Everyone loves a birthday celebration, and what can be better than a birthday celebration where the birthday child is throwing around free crypto in prizes! In this case, KuCoin (which is one of the bigger and more trusted exchanges) is giving away 47 BTC in prizes for a variety of games!

Even if you aren’t interested in this round of celebration games, KuCoin often runs contests which are quite easy to participate in, who knows, maybe you win crypto, or sometimes the prize is a Sports Car! It’s worth checking in occasionally, even if it isn’t your primary alt-coin exchange!

Note, that collection of prizes usually requires you to pass the KYC/AML procedure. Mine was (from memory) approved in a day, but I guess everyone will have different time lengths. Also, some of the contests require you to hold 6 KCS (the exchange token), however, that is a token that also has passive income, so it is nice to have some of these anyway!

Guess the Price (19 BTC)

Just like so many of the crypto contests here on Steem, KuCoin is also running a price guessing contest for the price of BTC. However, the prize pool is much much greater (on the other hand, so is the competition!). Until the 23rd of September, the is a prize pool of 3 BTC per day (2 BTC for the first place, and 1 BTC for second) for the closest guesses.

Twitter Campaign (2 BTC)

Until the 24th of September, KuCoin is offering a 2 BTC total bounty for retweeting a tweet about a new listing of the BUMO (BU) altcoin. It’s a pretty simple task, for a little bit of a reward!

Airdrop (CRPT)

Everyone loves an airdrop, and KuCoin is offering a 265,000 CRPT for holders holders of a minimum of 6KCS and 15CRPT on the exchange between 24th of September and 1st of October. Easy one to do, I just have to remember to stop selling CRPT for the trading contest!

Trading Prizes (28 BTC)

Often, KuCoin will offer trading prizes (buying and selling) on new listings. If you place in the top 500 places of total trading in the time period indicated then you are eligible for a bonus payout in BTC and the newly listed token. For their birthday celebrations, there are 4 running top lists in 4 newly listed coins.

Just as a word of warning, a newly listed coin will be hyper volatile (even in the crypto world!) and it is likely to drop quite heavily in value in the first day or so of listing whilst the market finds an equitable price. However, for some of these lists, it appears that a purchase of about a euro (at the time of this writing) will put you in the top 500 list! However, again another word of warning, these may not be tokens that you will want after the end of the contest, so make sure you are playing to break even on the trading (aiming to cover the 0.1% trading fee or a little bit more and not playing to make a large trading profit), and playing incredibly safe, ensuring that you can always SELL the tokens soon after buying.

Even still, the payout can often be better than the amount that you play around with, and will also likely cover the fees. Also, unless you have lots of BTC to splash around and time to spare, you are only going to be aiming for the 250-500 bracket and not risking more!

The trading pairs that are eligible for this competition on the KuCoin exchange are:

BU/BTC (BUMO, until 24th September) trading at around 0.18 USD
TRX/BTC (Tron, until 25th September) trading at around 0.02 USD
EDN/BTC (Eden, until 26th September) trading at around 0.04 USD
CRPT/BTC (Crypterium , until 1st of October) trading at around 0.35 USD

Enjoy and trade responsibly!

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