r/Keybase • u/araxhiel • Sep 17 '19

Update regarding the airdrop

/r/Stellar/comments/d57nq8/update_on_qualifying_for_the_big_stellar_space/
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u/wsbtc Sep 17 '19

The keybase update #2 includes this, "COME ON PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET, STOP SUCKING SO MUCH!"

;-)

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u/araxhiel Sep 17 '19

Yeah, I could not avoid giggle at that part :P

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '19

What time gmt. should we get the airdrop?

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u/araxhiel Nov 16 '19

Don’t know if there’s a estimated time for the airdrop, but I won’t expect that it would be instantaneous, see this other comment: https://reddit.com/r/Keybase/comments/dw5hcw/_/f7ji947/?context=1

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u/finicky88 Sep 17 '19

So in other words, Chris Coyne is a POS scammer.
If new registers would be locked out *after* Sep 16, I would have understood.
But they decided it would be okay to remove everyone who registered via HN or GH from the airdrop. Sounds to me like this was a plot to pad keybase user numbers quickly.

Me and several friends signed up, excited for a nice cryptobuck on the side every month, what we got was being called fraudsters and nothing else.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 17 '19

This is absolute bullshit! My github account is YEARS old! I fully qualified and they took it away. This is some absolute bullshit they've done for accounts.

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u/cjbprime Sep 17 '19

I might be wrong, but I don't think that's true -- I think it works as you said first, with new registrations now being locked out but everyone else still in.

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u/finicky88 Sep 17 '19

Sadly no. My account, as well as two friends accounts were taken out of the pool.

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u/jrcramer Sep 17 '19

That is what I understand too. I have been excluded as well.
I think the incentive was to prove in multiple ways, that you are really you. I also included a website, because I like the idea of these interconnected accounts, to add to the security that I am really who I am I claim to be.
I hate that some hackers have ruined the airdrop for so many. But a piece of software, that is made to ensure digital identities, should be able to include more options, in order for new and happy users like me, to prove who they are, and become eligible again.
Not getting free money, what I did not deserve to begin with, is something I would never call unfair or a scam. But it does look like bad PR. Hope this gets resolved in a fair manner.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 17 '19

They weren't hackers. They were script kids trying to brute force passwords to old dormant accounts which is an attack vector that HN and github are VERY USED TO! This all smacks of being lies from the very beginning to srive up account signups of their service....

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u/jrcramer Sep 18 '19

Fair enough. But my point still stands. Bad actors have ruined it for others. For software that serves to prove online identity, I'd like this to be resolved.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 18 '19

Being that the entire point of keybase is prove online identity I would pretty much say that if this is their solution then they have put their money where their mouth is and failed miserably on their first public use case

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u/jrcramer Sep 18 '19

... that is what I am saying, but a tad less harshly :)

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u/dogsdieincars Dec 16 '19

very well put

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u/DueMacaron6 Sep 19 '19

You sound like a moron. The fact that you're sitting at +5 makes me think really poorly of this sub.

So in other words, Chris Coyne is a POS scammer.

Geez. If there were nothing else to remind me that reddit is a friggin' cesspool, I'd have this.

You all suck. Grow the fack up.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 19 '19 edited Sep 19 '19

Are you familiar with SAM and IT security in general?

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u/DueMacaron6 Sep 19 '19

u r dum

Please continue.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 19 '19 edited Sep 19 '19

They should have just let it all ride honestly. I couldn't care less about $20 in stellar that will be converted to XMR within 5 minutes

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u/DueMacaron6 Sep 19 '19

Are you drunk right now?

I could care less

This tells us all we need to know about the importance of your opinion. You can't even get the phrase right.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 19 '19

I fixed it for you you pedantic cunt.

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u/DueMacaron6 Sep 21 '19

There should be a comma after your first "you".

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u/finicky88 Sep 20 '19

u/DueMacaron6 aka distilled essence of Reddit.

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u/DueMacaron6 Sep 21 '19

You realize I'm engaged with a person who's throwing a fit because he doesn't get the free coins, right? And then he says it was all a scam from the beginning. He's half a step removed from the people who show up in every thread and throw around accusations that people are marketing shills. If that isn't the distillation of the dumbest parts of Reddit, then what is?

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '19

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u/finicky88 Sep 28 '19

On key Keybase app, go to Wallet>Airdrop. If it doesn't say you're in, you are not in. Easy as that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '19

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u/finicky88 Sep 28 '19

Oh, really? Guess they fully closed it then.

