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Re:Why the open social web matters now by Groxx on Saturday October 18, 2025 @05:03PM (#45630327)
it's pure waste-generation, but hashcash is a fairly old strategy for this, and it's one of the foundations of Bitcoin. there's no "proof of payment to any beneficial recipient", sadly, but it does throttle high-volume spammers pretty effectively.
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Re:Why the open social web matters now by echelon on Saturday October 18, 2025 @05:17PM (#45630411)
Maybe if you could prove you sent a payment to a charity node and then signed your message in the receipt for verification...
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Re:Why the open social web matters now by Terr_ on Saturday October 18, 2025 @06:19PM (#45630750)
Imagine a world where every City Hall has a vending machine you can use to donate a couple bucks to to a charity of your choice, and receive an anonymous one-time use "some real human physically present donated real money to make this" token.

You could then spend the token with a forum, to gain and basic trust for an otherwise anonymous account.

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Re:Why the open social web matters now by echelon on Saturday October 18, 2025 @06:29PM (#45630790)
I like that idea a lot.
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