This giveaway is already over, I missed the chance to get the $25 cos my identity is really more important to give out for a measly fee. I had gotten to the stage of uploading my passport at the kyc stage and I just stopped. I heard it takes four weeks for the rewards to be given, I don't know how true it is though
the giveaway is not over offically yet. its still running. but it does not matter since probably noone gets there anything anymore anyway.
i always thought that blockchain.com is a good and stabile crypto company and really keep their word and are able to manage this huge task. but seems that i was wrong.
i am part of the group (cryptoenthusiasts), round 25 people and most of us made verifications already beginning of november. most of verifications were in status "verified" withhin minutes, other big part got status "under rewiew" and some did not get verified.
a) small part of verified people, only 5 i think, became airgrop link during a christmas time, but 2 of them did not work and blockchain.com support is a biggest task to go trough. until now one of those two became airdrop, other is still writing/fighting with support and will probably never become this airdrop. one of verified people was suddenly unverified when he tried to claim airdrop and asked support about this problem. he needed to do new verification and even after several attempts it did not work. verification process seemed to function fine, but there was no change in status. support does not help and says contineously that he needs to verify himself again. until now there is no solution and probably will never be.
b) All people in status "under review" had to wait until middle of January, first then people from blockchain.com found time to check them trough. most of them are now verified but there is still no airdrop. request to support stay not answered or in very few cases get some senseless automated answers from some email bot. even thou there were some small batches airdropped end of January not a one of our people got a airdrop. and noone believes anymore that it ever will be any airdrop.
c) most of not verified people did not have even a possibility to make their verifications again because blockchain.com classified them in some unknown reason as "possible fraudulent attempt". all those people are legit and made their verifications personally. Blockchain.com does not care and says in their answers only that there will be no possibility to make verification again. from where they take the right to call legit people with legit documents as fraudulent?
conclusion:
with this airdrop program one of the oldest crypto company blockchain.com showed to everyone in this world how unable they are to manage this kind of massive actions. most of the people who i know lost their trust to them and are thinking that all this huge action is a mask to cover their some other losses or push up their books for tax purposes. we followed those transactions which we had from this 2 sucessfull airdrops and became to the point that the whole airdrop program is a joke. if they really would want to drop $125mio then with this speed as they showed now they will need years to drop such much. in december and january together were XLMs in value of only few million dollars droped. to continue with this tempo it will take at least until 2024 to drop all $125mio. thats what they are probably doing since price of XLM dropped round 60% since airdrop announcement November 9th 2018. probably blockchain.com only waits that price rises again, what means actually that they are playing with the money what Stellar Foundation gave to them to drop. Airdrops are made in XLM but based on $, so for example were airdrop sizes in november more than two times smaller than those end of january! Blockchain.com is not anymore able to fill their announced airdrop without wasting a time. the only way they have will be to let participants wait as long its possible and give them airdrop when price is up again.
bad thing is that announcement was not made only by blockchain.com but also by Stellar foundation. all this situation puts also Stellar Foundation in bad light next to unable people of blockchain.com. if Stellar foundation wants to keep their good reputation they should clear up the situation.
little math in this point:
$125,000,000 should be airdropped
$25 per verified acc
means 5,000,000 people should become a airdrop
day of the announcement XLM was $0.26
means 96XLM per airdrop, so it would mean that there are round 480,000,000 XLM to distribute
today XLM price is $0.08
means 312XLM per airdrop, so todays amount would be 1,560,000,000 XLM to distribute.
this math shows why probably blockchain.com is not dropping anymore. they made a huge miscalculation and would be probably out of XLM soon if they would continue to airdrop now, so they would not be able to fullfill their promise to drop $125,000,000. only reason that they are still droping some XLM is probably only for that to show that there are still some XLM to drop. noone believes anymore that they are able to drop all $125mio. and they are too afraid to say that they made mistake...
i think its now only like a lottery: if you have verified acc in blockchain.com then you will get some XLM if you are really lucky. for this kind of lottery its really not worth to give to some company your identity.
i personally am very dissapointed in blockchain.com
this writing bases on real documentation (emails) and mathematics. personal opinion is added just only to give a bit color to all this.
