AIRDROPS - do you LOVE OR HATE them? or simply don't care?

As a concept its a great marketing tool to drive hype and improve a small bit of distribution but I don't think airdrops really work well. Its normally such a small stake that's not worth it. I don't care much for airdrops

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Personally is a waste of time for most of them. It is not free money because you need to spam around their project and maybe to receice useless coins!

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Hello again @crypto.piotr
I am recipient of several airdrops early 2018, mostly erc20 tokens.
I still keep it on my few wallets.
Dont know what to do with it, since it is usually too small to spend or even to transfer.

For publicity, it serves its purpose well, for value in the long term, it will, but in the short term it is even worthless.

As now, many months now, haven’t seen airdrops.

With regard to steem tokens airdrop. On which I have 2, teardrops and plankton in the steem-engine wallet.

Like the same, just hodl it for now.
Waiting for opportunities in future.

I Still LOVE it.

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Airdropping tokens gives a project the advantage over a brand new coin because it leverages the existing network and community behind another token as well as increases the hype for that underlying asset by feeding off that energy. For example when they started to fork Bitcoin the hope was that each project already had a wide community of users to draw support from through simply giving away coins to every BTC holder. Increasing chances of getting noticed or used in the long run simply because anyone with Bitcoin would get some for free. Might as well use it if you got it right?

As far as the actual value of these airdropped tokens I am still skeptical most of the time. Something that is literally created out of thin air and then given away for free cant be THAT valuable can it? We saw what happened with the Bittorrent tokens...

Anyways I feel like airdrops are more headache for people than anything else and they end up feeling rather spammy IMO. Almost like people in the streets trying to shove pamphlets in your face as you walk past when you honestly have no interest in what they are shilling. I still have a bunch of tokens that I have no idea why they exist or what they are trying to accomplish simply because they were airdropped to me. Definitely not even worth the effort to recover any value from these useless tokens because generally they have NO value.

Who doesn't want free crypto, but in most of the cases you have to publicize the token and do a bunch of stuff to obtain the air drop, the actual value at the time isn't worth much too it's just the anticipation that the coin will grow and you'll get a good amount out if it. That is how i look at the airdrop from the individuals perspective.

In my opinion airdrop is a good strategy to advertise tokens. On the other hand if a company wrongly calculate the rate of airdrop, token price may be too low or high. So airdrop is good for buyers but a big risk for companies.

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Hi, I have joined into some airdrops; however I got rewards from only one of them. So when I see airdrop it makes me think whether it is fake.

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I don't care.

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To tell you honestly i dont really care about airdrops. I do care if the project loooks good. But first i always check the project.

Maybe it is just me but i grow up in a world where nothing is not free and when they wanna give you something for free than the quality is not good or the product is simply shit.

If the service or product is good than they dont really need to give nothing for free.

I prefer to get some extra % of token as a early bird. I like it more to be honest.
For me that is more professional marketing method😉

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Airdrops can sometimes be very efficient: consider the initial Ontology airdrop, where the members that subscribed to the newsletter received a good amount of ONT, which later was worth around 1000$ (if I remember correctly). And as you mentioned, we really are quite some "freebies". At the end, every dollar counts, especially in these harsh times. (Or at least for me - I'm a student 😁)

Cheers!

Well, In my opinion there is no one Who hate free money but in case of Airdrops nowadays most of airdrops are useless and full of Scams. Lastly I joined two airdrops named Jullar.io & Cryptomonsoon airdrop both was a planned scam but luckily I never did any KYC.
Airdrop is a good thing for any Crypto Project to increase the fan following and getting followers on twitter and making community.

If we are looking for good airdrop before doing any kind of KYC we need to check the authenticity of that airdrop so that we can prevent our privacy for bloody people.

I love your Opinion @crypto.piotr & I totally agree with your points.
Thank You & I really appreciate your effort :-)

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I think for cryptocurrency, what is most important is do they stick to their white paper?

