Interesting post (here : http://wp.me/p1Xmbd-S0 ) on someone creating a paid email system as a means of dealing with spam.
Even tiny payments would basically make spamming unfeasibly expensive and a micro-currency like DGB would be perfect for this. I agree with the writer that this could be one potential "killer-app" for any cryptocurrency and would strongly urge the DGB team to look into this ASAP.
DGB has a powerful advantage over BTC in this respect as whole coin payments are much easier for people to deal with than decimals.
One way to do this would be to create a standalone or online DGB email client which charges a variable amount depending on the number of recipients of an email (according to the market price this could be adjusted from time to time), perhaps starting with 1 DGB per recipient.
This would be paid by the sender.
Just as important it should also be possible to add extra features that make use of the blockchain such as consensus timestamps and even notary type services to take this beyond just being an email client that charges. The sending fees could be used to pay for further development of the DGB mail client to add these features.
I for one would love a means of sending email where I don't have to face the daily deluge of crap that seems to elude my spam filters. For people with the right skills putting this together should be fairly simple and straightforward.
I would love to hear other's opinions on this and hope that the DGB team can look into this. Somebody will implement this correctly and whoever does will have a substantial advantage in taking their cryptocurrency forward.
(Just to add: This could also open up a new way for people to create paid newsletters (I know they already exist bust this could streamline it) where transactions could occur in both directions, although it should be a basic principle that the sender should always pay at the point of sending to prevent anyone taking advantage of it for spamming purposes.)
Even tiny payments would basically make spamming unfeasibly expensive and a micro-currency like DGB would be perfect for this. I agree with the writer that this could be one potential "killer-app" for any cryptocurrency and would strongly urge the DGB team to look into this ASAP.
DGB has a powerful advantage over BTC in this respect as whole coin payments are much easier for people to deal with than decimals.
One way to do this would be to create a standalone or online DGB email client which charges a variable amount depending on the number of recipients of an email (according to the market price this could be adjusted from time to time), perhaps starting with 1 DGB per recipient.
This would be paid by the sender.
Just as important it should also be possible to add extra features that make use of the blockchain such as consensus timestamps and even notary type services to take this beyond just being an email client that charges. The sending fees could be used to pay for further development of the DGB mail client to add these features.
I for one would love a means of sending email where I don't have to face the daily deluge of crap that seems to elude my spam filters. For people with the right skills putting this together should be fairly simple and straightforward.
I would love to hear other's opinions on this and hope that the DGB team can look into this. Somebody will implement this correctly and whoever does will have a substantial advantage in taking their cryptocurrency forward.
(Just to add: This could also open up a new way for people to create paid newsletters (I know they already exist bust this could streamline it) where transactions could occur in both directions, although it should be a basic principle that the sender should always pay at the point of sending to prevent anyone taking advantage of it for spamming purposes.)
Great post, Soul-eater!! I agree that this could be the killer app that all cryptos are looking for.
DGB dev-team should really start crawling all over this, pronto!!
Ok, devil's advocate here, it won't work. Paid email has been suggested and, in some cases, tried since the Internet was the ARPANET. One immediate problem is users. 25 years ago, there weren't many choices available to communicate online and maybe, just maybe you could have gotten away with it then but as the Internet has grown and communications technology in general has exploded, there are hundreds of ways to communicate for free, or for the illusion of free (texting from phones) that a paid email service would struggle to survive.
I see you all saying how you would welcome it but, think about the logistics involved. How would charges be collected? What email program is capable and what software companies are willing to take on the challange of adding the infrastructure to their software? What happens if Digibyte is used and it's value raises because of it? Competiton would be enormous at first but as soon as someone (Microsoft?) decides free email is better and offers a competing service, we are back to square one.
I run an IT division and we have several spam filters that do a great job of keeping the junk out. Now, consider this, of the 20,000 or so email they process daily, only about 300 to 500 are legitimate! Pretty sad huh? So when you base your argument that the system would help DBG is that really true? Spammers are not going to pay anything, they will find a new way or jump in some loop hole or another to get around it. A couple percent of todays Email worldwide is real, how much money will be changing hands? Factor into this the number of people who will no longer use Email and what do you have left? What kind of volume for the coin associated with it?
Also consider public computers, school computers etc. Are these institutions going to pay for others to use email on their systems? Not likely. Anyway, perhaps, just perhaps, a private email system that people could join MIGHT work but, is the value great enough to entice someone to pay for something that has, and for the most part, always will be free?
Arguments?
Wow... so excited to use it...
