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The #1 thing that sounds impossible is how do tie a payment to an account anonymously? Unless you only take anonymous payments, you end up putting a credit card
by ThatPlayer 3y ago
The #1 thing that sounds impossible is how do tie a payment to an account anonymously? Unless you only take anonymous payments, you end up putting a credit card number on every account.
>No one other than the people in the conversation can know who is talking to who and when.
This also means the infrastructure cannot block messages. Or tell the difference between spam and legit messages. Effectively you can DDoS a client with messages.
- eru 3y ago> This also means the infrastructure cannot block messages. Or tell the difference between spam and legit messages. Effectively you can DDoS a client with messages. Not necessarily. Eg as a simple model, assume that you 'send' a message by publishing it to something like a usenet group (and perhaps that group charges you a fraction of a cent for doing so). There's no denial-of-service for a client that receives a lot of messages, distributed or otherwise, but still outsider don't see who is sending what to whom.