If they have 20% of their tokens devoted to 'other' they can do an airdrop. If it is 'marketing' that is a little less certain because a bounty or referral program would probably be better.

In the long run, if you are selling tokens, it is hard to argue you are not a security whatsoever since there is always doubt because you are selling 'something'. Open mining, bounties and airdrops get around that issue.

Airdrops are a little messy, however. Could you imagine a company having an IPO then having an airdrop for stocks? They would be kicked off the exchange that is listing them.

I ignore them.

Somebody wants me to do something to promote a to me meaningless digital thingy.
Too much hassle for no reward.

If I can earn new tokens by doing something that is actually interesting to me, now that's another thing.

Don't stop your idea at the token stage. That's easy. First, there needs to be a service, then a token will be worth something anyways.

But actually, we already have enough shitcoins. How about using an existing token?

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I started to love them at the beginning of my journey in crypto, but then I started to hate them because it took way too many steps to be able to get them. Now I just don´t care, I ignore most of them unless I´m very interested in that exact project.

Airdrop is a very effective and low cost marketing tool.
Because the participants will help promote in order to get more rewards.
The result is:
The organizer feels that the investor is insufficient, or his operation is wrong, or that his marketing has a problem, he will not pay any bounty.
if he there are pay some reward, maybe will because he gave up halfway, let those tokens is worthless. .
The participant thought that he got a free token. In fact, he spent his much times.
finally can got valuable tokens with a chance of less than 5% of airdrop.

I have participated little in the subject of the Airdrops although I have obtained money through these opportunities in the case offered to the users of steemit by Byteball and now I have subscribed with #steemchurch in the opportunity offered by TELOS.

I liked the airdrops!

It's like playing, and in return they pay you to do it.
The small "tests" that are established do not represent any risk for the participants.
I consider that these tests only represent a psychological factor. This indicates in some way that: "I'm not giving you a gift."

I remember there was a time when I "hunted" the airdrops. I used tracking and information platforms. This caused that then I had a lot of ether addresses with a whole zoo of chips of little value.

Those who got involved and used their own resources in the hope that the price of the chips purchased increases in the long term. If I were one of them, I would feel cheated.

The projects establish in their "Whitepaper" the policy of distribution of the Tokens. That includes the season of Airdrop.
Then, as an investor, you should not feel gaga, because before investing you should know the terrain you are going to step on.

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i love airdrops ..
cause i got much from hydro airdrop ...

hello friend is an advantage for some and disadvantage for other unique aidrops in which he participated and I was fed as a byteball and good avinocs but has not grown much greetings from venezuela
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I have some kind of mixed feelings about airdrops. Why? Basically I have had luck with some of them (BAT, stellar, Obyte - formely Byteball, LOCtrip - ERC20), but other are just waste of time especially the bast majority of ERC20 tokens are just scam, they just want to get some free advertisement from the people tryng to earn some free coins of their distributions and in the end they don't give you a penny!

Dear friend @crypto.piotr

Some time ago I asked some friends about it because I didn't know much about it.
They told me that one of the negative parts of this AIRDROPS is that each one has its own wallet and that created conflict because every time you get a new one that you want to take advantage of you must install either on your cell phone or computer the apps to handle that new wallet, plus the little performance they see they have, in addition to that many must wait a good time to see the performance or usefulness of the AIRDROPS.
Particularly I only once installed an AIRDROPS and that was a BOOM here in steemit, as it was given very good promotion and really had a great reach especially in the Venezuelan community,
is called Byteball, many at the time adopted it, they the creators of the Byteball used a strategy in its launch offered an amount according to the retputation that the user had at that time in steemit, at the time of installing the apps in the cell phone and then after a year in the same date you would deliver again another amount equal to the first time.

That's my only experience with AIRDROPS.

Greetings from Venezuela, my friend.

