In case you haven’t heard already Byteball is offering 1,000,000+ Steem users free Byteball Bytes. The announcement came out several days ago and you can read all about it here. (This page is really popular with many comments and it slows down the browser when it loads)
The program is still going strong but the initial terms and rewards had to be modified because of people gaming the system. You can read more on this here
Referral Program
Along with the Airdrop, Byteball is doing a very nice referral program so you can earn more Byteball Bytes by referring others.
If you use these links you can help me out:
https://steem-byteball.org/#I4DFPFSWUOYAS4D3VN3KJ5BFI74W3L62 (sets a tracking cookie and redirects to a wallet download)
You will need some initial funds to get your Airdrop reward so here is a link that you can use to get 0.0006 GB (Gigabytes) (This link can only be used once so you might post below if you use it so that others will know it has been used.)
Here is your link to receive 0.000600548 GB (≈0.08 USD): https://byteball.org/#textcoin?emotion-glare-auto-peanut-eyebrow-thing-item-split-since-pear-actual-margin
The inside of the a small hydroelectric power generating station – click for viewing full screen
My thoughts
Now that the referral stuff is out of the way, I can let you know that I’ve successfully received my Byteball bytes from the Airdrop. The Byteball Steem Bot took a long time to answer at first and I had to remove it and then add it back to get a reply.
I used the Android wallet and it was a bit difficult to remove the Steem Bot for some reason. Perhaps the ‘edge’ menu was in the way or something, but anyhow I eventually figured it out with some, “stab, stab, stab, poke, poke, finger work.” In other ways the wallet has been working fine so far.
Right at the time the Airdrop was initially announced there were a few technical issues that you can read more about here. So my initial experience was a bit rough but hopefully yours will be better at this time.
I’ve been very excited so far at what I’ve been reading about how the Byteball system works. There is a lot of technical information out there about it and it scores very high on my personal geek++ list.
There are some bots in the wallet that seem interesting. I can see some real potential here for doing different things with bots and contracts.
Altogether I have a very positive impression of Byteball and I think this will be a very good addition to the Steem system.
Thanks for reading! I always value your support and comments. The pictures were taken by me with my Galaxy S9+