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I had this idea / pet project once where I did exactly this for email. Emails would immediately bounce with payment link and explanation. If you paid you get cr
by hermanb 8mo ago
I had this idea / pet project once where I did exactly this for email. Emails would immediately bounce with payment link and explanation. If you paid you get credit on a ledger per email address. Only then the mail goes through.
You can also integrate it in clients by adding payment/reward claim headers.
- Fnoord 8mo agoBill Gates already had this idea. All efforts to change email were already documented 25 years ago. The biggest changes are it is more centralized these days, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, JMAP innovation, oh... and one more thing! It is HUGE!! HTML email is the default...
- TurdF3rguson 8mo agoYeah I remember this from "The Road Ahead" which I chanced upon one time in the 90s. I thought it was a silly idea.
- zx8080 8mo agoScammers (and spammers) always got $1! That's why there's a lot of the scam ads on google, fb, apple. So the paywall email firewall will not work as desired.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoNot many email attacks are worth an entire dollar. It would be very very effective at reducing spam. And too effective at reducing everything else.
- zx8080 8mo agoEmails to CEOs they do worth.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoSo only CEOs will get spam, and it's effective for 99.9% of people? I would not describe that as "will not work as desired".
- AnthonyMouse 8mo agoAnd it would even still work for the CEO, they would just have to charge more than $1. The real problem is we don't have a low-friction digital payment system that allows individuals to automate sending payment requests for small amounts of money to each other without requiring everyone to sign up for a merchant account with a financial bureaucracy.
- SJC_Hacker 8mo ago> The real problem is we don't have a low-friction digital payment system that allows individuals to automate sending payment requests for small amounts of money to each other without requiring everyone to sign up for a merchant account with a financial bureaucracy. Its called cryptocurrency
- AnthonyMouse 8mo agoFirst you have to make it low-friction. If I want Joe Average to send me $1 in cryptocurrency, how is he getting $1 in cryptocurrency to send me?
- nobody9999 8mo ago>First you have to make it low-friction. If I want Joe Average to send me $1 in cryptocurrency, how is he getting $1 in cryptocurrency to send me? Absolutely. You're 1000% correct. Cryptocurrency is way too high friction for stuff like that. When I wish to spend crypto, I need to: [If you don't have an exchange account already, you'll need the 0.x steps too!] 0.0 Create an account on an exchange which is legally allowed to operate in your state/country; 0.1 Provide all sorts of KYC/AML info including photos of yourself and your government ID; 0.2 Wait hours/days/weeks for the exchange to "validate" your KYC/AML info and allow you to purchase crypto; 1. Log in to an exchange which is actually allowed to operate in the place where one resides; 2. Purchase Bitcoin or other coin the exchange deems appropriate (leaving aside the hefty fee charged for using fiat currency/traditional credit card); 3. Wait days/weeks until the exchange allows you to transfer the purchased cryptocurrency out of your exchange-hosted wallet; 4. Transfer crypto to a wallet you actually control; 5. Convert the crypto purchased on the exchange to the crypto coin required for whatever your purpose may be; 6. Transmit the crypto to the destination wallet. Total time (not including setting up the exchange account, which can take anywhere from 1-10 days): 3-10 days. Much too high friction for small payments, IMHO.