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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why is Satoshi Nakamoto's PGP Key not currently on bitcoin.org ?
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Royse777
on 27/10/2020, 13:40:21 UTC
Do you think that it would be possible that in the future bitcoin address may replace PGP keys?
Not all PGP users are bitcoiner and the same way not all bitcoiner are familiar with PGP. PGP came long before bitcoin and I do not think satoshi ever thought that bitcoin will be such big. So for his PGP was more sense making than singing a bitcoin address.


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I am more comfortable in proving my identity using a bitcoin signed message than a PGP key. I use bitcoin addresses a lot but I barely used a PGP key. As you said it is safer, isn't it a good substitute?
I think another use case of PGP is that you can encrypt and decrypt a file.