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Obvious question is whether some kind of blockchain based implementation would address enough of the disadvantages to be useful.
by anonymousDan 11y ago
Obvious question is whether some kind of blockchain based implementation would address enough of the disadvantages to be useful.
- thechao 11y agoI feel like what I'm about to suggest must have been thought of: is it possible for me to somehow attach a "one time crackable key" such that if someone wants to send me an email, they have to do a nontrivial amount of calculation? Like... a turing email address, where they have to compute the actual address, and the computation is nontrivial?
- pontifier 11y agoCheck out HashCash, another solution proposed around the same time.
- pontifier 11y agoRound about 2004 there were several attempts to solve the SPAM problem. This was a fertile time for innovation in this space. Yahoo's DKIM and SPF records were invented, and many other systems were proposed, including my own that I called Choicelist. There was at that time a micropayment solution called HashCash. You might find that method interesting.