On: Keybase Exploding Messages

[mholt]

Because it's the same device as before. I only have one name for it.

[nebulous1 → mholt]

Just call it device2?

[mholt → nebulous1]

That makes it impossible to recover my original device.

[nebulous1 → mholt]

You don't need to reuse the original device name, just append a number to it. Think of it as device incarnation 2.

[dcbadacd → mholt]

and?

[lyk → mholt]

But it's not the same device, in removing your old operating system you've removed the device keys keybase uses for encryption.