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Steem goes wild for Byteball

Since we released the integration for the Steem community on July 12, more than 27,000 Steem users have linked their account to their Byteball wallet. That is a lot!

On July 17 alone we distributed over 2 Terabytes to users. The majority of these users never had a Byteball wallet before, so it’s a large amount of exposure for Byteball.

As we hoped, Steem users have not just claimed their Bytes but published their own content, helping to attract more attention to the Byteball platform. Here are a couple of example videos from users neopch and teamhumble, but if you look on Steemit you will find many other examples.

With previous distributions many users have quickly converted all their Bytes into Bitcoin/fiat currency (which obviously isn’t the intention). However with this distribution 50–75% of rewards are locked by a smart contract, and cannot be claimed for 12 months.

Clearly locking a percentage of the funds did not have much impact on the interest the distribution generated. This is excellent news for potentially much wider reaching distributions we have planned. Stay tuned!

WCG is back distributing free Bytes

From July 18 we are again distributing free Bytes via the World Community Grid (WCG) project.

To celebrate the return we have increased the rewards:

Earn $1 for every 100,000 points.

10% bonus to team members: all WCG “Byteball.org” team members will receive the bonus on top of the reward itself.

For those unfamiliar with WCG, its an IBM sponsored philanthropic initiative that has been running since 2004. WCG allows you to use idle time of your computer to help scientists solve the world’s biggest problems in health and sustainability.

You can learn how to receive free Byes and more about the WCG project in the initial announcement we made in April.

There are currently 348 other people on the Byteball WCG team, and our team has a global rank of 114. Join today and help us break the top 100!

Byteball on Utopian Open Source Radio

On Wednesday July 25 6pm UTC, we will be featured on the “Utopian Open Source Radio” show. User Acquisition Manager Casper Niebe will be a guest on the show which is broadcast live, explaining the Byteball project and all the features it provides. Listeners are invited to actively take part in the show and ask questions.

To tune in, head to https://discord.gg/uzjja7d

To join in the discussion and ask questions, head to the audience chat: https://discord.gg/UmQ29uJ

Mark the date and time in your calendar!

Area Representatives as a result of the Use-a-Thon in Venezuela

Following the first ever Byteball Use-a-Thon in Venezuela two new Area Representatives from Venezuela have joined the team. Santiago and Adrian go by the usernames @Saso and @Sirfalas on the Byteball Slack.

Their first task is to help the other teams from the Use-a-Thon realize their projects. They have already established contacts with the management of the university to enable us to move forward with one of the submitted use cases, which we believe could have huge potential for Byteball.

New developer documentation

To help new developers get started with bots we have added an example bot on Github. Developers can copy it and start making their own.

Developer documentation was also added on verifying address by a signed message.

Byteduino grant accepted

Papabyte, creator of the Byteball Betting Bot, has had his grant accepted for his Byteduino project. He will work on creating a micro Byteball device on a microcontroller (PDF link).

Website translations

Byteball.org is now translated into 14 languages, 7 of them with new design and 7 with the old design. If you are interested in helping out with Byteball translations please join the project on Crowdin.

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