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Future email systems and social networks could refuse to accept incoming messages unless they were accompanied with tiny amounts of Bitcoin – tiny enough to not
by comex 13y ago
Future email systems and social networks could refuse to accept incoming messages unless they were accompanied with tiny amounts of Bitcoin – tiny enough to not matter to the sender, but large enough to deter spammers, who today can send uncounted billions of spam messages for free with impunity.
Heh. Talk about historically backward:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash#Bitcoin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash#Bitcoin
- SilasX 13y agoI was thinking the same thing. If you want to impose costs on people who send you emails, you can just strip out the proof of work component of bitcoin (which indeed predated it), and use that as a challenge/response system.
- sirsar 13y agoImplemented in Bitmessage, with free anonymity on the side.