So far no Newbies or Jr Members have provided a signed message. I gave out a few merit to Members to try and get the ball rolling, but would love to see some Newbies provide a signed message.
It seems like a nice initiative but I just read about dust attacks, isn't it unsafe to post addresses here and there so that people associate the address with your username?
If the idea is to be anonymous, why publish addresses?
Dust attacks isn't really a thing. There is nothing forcing you to ever spend the dust, so as long as you know how to properly manage your wallet and not include dust in your transactions, there is no harm.
Linking a Bitcoin address to your username doesn't seem unsafe to me and you could always use a new address for this single task.
The idea behind Bitcoin isn't to be anonymous.
I'm asking users to publish a signed message for their own educational purpose, providing them with merit as a reward for doing so.