Steem bot goes live

The Byteball platform has opened up to the 1 million+ Steem community, with the release of the much anticipated Steem Attestation Bot.

The release gives Steem users the following benefits:

Connect their Steem username to their Byteball wallet. Steem usernames will be stored on the Byteball DAG as an attestation (basically proof of Steem identity).

Receive free Bytes from undistributed Byteball funds.

Send Bytes and Blackbytes to steem/username instead of less user-friendly crypto wallet addresses. (Reminder — the main currency of the Byteball platform is Bytes, whilst Blackbytes are the private currency)

Coming soon: Steem reputation dependant discounts on several services of other Byteball bots, like identity attestation and credit card fees reimbursement.

Byteball will pay Steem users based on their Steem reputation score and for referring other users. The higher the reputation the bigger the reward. This will incentivize Steem users with significant influence to raise awareness of the Byteball platform.

We are cautiously optimistic that this integration will significantly grow the size of our community over the coming months. To our knowledge, this is the very first time that Steem and its 1 million huge community is going to become an airdrop platform.

It is also only the second time (after the recent real name attestation update) that Byteball has made an airdrop where a percentage of funds are locked by a smart contract and therefore cannot be sold for 1 year. This may reduce the negative effect previous airdrops have had on the price of Bytes, as Steem users cannot sell all their rewarded funds immediately. Better yet, it might incentivize Steem users to participate in the Byteball community to increase the value of their holdings in the future.

You can read more about this release.

Milestone 2 completed for BIoT (Byteball Internet of Things)

The development of the main core and payment channels of the system has reached the stage where people can test what has been built!

Byteball developer Evgeniy Stulnikov has published the code and examples on Github. Feedback from any interested developers would be much appreciated.

New sports betting tool launched — BB Odds

The popular Byteball Betting Bot has just become much more appealing thanks to the launch of BB Odds. BB Odds lets people view the available sports fixtures and odds in the Byteball Betting Bot without first installing a Byteball wallet.

Telling people they can bet on sports using Byteball smart contracts was good, but now thanks to BB Odds, we can show them in real time exactly what sports and fixtures they can bet on, and what the odds are. You can read more details about this release on the Byteball Medium.

A massive thanks to Tarmo from the Byteball community for building this. Also thanks to another community member Papabyte who built the Betting Bot and helped Tarmo with some of the backend integrations to make the new tool work.

Buy Bytes with Visa or Mastercard — bot update

You can now buy Bytes even without real name attestation. Note though that in this case there will be no partial reimbursement of the fees, and Indacoin will perform its own verification.

This update is useful for users who don’t have Bytes even to pay for the attestation or just don’t want their real name to be attested.

Love on Twitter

Kyle Samani, a partner at Multicoin Capital found out about the Byteball textcoin feature and tweeted about it. Vinny Lingham is another well known figure in the crypto world and is also a partner at Multicoin.

It’s good to see well known figures in the industry showing interest in our platform. Nearly as good was reading a Twitter comment thread that wasn’t filled with free Ethereum giveaway bot spam.

#WhenEarth

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