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"3 and 4 would require a sort of token system" Not to get all handwavey, but I think this is why some people are super excited about bitcoin becoming 'part of
by krschultz 11y ago
"3 and 4 would require a sort of token system"
Not to get all handwavey, but I think this is why some people are super excited about bitcoin becoming 'part of the internet'. There are definitely some areas where we need a concept of identity & trust, and bitcoin seems like one of the first truly distributed ways of doing it.
- gozo 11y agoThe thing is while the Internet is all excited about bitcoin, everyone else has (kind of) stopped using e-mail for communication. It's all phone based now. E-mail is just for the things that doesn't have an app. And maybe resetting your password. Unfortunately, the "geek" age is out in favor of the startup age.
- cm2187 11y agoThat may be the case for personal communications (well, not me, I am old school) but I don't think it the case at all for professional communications.
- gozo 11y agoTrue, although now shared with cloud tools, at least intra-company. In some markets, like China, they use messaging for business. It's better in some ways e.g. you get a response faster.
- joosters 11y agoI doubt it. No-one wants to pay to send an email. Even if they did, it'd involve waiting 10+ minutes for a payment to go through and limit the global email rate to a maximum of 5 messages per second. Bitcoin is not a good fit.
- krschultz 11y agoNot to pay per email, but to pay per email address. If you aren't a spammer, how many email addresses do you need? I don't think asking for a registration fee akin to a domain name is unreasonable.