I have seen series of signature bounty campaigns that make their payments in bitcoin and ethereum for people of high ranks in the forum to wear their signature code, avatar and personal text.
These people of high ranks are sometimes seen by the newbies as the experts who can only or mostly campaign for projects with great potentials. The project teams seems to also believe this to the point that they pay them in bitcoin or ethereum in believe that those high rank members wearing their signature codes will attract investors for them.
Some of these projects end up being a waste of investors' funds and times.
Now my point is, if the high rank signature hunters really believe a cryptocurrency project will be success, why don't they accept it as payment? Does it mean they already foresee that the token will end up being a shit in the end?
KONOIS (KON) token is an example of such projects
Well, this is ethics based question which many will fail in reality due to greed. Greed blinds people from truth or from doing what is truely right.
To be honest, if most people knew that what they promoted in the past were unserious or substandard projects, they mostly likely would not have promoted them. The problem is that it's quite difficult to thoroughly research through lots of projects before settling for one or few quality ones.
They probably preferred to be paid in Bitcoin or top altcoins due to how long it takes to list new projects on exchanges and they also fear the new coins could get dumped. Ofcourse being dumped doesn't really mean a project is bad.