[Jedd]

> How does keybase make money? I am afraid they are in the business of selling my online identity.

This comes up semi-regularly. Within the recent announcement of Teams [1] it was noted that:

"Put most simply, we eventually want to find a way for actual enterprises to pay, while keeping personal and community use free. And any use now is grandfathered in."

I've seen similar sentiments in earlier announcements.

They also have a clear privacy policy [2].

[1] https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams

[2] https://keybase.io/docs/privacypolicy

[lysium]

Thank you very much for your answer! I'm wondering how key base can find an investor with such a weak hope. Anyways, the privacy policy gave me the answer: everybody can can check my online identities, it is public and not deletable. Or, if the block chain is encrypted, they can sell it in a merger. Too bad!