Handshake Airdrop for Active GitHub Users (~$1500 in Current Value)

TL;DR for collecting the airdrop seems to be something like this (I AM NOT suggesting you should, but in case you decide to):<p>* install `<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;handshake-org&#x2F;hsd`" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;handshake-org&#x2F;hsd`</a> - run `.&#x2F;bin&#x2F;hsd` and wait for wallet to sync<p>* install `<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;handshake-org&#x2F;hs-client`" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;handshake-org&#x2F;hs-client`</a> - run `.&#x2F;bin&#x2F;hsw-cli account create` and `.&#x2F;bin&#x2F;hsw-cli --account=default address` - copy address<p>* install `<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;handshake-org&#x2F;hs-airdrop`" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;handshake-org&#x2F;hs-airdrop`</a> - follow instructions depending on how you whether you want to give the cli your key or sign manually - simplest way is something like `hs-airdrop &lt;key-file&gt; &lt;address&gt;`<p>* back in `hs-client` - run .&#x2F;bin&#x2F;hsd-rpc sendrawairdrop &lt;base64-from-hs-airdrop&gt;`<p>* leave the wallet running and wait for 20 or something blocks<p>* back in `hs-client` - `.&#x2F;bin&#x2F;hsw-cli balance --account=default` should now have a balance.

Can we get a out-of-the-loop explanation for what Handshake is, and what the value of this airdrop is (can these coins be sold on an open market, or are they for use in its DNS system only?).

Eligibility:<p>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.<p>If you had 15 or more followers on github during the week of 2019-02-04, your github SSH &amp; PGP keys are included in the merkle tree.