| "Built for individuals, I recently launched Keyoxide which uses cryptographic keypairs to accomplish decentralized identity verification." So this is about the introduction of a new identity service. From what I get looking into Keyoxide it basically strives to be what Keybase originally intended to be. From their Keybase migration guide [1]: "Keyoxide as a partial replacement for Keybase It's important to moderate expectations and state that Keyoxide only replaces the subset of Keybase features that are considered the "core" features: message encryption, signature verification and identity proofs. Message decryption and signing are not supported features: they would require you to upload your secret key to a website which is a big no-no. Encrypted chat and cloud storage are not supported features: there are plenty of dedicated alternative services. If you need any of these Keybase-specific supports, Keyoxide may not be a full Keybase replacement for you but you could still generate a profile and take advantage of distributed identity proofs." [1] https://keyoxide.org/guides/migrating-from-keybase |
This means the proof isn't dependent on a central server, which seems like a significant improvement.