Hi @crypto.piotr
Thanks for sharing this post as I have been waiting for a post since posted a long back. You know I check your account daily to see if anything new is posted because the last one you posted 3 weeks back. I love reading your content.
So talking about the topic which is airdrop . Currently I don't do airdrop as I feel it's waste of time and I don't get anything.

If I remember correctly then I haven't done any airdrop since more than six month or so.
In the beginning of year 2018 I had applied for so many airdrop that I can't even remember so prepared a list but then I realise that I am not getting anything in return and Just signing up and linking my Facebook, twitter and telegram accounts.

I didn't get benefit from any of the airdrop till now. I think it's the cheapest promotion of the project as they're paying something to users which has NO value but user is doing because he is optimistic about the future.

In the name of so-called airdrop project's marketing team saves the cost of their promotion and get it done through the people for spending their useless tokens.

I remember the last airdrop I did was AVINOC last year and I got some 298 tokens but value is almost nothing.

So if you're asking for my view about it then I would say I don't care and not at all interested to do any airdrop.
Thanks friend and have a great weekend.

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@crypto.piotr, Airdrops are really effective and in this point there is no doubt but the first question arises, Airdrops are empowering people or restricting them?

In my opinion nowadays Airdrops are restricting people who are not able to invest anything. But initially when Cryptocurrency brought into the picture and establishment idea was different but now we are moving away from it.

It's time to bring the true idea of Airdrops and with that projects which have real use case so that people will feel to invest their time in it, otherwise we are spreading the mess in Cryptocurrency Economy and then Scammy Projects can take advantages of this mess.

And participating individuals should also gain the knowledge because in this way they can measure their investment ideas and they can better analyse the use case of particular project.

Stay Blessed.

Hey @crypto.piotr,

interesting perspective from the point of view of an investor, I never thought about it in that way. It does seem quite unfair to investors to devalue their investment by giving away free tokens which others paid for. Disclosing the details of such actions before hand would be the logical thing to do for all ICO's.

We should demand it implemented as a standard piece of information ICO's and IEO's should disclose before going live with the first sale.

Have a good one,

Cheers!

Hey @crypto.piotr
Hope you are doing good! That indeed is a topic which needs to get some limelight. I guess talking about airdrops, they do entirely for promotion purposes. which somewhat is good and also is beneficial for people who recieves them. but sometimes its hard on the buyers of that token too. But promotion is necessary too.
Anyways keep flourishing.

I like airdrops when they represent true money that I can collect.

Dear Piotr, i think airdrops need more efford than what you really get after it, it look like kind of faucet system, something really not interesting comparing with the time you have to spend on it, so simply i do not care about it....

@crypto.piotr I really feel the Airdrops help most of the would be Crypto lovers grow strong Love for the Crypto world. And as well helps those of us the Newbies know more about the market.

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Honestly, depending on what kind of air drops, and its purpose.
If the proposed technology is actually usable and potential for practical use outside the designed ecosystem (like games for example) then the air drop is more worth looking into.

(I am a practical person haha)

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It Depends upon the airdrop

I avoid the air drops tried one or two, but in all fairness half the methods in order to obtain and or enter the account after signing makes it hard for newbies so since bitcoin black never dropped my my air drop coins I refused to partake any longer in air drops.

The same applies to byte coin I joined and not air drop I bought some not much they never transferred off to my balance and stole the money, so to be fair I purely stick to Steem and choon etc

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Still have my byteball airdrop. But mostly just ignore them because really it's not worth the hassle

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For me is first time when i hear about airdrops :)

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I have a mixed feeling about airdrops: they are great as you get introduced to new ideas, but sometimes the amount of information they require from you are something that makes me nervous to share..

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Most of the airdrops are wasted time, many projects and tokens are without any value.
I can remember the SATX airdrop of Satoexchange for example, still no value, most airdrops and the projects only try to collect money.
For sure there are some valuable projects, but 80% aren't.
Have a wonderful day
Tom

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In my opinion airdrop is a good strategy to advertise tokens. On the other hand if a company wrongly calculate the rate of airdrop, token price may be too low or high. So airdrop is good for buyers but a big risk for companies.

