The very first link at the top goes towards a very detailed and easier to read post on the entire process.  It is a bit complicated and I'm not very good at explaining such things so I just put the link there and hoped that people would follow it.

I've really had a lot of fun claiming the reward and looking into how things work.

There is a lot of information out there on Byteball.  It does things a bit differently and I found it fun to look into.  I've only just started using it so I'm learning about it too.

I don't think so but it would be best to wait for some time to see if the bot replies first.  (Once I got my reward I left the bot installed so I'm not sure what would happen if I removed it now - I doubt it would remove my reward.)  Funds that were in my wallet before I started the bot remained there after I removed the bot but I did not remove the bot during the process after I paid my fee with it, so I can't say for sure.  (It's a good thing my job is not giving tech support, LOL)

You can safely remove the bot, it doesn't affect your existing Bytes, you can remove the bot even when the transaction is confirmed. Some bots that you have smart-contracts with, you can't remove yet (maybe in future).

I don't remove my bots because existing bots can also notify me when something changes (not many bots do that) or when you get reward for referral (you don't need to have bot installed to get referrals).

What I strongly suggest to do is Full backup because anything can happen and it would be bad if you loose your wallet for some reason and doesn't have backup.

Yup, people are always gaming the system, it's sort of kind of funny if you ask me and a bit of a vote of confidence from the hacker community about the possibility of the long term value of GBytes, LOL. 

*Don't these people know that your really supposed to charge straight into the gunfire and no fair hiding in the woods in camos?   (Speaking of historically about gaming the system of course. LOL)*

Actually, I do hope that people can find it easier to play along with things than try to game the system through unusual ways.

I'm hodling and actually purchased some small amounts off the exchange.  The way it is setup could be a good long term investment imho.  

One thing to think about is how much any particular coin pays the people who mine it and how efficiently it can move the blockchain.  In the case of bitcoin for example, a great deal of investment has to continue to be put into the coin in order to maintain the price because of the block reward being paid to miners who use a great deal of energy to produce each block.

Byteballs doesn't have the payments for block rewards but there is more centralization involved in the blockchain which is another thing to consider.

In any case I'm mostly kind of interested in writing some bot code.  I probably won't get to that for awhile since my days are spent mostly camping and other stuff.  (Like contemplating my navel, LOL)

It's nice your into byteball community support is important for any coin.  I hope that it will be a success for everyone.

I hope you find things useful and get your free Byteballs.  Please let me know if you need some bytes to get started.

If you post a Byteball address after installing the wallet, I will send you enough bytes to get started.  I might post another link you can use with more funds too.

Your welcome and I hope you have fun with Steemit there are many nice things about the community.

Under the bot store in the wallet there is a "Steem attestation bot" that you can start to get your Airdrop reward.  You will need to pay the bot some funds to register your Steemit account name.  Once you do that it should send you some rewards.

Here is my byteball address 
byteball:7VSJGFBJ3JIVI57NZNBXJ7JWXSPQSZ3X

At this point besides the airdrop and trading I am not sure how to earn income with it but that may change.  Blackbytes are the privacy oriented coin that is difficult to trace if used properly.

Nice photos!