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RE: How Byteball airdrop is screwing over the Steem community
I believe I have proof that bots were used to scan the blockchain. That is a serious 'loophole'.
https://steemit.com/byteball/@em3/byteball-referral-theft-at-blockchain-level
Yes, it actually took 3 days for someone to create a script that read the DAG (not a blockchain) and "catch" users' transactions of amounts similar to that used to pay the attestation fee. Initially, only a single script was active, but after 2 more days, we saw 5 or 6 more. Today, we decided to end it and remove the fee entirely, reverting to a basic referral link. The scripts caused others to develop ways to "milk" the scripts by generating transactions resembling that of users normal behavior from different addresses. (The headless light wallet allows for that) It was quite interesting to see, really :)
Thank you for the reply!!
So my friend @public-eye is out of luck? $80 in Byteball (referral bonus) lost because of these scammy programmers???
My Post shows the addresses of these scammers. I hope these addresses are frozen or deleted.
If you can help my friend that would be appreciated....
Thanks!
Since I recognized pretty much the same by referring someone via discord (no address has ever been posted somewhere) I checked the addresses and they are the same as yours just a few seconds after the transfer I made:
That is so terrible.
I hope Byteball does something to correct this.... Punish this scammer and still rightly install the referral fees to the real referrers.
We'll see.
Hope so too.