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RE: Why should I want Byteball Bytes?

in #byteball • 6 years ago

I'm still trying to explore the bots/chats inside Byteball but had to stop cause of the maintenance, will check these things out when the wallets are back up and running.

Btw, had troubles getting referral bonuses (they didn't use my link but I sent them the bytes), but it's okay I think. Wish it worked though.

I hope lots of developers get more stuff in the wallet, it would be fun.

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     6 years ago (edited) 

    What link? There is no link for referral. It is still possible that you will get referral bonuses if they have not received the reward either.

    There could be many reasons why the referral bonuses have not arrived:

    • They haven't completed the attestation yet and not received the reward either.
    • They did the attestation, but they didn't have at least 30 reputation.
    • Somebody sent them the Bytes before you. Use explorer to see if they already have enough Bytes. Original blog post with the 0.0006 GByte fee is outdated, current fee was reduced to 49 000 Bytes, but sending a transaction costs them around 500 Bytes, so they would need 50 000 Bytes to be able to do the attestation. Also, if you are sending 50 000 Bytes to somebody, you actually need around 50 400 - 51 000 Bytes in total to send them.
    • They were trying to attest same Steem user again.
    • They were trying to attest different user on same device and account. They can attest many Steem users, but not on same account, device need to have multiple accounts then too.
    • They gave you bot address, not their own address. The payment to bot needs to come from them, not from you.
    • Network is slow and haven't caught up with the rewards yet.
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     6 years ago  

    The bot replied referral links. It said people had 3 ways to get referral bonuses. 1 by sending bytes, 2 by using the link that opens the bot (wallet installed), 3 by using the link to download the wallet.

    I was right beside them when they were doing the process so I'm sure everything was done right (all those bullets you mentioned).

    Some users were also reporting the referrals were not working.

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     6 years ago  

    I see, you are right, it seems there are indeed more referral options added to the bot, one of them tracking the user with the cookie.

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      I looked into the code and there could be one more thing: bot first looks from the previous incoming funds to see if there are any attested users who sent the funds for the fee. If there are then it makes them as referral, if there isn't then it uses the cookie that was set when user visited the site via the referring link.

      Were you the only one who sent them the fee and did you sent it from the address that you attested already before? Or you sent them Bytes from somewhere else?

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         6 years ago (edited) 

        They created the wallets by downloading directly from the site or app store, and I was the only one who sent them bytes. Would there be a difference if I send them bytes first then they talk to the attestation bot vs they were already doing the attestation through the bot (eg: alreadyt on payment request) then I send them bytes?

        Also, should receipt of bytes be confirmed before they start talking to the attestation bot?

        I think that's where we could've got issues with, cause if bot already scans at the very beginning of the chat then if they don't have bytes yet or bytes are still unconfirmed then it would look like no one referred them.

        Cause receiving bytes would actually be Step 2. :D I really think this is where we've gone wrong.

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        These are really good questions, but it should not matter how far they were with the attestation and it seems to me, referral is picked after they have made the successfully attested, at the same time when they got the reward.

        I was thinking about those unconfirmed bytes too, but I don't understand that part of the code.

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           6 years ago  

          What link? There is no link for referral.

          There is, the download wallet ref link.

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           6 years ago (edited) 

          You are right, my mistake, referrals used to be without links, but it seems it has additional referral method that saves the cookie in the browser.

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             6 years ago  

            No problem - do you think using them is mandatory to receive the reward?

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