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100% on this. What made this sad was the mission of Keybase and its founder appears to have been b.s. in the face of enough zeroes on a check.

Remember when they got roped into some lame cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme? Hahaha. The joys of having VC debt and no business model.

> in the face of enough zeroes on a check ... roped into some lame cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme

It turns out the number of zeros required was zero.

They air-dropped XLM Stellar Lumens

A fork of Ripple XRP after Ripple was sold

Same dude that did both ^ also created and sold MtGox (likely insolvent) to Mark Karpeles

Need articbull to do all the citations on Jed/ripple/stellar and how keybase ended up having a stellar wallet