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Why would you need a blockchain for this?

• deleted 4y ago
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• Vosporos 4y ago
  Because they sell blockchain
• kennu 4y ago
  The blockchain infrastructure allows decentralization of the transaction payments. Are there other ways to do that?
  • _se 4y ago
    The payment need not be decentralized for such a scheme to work (if it would work at all).
    • kennu 4y ago
      You're right, but I was specifically talking about a decentralized social network.
• philpem 4y ago
  Indeed, a periodical subscription (say $10) with a number of posts or comments included would serve the same purpose. Gee this sounds like telephone billing...
  • bombcar 4y ago
    And telephones are well known to completely free of all spam.
  • FrenchDevRemote 4y ago
    do you think spammers would pay with their own money? lol
• throw__away7391 4y ago
  As I recall Bill Gates proposed doing this for email in his book "The Road Ahead" in 1995.
• mbreese 4y ago
  Not the OP, but I could imagine a system where instead of paying money, a sender might have to calculate a certain number of hashes. In this way, mining on a blockchain would be a substitute for actual payment. There are many other problems with this (not least of which being the amount of energy required now just to send a message).