Ten months ago I blogged about the Byteballs Airdrop, and it looks like they are at it again, but this time they are airdropping to Steem account holders like you! This is free money, people!
My attestation transaction:
I just did it myself, and it's not a scam:
Want some free Byteballs? Well they also have a nice referral program going so if you get your wallet set up through my referral, we both get a reward. Cool, huh?
If you already have the byteball app installed, follow this link, otherwise use this referral link to download it: https://steem-byteball.org/#LHJX6HCBZQD53DTGIBWUNWR3ZOAICQFT
If you want the full reward, you have to send 0.00006 GB, otherwise you can just sign a message (though you'll only get 80% of the reward):
Alternatively, you can prove ownership of your address by signing a message: [Request to sign message: lukestokes xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx], in this case your attestation reward (if any) will be 80% of the normal reward.
To get the full reward, you can ask people like me for 0.0006 GB (but please, only do so if you haven't already attested your account):
Ask a fellow Steemian who already successfully completed the attestation, if you can borrow 0.0006 GB (Gigabytes) and have him send it to your wallet. As the user sending you the funds will receive the referral reward, it shouldn’t be hard to find willing donors.
So is this worth it?
I'd say yes! Byteball is a really interesting directed acyclic graph (DAG) cryptocurrency you should know about. As I said, I've been following it for some time (see my post from 10 months ago to learn more). The full instructions for how to get this airdrop (with screenshots!) are in the post I linked to above: Official Byteball Airdrop to Steemians.
Yes, Byteballs were worth a bit more 10 months ago with a coinmarketcap rank of 40:
And now they are down to 108:
But innovative airdrops like this may give them some new life. Maybe this chart has some room to go back up:
It's also possible people will get their free Byteballs and cash out as quick as they can which could bring the price down. As always, you can hit the markets tab on CMC to see where they trade:
Personally (as I did with the airdrop), I'm going to hold. I like to own some tokens from innovative projects like this which challenge the current blockchain paradigm (a DAG is not a blockchain) while also making cryptocurrency as easy to use as interacting with a chat bot.
If you need help to get started, leave a comment below, and I'll help you out if I can.
Edit: Looks like the referrals work also. Cool!
Cool! Thank you for reminder!
My byteball address is JQURFDCGMZBPXCBXYNN56VETQ55CYTVG
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Hmm... I'm hodling byteball for more than a year now. And it's a great news that I can connect it to steem. But there is a problem:
I updated the wallet and have run steem-bot chat, but the bot is totally unresponsive (other bots are allright). Damn ((
Yeah, it seems like their whole network is having issues. They weren’t ready for Steem it seems. I’ve been asking questions in their Slack to see what’s up. No solid answers yet.
Eh... ok. Let's wait than.
My wallet address
SKCA2VMD3DYWBJ67TXW7TVDRMR4N4KNC
Sent! Let me know when you finish the attestation process.
Thanks @lukestokes....i have completed it.
But i got (4 x 600000) and 60000.
Looks like other people are sending GB as soon as it's posted on the blockchain. Maybe someone has a script going so they can snipe the referral rewards. Quite interesting.
Thanks for sharing Luke. My address is 3V2TNHHDUGSJJFFLRK7LIMV4DN4ZP5GW and I appreciate the help getting started.
Sent! Let me know if it works out.
Everything went well. Attested my email address as well as my Steemit. Still absorbing mentally what is happening. ;-)
Did you send 3 x 600,000 or was that you and others?
I just sent it once. Interesting.
Wonder if this is a strategy by some to snipe the referral bonus?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I'm curious if the first to send to the wallet overrides the referral link or not. Quite interesting. :)
One thing to note is that for me, on an iPhone 6s, the steemit attestation bot did not work when trying to send the final payment. Angular JS issues. Worked on ubuntu though.
Huh, interesting. I've only ever used the wallet on my computer.
Thanks for the tip Luke. Here's my wallet address.
RIDWILBI2GFOBGGGM7MFUXZEP4PEYEIY
I just read about how the rep level affects the reward. $40 difference for the sake of 0.4 rep points. Might have to break my rule of not using bots this one time so I get got to 60 !!
I received the funds twice from you by the looks of it. Unless it came from someone else. Have you got the process automated?
