This is an excellent example of the difference between "interesting" and "useful". This should be every bit as successful in its niche as ssh over DNS (which is

This is an excellent example of the difference between "interesting" and "useful". This should be every bit as successful in its niche as ssh over DNS (which is a thing you can actually do as well). Seriously, this is a ridiculous stretch to find some use case - any use case! - for Bitcoin. At least there won't be a spam problem, as you need to pay to get your transactions processed at all: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions I wonder if one message would actually cost more than an SMS yet. SMS tends not to wait serious fractions of an hour, though.