This is to add an extra layer of security against the potential risk that my ID (in forum/facebook/email/etc) might be hacked, or somebody elsewhere pretending to be me.
All importance announcements of XMM in the future will be signed by this Bitcoin address:
1DfSsGG3M1CUeUZsBD9qgXE1YwyaECwxFt
this info could be altered by hackers if they break into my Blogger account.
For non-bitcoiners,
Signed message is a feature in Bitcoin that could be used as proof that you own an address.
you can read some intro here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/18qy88/, or just google about it.
Most bitcoin wallet clients come with tools for signing and verifying a message. For those who do not have a bitcoin client, you can do it online through some website, e.g http://brainwallet.org/#verify.
Here's an example for those who like to try some message verification:
message:
XMM - the Fund of Market Makingsignature:
Issuing address: rExAPEZvbkZqYPuNcZ7XEBLENEshsWDQc8
H7cvnNcqCKMAn4gOSVLTX9bX59+PMroVOsMT/+WpxTjOfjy7mwIny5vFc9EIcseFwTtClfd28K12Ka0zxgmKTa8=
I've also signed the 'About', 'FAQ' and 'Ripple' pages of this Blog with the address, and appended the signatures at the bottom of each page. To verify, just select the whole page (from the page title to the last character before the dotted line) as message.
Just For Fun.
As a memorial for the launch of the Fund, I had made a transaction of 0.00887777 BTC into this Bitcoin address on last Sunday. (in ASCII code 88, 77, 77 represent X, M, M.)
https://blockchain.info/address/1DfSsGG3M1CUeUZsBD9qgXE1YwyaECwxFt
