Interesting they are soliciting personalities, rather than infrastructure, sysadmins and others who might have more power to push Handshake. Leaves out a lot of the Great Old Ones too, like say a big hunk of Debian and Ubuntu developers. Or Firefox devs, who have a lot of power here. Lots of projects predate Github. When I looked, I'm honestly surprised how many followers I have there - why would you follow me personally? Rather than the projects? I wouldn't follow me. Seems rather creepy.

Edit: I see elsewhere there have been cash drops to Debian, Arch and probably some other projects. Which makes sense.

It’s not soliciting personalities but rather developers who have made things useful to at least 15 other developers, at least on Github.

They also needed exposed public keys to airdrop to, which limited the airdrop to Github and the WoT strong set.

> who have made things useful to at least 15 other developers

Then why not look how many stars one's repos have? That seems a much better metric to me.

A friend of mine has hundreds of stars on their repos but only 30 followers. I have around a hundred stars on my repos but only 20 followers. Conversely, I've seen people who are into networking, have a lot of GitHub followers, and no meaningful repos at all.

Tieshun, I fulfill those requirements, submitted the claim, was told the Handshake coins would appear in Namebase within half an hour, and... they didn't. The experience was smooth, except for the last part, which was a little underwhelming.

Time to read more about Handshake I guess?

Sorry I should've made this more clear. Txs aren't enabled until block 2016 (in less than 6 hours). The claiming process will only work after then. If you try again after block 2016 it should work! It's currently on block 1970 https://hnsxplorer.com/

It was clearly written in the non-interactive part of the instructions. Apparently I can't read. Thank you for your patience!

Well either way, we’re passed block 2016 now so you can claim! Were you able to try it out?

I hope it updates the ssh keys, because I’m pretty sure I roll mine every couple of years.

It doesn't update with SSH keys because the tree is static, but it was updated within a few months ago, so if you claim now (in 1-2 days when claiming is enabled on the mainnet) it should work with your existing keys.