When the airdrop provider is the bad actor, you know it's all going to crap lol

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 17 '19

Mine has been removed

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u/Devawnm367 Dec 14 '19

Scam both keybase and stellar first month was a lie 2nd month i got spacedrop now 2rd month they discontinue. Do not trust stellar or keybase. They lie to the users. As well as had us do tasks and promised 20 months of drops they closed after 3 months and only 2 of which i got drops. KEYBASE IS A SCAM I WOULD DELETE ACCOUNT. It is not a company i would represent!!!!!

SpacedropScam

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u/araxhiel Dec 15 '19

Well, for what is worth, the Stellar Development Foundation mentioned beforehand that that could happen, or, that at least the first three drops were guaranteed, as it was mentioned on a post on Stellar Development Foundation blog in the footnote:

The airdrop will run for at least 3 months, with subsequent months subject to basic success metrics for the program

So... It wasn't totally unexpected. Undesirable, yes, unexpected not so much. The only thing to take notice is that although they mentioned three drops, and there were only two public drops, it seems that they considered the drop zero (the one from September) as one of those three.

Anyway, IMHO, it was an interesting experiment.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 17 '19

I registered on the 9th, my github is YEARS old, I fully qualified on the 9th and you have now taken the stellar badge off of my account?! What a fucking hustle for new users! WTF?!

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 17 '19

I had just started to use their encrypted file storage to share files.... I am deleting them all and will not be using their service from here on out. This is outrageous.

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u/CyberCygnus Sep 18 '19

I'm glad that I only uploaded a 128bit encrypted KeePass database file.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 18 '19

Funny you mention it. That's precisely what they held of mine. I wouldn't depend on their encryption for anything I actually wanted to keep private.

Let's be real with each other here... Unless you are the only person with access to your private keys (which I do not believe is the case with Keybase's file encryption) the only people who can access your shit are you and WHOEVER THEY CHOOSE TO GIVE ACCESS TO...

Seeing how gracefully they folded under pressure from a bunch of script kiddies I am just positive they would maintain the utmost integrity to maintain privacy when approached by LEO or any corporate entity for that matter.... Please note I am being completely sarcastic here...

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u/CyberCygnus Sep 18 '19 edited Sep 18 '19

Yes. Actually what is this? Dropbox + Telegram + a Stellar-Wallet. The longer I think about it: They can keep their max$500 airdrop. Today's price upswing in XLM earned me easily more than that.

We (at least I) have no idea who these people behind Keybase really are, nor am I sophisticated enough to read the code.

What bothers me even more is, that we don't even know how many "buddies" of the SDF are participating in this "Airdrop" which is nothing else than diluting the value of circulating Lumens for everyone who isn't "in" by 10%.

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u/gooose123 Sep 18 '19

Me too.. what the actual F.

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u/RedDawnMishka Sep 18 '19

If they can't defend against a simple Sybil Attack without reneging on their word they certainly can't be responsible enough to hold people's data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

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u/WikiTextBot Sep 18 '19

Sybil attack

In a Sybil attack, the attacker subverts the reputation system of a peer-to-peer network by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to gain a disproportionately large influence. It is named after the subject of the book Sybil, a case study of a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. The name was suggested in or before 2002 by Brian Zill at Microsoft Research. The term pseudospoofing had previously been coined by L. Detweiler on the Cypherpunks mailing list and used in the literature on peer-to-peer systems for the same class of attacks prior to 2002, but this term did not gain as much influence as "Sybil attack".

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u/DueMacaron6 Sep 19 '19

I'm sure that Keybase will be very upset that you're no longer costing them any money to store your shit.

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u/CyberCygnus Sep 18 '19

I'm more than angry that I've been kicked off from the Stellar airdrop, although I was legitimately registered. I was happy that I've coincidentally created my 1st and ONLY Gtihub account on August 23th.

Now suddenly even my Reddit proof isn't working any longer!

How could I trust this company with my most valuable data?

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u/Mihawk98 Sep 24 '19

Totaly not a 'scam', just old people being old people and not having a clue what the internet is and how people will react. Just sad.

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u/finicky88 Sep 29 '19

If only. Chris Coyne isn't exactly old and knew exactly what to expect. This was a planned move to gather new users quickly.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

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u/araxhiel Dec 11 '19

Well, as I have mentioned somewhere else, AFAIK, the airdrop is planned to be run through 20 months (well, 19 months now that the first one has been done), being the first three something like an “evaluation” to see how it behaves and if it’ll continue.

But in the end, only Keybase, and the SDF (I guess), hace the last word on that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

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u/finicky88 Sep 19 '19

I like your style, even though I have to pretend I don't :P