Sent. You're welcome. :)
Just saw your edit. No, I don't have it automated, but I think someone must have a script up at this point that is looking for Byteball addresses to try and snipe the referral rewards, I think.
Thanks for the info. You’ll probably know the answer to the question I asked on the post I wrote after discovering that airdrop rewards are based on rep levels. Does the weight of the vote cast by a user make a difference to the rep level increase of the user receiving the vote? For example, if you upvoted me at 1%, would it have less of an effect on my rep score than a 10% upvote?
Thanks.
Okay! Downloaded. Here’s me wallet address and thx: BKXVSVC2BUKEW5PI5BD7ZKTKN6MSB2EB
Sent!
Awesome! Thanks. Got all the way up to the end where I attest funds, but then when I clicked on public, an error message popped up. Going to try again in a bit.
Maybe check the Byteball Slack as well.
LGNLJEPBLYWIFEOKBEIMOBOUZP3UWYWQ
Added it! 👍
byteball:UIGCDOSBH3UVRLOOBZEKA4MATFMC5MLO
Is that your referral link or your address? If you want, DM me your address on Facebook and I'll send you some GB. I think someone is sniping comments on Steem.
Oh. I think it is my address. I will double check. Maybe I am wrong.
Thanks for sharing, I have heard about the airdrop, but I haven't took time to register my address yet. Maybe I'll use your referral link, at least this is how I can be helpful :D
By the way, their price seems so low right now, but considering that this is the case with the whole market right now, I guess there is nothing to worry about. I guess the best idea would be to hold right now.
I have downloaded the ByteBall-win64.exe is that correct sir? Just new to all this :) so I am not sure what to do!!
need step by step process
It's in the official post I linked to twice. Why would I reproduce what has already been done?
didn't work for me.
I installed the wallet, sent the address...
and nadda...
Odd, I just did it and it worked fine. When you say "sent the address" what do you mean? Did you send 0.0006 GB? If you just installed the wallet, where did you get the GB from? If you need GB, paste your wallet address here and I'll send you some GB to get started.
I used a referal link...I sent my wallet address to him and he said he sent it...
dunno what happened.
here's my address
D3UVGWP4GUFH3WN7V2O3KFC35TR22ATP
What does that not say "Steem attestation bot" at the top? Are you using the right bot?
beats me.
is there more than one?
I don't think so. You have to be chatting directly with the bot but from the screenshot it says "New" instead of the bot name. Maybe ask for help in their Slack channel.
I have no idea what slack is and the only channel I'm aware of is the English one.
the 6K bytes is there.
SteemConnect never appears.
I 'open chat' and
click on the ... and
clik on 'insert my address (small expenses wallet) and
and then nothing happens after that.
something ain't right
It worked for me. You will send your wallet address to an already registered member who will transfer byteball to you and then you can proceed to pay and you will select public account after you have paid sir.
Referred three people already and it worked sir
I doubt if there is any referral bonuses. Referred more than 4 people already
I have gotten referrals on the three people i referred. I now have $62. How did you refer them?
Anyone else experiencing "internal connection closed" when trying to exchange byteball?
I will ask around and get back to you bro.
I just updated my post to include a screenshot. Referrals work. Maybe they already had someone else as their referrer?
Yes sir, that's a high possibility or he didn't use his link.
Yes sir, that's a high
Possibility or he
Didn't use his link.
- olawalium
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
Smh.
Thank you. I figured out I didn't use my link... I just did and it worked. Thanks for the support.
I will take a look into it :)
Hi @lukestokes, I've already downloaded the Byteball wallet but I have not installed it yet. I'm pretty close to the 60 Steem reputation mark. (58.775) just right now. And God and his heavenly court knows that those extra $40 in Bytes rewards would do me immensely well being in venezuela. :)
¿Is around here some philanthropic, generous and compassionate soul willing to give me a hand with this?
I certainly will send you a box of kisses in advance!! };)
As I said in my post, link me to your Byteballs address and I'll send you 0.0006 GB. I can't change your reputation score though. That's up to you to do over time.
Thank you very much for the offer mate. I will take it in count from the heart. Let me see what can I do by myself to reach first the 60 Rep score asap before bother you again. :)
Sounds like they will keep the airdrop going for some time, though 58 to 60 is further than it looks, each level gets harder.