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I don’t like ‘em one bit! They just create sell immediate pressure on the token! However, if there was not an ICO involved in distributing the token, then I think they’re great because even though most people will sell such airdrops as soon as possible it does create a wide distribution for the token that is very beneficial, especially if you indiscriminately drop tokens on random addresses (rather than providing a punch list of items to do before receiving the airdrop, you know those people are selling!) that will have a double benefit to existing token holders - 1) more people will know about the project, which could increase demand, and 2) if tokens get distributed to dead addresses, that will effectively reduce supply. Increasing demand and limiting supply are kind of the whole point, right?

Hello my friend @crypto.piotr, and I am very happy to get STEEM transfers, although not too much. In one week only got 0.003 for me, thank you for your attention.

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Personally think airdrops are a great way to spread crypto currency and brand awareness!

@crypto.piotr I had already commented on your post. Have you seen?

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Hello Piotr,
I think if the project isn't transparent with planned distribution of Token via airdrops upfront they are cheating the investors.

The worst example in this regard to me is TenX IMHO. From the start they promised returns on the token that they later could not deliver because of regulatory issues, credit card providers (TenX should provide a on/off ramp to/from crypto by own credit card with own wallet) that changed or moved out of the business relation ship with TenX and so on.

In 2018 they then came up with the following solution to provide the promised returns they will build another token that will be distributed to TenX holders but - and here's the big catch - only to non US citizens and all the others that want to receive this secondary token must got through KYC also. So no secondary coins for me since I'm US citizen.

Other projects that laid out a token distribution plan that includes Airdrops to ETH holders for instance (we all have seen this with a lot of projects where the only thing that qualified you for the airdrop was to be an ETH holder) seem to be alright in that matter.

On the fly without stating airdrop intentions is, and here you are completely right (!!!), definetely cheating the investors!

We could make a really big list here but most prominently in the recent past there was Tron with their BTT Token. Very questionable IMHO.

So all in all... I like free money but I like full transparency in projects more!

Still I'll participate in some airdrops nevertheless regardless of transparency issues, because it's like leaving money laying on the ground and being too lazy to pick it up if not.

If we were not considering what the investors or people receiving the airdrops feel, I will say that this is the oldest marketing trick on the table. (free Spotify for the 1st month)

AIRDROPS as we know them are purely marketing strategies to penetrate the crypto market. And in my opinion, if I am an investor, I would completely support AIRDROPS. Why? Because AIRDROPS level up the current marketing game. In conventional freebie marketing strategies, businesses give out their product for free and hope that the customers would like their product and continue using it. Although under the AIRDROPS strategy you are giving away tokens (a.k.a, in some sense, shares of the company) and not your product. So if the person receiving the tokens wants to maximize it's value, the best way would be to promote the product. It kinda takes the shape of a referral program marketing strategy.

Here is an analogy. As an investor I would give a few dollars for free to increase the worth of the dollars I am holding. And I know that giving away those free dollars will increase my dollar's worth because the receipient has to promote my dollar's to get the value out of his dollars.

(Dollars were probably not the example to be taken but who cares they are doubling themselves in my account XD)

On the other hand, as an investor I would definitely want to know the distribution strategy of these tokens before hand. And this is why I agree with what @crypto.piotr had to say in his last paragraph.

This is my perspective on AIRDROPS it can be wrong, it can be correct. As my professor at Berkeley used to say, "Always do your own due diligence."

