Why do almost all bounty campaigns now days require to join the official telegram channel to participate? I have nothing against it, just curious why telegram?
There are several reasons for this:
1. To keep the investors updated about the project, its roadmap and recent publication in news media a group is needed where the owners can post and people can discuss about it.
2. To keep bounty participants updated about the project.
3. As a support platform for the tokensale for those who are less experienced with such sales.
More or less the owners want their channels to be big and inflated so they ask bounty participants to join it too. Again this is not really something to brag about but since people in this forum do bounties even if they are a waste of time nowadays you would have to join. Telegram is a much safer IM software than others so its preferred.