Re:Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop
by mopsi on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:55AM
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Stellar doesn't seem odd to me at all. One of the large hurdles of working together with freelancers (especially from outside the US/EU) are payments.
If I find someone on Twitter or elsewhere posting artwork I like and I want to hire them, then Keybase makes the rest quite simple: easy to confirm identity, discuss details over chat, share files, and finally make payments.
Seems like a platform with great potential that's horribly misunderstood.
Re:Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop
by aprvchndrs on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:52AM
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That’s actually a fair point.
I hadn’t considered Keybase as a platform for freelance work. If Stellar is supposed to tie in with their Teams, Files and Git offerings - that makes much more sense.
But the airdrops just felt off to me. Last time I checked the github issues page - I saw half dozen issues raised just asking for airdrop info.
I use keybase with two profiles. One which is linked to my IRL identity. And one which is linked to my internet identity.
The Stellar offering seemed really odd to me - because it seemed so outside of its core functionality. Almost scammy.
Then I read an article on Ars Technica about a flood of scammers and that sort of connected the two dots. The Stellar offering seems to have flooded them with more “people” than they can handle.