What if the airdrop is gone forever?

[MetaMoh]

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It is just that if we do make out comparison into those airdrops n the past and on the present, then you can tell the significant drop when it comes to rewards and other aspects on which it turned out that its never been worth on dealing up with it.

Airdrops used to be and now are completely different, it used to be easier to get rewards without complicated tasks, but now it's very complicated and more tasks need to be done to get rewards.

This is because crypto prices in the past were also cheaper and certainly not as high as they are today,
Projects are getting more varied and more competition is happening now.
New projects really need to get higher exposure.

I came into crypto in the days when to get an airdrop, all that one need3d to do is to fill a simple and fast Google form that doesnt take up 30 seconds, because all one needed to fill in was their name and wallet address, some form didn't even require the airdrop participants filling in their name, only wallet address and that all, following the project on Twitter, and joining their telegram group and subscribing to their channel on telegram and other social platforms was never a criteria because the developers believed ones you get the airdrop and hold the token, you will naturally join their media channels as a means of knowing what is going on wit the project.
Back then, any amount people made from airdrops were always worth it because they did not perform any long and complicated tasks to get it.

But today, narratives have changed, we now perform long and complicated tasks and yet, still end up getting nothing or getting peanut, airdrops have become even more stressful and less profitable than buying a token with money.

I remember those days, that was when airdrops were still under the radar and there was not much interest in them as at then. But now people who farm them are too much, i think that’s why devs made tasks so stressful for users.

[LogitechMouse]

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However, what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdorp suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...

Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.

No airdrop = no free money for those participating. That's all.

I don't see the crypto space getting worse with the absence of airdrops however, those new projects will find another way to kickstart their campaign because most of these projects are using airdrops to start their project or at least launch their token.

If airdrops suddenly disappear, I'm thinking that we might return to the old ICO-type of distributing the tokens where projects have a so-called "soft cap" and "hard cap".

[bayu7adi]

No airdrop = no free money for those participating. That's all.

I don't see the crypto space getting worse with the absence of airdrops however, those new projects will find another way to kickstart their campaign because most of these projects are using airdrops to start their project or at least launch their token.

If airdrops suddenly disappear, I'm thinking that we might return to the old ICO-type of distributing the tokens where projects have a so-called "soft cap" and "hard cap".

It can be said that "free money" has disappeared, some complaints about airdrop payments that are not equivalent to what is done have also disappeared... besides the bad impacts, of course there are good impacts...

So far, some of us agree that airdrop participants very often cheat by using more than one account/multi-account games or farming... from there we have actually seen how imperfect this airdrop is used as a developer promotion media... of the several existing methods, airdrop is indeed the easiest to increase website traffic, YouTube views, subscribers, followers, likes and several other social media aspects... moreover, developers do not need to spend a lot of money to pay participants, only tokens whose prices are still very questionable in the future.... So actually, airdrop itself has many shortcomings too... However, it seems that many do not agree when it is removed... for some reason, maybe someone knows more about this...

And to return to the softcap & hardcap era, I don't really understand the relationship with marketing, but what I do know is that softcap is the minimum limit for a project to run... meaning if it cannot reach the softcap, the project will not be kicked off... while hardcap, as far as I understand it is money maximum that can be obtained from token sales... please correct me if there is something wrong with my understanding...

It can also be used as a subtle promotional method, where an investor will grow in confidence when he sees that the project has reached softcap....

[gunhell16]

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However, what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdorp suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...

Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.

No airdrop = no free money for those participating. That's all.

I don't see the crypto space getting worse with the absence of airdrops however, those new projects will find another way to kickstart their campaign because most of these projects are using airdrops to start their project or at least launch their token.

If airdrops suddenly disappear, I'm thinking that we might return to the old ICO-type of distributing the tokens where projects have a so-called "soft cap" and "hard cap".

Nowadays, nothing is free when anyone participates in airdrops. You don't spend any money, but you will use electricity to grind the tasks required in airdrops, you will use a desktop, laptop, and mobile device in which the electricity consumed by the devices mentioned is not free either.

