I wonder what % of new users who linked a BTC balance heard about the cancelled airdrop and deleted Byteball before this happened, thinking that they got screwed after the last-minute cancellation.
I'm guessing it's a fair number of them. We can consider those tokens "burned" from the distribution.
it didn't occur to anyone to give people a little heads up that this was going to happen before the time? weird.
i like surprises. some people don't. everyone prefers some information so they can plan for events like this.
It was to compensate those who might have already incurred costs thinking that an airdrop might take place. Those who didn't take any action yet and found out that the airdrop was cancelled, actually didn't lose anything. As Darkstar said, if you had told people in advance, then there would be hundreds of bitcoin addresses with dust getting linked to Byteball addresses.