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by eluusive
1689 days ago
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This is definitely coming down the pipe. I think it's extremely imported to come up with an alternative to the existing centralized systems; which I believe primarily exist in order to mitigate spam. Some people have been working on an interesting solution called StampChat which has a similar topology to email, but the messages are encrypted by default and the spam mitigation is done via sending tokens to the recipient (ala Hal Finney's RPoW) idea. It's still a prototype, but there is one deployment over here: https://web.stampchat.io The whitepaper on the protocol is here: https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf There's a faucet here if anyone is interested https://faucet.lotuslounge.org/ We're not doing an ICO or anything, happy to give out more tokens out. |
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I think spam and abuse are definitely significant problems.
The centralized systems are like medieval walled cities.
They exist because, for an average individual, there is no practical way to live outside their walls.
It's difficult to run your own email server. But, while the technical challenge may be difficult, the greater difficulty is in preventing your email server from becoming a bot in a spam network.