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This 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-spa
by jazzyjackson 2y ago
This 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)