In light of Zoom buying keybase (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430), this project might be more interesting to users of keybase now.
Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities
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Re: Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities
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I keep hearing people say this, but I don't understand it. It was a fun little giveaway experiment funded by someone else, in the spirit of the company's focus on cryptography. I don't visit the cryptocurrency tab anymore, and it's not like it gets in the way or anything.
It was a trainwreck that damaged the project's reputation and harmed its users. If you know crypto, it had several problems. There are worse coins to airdrop on your users but not many. The user experience resembled that used by scammers on Telegram and the project's overall behaviour looked like a de-anonymization attack (I mean that seems to be Keybase's business model but this looked exactly like one). All of this…
In all honesty I believe the crypto offerings were a smart idea that didn’t undermine Keybases reputation , it attempted to highlight a user friendly exchange of Stellar and any further crypto to come along .
What did undermine the reputation was allowing a system that could be scammed which called for the closing of the offering .
Clearly not thought out enough .