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I've never heard of this company before. How do they make money if this is free?

• eganist 9y ago
  That's not the primary motivation right now. Much of the investment they're attracting is in support of building the technologies to support products down the road, as best as anyone can tell from the outside. malgorithms can correct me if he's feeling it. And you've been on HN 3+ years and not seen all the keybase proofs in peoples' profiles? Mine's a good example.
  • grzm 9y ago
    To be honest, although I haven't been around that long, I have noticed the keybase proofs and still wondered about the purpose of the company as a whole. It seems to have something to do with identity, but other than that I haven't been interested enough to search out more information about them.
  • bachmeier 9y ago
    > That's not the primary motivation right now. That's a scary thought. Building this type of software takes a lot of money. > And you've been on HN 3+ years and not seen all the keybase proofs in peoples' profiles? Mine's a good example. I rarely check profiles.
    • eganist 9y ago
      > That's a scary thought. Building this type of software takes a lot of money. I'd argue that this is the point of raising investments prior to there being a product which may generate revenue.