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Micro-gambling Peer-2-peer gambling Webcams The real wonder is why haven't any of the major players in these areas adopted it in any way. Curiously it is the p
by eterm 12y ago
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The real wonder is why haven't any of the major players in these areas adopted it in any way. Curiously it is the payment provider industry who has paid it some attention, rather than any of these.
Perhaps the traceable nature of bitcoin makes it unappealing for these use cases. In the early days of bitcoin where it was relatively easy to get anonymous bitcoins (by paying cash through unscrupulous dealers not paying attention to KYC rules), these would have made great use cases for bitcoin.
Now however, I feel like bitcoin doesn't provide relative anonymity over more traditional methods of payment.
I think there could still be a case for a new mail-like protocol that combines email and cryptocurrency for an email system which is both encrypted by default but also everyone sets a payment level for mail to reach them.
So I say "My Address is <bitcoin address? mail address?>, pay at least 0.001 bitcoins to get mail through".
This system:
*Puts a direct cost on spam (therefore massively reducing it)
*ensures everyone owns private keys (so mail can be encrypted simply by knowing their address)
Two fantastic features.
Sadly it won't happen, mail is too entrenched.
- yuvipanda 12y agoI'm always wary of email/spam solutions that require 'payment' of some form. See https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt for a lot of reasons (in particular, Unpopularity of weird new taxes, Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money, Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical, Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually, Sending email should be free)
- eli 12y agoIt also makes it suddenly expensive to run a decent sized email list. For security announcements, say.
- eric_bullington 12y agoNo, the idea is that users would be able to set an incoming fee per email address, including a default fee for unknowns. Users would simply whitelist email subscriptions at 0 fee. In fact, this could likely be done completely automatically beyond the initial setup (and then only if you want to diverse from the defaults).
- x0x0 12y agoAnd recipients could set it at 0 for mailing lists, or any email with which he or she has conversed.
- x0x0 12y agoIt's convenient sometimes that sending email is free, but remember the fascinating read about the gmail anti-spam measures, and how they require central knowledge? I'd bet you can satisfy 99.9% of my antispam needs with 2 rules: 1 - if I've ever sent an email to your address and haven't blacklisted you, you get to my inbox 2 - everyone else, pay 2-3 cents Note that mailing lists, via an email opt-in, would pass under rule 1. As for everyone else, if emailing addresses that have never conversed with you isn't worth a couple pennies, rethink sending the email.
- eterm 12y agoI agree, and is partly why I think it would never take off. But it wouldn't need to be seen as a "tax" if the money went to the recipient of the email, and any prices were set by those recipients.
- A_COMPUTER 12y agoYou don't need a new protocol, you could do this by putting stuff in smtp headers and validating it with a mail filter.
- Kiro 12y ago> Micro-gambling Peer-2-peer gambling Webcams What does that mean?
- eterm 12y agoIt means line breaks are removed when not double line breaks here. Sorry.
- obi-nine 12y agoStopping (or greatly reducing) mail spam was the original intended solution for the Proof Of Work solution that now guards the Bitcoin blockchain. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system