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Totally appropriate. I should say that we don't really want to be in the business of building general crypto apps ourselves, but Keybase identity proofs can mak

Totally appropriate. I should say that we don't really want to be in the business of building general crypto apps ourselves, but Keybase identity proofs can make a bunch of things possible. Anything from financial transactions (send a BTC to twitter user X and know it's going to an address they control) to data access (let Keybase/github/twitter user Y access this server/file/whatever). The idea here is that any app can (1) ask Keybase for a user's key and identity proofs, and then (2) verify it all. The API is not done, btw. If another call is needed, and you're really serious about building it, we will expand the API.

eric_bullington 12y ago
>send a BTC to twitter user X Exactly. I've had my eye on Keybase issue #218 [1], and I'm hoping that you all will provide a way for users to provide a confirmed Bitcoin payment address. You could just generate a unique message for the user to sign with the address using their Bitcoin client. Most bitcoin-qt and most other GUIs even have a menu option now for signing, so it should be easy for users to do. To preserve privacy, a user could even post a stealth address, to the extent that stealth addresses are supported in the user's client software. Most clients aren't there yet, but I think more will start supporting stealth addresses this year. 1. https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/218 https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/218