Topic: My 120 Days In Bounty Hunting & What I have Learnt (Read 24088 times)

I agree with you. too many bounty scams here.
although the moderator in this forum has maximized the prevention of scammers. But the bounty is still favored by some people who still survive their jobs.

"This has become an important aspect and process that Bounty Hunters Need to go through first in order to be eligible to receive tokens." what rubbish.
KYC is not a factor in bounty hunting and should never be asked. Are you telling me you going to give access to some random internet person the same info as your bank holds about you? I trust my bank but so so sorry crypto has no room for KYC.

I don't have to do KYC ever where I live they will tell you to piss off if you think you can just ask KYC.
AML??? How in the hell do you launder something without any input?? Clearly no understanding of the process.

KYC is a cancer and you should never give it out. Not even to be in an ICO. People have no business knowing who you are. You are responsible for reporting your own earnings. You are an adult with a brain so you pay your yearly tax and what you have made. There is no need for KYC. The government doesn't give a crap where the money comes from. Criminals don't pay tax on their profits so obviously people paying tax do not need to take KYC. Anyway, I don't count people who don't pay tax as criminals. I call those who piss the tax money away criminals.

What is this obsession with knowing who everyone is? There is no legal reason to ask for KYC for bounty its all just BS. Giving your KYC doesnt give you any benefit at all. It just exposes you to a criminal network of ID theft. Do you think I am joking? Go good ID theft and see how bad it is. People can ruin your life with your personal details. IS ruining your life really worth the piss amount a bounty gives you?

If a bounty asks you for KYC. RUN!!! RUN FAR!!! RUN HARD!!! DO NOT LOOK BACK!!!!
They will sell that info. People are already buying lists of phone numbers and have so for years and years and I won't be at all surprised if you can pay to get a list of users personal info for marketing purposes.

Many projects in past  years where the team itself has dumped their coins when the price was right for them and  this has caused the huge crash for those coins and investors have lost a huge money as well. Also people now do not prefer much bounty projects .

good post and you summarized main aspects of bounty service here.
On KYC point i beg to differ as privacy is important part for any person. There are many bounties so doing kyc with all is not good specially if they do exit scam later (most of bounties are scam). Also if you think KYC can be helpful for removing multiple accounts then unfortunately there is grey/OTC market where people sell kyc data for some bucks, so the purpose still remain unfulfilled. People even selling binance verified account however binance started video verification too.

It depends but most of the time managers doesnt have nothing to do with the price but there are instances where the project team itself do handle out their marketing.
Its either their part of said bounty but most of the time they do hire up some managers on this forum but i dont see why they are taking the blame?
People mindset nowadays is really weird.

Lol! now you have to blame bounty manager for low price of the project you campaign for? how is that a bm fault? to some extent you can't even blame the team of any project for a dump in price of their token because they are not in control of the market, the price is determine by the demand and whales manipulations as well, no matter what research you do anything can still happen.

In my view, Bounty hunting is not really profitable nowadays. In 2017, some people make a real fortune from bounty hunting, but now it is very hard to make a good profit with bounties, because there are many scams, and the projects pay late, and the tokens take a very long time to get listed in the exchanges.

chosing a good bounty manager can sometimes help because some good managers wont accept scam projects . they first scan the project if its legit or not before they decide if they will manage it  . we already save time to do a research by only choosing a good bounty manager but the rest that you said above is also a must do just to double check if the manager that manages the campaign really manages a legit project or not  .

Among all the tings listed above, i think @op should remove In-Dept Trading because it doesn't really connect well with bounty hunting, if you say you are now familiar with lots of exchanges as a result of opening many accounts for the different alts you are rewarded with, that is understanding, but saying in-dept trading like you are now some pro trader because you hunts bounty is a bit misleading,  hunting bounties does not give an in-dept knowledge of trading or @op not fully understand what that word represent

Don't rely on the manager, the manager is not a benchmark for getting a good bounty.
We must read the entire project and the investor's interest in the project. so that our time is more valuable.

For now we must do a lot of research before join some bounty campaign. Even good manager sometime price no good in market. And what can make any decision is us and it will affect on our earning in bounty campaign.

That is over one year of bounty hunting,,, I knew about doing a little research even before my very first day;)

Social media and manager? What ever happened to the actual idea of the project? The whitepaper? The community, do they use the coin or are they all holding to dump? Does anyone offer practical use for the tokens?

In my 400+ days of bounty hunting ive learned that you should always do a little research when joining a bounty , check thier social media sites, and lastly if the manager is highly trusted.

a very nice line-up in the first post. thanks a lot for that. the thread should be read by everyone.
I only use KYC with providers through whom I also trust my data. if you don't openly say in advance
which KYC provider you are using, I won't select

I participated in the bounty campaign for a long time and found problems like you. Previously, there were Medium and Newletter campaigns, but recently quite a bit and replaced it with LinkedIn.

posts that are very educational and provide direction to bounty hunter friends specifically to beginners. Joining in bounty is not as easy as imagined. the job is easy, only sometimes the results are not as expected. sometimes they don't even get the slightest reward.

In which country KYC for multiple accounts exist? This is nothing but ICO doesn't want to pay bounty hunters rewards, that is why they don't mention KYC until everything is over because they know that they won't have good marketing.
And during campaign they say that for bounty KYC isn't necessary and then they change it.

Well, I found you have written why bounty rewards is being delayed and it's because the team want to protect their project just because it's bear market. If the project owner don't have faith in their project, who else will have this and how they have raised fund with sentenced that they have something superior than others.

Excellent and educational posts, you make your experience a lesson for new people who want to learn and explore more in the forum.
I think this is something worth sharing, because experience is an expensive lesson. And maybe for those of you who are still newbie you will never get something like this instantly, you have to keep learning more while reading what has been written here.