Quote from: roosbit on April 24, 2019, 11:12:09 AM

Quote from: CryptopreneurBrainboss on March 23, 2019, 11:29:36 AM

Speaking about the ongoing stellar airdrop by blockchain.com which started as a fair one but now requires those interested in the airdrop to pass some KYC procedures, I ask, is it worth it? We complain of Facebook, Google etc of stealing our privacy and possible selling them for profit to other companies and praise blockchain of been decentralized yet we're willing to sell our private details to some centralized organization offering services related to the blockchain technology and we think it's safer? I get it that the bear market has affected numerous newbie that came into the market in 2017 but I ask again is just $25 worth your privacy?

Of course $25 isn't worth our privacy/identity! But try look at this from another angle.....
Imagine if this whole process was done without kyc... people would have abused the giveaway because this is open to everyone in the world....which means high competition for the few slots avalaible, so one way to give equal opportunities to all is to use KYC.

Quote from: CryptopreneurBrainboss on March 23, 2019, 11:29:36 AM

I suspect this moved by them as a deliberate attempt to steal users private details (identify), first they made the airdrop looks so simple and easy thereby deceiving numerous customers into believing they would get free $25 after they have trapped their victim, they then introduce kyc to steal their identity.

The thing with bounties,giveaways, airdrops and anything related to freebies is these always attract certain people trying to cheat the system and as far as I know KYC is one of the ways used to try and discourage cheating and make this a fair process.

KYC will do nothing except temporary obstacles.
Massively - maybe, instead of 1000 multi-accounts, 500 are registered, but the rest can also go through these KYC - the only question is the cost.

By topic: I also participated, but did not want to disclose ID so dont receive XLM =(