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It's actually a pretty good example to be honest.

Keybase was a centralized key storage with value-add services such as file storage and chat.

That was absolutely comparable to github, as you could've just gone back to manually syncing pubkeys and encrypting msgs. If github went away, you'd be without a lot of value-add services as well such as wiki, issues user management etc

Realistically speaking, nobody is going to do that... And tbh, it was already dead in the water when they added crypto currencies... Just took a while for their money to run out.

The actual difference is that there are enough competing products for github, not for keybase however, as that is just too niche



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