Quote from: Maxranger on January 30, 2018, 09:46:08 AM

Hey all
I'm a total newbie and put some $$$ into some ICOs i liked i see the all have bounty programs are they worth the effort? what are your typical returns on one vs the time taken ??

That would be very poor ratio, most of airdrops are dealt through google forms so it is easy and quite quick. Time investment is basically next to none. There is however the case of coins/tokens price after airdrops ends. Sure it can be huge but than massive dump from airdrop participants takes place, if you are late with transaction to the exchanges than... go figure. Lower valued coins will obviously have bad ratio but you can hold them for longer periods of time, without stress. Case of transaction cost is yet another thing to consider, taking erc20 tokens for example, each TX will consume some of the eth, having few different tokens may cost more in tx fee than those tokens themself. Aggravating and frustrating this could be, when some additional eth needs to purchased just to be able to send tokens of to the exchange (usually completely not worth the trouble).
One final thing is, that one have to wait weeks, sometimes months for most typical airdrop and some of them may never arrive! Fake ones, badly submitted form or simple human error can make you wait for nothing. I took part in quite a few airdrops, only few have had actually delivered. Of those few, one coin showed some good progress and value. Looking back I say that it was not worth my time and "hassle" with wallets, nodes etc.