I have posted several times about Keybase. It started as a way to connect with other people who use encryption (PGP/GPG) and verify your identity by letting you post signed messages on various services. Proving your identity is very useful if you want to be trusted. Their site allows for encrypting messages to people or verifying that they signed something.
Other facilities they offer include free cloud storage, which is encrypted and allows for sharing files with specific people, secure chat (end to end encryption) and secure version control.
They also added a Stellar Lumens wallet a while back, but I had not used this. Now they have arranged to give away a substantial amount of this crypto to their users.
They will be distributing millions of dollars in Lumens over the next 20 months starting in October. There are only about half a million users, so it could be a nice amount. There is no referral scheme involved, so I do not benefit if you take up the offer. You can just give me a vote.
There are limitations. You either need to be an existing Keybase user or to create an account and add it to a Github or Hackernews account that existed before the offer started. They need to do something to prevent people creating lots of fake accounts.
Whether you can qualify for this or not you can get some Lumens for free from Coinbase. I have done a few of their giveaways and used most of it to buy more Steem as that is just more useful to me right now.
There is a Steem chatroom on Keybase if you want to join us. I am hoping someone can integrate Steem with their verification system some time. People should be able to write an appropriate post or even a comment to verify they control a Steem account. It just needs a bit of coding to link it in with their server.
Steem on!
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Thanks for the heads up. I just signed up. Once I can get my Github account out of "suspended" status, I will press on with the rest of the setup.
Are you using the same username? Let me know when you are verified and I'll follow you.
I am using the same username. I would appreciate the follow.
Thanks for sharing. I totally would have missed this otherwise.
The funny thing is I’m sure this would have been mentioned in other social channels I browse but I just would have glazed over it ... but if it’s someone I follow on steem it somehow seems more trustworthy and less spammy and I pay attention. I’m on keybase as ‘rhysmonkey’ (my usual internet pseudonym). Also I hope you like !BEER (hope this works as it’s my first attempt at tipping).
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Looks like I got a few people to join up. It's a useful service, so I hope they get something from it.
You have had a few issues with sending me !BEER. I hope mine works. The bot can be a bit flakey.
To view or trade
BEERgo to steem-engine.Hey @mrhill, here is your
BEERtoken. Enjoy it!Thankyou for sharing with us. I just joined some hours ago. I am going to follow you. My username is Koshal.
Thanks for letting us know about this ;) Just joined keybase.
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I've followed you there. Hope you get some of the airdrop. I got some overnight
This is really cool. I am not sure if I have one of those accounts, so I don't know if I can take advantage. I already did the Coinbase thing though and I have some of them from that. I will have to go back and see if I have a github account or not. I think I might!
edit, I do have a github account, it says it can't verify it though
If you have issues then you could try their support chat. I got my first payment from this last night.
I got in thanks. I just took a bit for them to verify my Github account like it said! Thanks for this!
Cool. What username are you on there with? I'm steevc as with most things.
bozz was already taken so I had to go with my old standby... bozzy
Well you have one follower at least now :)
Thank you!
great find! thanks a lot. i benefited from some Lumens from Blockchain.com. Was a nice 50€ of coins. Hopefully these guys you talk about can give something as substantial!. Cheers
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Happy to help. Always good to give back to the community.
Third time lucky? !BEER
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Sorry, you don't have enough staked BEER in your account. You need 6 BEER in your virtual fridge to give some of your BEER to others. To view or trade BEER go to steem-engine.com
Oops forgot to stake!
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Let’s try this experiment again :-)
Please enjoy 0.1 !BEER as a token of my appreciation for sharing.
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Sorry, you don't have enough staked BEER in your account. You need 6 BEER in your virtual fridge to give some of your BEER to others. To view or trade BEER go to steem-engine.com
Hmmm I see what happened. The whole BUY order on steem-engine wasn’t fulfilled.
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You need to stake more BEER (6 staked BEER allows you to call BEER one time per day)