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1) Slow RTT 2) Misuse of bitcoin with crazy amounts of blockchain spam (could end up blocked by miners too) 3) Expensive 4) Loss of access to a Bitcoin API mean

• giancarlostoro 6y ago
  Maybe it's adequately named 'vapor' as in vaporware? But I agree, surprised it didn't implement its own token or cryptocurrency instead of polluting BitCoin.
• dsun180 6y ago
  From the docs it does not look like that every http tx is stored onchain. It is more like an ssl-alternative where you sign stuff with bitcoin crypto and therefore not need to trust the sender.
  • Proven 6y ago
    Then it would just linger in message pool until it expires, I think. But it does seem to me like transactions are involved and in either case I'd consider their use case to be abuse. Speaking of which, I looked up how PyBitMessage is doing and surprisingly it's still around. [1] https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage