Quote from: figmentofmyass on September 08, 2019, 06:43:52 PM

Quote from: 1Referee on September 08, 2019, 12:25:46 AM

Quote from: figmentofmyass on September 07, 2019, 07:21:08 PM

the stellar giveaway? how do you know it was a great success?

https://blog.blockchain.com/2019/07/15/airdrops-adoption-whats-ahead/

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In the end we successfully airdropped Stellar (XLM) to millions of users across 140 countries and have since seen users save, swap and send XLM multiple times over.

That's a pretty damn great success.

true, that sounds pretty good on paper. but i'm sure the ultimate goal was to convert airdrop recipients into exchange customers, hence the KYC process. i wonder what their conversion rate is since people coming for freebies usually don't intend to become paying customers. they spent a boatload of cash verifying millions of people; that much i know.

true but they also not have built a gigantic database of a large number of bitcoin users. and this is a very valuable asset for the company. who knows what they are doing behind the scene and privately. possibly working with governments or different companies like the chain analysis ones. so it could be a good revenue for them to just let them "look up" things in their database.