I am very leery and cautious about anything
Claiming to be "Free" as in 'Their Ain't Nothin' Free' in this life.
There is always a cost, always a catch. Will I be asked to
Give up my posting key or anything like that?
I hear so much about people getting
Their wallets emptied by going
For things like this. I will
Check it out though.
The verification is done through SteemConnect, so it's perfectly safe. But, of course, they are not giving the money for nothing - they want to gain new users and paying Steem users is their way of doing that.
They posted somewhere that over 60,000 Steemit accounts were verified by Byteball, without a single problem.