There has been a lot of speculation about whether Byteball had thought everything through when launching the Steem attestation campaign. Please rest assured, we were very aware of the different types of abusive behavior we would potentially come across.
However, we also wanted the campaign to be as easy and inclusive as possible. Restricting it to high reputation levels would have prevented a lot of users from participating, so we instead decided to start out as wide as possible and monitored the situation closely.
When the abusive behavior reached a level where it no longer made sense to continue, we moved in to change it so that only accounts created prior to July 12 were eligible for rewards. We also halved the rewards for lower reputation level, to reduce the profitability of buying reputation boosts
Enter the days of referral hijacking
Since a few days ago, we started seeing the first signs of referral hijacking. As soon as someone sent 50,000 bytes to someone else, scripts picked that up on the publicly visible DAG and immediately sent an amount closer to the amount needed to pay an attestation and a transaction fee. While we had thought this would become a problem much sooner than it did, it has now reached the point, where it is almost impossible to refer others by sending them funds to pay for the attestation.
Referral links are king now!
Therefore, we now introduce the next change of rules, and removes the attestation fee. From the time of this announcement, the one providing the new user with the referral link will be the one receiving the referral reward.
Why not do this from the start?
As previously stated, we wanted to start out as wide and inclusive as possible. We also needed the word to spread fast and to make sure enough bytes got sent into in circulation.
Help science and earn Bytes
With a lot of Bytes in circulation, we would like to point to some of the fun and interesting things to use it for. There is also ways for you to earn even more Bytes while doing good for the environment, humanity and science. I would therefore like to direct people’s attention to another ongoing way of distribution, that provides a win-win-win situation. By contributing to the World Community Grid campaign, which we recently relaunched with new reward rates and bonus for team members. Your computer’s idle time will be used to provide scientists and researchers help in fighting diseases and environmental problems.
Sports betting
There are also other ways to grow your stash of Bytes. By providing trustless P2P betting by the use of Smart Contracts, the Betting Bot found in the Bot Store provides users with a chance to bring a little extra excitement into their preferred sport, by allowing you to place bets on your favorite sports team. @Tarmo888 made this beautiful web-frontend of the bot with nice integration directly to your Byteball wallet. When even Masha think it's easy, I'm sure anyone would:
Binary betting
If you are a super skilled trader and think you are able to predict the price movements of various cryptocurrencies, you also have a chance to put your money where your mouth is. The Binary Betting site https://binaryballs.com provides fast and fun action for everyone feeling lucky or with the skills to predict markets. You can bet on BTC continuing a downwards trend or on Ethereum to start climbing from its current price point. The site is beautifully integrated with Byteball wallet features, and makes betting super easy and convenient.
I've never been able to get the byteball airdrop. I've downloaded the windows wallet, selected the chat, clicked the bot store, clicked the Steem attestation bot, Opened chat, and selected the "Insert my address (Small Expense Wallet)".
Address is populated in the chat, but nothing happened. I've done this 5 times since July 15, and there is no bot response.
I had zero balance before attesting my username, followed the referral link of a friend @princewahaj, downloaded the wallet and after attesting the username, my balance was still zero. I asked my friend to send 50,000 bytes to me and then i tried to attest again, but it says "You are already attested". I have not received any rewards for attesting my name. I am entitled to $80 airdrop, please process them to me.
What about the referrals, we made on first day of Byteball airdrop post @punqtured? I referred almost 60 people that day and could get a single referral reward. I have also submitted 20 forms but no response.
Does Byteball has any procedure to check the status?
Greetings @punqtured excellent work that you do informing us, I write to ask you if it is possible to recover access to a purse of an intelligent contract of which I own the recovery seed but not the full backup, perform the Airdrop by Byteball and sold the funds available at that time, save the recovery seed to restore the purse but now I see that when restored it does not appear the funds of the smart contract that could spend in a year.
Is there any way to recover those funds or is the purse already lost?
What a nice action! Win-win! I already have my byte. However I wanted to refer, but I'm afraid that some boot won't let me. :-(
Greetings from Venezuela!
I do exchange byte/BTC all its OK but btc not sended my bitcoin address please check sir ?
I m send -84.898.890 bytes to the address for btc exchange - OBZTPVTKTAUGQJJBYJJKLPP3BGJ4KNZQ
and btc's address - 1Avagb2cEgr56fuoRhzM8Wn3gMrNfmkKqZ
HELP ME PLEASE @punqtured
i have an issue with referral earning as before i not received for 4 people who joined from my bytes and link as one of them is my friend who is beside me. now i see as only refral link work i shared my other friend link to one of my friend who not joined and also not recevied earning of refral as they download from my link and regiaster so can you tell me that where is problem?
Hi, I had an experience on referral hijacking last 2 days ago and because of that I decided to use today the referral cookie given to me when I attested my steemit account. But, same as I experienced before the referral reward wasn't given to me.
Starting With This New Announcement Here is my Offer to all Steemians:
I will pass you >100% of whatever liquid Byte I get as your referral (send you Steem name and byte wallet) OR you can get Steem (only to your Steem wallet that I see in Chat):
If Any Who is Rep 30 = 1.05 Steem send to your account (That I see in Chat)
If Any Who is Rep >40 = 1.65 Steem send to your account (That I see in Chat)
If Any Who is Rep >50 = 5.5 Steem send to your account (That I see in Chat)
If Any Who is Rep >60 = 10.5 Steem send to your account (That I see in Chat)
Use my link and if I see your name in my Chat I will give back so you get >125%
https://steem-byteball.org/#CIFEKG6Z53CC5KJQIR5C3RFKJXU2ARLT
Note: My plan is to use all my liquid Bytes to purchase Steem, to support Steem and All Steemians By Extension!
I was about to look for customer support email as i have many people who used my referral links and i even sent them the attestation fee and have never recieved my referral rewards....
I helped this people personally by sending them the link on whatsapp and guided them step by step until they completed....this was the time the network was jammed.
Is there a way to look through that...?? They recieved their attestation reward and me i dont receive the referall!!!
Huh. Ok. So finally it's back to links. Do we need to update the app on mobile? I have a question on your other post abt the referral fee and such. Maybe someone could help answer it pls. Thanks.
Also why are the exchange bots not working? I tried it and got an error instead.
Thank you for the information but I have an issue at hand. I mistakenly delete my bityeball app without backing it up is there any way I can retrieve my wallet back please. Thank you.
Should have do this from the very beginning, seriously. The words will still gone viral but the benefit of referrer would be much more guaranteed and less hassle of all the nonsense hijacking stuff.
I think that's a good move. I've had a couple of people spamming their wallet in my comments. That seems a good way to ruin your Steem account for little reward, but some will go for whatever they can get. You have certainly stirred up a lot of discussion. Wish you all the best
Thank you! From Today on i have decided to move all my BOINC Actions to the Byteball Team! Currently helping for the Mapping Cancer Markers Project . Lets make the World a bit better and earn some Ball :)
While the Referal-System are now only working by using the Referal-Link and you will be also Participate to do Research Work let me know.
You can Contact me on Discord: louis88#5593 and i will help you on the Steps. And if anyone need an Invite to this amazing Airdrop - let me also know. thanks
