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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by mschuster91 on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:23PM (#30150713)
This is maybe the one thing where Bitcoin or another blockchain-based payment network could have been a net benefit in theory (both as a measure to prevent spam and to reward content creators)... but in practice it turned out to be nothing more than a giant planetary heating system.
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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by camgunz on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:48PM (#30151198)
To my surprise, I discovered proof-of-work was originally an anti-spam solution for email! [0] Pretty interesting stuff.

[0]: http://www.hashcash.org/

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by lanstin on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:59PM (#30151422)
or any open micropaymemts type platform. I always expected the journalists to make such a thing-pay whatever $50 bucks a month and it is split between the content publishers you visit. Better than a few people like me subscribing to as many papers as i can and most people being the prey of the asveetisers and having terrible roadblocks to just learning the news.
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