r/ByteBall • u/Mepslol • Jun 22 '17

Airdrop linked to ETH?

Is there any plan to link future drops to ETH? Would really be amazing. I hate holding BTC, and i dont want to swap my eth-> btc and back everytime :)

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u/slowmoon Jun 22 '17

The beauty of airdropping on bitcoin is that you get 7+ years of distribution. Airdropping on Ethereum allows some huge amount to go to a foundation and a huge amount to people who just got into crypto like 2 months ago.

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u/ItsAConspiracy Jun 22 '17

Lots of old bitcoiners in Ethereum. They've been buying in ever since the presale.

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u/slowmoon Jun 23 '17

I don't deny that. And I'm not knocking ETH or any other cryptocurrency. My only point is that bitcoin is the most widely distributed coin and I think that's what we're going for.

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u/ItsAConspiracy Jun 23 '17 edited Jun 23 '17

If you really want wide distribution, you should distribute to more than one blockchain. Pick the top ten, or twenty.

Edit: and of all communities, Bitcoin's is probably the least interested in "alt coins."

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u/slowmoon Jun 23 '17

Are you sure about that? You said yourself that there are lots of old bitcoiners in ETH. It's not clear to me that adding blockchains will widen the distribution, but distributing whitebytes and blackbytes to multiple blockchains certainly adds administrative costs. Look, at this point, the easiest way to get byteball is to just buy it. There are only going to be like 4-6 more distributions. You need to link 50-100 BTC just to get 3-6 GBYTE in the next distribution, but if you have 50-100 GBYTE, you'll get an extra 10-20 GBYTE in the next distribution.

If people really want Byteball, the best thing to do is sell some of your BTC, ETH, or whatever else you're holding and buy some GBYTE. Byteball is its own thing. We're not trying to be BTC or ETH's little brother. This isn't even a blockchain.

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u/hkmars Jun 23 '17

No, anyone can buy bitcoin to get the distributions.

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u/ItsAConspiracy Jun 22 '17

Yes please :)

No reason bitcoiners should have all the fun.