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I hear that most Airdrops are for cryptocurrencies that fail. I've tried a few times to get some free tokens, being a pauper. Most of the time, the hoops you have to jump through are not worth the time and usually something fails along the way. I probably need a new computer. But, this week, I got two air drops, one was pretty substantial!
One was for the exchange, Blockchain, I got 500 stellar, as they recently added this crypto to their exchange. The other I heard about on Partiko, for a new Singaporean exchange, Bitribe, I got 50 of their tokens for joining the exchange. I think Airdrops can be great for spreading the word around the crypto community not really outside of that though, especially for sharks looking for an easy pound.

When used in marketing it may achieve desired result, not many I have seen have accomplished this, but then in all honesty I don't support that many crypto's only using the ones with good projects.

Jumping around from one coin to the next to make a "buck or two" in my opinion does not add value to anything

Hello @crypto.piotr
Airdrop has it good and bad sides. Most of the airdrops are total waste of time, in the sense that most of those coin never warrant to something. So after doing a bunch of task, I end up with a worthless coin. On the other hand, airdrop helps create awareness to the public about the coin. So airdrops are not a bad idea in my opinion.

@crypto.piotr
Congratulations on another excellent article.
I have no pros or cons with airdrops some folks like it others don't.

Airdrop has lost his popularity. Now I think the projects that make airdrop is scam.

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I love airdrops but all my airdrops was gone. my phone is stolen and I have no idea how to retrieve. All my friends have benefits in airdrops and they also gain and sometime lost it.

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Hi piotr,

• Marketing tool

  I think It depends on how it's designed and the way those companies put on production their White papers. There are some of them doing It quite nice such Stellar, Byteball and others... You need to be consistent and persistent moving your product over the market. In this gaseous reallity in which all are moving nowadays ( crypto markets aren't the exception) you need to be constantly over your clients in order to get them engaged or they'll simply forget of your project or will be seduced by others. So __YES__ they can good as a marketing tool but It depends on how you use It.

• Investor

  I'm going to "invest on something" and I'm one out of three :
  1. I'm a blind very rich and bored dude (Investor): I don't care too much on getting deeply informed of the project. I make a quick read on their White paper and put the money I think it's worth. I keep investing till I'm bored again, then I throw the laptop away and go to take my plane and fly to London to have a crazy weekend... 😁
  2. I'm an Investments Company : We have the means, experience, human-technical resources and money to deal with markets volatility. We'll follow our protocols in order to open positions on those assets that fit our portfolios.
  3. I'm an individual, normal person whith maybe some to no savings: I'm always very cautious about putting money on something no matter if it 's a new car, my next dentist visit or investing some money excess on a new ICO. I always first digg into the bunch of docummentation regarding the project. Why not asking other Friends that I trust for their opinión?. Finally I'll take my decission on whether to invest or not. I'm well aware of how the Airdrops will occur and If I'm invested It will depend on how long my positions are the confortable I'm feeling on how things are going. To illustrate It: I'm in this last group. I'm invested in Steem and as I'm a long run Investor I'm quite comfortable on how things are going as I don't care about volatility. The same I could say about Stellar. I never put money I don't already have (I'm never leveraged) and it's "extra" money I don't need to live. I won't feel cheated if the project follows the path stated on their docs. I'll keep an eye regularly on how things are going and be ready to take action if necessary.

Maybe It was a big comment, hope It won't bore you.

Hugs

I live in a country where people 'buy' and save since ages. Stamps if we shop, tank, etc, etc. It is a way to make money, buy stuff, earn a part of the business. Name it you find it with us.

It is a way to advertise but also to make money for both sides.
As long as the system works for both sides I don't care if token are given for free to some people (it is not really for free I noticed they want a lot of your personal info and you have to advice it to others which was twice a reason for me not to accept the free tokens/Stellar in this case).