It's not that you won't spend anything financially, but from another angle, you will really exert effort and you can't do nothing
because there are test criteria to be eligible in the end.

[Bobcrypto]

Nothing will happen as airdrops are not helping matters and in fact it's meaningless to me knowing to well that airdrops aren't that rewarding compared to before as many people have been saying about airdrop. Though I have also came across some post that speaks good about airdrop but nowadays people seems to be regretting about airdrop as it's a worthless effort.

I am sure that at certain times in near future, any airdrops campaign may not attract reasonable numbers of airdrops hunters that much because  most of these new projects are insincere with a worthless tokens when listed.
However, those that has spoken good about airdrops might had benefited on a few airdrops that were sincere and rewards were distributed to them.
I have participated on many airdrops in the past with some of them listed on exchanges but worthless, while many failed to distribute rewards, and even ran with investors money.

[Cryptsafe]

The value of an airdrop these days is dropping, but I do not think it would go extinct because of the role it plays in publicity and beta testing of projects. As a matter of fact, we have newbies onboarded every day. These people would look for an airdrop to participate in because they have little or no knowledge of how the system works, so they go scouting for an airdrop to get rewarded in crypto. And by so doing, they keep engaging in airdrop, which ends in promoting the project, and sometimes the project turns out to be a scam, and lots more to say. This is how the cycle keeps repeating itself so often.

[ajiz138]

Nothing will happen as airdrops are not helping matters and in fact it's meaningless to me knowing to well that airdrops aren't that rewarding compared to before as many people have been saying about airdrop. Though I have also came across some post that speaks good about airdrop but nowadays people seems to be regretting about airdrop as it's a worthless effort.

I am sure that at certain times in near future, any airdrops campaign may not attract reasonable numbers of airdrops hunters that much because  most of these new projects are insincere with a worthless tokens when listed.
However, those that has spoken good about airdrops might had benefited on a few airdrops that were sincere and rewards were distributed to them.
I have participated on many airdrops in the past with some of them listed on exchanges but worthless, while many failed to distribute rewards, and even ran with investors money.

For people who only do airdrops as a side job, the loss of airdrops will not have any impact. However, if someone's main job is airdrops, then it will definitely have an impact.

However, I'm not sure people make it their main job, I think the people who are in airdrops now are people who have jobs or income from other sources.

[bitbit97]

The value of an airdrop these days is dropping, but I do not think it would go extinct because of the role it plays in publicity and beta testing of projects. As a matter of fact, we have newbies onboarded every day. These people would look for an airdrop to participate in because they have little or no knowledge of how the system works, so they go scouting for an airdrop to get rewarded in crypto. And by so doing, they keep engaging in airdrop, which ends in promoting the project, and sometimes the project turns out to be a scam, and lots more to say. This is how the cycle keeps repeating itself so often.

Dropping? Its below zero already. The only place where I can find default airdrops is twitter and meme-coins. Its because airdrop of own tokens does not cost anything (except network fee). It is important to know that airdrop is not a retrodrop. Era of retrodrops is slowly coming to an end, and we can say that value of it is dropping. But as to regular airdrops - they are dead already. It is easy to check it. When was the last time you saw news how project distributed tokens for doing nothing and their value amazed those who have received them. I havent seen such posts, articles, news for a very long time.

[Vx1]

For people who only do airdrops as a side job, the loss of airdrops will not have any impact. However, if someone's main job is airdrops, then it will definitely have an impact.
However, I'm not sure people make it their main job, I think the people who are in airdrops now are people who have jobs or income from other sources.

I think if there are people who work full time in Airdrop they must be doing other cryptocurrency work like trading and investing too, and of course if Airdrop really doesn't exist it will still have an impact even though they can still trade. Because without Airdrop then the opportunity to get free capital will be lost.

[rdluffy]

For people who only do airdrops as a side job, the loss of airdrops will not have any impact. However, if someone's main job is airdrops, then it will definitely have an impact.
However, I'm not sure people make it their main job, I think the people who are in airdrops now are people who have jobs or income from other sources.

