So a few months ago I did some bounty work for a company called Swachhcoin. Like many of you, I spent countless hours developing and creating posts that highlighted key features of the platform. Fast forward several months...they tell all of us bounty campaign participants that we will have to pass KYC to receive the NEW swachhcoin tokens (SWACHH). My previous Swachhcoin tokens (SCX) are now worth $0 and I will have to do KYC to get my new usable tokens.
It is a problem that bounty hunters are scammed so often. But honest projects don't do this. Only projects who are scams are not caring to have a community do it and it will hurt the project in long term that they have not paid bounty hunters.
Sorry for the rant, but this is the exact reason I've been slowly putting my money into projects that I think have a future. I'm trying to stay away from the bad apples and put some leftover money aside into Bitcoin, Nauticus, Ethereum, EOS, and even XRP.
It is if you can trust the team of an ICO you can also do the bounty. Good projects will pay because they care for the community.