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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by leppr on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:53AM (#22319199)
Turns out the best way to manage spam in a global decentralized network with no gatekeepers is assigning a monetary cost to actions.

The notion that the concept of money itself is dirty is an antiquated one. If you're not trading money you're trading time or limiting your scope. No approach is inherently worst than the others, but since the money way is new to decentralized networks that's where the innovation will naturally tend to happen.

But if you really don't like money in your decentralized networks I hear the GUN[1] ecosystem is pretty active. In-between solutions like Mastodon[2] are also blooming. And if you follow Ethereum's "leader" Vitalik Buterin on Twitter, you'll see he himself is very supportive of alternative approaches that don't involve cryptocurrency[3].

[1]: https://github.com/amark/gun

[2]: https://mastodon.social

[3]: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/121797359890150604..., https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/120734452423568998...

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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by johnmarcus on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:37PM (#22319631)
Lol, that's ironic considering how prolific spam is in the blockchain world.
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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by leppr on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:46PM (#22319707)
I've had an Ethereum address for 3 years and I just counted around 30 spam tokens attached to it. That's remarkably low considering how global and easy it is to send. I don't even want to imagine how many spam emails an unfiltered address would've gotten in that time span.
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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by johnmarcus on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @04:26PM (#22370266)
Also, your checking your shitcoins, not your email. Blickchainers love sending out newsletters, aka, spam.
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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by johnmarcus on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @04:22PM (#22370219)
It's remarkably high, considering how few companies are using it.
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