I don't know if this is safer. Frankly to say I will have to go and check how to use keystore file and how safe it is. Of course, I know about keystore file but have never used it before and even don't have one saved for my wallet.

I will wait for the community to tell if this is still an attempt to hijack our private keys or this time is finally safe to claim our tokens. In meantime will do my research and update here and in Polish thread.

One guy posted in their channel that they are still asking private keys and it looks like they are not going to take it down, I don't know if they are still going to get new ICO to use their platform, it's too risky and you will not get your token rewards at all.

I still can not understand why would we be the ones who should pay for token transfers? I never pay to get tokens during bounty. It seems to me that you are largely paid thanks to the workers on your site so that you can transfer us for free and easily on our addresses erc 20. Beginning 2019 what will happen? Are you overcharging us to sell tokens directly through your site? It is clear that as long as you do not transfer free tokens earned on our wallets, I go on strike!

"You can create a new wallet when attempting to claim your tokens. We automatically update the whitelist every 24 hours. After the update, you will have the option to send your tokens into the newly created wallet".

Have you seen their lastest article??

https://bountyhunters.io/blog/26


Here is just one piece I took out just to show you how ridiculous these people are.

As mentioned above, we previously required the user's wallet address to facilitate distribution. However, with the implementation of our Merke Airdrop, the process has changed: All users should sign each transaction themselves. There are three ways of doing this:

User transfers their wallet to our system:

By importing their private key;

By importing a mnemonic seed

By importing their wallet file + passphrase

User creates a new wallet on the base of our platform. New wallet is to be imported into the system automatically.

User doesn’t store any data on our platform, but instead signs a transaction by entering their data at the point of each transfer.