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Howdy @crypto.piotr,

I am one of those 'one beer short of a six pack', as well as tech challenged guy. I have heard of airdrops before, but I didn't look into it. Sorry that I couldn't comment any more on that. :-)

Dear friend Piotr.
As an investor I hope that the amount of my investments will return with a fairly fair profit margin, which makes the negotiation feasible, the fact of "losing" money is not something that many people like, even knowing that all investment is a risk ..
Now, as a Marketing Officer, any form of communicating an idea, a product or a service is considered an advertising or communication investment.
The more people talk about it, the more the message is coming, whether they speak well or badly.
The market for cryptocurrencies is already very saturated, and many people want to invest heavily in advertising campaigns to "promote" their crypto. Within the costs of promotion is that of the free placement of a number of currencies for the receiving users to use them and prove their efficiency, in the same way it is a risk to invest in any of them.
Of course, some are already highly positioned.
Recalling a bit, the bitcoin, when it came out, at first nobody believed in the value that would match with time, so it was economic sumaente.
It is already a matter of decision on the part of investors to risk or not.
See you soon.

Estimado amigo Piotr.
Como inversionista aspiro a que el monto de mis inversiones retorne con un margen de utilidad considerablemente justo, lo cual hace que la negociación sea factible, el hecho de "perder" dinero, no es algo que le guste a mucha gente, aún conociendo que toda inversión es un riesgo..
Ahora bien, como Mercadologo, cualquier forma de comunicar una idea, un producto o un servicio, se considera una inversión publicitaria o de comunicación.
Mientras más personas hablen de ello, quiere decir que el mensaje está llegando, así hablen bien o mal.
El mercado de las cryptomonedas está ya muy saturado, y muchas personas quieren invertir fuertemente en campañas de publicidad al respecto para "promover" sus crypto. Dentro de los costos de promoción está el de la colocación gratuita de un número de monedas para que los usuarios receptores las utilicen y prueben su eficiencia, de igual forma es un riesgo invertir en cualquiera de ellas.
Claro está que algunas ya están sumamente posicionadas.
Recordando un poco, el bitcoin, cuando salió, al principio nadie creía en el valor que tomaría con el tiempo, por lo que era sumamente económico.
Ya es cuestión de decisión por parte de los inversores arriesgarse o no.
Hasta pronto.

It does not matter what type of AIRDROPS you use to promote cryptocurrencies, as long as it is ingenious, like any advertising medium, what should be clear are the terms of launching your marketing strategy and maintaining them.

Greetings @crypto.piotr this topic has many possible points of view, I will try to apply what I haveto the moments I've seen in my career (because I'm still studying hahaha) but in industrial engineering, it's about seeing everything in several angles depending on the needs.
In this case, I would start from the point of view of who receives it, these (I include myself in some not many because I do not usually participate much in them) airdrops are sometimes opportunities to take advantage of those cryptocurrencies that are about to leave, basically if you get Many referrals you practically make some money, and more if it is free, as you said to those who do not like gifts.
From the point of view of the investors, I like you would feel something wrong, because although it is true that not all currencies have high values ​​(as in some cases they promise) to go injecting large quantities of these into the market or simply create them (to distribute in the airdrops, but not for sale), generates something like a kind of depreciation or loss of value in these and more when they tend to have inferred values, then I as an investor would feel cheated or even cheated because Although it is true that it is a marketing strategy, we should have very well established limits and not creating coins right and left (which is the case of many airdrops where they give you 1000 coins, of course if you see it from the micro is not much but to think of 1000 people (to put a minimum amount) that take advantage of this airdrop and go for many coins given ...)
From the creator because it simply looks for two things, attract traffic to your page in which potential financiers can come or simply users who want to buy some coins.

İt is too many airdrops, it macke më crazy.

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I will always take free money, but I do not give away my info unless I have some reason to need or trust the place. I'm not thinking about whoever got in there first or the macro-economics of the thing.

If it looks good, is not hard to do, and I can cash out in some manner. I will take it. Crypto is the Wild, Wild West of our day, and that is why I am not an investor except in time. None of this is stable enough yet for me to think of it as an investment. However, I am very glad to live off it while I can, and hope it gets better as time goes on.

