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Unfortunately, I doubt that would work. Email is so popular because it's sort of a universal messaging protocol that so many old but critical pieces of infrastr

Unfortunately, I doubt that would work. Email is so popular because it's sort of a universal messaging protocol that so many old but critical pieces of infrastructure require. If this "Email 2.0" released, it would take years, if not decades, for critical infrastructure to switch over. In the meantime, you'd still need an Email 1.0 client. So now you have a mix of your most important emails from critical infrastructure and just spam from bots who don't want to pay money for sending spam in your inbox. You'll still need to deal with spam, but if anything it'll be even worse because now you have to double the amount of inboxes you have.

gosub100 9mo ago
It would be monumental to get people to shift en masse, I agree. Perhaps it could start off as a niche service to contact really popular people who could command high fees to speak to them. For instance, $MOVIE_STAR could have a $500 message fee (that goes to charity) to be able to say something to him/her and maybe get a reply. This could popularize the service, and it could grow over time. Another problem is that the legacy email providers would not like transporting encrypted payloads that they can't mine personal data from. Attachments could also be a headache, do they get stored for free? On the chain or on the recipient server?