[Jansen312]

Payment. Every emailed sent needs a payment token. Maybe like a few cents similar to postage. If your reputations got screwed because doing spamish activities, rates go up cost say 1 dollar per email. Each sender must have verified account just like FB that maps to your national IDs. Over night spam will plunge. Of course getting this implemented across the world would be impossible. We could wage war with any countries that refuse to participate...just like any countires wishing to undermine USD. So to summarize, just live with it. Nothing can be done without you sacrificing something dear to you. Spam is a minor nuisance we all can tolerate.

[aspenmayer]

So instead of hacking servers to mine crypto, we hack them to send paid spam and possibly collect the delivery fees too for some double dipping.

I had this same idea as you, and I simply don’t see why people would pay to send emails when they’re already nearly free for most personal use cases. Businesses already pay to send email via third parties usually. Wouldn’t fake email signups get spammed to receive the sending fees from compromised email servers?

I could foresee a sending fee in the form of attention, with captchas for email sending, possibly attached to the outgoing email as metadata.