I think if there are people who work full time in Airdrop they must be doing other cryptocurrency work like trading and investing too, and of course if Airdrop really doesn't exist it will still have an impact even though they can still trade. Because without Airdrop then the opportunity to get free capital will be lost.

I would even say that there are people who are focusing almost 100% of their time on farming airdrops, but they are influencers and I consider it a job too, they earn a lot from referrals
In addition, there are some people and groups who farm airdrops with many wallets and even in an automated way and with a lot of capital

Some focus a lot on airdrops too, but in general, they also work with crypto, such as trading, investments, DeFi etc.

[robelneo]

... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.

I stopped doing airdrop for 5 years, just came back after this Telegram hype airdrops, which proved to be useless.
I don't think Airdrop will cease to exist because there is a huge community, and Airdrop now is very different from its old terms, you need to promote, you need to make transactions and you need to upgrade and projects have all these so they will prefer to do airdrop to promote their project and accumulate funds.

[jeraldskie11]

... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.

I stopped doing airdrop for 5 years, just came back after this Telegram hype airdrops, which proved to be useless.
I don't think Airdrop will cease to exist because there is a huge community, and Airdrop now is very different from its old terms, you need to promote, you need to make transactions and you need to upgrade and projects have all these so they will prefer to do airdrop to promote their project and accumulate funds.

Before we don't have to do anything but to fill up the form to get airdrops. But now you need to do many things and spend some funds to be eligible for the airdrop but at the end of the day you only get nothing. So that's why we see some people stop participating airdrops, it's not worth it especially to those who can make above minimum wage salary. Instead of spending your free time for airdrop, it's better to spend it with your family because of the time you spent was for work.

[Cryptsafe]

The value of an airdrop these days is dropping, but I do not think it would go extinct because of the role it plays in publicity and beta testing of projects. As a matter of fact, we have newbies onboarded every day. These people would look for an airdrop to participate in because they have little or no knowledge of how the system works, so they go scouting for an airdrop to get rewarded in crypto. And by so doing, they keep engaging in airdrop, which ends in promoting the project, and sometimes the project turns out to be a scam, and lots more to say. This is how the cycle keeps repeating itself so often.

Dropping? Its below zero already. The only place where I can find default airdrops is twitter and meme-coins. Its because airdrop of own tokens does not cost anything (except network fee). It is important to know that airdrop is not a retrodrop. Era of retrodrops is slowly coming to an end, and we can say that value of it is dropping. But as to regular airdrops - they are dead already. It is easy to check it. When was the last time you saw news how project distributed tokens for doing nothing and their value amazed those who have received them. I havent seen such posts, articles, news for a very long time.

It's been a while though when I saw such articles. Gone are the days when airdrops are worth the time and energy invested in running the task attached to it. My newbie days were really a bit of an airdrop, and I could say that I benefited from it, but these days, the reverse is the case, as scams are everywhere. Many of the so-called promoted projects are just scammers waiting to accumulate more funds as they have targeted to abscond with them in due course. Most of the tokens themselves are just worthless and have no value; they just spray dust in the air and call it a distribution of tokens. It is quite unfortunate.

[DavetJack]

Nothing will happen as airdrops are not helping matters and in fact it's meaningless to me knowing to well that airdrops aren't that rewarding compared to before as many people have been saying about airdrop. Though I have also came across some post that speaks good about airdrop but nowadays people seems to be regretting about airdrop as it's a worthless effort.

Yes, there is no such payment available in airdrops as before or there is no way to earn from it. Although there were many good airdrops earlier, many people could earn a good amount of money from them. But these days, most of the airdrops are scams, people work there with interest, but later it is seen that they do not get any money from there and gradually their interest in it increases. And I have seen that many people use tools to do a little, and they do these for a lot of income from there, which later it is seen that the projects have scammed or run away.

[Crypto Library]

In the current situation of airdrops, it is better not to have these airdrops than to have them. Because such airdrops are just cheating airdrop hunters and at the same time they themselves make a lot of money from the market and finally exit the market through rugpull scamming. This is impacting in our crypto space, so I think it will benefit us if these airdrops go away.