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A airdrop you might know better as a hard fork. When a hard fork happens a new coin is split off of the block chain but what happens is everyone that currently owns coins on the main blockchain also gets that many coins of the new currency.
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Hi Slavic, yeah, i think you have some things confused here. Can we discuss it?
I'm not sure it's you're fault, you're new here, but what you're explaining isn't an "Airdrop"...it's a give away, it's promotion hype, it's incorrect use by a weak developer team that doesn't know what they're doing.
So what is an Air Drop?
- An Air Drop is when either the direct group related to the coins (BTC, ETH, LTC, etc.) Decides to give some free crypto currency away. Now while in most cases the amounts are not big by any means, but free is free.
An Airdrop is how coins are distributed when a hard fork is taking place. So, yeah, Airdrops have been related to BTC, ETH, and LTC, but it's not because those developer teams decided to give you free crypto currency. It's because other developer teams need to give away free crypto currency to support their coup attempt (i.e., hard fork) of BTC, ETH, LTC, etc.
Bitcoin Cash was an Airdrop. Bitcoin Gold was an Airdrop. Ethereum was an Airdrop from Ethereum Classic.
How Do I Get an Air Drop?
- The website should tell you how to participate in the Air Drop. A lot of them will require you to follow them on Social Media ( Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, etc.). Then have you either post to their wall, retweet a post they made, share something, or join a messaging group. Then show proof in the forms the require.IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT THEY ASK AND SHOW PROOF HOW THEY REQUIRE IT YOU WILL NOT GET WHAT THEY ARE OFFERING!
If they're asking you to do work, the "free" coins are compensation for participating in the promotion.
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