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by troquerre 7y ago
PSA if you had over 15 followers on GitHub by August 2018 you were likely included in the Handshake airdrop. Basically they developed a way to give each dev in the airdrop 4662 coins each (worth a lot since current market price is $0.20[1])
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by troquerre 7y ago
There have been a few comments about Handshake already. I agree that there needs to be a single DNS and not just an “alternative” bc that will fragment the namespace. I think Handshake has the potential to become the DNS that the world us
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by troquerre 7y ago
People are already purchasing TLDs for affordable prices. .coin sold for 200k HNS ($50k at market price) but there’s have been dozens of other TLDs registered for less than $10. Any alphanumeric name less than 63 characters can be registere
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by troquerre 7y ago
Namebase didn’t create the airdrop. You can still claim your coins to a cli wallet if you want, and the cli wallet is pretty easy to use actually.
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by troquerre 7y ago
To be clear, Namebase didn’t create Handshake or the airdrop. We’re building on top of it but we’re a separate team. You can also claim your coins outside of Namebase if you want. The cli wallet is actually pretty easy to use.
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by troquerre 7y ago
Duplicate accounts were deduped, but you can try both options to see which method was used for your airdrop. https://namebase.io/airdrop has instructions for GitHub. For keybase, follow the instructions from the page but in
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by troquerre 7y ago
The main goal of the Handshake airdrop was to get developers interested in using Handshake, but one of the sub-goals was to help incentivize good security practices. The airdrop process involves running a script on your private key[1], so y
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by troquerre 7y ago
You're correct. Unfortunately due to regulatory restrictions in the US, we're required to verify accounts before enabling withdrawals and selling HNS for BTC (we're not happy about it either). We work with Cognito and Jumio,
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by troquerre 7y ago
Yeah that's how the airdrop tool works and the instructions use that tool too (the first step in the instructions just shows how to install the tool).
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by troquerre 7y ago
It’s not an ethereum airdrop which goes to an address you already own. You don’t have the coins until you deliberately claim them, so it’s opt-in.
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by troquerre 7y ago
Note this airdrop was implemented on the Handshake blockchain and just went live today. If you had over 15 followers on GitHub in Aug 2018 you were included and get 4662 HNS (worth $2000+ at current market price). If you’re eligible, we cre
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by troquerre 7y ago
Well either way, we’re passed block 2016 now so you can claim! Were you able to try it out?
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by troquerre 7y ago
Sorry I should've made this more clear. Txs aren't enabled until block 2016 (in less than 6 hours). The claiming process will only work after then. If you try again after block 2016 it should work! It's currently on block 197
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by troquerre 7y ago
This faq answers some basic questions https://namebase.io/faq along with this tutorial https://www.namebase.io/blog/tutorial-1-what-is-handshake-an...
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by troquerre 7y ago
Yep! Once transfers are enabled in ~6 hours ( https://hnsxplorer.com/ ) you'll be able to claim, but not before then. This tool can help you claim your coins easily https://namebase.io/airdrop (currently
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by troquerre 7y ago
In addition, the $10.2mm that was raised was all donated to non-profits and open-source projects. I.e. fsf https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-1...
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by troquerre 7y ago
It doesn't update with SSH keys because the tree is static, but it was updated within a few months ago, so if you claim now (in 1-2 days when claiming is enabled on the mainnet) it should work with your existing keys.
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by troquerre 7y ago
PSA if you had over 15 followers on GitHub by August 2018 you were likely included in the Handshake airdrop. Basically they developed a way to give each dev in the airdrop 4662 coins each (worth a lot since current market price is $0.50[1])
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by troquerre 7y ago
There's an airdrop that gives developers on github claims. Basically if you had over 15 followers on GitHub by August 2018 you likely got 4662 coins (worth a lot since current market price is $0.50[1]). These instructions walk through
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by troquerre 7y ago
If you're trying to claim the airdrop, we created this resource to make it easy https://namebase.io/airdrop . It walks you through using https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-airdrop under the hood b
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by troquerre 7y ago
Any name up to 63 characters (normal domain name characters, unicode gets converted to punycode) can be registered. The difference with Handshake is that users get to choose how they store their names. There's a spectrum of convenience
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by troquerre 7y ago
The auctions are semi-blind. You bid, and can optionally add a blind to your bid. The network sees your combined total bid + blind, but won't know your true bid value until the reveal period. So if you want to guarantee you win an auct
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by troquerre 7y ago
Exactly. We built a registrar for Handshake ( https://namebase.io ) and our service will automatically handle renewal transactions. That said, anyone can still manage their keys and submit renewal transactions on their own if they
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by troquerre 7y ago
You are correct in that Handshake is trying to decentralize DNS more so than solve the scarcity nature of naming. That said, Handshake will increase the supply of TLDs by multiple orders of magnitude so the names do become less scarce overa
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by troquerre 7y ago
All the existing TLDs like .com and .net are blacklisted so that only the TLD owners can register them. The claiming process for blacklisted TLDs uses DNSSEC so there are no third parties involved in the process. In addition, the top 100k A
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by troquerre 7y ago
Handshake didn't do an ICO. They raised $10.2m from institutional investors like A16Z, Sequoia, Greylock, and Founders Fund, and then donated all the money they raised to non-profits and open-source projects. Here's a notice from
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by troquerre 7y ago
Shameless plug - if anyone wants to try using Handshake, we built a registrar for Handshake domains and an exchange for Handshake coins (HNS) at https://namebase.io . We just launched last week but there's already been a lot
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by troquerre 7y ago
One of the issues with Namecoin is the issuance. You can register any name for a set price. This leads to easy squatting behavior and allows whales to buy up all the good names. Handshake built in mechanisms to improve the issuance of names
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by troquerre 7y ago
- Names are released over the course of 52 weeks. Determined by hash(name) % 52. So at worst the name you want to register will not be available until ~51 weeks from now (Handshake launched last week!). - Names have to be renewed bi-annual
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by troquerre 7y ago
There are well-funded projects working on creating a better alternative to ICANN, namely https://handshake.org which is creating a distributed alternative root zone. The main benefit is security (the root of trust is a distribut

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