If businesses can simply buy their way around the problem they’ll do exactly that.
There’s a finite amount of money such that, if you got paid that amount, you’d be happy receiving an unsolicited ad email. There’s also a finite amount of money such that, if they had to pay that amount, it wouldn’t be worth it for advertisers to send you an email.
In equilibrium (probably given lots of additional specification of details) this makes the content you receive worth it.
I don’t see where this goes wrong in a way that’s solved by PoW.
If businesses can simply buy their way around the problem they’ll do exactly that. . . . you’re forced to wait by PoW
I don’t understand. An employee of the business writes the message, then hits send, which causes the provable work to be done by some computer somewhere after which the message is delivered. (The code to do that when a person hits send does not currently exist, but it is only a few lines of code, and if your proposal gets adopted by many people, then such code will come into existence.)
When is this waiting that you refer to? Is the fact that there is a delay between the hitting of the send button and the delivery of the message supposed to act as a deterrent somehow?
If the provable work is something that only a human can do, i.e., cannot effectively be automated, then why did you mention BOINC?
What is the difference between proof of work (paying with electricity) or just paying with the much more fungible money?
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I don’t get this.
There’s a finite amount of money such that, if you got paid that amount, you’d be happy receiving an unsolicited ad email. There’s also a finite amount of money such that, if they had to pay that amount, it wouldn’t be worth it for advertisers to send you an email.
In equilibrium (probably given lots of additional specification of details) this makes the content you receive worth it.
I don’t see where this goes wrong in a way that’s solved by PoW.
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I don’t understand. An employee of the business writes the message, then hits send, which causes the provable work to be done by some computer somewhere after which the message is delivered. (The code to do that when a person hits send does not currently exist, but it is only a few lines of code, and if your proposal gets adopted by many people, then such code will come into existence.)
When is this waiting that you refer to? Is the fact that there is a delay between the hitting of the send button and the delivery of the message supposed to act as a deterrent somehow?
If the provable work is something that only a human can do, i.e., cannot effectively be automated, then why did you mention BOINC?
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