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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Bounty hunting - work or a hobby?
by
gwensarah1
on 28/05/2018, 20:17:02 UTC
I just posted a reply in another thread where the OP stated they considered bounty hunting was work with money paid to you for your time and resources, with it likened to running a small business. I felt rather that you’d ‘paid’ for the bounty tokens in your wallet with the time you’d used doing bounty tasks and reporting etc rather than with your own cryptocurrency or fiat, and that you needed to factor in as well the time wasted on other bounty campaigns where you didn’t get any reward/payment for your bounty work because the ICO didn’t make softcap or was unethical or a cashgrab or scam! In terms of whether bounty hunting should be seen as a part or full time job/small business or rather as a hobby where you may pick up a few dollars using your phone and computer and internet and time, I felt it would depend on each bounty hunter’s individual circumstances and prevailing tax and other laws in their country. I imagined that most bounty hunters here would treat it as a ‘hobby’ that may bring some reward of tokens that may or may not be worth anything, rather than as job giving predictable taxable income - but I’ve seen little discussion or information published about this however.

I’m interested in how bounty hunters here view their receiving of bounty tokens and the value from holding or selling them - as a hobby or as a job with taxable income? And also are bounty hunters aware of any tax or other ‘rules’ known to apply to tokens received or sold in the various countries we live in?


I consider bounty hunting as a work, because for me bounties is another source of income, some see it as a hobby, cause it’s not something that requires too much thinking or neither is it a work that’s strenuous . These days I put more effort into bounty campaigns, and try to join good projects and bounties with high payout, I join at least 25 bounties, and also mix them up with my other jobs or projects have got, can’t do everything on my own, I employ those who manage my social media accts and pay them monthly for the work done, so I see it as a job, I try not to sell the tokens I get from a bounty Campaign immediately, if it’s worth it, I love bounty campaigns cause it helps to increase my crypto portfolio.