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By adopting micropayment systems, even as minuscule as those, you're cutting off email as a form of communication to significant demographics of people. On top
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
By adopting micropayment systems, even as minuscule as those, you're cutting off email as a form of communication to significant demographics of people. On top of that, it's Bitcoin, so the effects are even more profound.
I don't want email to be taxed any more than I want IRC to be taxed.
- hackinthebochs 12y agoNot necessarily. You could just use a service that is secure and handles the payment aspect for you. In such a scenario the top email providers would send email between themselves using the same pool of bitcoin. It's essentially a zero-sum transaction for them at scale. Outside entities that want their message heard would have to pay for it (mailing lists and the like) as a disincentive to send unwanted email.
- tomjen3 12y agoAre we talking about people in the developing world? Because otherwise yes you can afford to pay 0.01 usd pr email. It is still significantly cheaper than mailing a letter and, likely, a lower cost than the time it cost you to write that email - unless of course you run a newsletter, which you could then move to a blog, where such things belong anyway.