seems to me that email transport is by now a fairly robust and universal delivery mechanism at least just above the IP layer, and it's utility decline creates t

seems to me that email transport is by now a fairly robust and universal delivery mechanism at least just above the IP layer, and it's utility decline creates the perfect opportunity to piggyback a new system on top of the existing infrastructure: high concept: encrypted email with cryptographic postage stamps paid directly to the recipient. Want me to read your email, pay the postage, and the same vice versa. Who cares what gmail is doing, I don't want them collecting my postage anyway. this would simultaneously bootstrap a universal micropayment currency