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  1. Steemit.chat is not on the blockchain
  2. You can use any name you want on Steemit.chat if it's not already used. This has led to scammers using the names of big organisations to make people believe that they are trustable. Many newbies have lost their funds and accounts because of this.

I faced that problem sometimes too. You don't know who is authentic and who is not. Anyone can use any name on steemit.chat.

My name on Chat is the same as heerre. Plus, you can verify me on Keybase as well.

The goal never was to replace steem.chat. Rather to give an easy way to initiate contact and send messages via the blockchain and if needed afterwards - switching to other plattforms (steem.chat, discord) is always possible.

It's always good to have an alternate platform to steemit chat. As it has been down a lot of times in the last year.

And a lot of users are not on discord.

I was waiting for some service like yours for a long time. If this one works properly, I will not use discord and chat anymore!

how about the delays between sending a paid memo?

Steem creates a new block every 3 seconds