I heard about crypto market long ago. In 2017, i mostly followed bounty related projects rather than joining ico. huge numbers of project cheated with investors and took away huge amount of money. There are lot of project to mention. But some project also gave people good return. I can remember i invested a healthy amount in WAVES and my money was turned into more than 3x during bull run which was huge profit. Now this coin become so popular, comes into top100 rank in coingecko and available for trade in top exchange like binance
Those who were active here at that time mostly followed ICO projects that had bounties. I have heard that bounties were a good source of earnings at that time as most of them used to get listed on exchanges. They allowed hunters to cash out their set of tokens but now they do not allow and rarely there are good bounties for hunters. I was not aware of cryptocurrencies at that time so missed the chance and missed the opportunity to participate in some good ICO from 2017 to 2018. I came to know about that time when I read this thread and others that were discussing ICO.