@TheFuzzStone glad I'm not using either #zoom or #keybase
@yarmo, As I provide escrow services for the Russian/Ukrainian part of the #crypto community, there are many scammers who pretend to be me in order to steal money from people, so I always encourage everyone to request a #PGP signature for some message to make sure it's me. 99.999% of people don't want to deal with PGP, install additional software, import my PGP key, etc.
In this case people need only to copy-paste my signed message here and press "Verify" button:
I get what you mean now - just took the PGP signed message from your page. This is indeed very easy for a non-technical person.
@kravietz, and that is the main point why I'm "using" #keybase.
But, because they sold themselves as the last whores to a company like #Zoom, it finally killed my faith in this project.
Their cloud (free 250 Gb) is so slow that I can't explain it to you how much.
The Keybase messenger itself - it offers nothing new, moreover it is slow.
This is probably where blockchain might eventually have some real-world usage :) Because what Keybase does it essentially a public ledger, just centralized. If this could be implemented in the form of a smart contract for example, it could be quite effective actually. And digital signature is at the very core of Ethereum and any other crypto currency so readily available.
Haha that's the all-time rant between crypto community and cryptocurrencies community with the first not considering the latter to be "real crypto" etc 😂
PGP is not popular anywhere because it's 90's philosophy packed in 2000's user interface and simply confusing. When you try to use it to avoid confusing and scam, you quickly discover you're even more confused than in the beginning :)
@kravietz, PGP is popular in deepweb, very much. And this is cool.
With all the dark markets being busted periodically people have a lot of motivation to use PGP there 😂
So the optimal solution would be probably a blockchain based public ledger where people's identities bump their trust rating and the smart contract prominently displays it in user-friendly way, a bit like Threema rates the trust level of your contacts.
@kravietz, you can't screw a fancy turbo-crypto-blockchain everywhere. 🙂
Although, to what you've described, in theory it is possible.
But most likely no one will, because PGP is not so popular, even among #crypto enthusiasts (which always surprised me), so... 🤷♂️