"connect your LinkedIn and Github accounts to enable the free faucet"
Really curious: I can see how connecting a Github account may be valuable for a company pushing a developer tool, but I'm not sure I understand why they'd want a LinkedIn account. Perhaps to try and determine where you work?
Companies consist of not just developers, but also managers (sometimes also called "decision makers").
Often it's the manager's job, not the individual developer's job, to register to such things. Then they will take care of the emails, possible negotiations, and all other consequences of such subscriptions.
Don't get me wrong: Often these managers do have a Github account (and many more accounts). But offering LinkedIn is a safer bet to address almost all of these decision makers.
They are probably trying to make sure you can't create a bunch of fake accounts and abuse the faucet.
Either way, I really think that their product lacks substance and don't appreciate how they try to push a device that adds nothing to the ecosystem that can't already be achieved without it.
Block chains are such a fundamental social and technical innovation that, put simply, we don't know 95% of the use cases they will facilitate in the near future. You may think that 21's products currently "lack substance" but they are literally trying to invent this future. Most of their products may fail, but if they figure out a fraction of this 95%, they will be remembered as visionaries.
Mark my words. Don't judge them too quickly. They might turn out to be the next Amazon.
