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Re:The Actual Wolf of Wallstreet Cold Call Script by jazzyjackson on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @04:15AM (#41179280)
This use case is actually the reason we have bitcoin, tho it's a shame it took off as a protest to banks instead of getting implemented as a functional anti-spam tool. To this day spam is regularly in my inbox and I have to check my spam folder for legitamate messages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

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Re:The Actual Wolf of Wallstreet Cold Call Script by dartos on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @06:33AM (#41179936)
Well, no. That’s the reason we have hash cash (the pow algo for bitcoin)

Bitcoin itself, as with most early cryptocurrencies, is and was a protest against banks and centralized finance.

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Re:The Actual Wolf of Wallstreet Cold Call Script by jazzyjackson on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @10:16PM (#41187506)
fair enough, I should say it was a prerequisite
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Re:The Actual Wolf of Wallstreet Cold Call Script by gosub100 on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @09:31AM (#41181280)
There's nothing stopping this from happening. Build encryption into the email protocols and hide the decrypt key behind a block chain that costs even $0.01 of a fungible token to access.
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Re:The Actual Wolf of Wallstreet Cold Call Script by jazzyjackson on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @10:15PM (#41187496)
the blockchain, as usual, is not necessary, the header is proof enough on that a penny worth of energy[0] was expended in generating the hash

[0] (or however much energy you want to demand before throwing the message in the spam folder - you just require whatever number of leading zeros in the hash ie crank up the difficulty, bitcoin's innovation was assigning ownership to these proofs-of-work via signatures and implementing a mechanism to update and broadcast that ownership)

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