Why aren't we using bitcoin keys to sign/encrypt messages yet?

The 256bit EC key for each bitcoin address should provide comparable security to that of a 3072 bit RSA key.

I know 4096 bit RSA is popular now but it provides very marginal gain over 3072.

So why are bothering with PGP keys?

We could ditch gpg completely, electrum even has a usable command line interface for this.

Coinb.in also provides a signing and encryption.

It would be one less piece of software for noobs to learn about, we have to have the software anyways and it provides comparable security.

Picture it, put your wallet seed in your keepass db, make sure it has good security (90+ bits) and you're done, that's all you ever need.

And if someone should hit

gpg --list-keys

they wont get a list of your secrete keys, with probably marketplace names!


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[4 Points] None:

Sending email within 2500 blocks....

Transaction fee seems high!

Transaction Fee: $11.60

You thought there was blockchain congestion now?!?!


[1 Points] byebye_pgp:

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bitcoin address:

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[1 Points] murderhomelesspeople:

they wont get a list of your secrete keys, with probably marketplace names!

Why were they even able to get onto your machine to do this? You shouldn't mix your daily computer use with dnm stuff. Hopefully people aren't blatantly labeling their keys like that and leaving it to be accessed easy. Just asking for trouble.

If we switched up pgp at this point we would just be using two kinds of software because we wouldn't be able to get rid of it fully. Seems unnecessarily for something that isn't broke.