Topic: Bounty proposal for a Bitcoin-based email to fight spam. - page 3. (Read 4669 times)

Let's say you are willing to publish your email address publicly, but you don't want to have to keep track of who your friends are, nor want to become part of a spam list. As to date, there are NO reliable spam filters because for every scheme devised, there are ways to counter them. It's getting to the point when one must go through spam to find an important email. Spammers are like roaches and can never be eliminated by conventional means. Let's take away their incentive to operate.

Hashcash is a good idea, but monetizing email can open up new markets.

Enter Bitcoin-based email. There will be a big demand for an email application that requires a nano-payment "postage" to receive an email. The transaction can be small enough that it would be no burden to any individual, but at least an irritating inconvenience to spammers. It could also be integrated with standard email, but paid email would be given top priority.

As far as the bounty is concerned, I'm not qualified to judge code, so I'll leave that to any dev willing to volunteer.

I'll make this a poll so that even if you are not able to donate to the bounty, nor contribute any thoughts to the idea, you can show support for the idea. Also, if you didn't know, by using a poll you don't need to post "subscribe" nor go to your email to see if there is an update to this thread.

Finally, I know this idea has been discussed before, but I have seen no progress lately. Hence, the bounty proposal.