They’ve evolved into one of our strongest ecosystem participants. We first started working with Keybase because they have a great team, and they support our values of privacy, security, and independence from corporate behemoths. In its blog post, SDF explains why it chose to partner with Keybase: that was registered before this announcement. If your Keybase account was not registered before this announcement, then you need to connect your Keybase account to a GitHub or HackerNews account that is “old enough”, i.e. “at least 3 Keybase installs (or paper keys)”.Keybase says that to join this airdrop program, you must have: 100 million XLM each month, to “authenticated” Keybase users.

SDF says that it plans to give away up to two billion XLM over the next 20 months, i.e. Keybase’s encryption makes a cloud break-in impossible. Imagine if someone broke into Slack’s servers and stole and published your company’s or family’s messages? It would be devastating. Inside Keybase, all chats are end-to-end encrypted. It supports groups big and small, communities, and teams. Keybase is a free, secure alternative to Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other chat apps. This is how the Keybase website describes Keybase Chat:

Keybase is available on the web, and available as a downloadable app for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Files placed in the public portion of the filesystem are served from a public endpoint, as well as locally from a filesystem mounted by the Keybase client. Keybase offers an end-to-end encrypted chat and cloud storage system, called Keybase Chat and the Keybase filesystem respectively. Keybase is a key directory that maps social media identities to encryption keys (including, but not limited to PGP keys) in a publicly auditable manner. Here is a description of Keybase from Wikipedia: Stellar Development Foundation (SDF, which is the non-profit organization founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb (co-founder of Ripple and its former CTO) and Joyce Kim to “support the development and growth of the open-source Stellar network”, announced on Monday (September 9) that it has partnered with Keybase for its “Stellar Largest Airdrop” See Keybase’s announcement for more details.Stellar Planning to Airdrop 2 Billion XLM to Users of Messaging Platform Keybase To qualify, you must have a Keybase account registered before this announcement OR if you’re new to Keybase, you must connect your Keybase account to a GitHub or HackerNews account that was registered before this announcement. The airdrop will run for at least 3 months, with subsequent months subject to basic success metrics for the program. We’re very excited to see what the future holds.

Stellar makes Keybase more powerful, and they do the same for us. As people continue to realize that other group chat alternatives aren’t safe - Slack’s breach from 2015 is still pwning people today - Keybase will continue to grow. Keybase has over 300,000 users right now. They’ve gone above and beyond integrating Stellar into their wallet, and their userbase would represent a big step up in usage and adoption for the network.

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