Quote from: Vaerros on November 04, 2017, 09:05:33 PM

I am trying to figure out how can I spend etherballs or exchange? Receiving them for free won't add any value to them, no?

There is a quote from the developer of Byteball in the OP that pretty much answers to your question, I'll repost it here:

Quote from: tonych on September 05, 2016, 04:00:28 PM

There will be no ICO, no crowdsale. I believe the success of a currency depends on the number of people who own it, in fact Peter Rs research suggests that historical marketcap of Bitcoin follows Metcalfe's law: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=572106.0, i.e. it is proportional to the square of the number of active users. Thats why I want Byteball to be in the hands of as many people as possible

We're doing the same for Etherball. The mass adoption and the value of a cryptocurrency relies totally on consensus and requires a total distribution, that's why we are realeasing 95% of Ebytes for free.