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Create an email network where is would cost a penny to send email. It would be payed into bitcoin wallet of folks maintaining infrastructure. Every email would
by waynecochran 11y ago
Create an email network where is would cost a penny to send email. It would be payed into bitcoin wallet of folks maintaining infrastructure.
Every email would be digitally signed and encrypted. Certificate with keys would connected to email address (and bitcoin wallet).
Spam would die.
Go build it please.
- HarryHirsch 11y agoHashcash?
- pmlnr 11y agoBotnets won't care :/
- adamrt 11y agoI think that is an interesting idea, but my first reaction is that it wouldn't end spam. In the US there is a much larger cost associated with sending physical spam in the US (stamps). But there seems to be unlimited physical spam still. Maybe it would just become more targeted?
- waynecochran 11y agoProbably not end spam completely, but reduce it to a point it wouldn't be noticable. In any case, I would love to only send/receive encrypted/signed email. I don't think the problems are technical.
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- teddyh 11y agoPlease read http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt and check all boxes that apply.
- waynecochran 11y agoThose reasons are pretty stale. It may not work, but not for any of those reasons. I'd still be in.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoThe minute you say bitcoin is the moment you cut out 99% of the population; unless it is in the background and one does not have to interact with it directly. Other than that, I agree paying to send will reduce spam. But also look at your postal mail box. There is arguably more spam there than in your digital inbox, and that one costs (stamps).
- waynecochran 11y agoYes, but if the email is digitally signed I can be certain who sent it (at least the address) and, unlike postal mail, I can electronically sort it. Email from folks I know would receive the highest priority. Are folks afraid of bitcoin? What can be worse than just having a 16 digit number printed on a card -- that is a 1000x more vulnerable.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoAre folks afraid of bitcoin? You are part of the tiny percentage of the tiny percentage of the population that understands bitcoin.
- ams6110 11y agoI get far more spam than legitimate mail in the US Postal mail.
- waynecochran 11y agoMe too. Take the contents from one spam envelope and place it in the return envelope of another spam. Keep 'em churning.
- Ankaios 11y agoAs adamrt said, this won't kill off spam. It might reduce it a bit, though. I keep thinking instead about something that works more like a refundable bond: To send a message to you, I have to include some amount. (I don't know how much. Not a penny, though. Maybe $10 or $100.) If you want to keep receiving messages from me afterward, you return the bond. If not, you keep the money. And after a couple of minutes of Googling, I just found a name for schemes like this: Attention Bonds.
- tobias3 11y agoThats actually a good idea. You don't even have to make it a fixed value. The receiver uses how much money was paid as a (spam) signal. The bitcoin transaction can just go to /dev/null with a hash of the message as data, so don't have to pay somebody ( ;) ) and you cannot track who sent data to whom via tracking the bitcoin transactions.
- Rexxar 11y agoAsk Bill Gates : http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/bill-gates-proposes-charging-per-email-says-it-will-stop-spam-15274/ http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/bill-gates-proposes-c...
- waynecochran 11y agoIs the c|net link broken? I remember Bill Gates bringing this up -- I would to like read what the issues would be with technology today.