I have overhead many people in various bounty groups talking about how bounty campaigns are gonna die should we move on from ICO to rampant IEO issuance (maybe the exchanges shall take over the advertisements or so).
Fact is that if IEOs become a thing, many projects will arise and hence the services of bounty hunters shall be required again. Every project needs advertisements to expand and that's why we are there as bounty hunters. This is the same way ICOs grew in number.
All we should hope for is a better crypto ecosystem because at the end, we shall be needed for promotion in one way or the other
IEOs are indeed not a threat to bounty hunters. The bounty system have attached itself firmly in the market and new trends like IEO are expected to adapt to it. Bounty system had help many of us and will continue to do so in the future years. Many IEOs will soon appear and since bounties are financially worthy than other investments, many future IEOs will use the method.
Yes, its so firmly attach to the market that most ICOs dont even pay their participants and they pay too low that you would get frustrated for advertising it for many months.