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So I think Keybase is an amazing product, and this seems great as well, but I get a bit stressed that everything is free.

I would happily pay for kbfs alone and I would hate to see them go under because they run out of money.

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I second you! I think that Keybase holds a lot more potential than most of the Blockchain unicorns floating around... I'd be happy to pay for kbfs to gain some assurance that I won't lose everything because the company went under or got acquired by someone with less scruples.

Thirding this. I’m a huge Dropbox user now but the public folders and the file syncing provided by kbfs check all the same boxes I care about, with none of the privacy or ethical issues that company has. The only reason I haven’t moved already is because the future is uncertain wrt. future cost.

Cool! Pay me and I"ll build you a linux server with mattermost and git on it. You can self host all the things they're putting together here on keybase. And it's free now, but it won't be for too much longer, soon there'll be freemium and then a full paid service. Because they want you to build an environment and workflow around it, and once you're making money with it you'll gladly pay a bit in a few years or so when you're large enough to afford it.

But until then, I"ll totally build you a self hosted solution. I'll even work remote.

Am I confused on mattermost's feature set or did you miss that end 2 end encryption is the core "product" of Keybase and everything else is addons to that?

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