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There are bots that are using blockchain to snipe directly.

That makes sense. Interesting. I guess Byteball team didnt know that Steem Blockchain has ridiculously INSANE amounts of abusers.

Crypto, Internet, Free money, they are pretty damn shortsighted if they didn't expect abusers. Don't even have to add in Steem

Steemians are battle hardened abusers....sniping rewards from the clutches of rightful rewardee....

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That is mighty unfair :/ I hate that there are such people around....they screw it up for the rest of us. We'll never had a good strong community this way. I think you're right. It's fairly easy to reach the 50 rep mark, and that way it would've been harder to glitch. Although at the time, it just seemed nice for a lot of low rep users..:/

Maybe if we choose to post our steem username publicly inside byteball wallet, someone can find our address immediately from byteball explorer.

Yes, but even if you attest it privately, it is possible to see from the explorer, which addresses have attested, see following link, some attestations have the data public and some in private https://byteball.co/@JEDZYC2HMGDBIDQKG3XSTXUSHMCBK725

Me too, referred two users privately but I didn't get any referral reward. And they said they got less amount of gbyte than it was promised.