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Anyone aware of any major platforms taking this approach? The Postal Service? Sure, there's junk mail, but imagine how much junk mail there would be if it wer
by reaperducer 4y ago
Anyone aware of any major platforms taking this approach?
The Postal Service?
Sure, there's junk mail, but imagine how much junk mail there would be if it were delivered for free. It wasn't until phone calls became so cheap as to be "unlimited" that we ended up flooded with billions of junk calls.
Microtransactions (non-crypto, thankyouverymuch) would solve a certain number of today's problems.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI do think it would help, like even if a transaction cost 0.05c, it would add up very quickly for a bot operator but stay cheap for everyone else. But I think the problem is it would inevitably introduce the need for a middle man, shaving 0.01c off that 0.05c, with a dubious incentive to increase the amount of money changing hands as much as possible. What you've invented at that point is basically Cloudflare with worse incentives. You get either that, or yucky defi web3 crap.
- djohnston 4y agoYes for sure, I have thought about making an email "stamp" web-3 service that would implement this. I even wanted to make some fun "pony express" animations whenever a letter was arriving to your inbox.
- kube-system 4y agoLet's finally implement HTTP 402