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I want frictionless communication with the people I've already communicated with, but very high friction communication with people I've never talked to before.
by qq66 2y ago
I want frictionless communication with the people I've already communicated with, but very high friction communication with people I've never talked to before. I'd love a way to charge $10 to get into my inbox. If it ends up being a long lost friend or whatever, I'll Venmo them back the $10.
- smabie 2y agoYou can send everyone not on a list to spam and auto respond with a link to pay you $10 to get on the white list should be doable
- thanksgiving 2y agoNot currently doable with phone calls. From what I understand, the caller ID feature is completely useless. There is no willingness to implement rules that guarantee the number the call is coming from is the owner of the number. The best you can do is call them back and hope the routing doesn't get screwed up.
- gsck 2y agoDepends on the circuit that you are dialling out onto. I know where I work there are some rules about presenting whatever number you want on our trunk provider, but this is something they have put in place themselves with no "legal" reason for them to do it. We've been working with them for years so we are one of their trusted clients and have the ability to present any number we want as long as we have permission to do so from the number owner. The fact its up to the trunk provider to put these rules in place and not just standard everywhere is wild to me.
- c22 2y agoYou'll have to just to send your reply!
- outop 2y agoIf I was your long lost friend I probably wouldn't pay the $10 upfront.
- jtriangle 2y agoNot much of a friend then eh
- jazzyjackson 2y agoThis use case is actually the reason we have bitcoin, tho it's a shame it took off as a protest to banks instead of getting implemented as a functional anti-spam tool. To this day spam is regularly in my inbox and I have to check my spam folder for legitamate messages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
- dartos 2y agoWell, no. That’s the reason we have hash cash (the pow algo for bitcoin) Bitcoin itself, as with most early cryptocurrencies, is and was a protest against banks and centralized finance.
- jazzyjackson 2y agofair enough, I should say it was a prerequisite
- gosub100 2y agoThere's nothing stopping this from happening. Build encryption into the email protocols and hide the decrypt key behind a block chain that costs even $0.01 of a fungible token to access.
- jazzyjackson 2y agothe blockchain, as usual, is not necessary, the header is proof enough on that a penny worth of energy[0] was expended in generating the hash [0] (or however much energy you want to demand before throwing the message in the spam folder - you just require whatever number of leading zeros in the hash ie crank up the difficulty, bitcoin's innovation was assigning ownership to these proofs-of-work via signatures and implementing a mechanism to update and broadcast that ownership)
- CPLX 2y agoThere’s lots of services like this that I have seen, including a popular one where you can donate $1 to a charity in order for your email to reach someone’s inbox.
- rightbyte 2y agoYe imagine if you got 50c for each call or email you received not on a whitelist and the social contract was to refund it by pressing #1 after the call ended or whatever. Pay numbers are a thing so I guess it should be doable.
- tantalor 2y agoYes please. SMS too.