Whats a airdrop for or reason for giving away the money, if you don't mind me asking...just haven't heard of it before.
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Whats a airdrop for or reason for giving away the money, if you don't mind me asking...just haven't heard of it before.
It's when a new token gives away coins to raise awareness. In this case, you can get as much as $160, $80 can be sold on Bittrex immediately depending on your Rep.
In your case you would get $10 now and $10 in a year.
Trying to decide if it's going to be worth any waiting/struggle to get through the process....how much steem or what is the steem price right now if I use it to buy steem?
For Byteball case, airdrop is just one way of getting the coins out to users without doing the ICO (Byteball has not done the ICO).
Since Byteball is built on directed acyclic graph (not blockchain), there is no proof of work and mining, so they can't distribute the coins that way either. Well, only exception is now the other airdrop to World Community Grid users, where the it's being airdropped based on how much users help with research.
And yes, awareness too, but it's not random airdrop to random adresses, users need to request the airdrop by authenticating themselves.
Another added bonus by attesting your Steem user is that you get your personal address in
steem/usernameformat, so other users don't have to remember your long cryptic address, but can send you Bytes directly to your Steem name.