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This should cover the basics: https://www.namebase.io/blog/tutorial-1-what-is-handshake-an...
HNS coins can be sold on Namebase Pro or on a few Chinese smaller exchanges. They can also be used for TLD auctions on Namebase. Hopefully many more use cases to come.
Found this hope it helps: https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-airdrop/commit/a8e47b003...
Not affiliated in any way with the project. Airdrop is active as we speak.
Eligibility:
The top ~250,000 users on github have had their SSH keys and PGP added to a merkle tree. Out of those ~250,000 users, ~175,000 of them had valid SSH and PGP keys at the time of tree creation.
If you had 15 or more followers on github during the week of 2019-02-04, your github SSH & PGP keys are included in the merkle tree.
Irritating color scheme.