It doesn't work for me, then I tried many times. I tried to explore and I got wrong way when using byteball wallet and my byteball deducted and only remain 599.542.
Sadly I should read the guidance before explore that wallet.
Can you include more specifics of what you did and what didn't work? It seemed to work perfectly for me.
After installing from playstore. The first step that I did is created new wallet address. Then I asked someone to send some amount bytes. He sent me bytes at my new address. Then I realized shouldn't make new address wallet.
I should used existing "small expenses wallet" instead of new address wallet.
Then I sent bytes from my own new wallet into my own "small expenses wallet". The amount bytes remain 599.452, after that I tried to chat at bot and copy my "small expenses wallet", there is nothing happened.
I think that is my fault didn't be careful to read guidance.
There was a mention of using a single address wallet, so maybe that was part of the problem? You have to use the address which was part of the referral maybe?
I think so, I didn't read it. Next I will try using refferal address. :)
I have already installed a new one wallet through your link mentioned above (I had uninstalled the old one because my wallet is not set up as single wallet).
Next step what should I do?
Hi Luke. Would appreciate if you could transfer 0.0006 GB to my wallet 4pkXN0SRLfgmR38xkyJlhpLcskCxq6pr2/voJBI09DI= . Thank you!
That is not a valid Byteball address. Did you paste your password or something?
Here's my wallet id
Perhaps this is the correct address: 75CC4S4ZMSVNKVM6G6EPOKMIWLXVVBQG
Yep, that's it. It looks like someone else already sent you some funds, but I just did also. Enjoy!
Thank you very much!
Hi @lukestokes ! I posted about this yesterday and even sent a message to you.
I am not getting referral rewards yet, not sure why.
Regards, @gold84
You send me a lot of messages and tag me in a lot of posts, so it starts to get a bit spammy and I'm not able to give them all individual attention. Sorry I missed it.
I just do it when I believe it will be good to read, and when I think you can help a lot.
Regards, @gold84
MXESZGXWI63W5V4OZB52WI7MOZYGGRFU
I sent some, but I think I'm being beaten by someone checking comments on the steem blockchain for Byteball addresses.
Thanks for the heads up, Luke! Woohoo! Free money! Definitely going to use your referral link for this.
Strange, I've sent several people some byte balls to sign up, no rewards.
I think someone is front-running it by searching for Byteball addresses in Steem comments so they can get their transaction in before you.
These are mostly from dms on Discord
This is great. Can someone help me to get this tokens please? My address is:
XAY4ZYOKPUHDLE5T3UAACTQFLSUIQT2Q
Sent. Good luck.
Received. Thank you very much.
My Address: Z7PJKFCLOMCLMFHCOH6R3CHAHEQGY45H
Wow, man. You've been collecting quite a few donations.
Thank you for the information @lukestokes
this is my wallet address IQ4465MTUVKT2AP6W6H7N32QM75D3JMQ
Looks like you're good to go already.
Okey, thanks @lukestokes
Thanks for sharing. It's super hard to get some GBYTE. It's not on most exchanges. So here is my wallet address: AGPULIBMJY46NPSDMNPHLHZL5LNUMV55
Thanks :-)
A little late .... hope it is still working :)
FLLWNKUKY72D5H7ONSKGVRRID44EDKAM
Wow, this is awesome! Could you help me out with the minimum fee, please?
JPAOOVRBR7ERO6GHKENSXFNF6CFSPE5W
Hope am not to late . Here is my address
LGYR462LCWV2EOJG2MMGGQ444SCHJCCN
I set up an account, here is my address
byteball: PCPOTADC6K3P4Q34GV5GQIYNHWMAV7FE
Thanks!
Hey bro what do you think about this?
https://steemit.com/steemit/@revostrike/re-punqtured-official-byteball-airdrop-to-steemians-20180714t044721106z
Should people be concerned?
My wallet address is: EQ75VI7NWAKENHG6KVDTGPSATUSL7TMJ Thank you!
My account should be attested now. Thank you.
Please, sponsor me. Thanks!
DPHVH5WFCNSQENJNWS2AUW2C5DJV726B