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Re:Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Found... by fiatjaf on Thursday March 08, 2018 @11:57AM (#16545639)
Nobody said they'll be injecting anything in their apps, where did you read that?

I know a bit about how Stellar works, and I can't imagine any kind of software they could "inject" in their apps besides perhaps a way to post a Stellar address into the current merkle-tree they host and a way to fetch that through an API. How is that worse than having a Bitcoin address optionally includable in the same way?

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Re:Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Found... by eropple on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:04PM (#16545707)
"All while integrating certain Stellar features directly into Keybase's apps."

The rest of their announcement, I legit don't care about. This is the deal-breaker here. You don't need a Big Announcement or to hire more people to add a Stellar address for verification. I know a bit about Stellar as well (granted, you probably know more) but this reads to me as a let's-be-a-wallet game.

And this is worse than having Bitcoin addresses: active functionality versus passive functionality. Difference of kind, yeah?

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