I’m pretty sure the concept of defeating spam by making emails cost 1¢ to send is an ancient one—I can’t remember where I first encountered it. The hard part seems to be that the difference between “free” and “1¢” has been huge enough to deter most human users. I think we’re slowly chipping away at this problem both through microtransaction technology and very slow cultural change.
Yeah, I only really mention spam because it’s the one obvious use case I could think of and people are already familiar with it. It seems like spam is mostly solved anyway in many domains, so if that’s the only thing this proposal can solve it’s not much use.
I’m pretty sure the concept of defeating spam by making emails cost 1¢ to send is an ancient one—I can’t remember where I first encountered it. The hard part seems to be that the difference between “free” and “1¢” has been huge enough to deter most human users. I think we’re slowly chipping away at this problem both through microtransaction technology and very slow cultural change.
Yeah, I only really mention spam because it’s the one obvious use case I could think of and people are already familiar with it. It seems like spam is mostly solved anyway in many domains, so if that’s the only thing this proposal can solve it’s not much use.