Wasn't keybase started due to a problem snowden had? He couldn't easily verify the GPG key of a journalist? They even resorted to tweeting the public key finger

Wasn't keybase started due to a problem snowden had? He couldn't easily verify the GPG key of a journalist? They even resorted to tweeting the public key fingerprint to verify: https://twitter.com/micahflee/status/296119710485979136 https://twitter.com/micahflee/status/296119710485979136