I believe there is a place of gaining by either staking the crypto bought by investors in order to make profit for them.

Let's assume a new project is out, and investors are buying, now, new project makes it possible for such investors to stake there investment, eg, Steem and steempower and delegating Steem Power for reward, whaleshares with whalestakes, EOS and staking and so on. So if the project currency value goes down, they can be pacified by the return coming from staking.

For hunters of airdrop, those guys don't have anything to loose.

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No. Because when you follow these. You just feel tricked in the end. Never gain anything from any airdrop.

Hi @crypto.puotr! Thanks for sharing your link and for such an informative post about crypto.
Your post really opened my eyes to the bare reality of the real marketing schemes of these crypto tokens.
Somewhat I agree on the points you have emphasized on this post.
Why?
I personally had experienced this when I bought an amount of tokens for myself in the high hopes of gaining bigger return if these token's price increases.
But to my big dismay, I lost a huge amount of money because the real market value of that token went down successively leaving my invested amount into nothing.
I was really puzzled for what happened.
But with your post, now I learned and realized that this maybe the possible reason for it.
At first, I thought that this AIRDROPS were being very generous, now I know, they are the ones who are killing the real market.

Thanks for adding me some knowledge.
Mabuhay from the Philippines!

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It's only efficient if they target their audience appropriately instead of simply giving it out anyone, unless it's a really low-value amont of tokens.

Hey my best friend
i do not like the airdrops
i think they are just scam and wast of time
i tried dozens of them and once the money in the developer pockets, they vanaish same as gone with the wind !!
i am sorry to say this but really i do not care about any airdrops, even i jump and i do not read their white or pink or hot sexy greedy papers.

your post is a good sign to make real analysis ...

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I have the same opinion, I don't hate airdrops but I can see how they're bad for investors in whatever project's ICO.

I think airdrops are a good strategy to market tokens that are newly introduced. However, I don't think it serves much purpose if it is done later on when there are existing investors as it can hurt the value of the tokens unless it is an established token where the value is likely to rise back to where it was before the airdrop.

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Wow @crypto.piotr What a big problem! Certainly I had never placed myself in the shoes of the long-term investor, personally I could describe myself as a "bounty hunter" in the short term, hoping to sell the tokens I receive as quickly as possible, which I do not always get because in many occasions the main exchanges do not include these new cryptos in their listings to be able to transfer them in a prudential time.

On the other hand, I consider that the Airdrops are an excellent marketing campaign that allows you to make the product known at a relatively low cost, because as you say in your post:

After all: how great is it to build your brand and pay for it with your own tokens, which may have or may not have any value. Quite tempting.

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As far as my little knowleg 95% of airdrop are just to make people buy token who have no value at the end so someone really need to do a lot of research before get involved in it .

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Hello @ crypto.piotr. We do not know much about airdrops but with what we have investigated we believe that this depends what a person knows about how to do marketing with airdrop is a great benefit and for investors also and as it says @ huseyinunozkan16 in one of the comments: it can be a risk for the companies and good for the buyers, but I also believe that with an ICO launch as the case of "The DAO" it is 100% dangerous to invest and also a risk that I finish with the company, I believe that I do not love them or hate them simply they exist and serve for many and for many others do not.

Hola @crypto.piotr. Nosotros no sabemos mucho de airdrops pero con lo que hemos investigado creemos que dependiendo lo que una persona sepa de como hacer marketing con airdrop es un gran beneficio y para los inversionistas también y como dice @huseyinunozkan16 en uno de los comentarios, puede ser un riesgo para las empresas y bueno para los compradores, pero también creo que con un lanzamiento de ICO como el caso de "The DAO" es 100% peligroso invertir y además un riesgo que acabo con la empresa, creo que no los amo ni los odio simplemente existen y sirven para muchos y para muchos otros no.

Free money? I’ll take it.

I think it’s a stupid way to distribute coins however.