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Ask HN: Why do some people have a keybase info in their HN profiles?

1 points by samcgraw ↗ HN
I understand that keybase is a way to encrypt things, but what is the benefit of having it in one's HN profile?

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nathcd
It's a proof that you control the profile. You claim on your Keybase profile that you control an HN (or Twitter, reddit, ...) account, and then you post a proof on that service to verify that you do indeed control it. https://book.keybase.io/account#proofs