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If you want me to read your comment, please pay me $1 first... if I find your comment interesting I might refund.

>>k8sToG+(OP)
I had this idea / pet project once where I did exactly this for email. Emails would immediately bounce with payment link and explanation. If you paid you get credit on a ledger per email address. Only then the mail goes through.

You can also integrate it in clients by adding payment/reward claim headers.

>>k8sToG+(OP)
The market currently values your reading of HN comments at $0.

>>herman+E
Bill Gates already had this idea. All efforts to change email were already documented 25 years ago. The biggest changes are it is more centralized these days, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, JMAP innovation, oh... and one more thing! It is HUGE!! HTML email is the default...

>>Fnoord+sc
Yeah I remember this from "The Road Ahead" which I chanced upon one time in the 90s. I thought it was a silly idea.

>>herman+E
Scammers (and spammers) always got $1! That's why there's a lot of the scam ads on google, fb, apple.

So the paywall email firewall will not work as desired.

>>zx8080+zo
Not many email attacks are worth an entire dollar. It would be very very effective at reducing spam. And too effective at reducing everything else.

>>jt2190+K
I'm sure astroturfers value it more highly than that.

>>Dylan1+Zr
Emails to CEOs they do worth.

>>zx8080+vO
So only CEOs will get spam, and it's effective for 99.9% of people? I would not describe that as "will not work as desired".

>>Dylan1+8P
And it would even still work for the CEO, they would just have to charge more than $1.

The real problem is we don't have a low-friction digital payment system that allows individuals to automate sending payment requests for small amounts of money to each other without requiring everyone to sign up for a merchant account with a financial bureaucracy.

>>Anthon+tT
> The real problem is we don't have a low-friction digital payment system that allows individuals to automate sending payment requests for small amounts of money to each other without requiring everyone to sign up for a merchant account with a financial bureaucracy.

Its called cryptocurrency

>>SJC_Ha+i21
First you have to make it low-friction. If I want Joe Average to send me $1 in cryptocurrency, how is he getting $1 in cryptocurrency to send me?

>>AlexCo+bw
The only way for you to be sure of that is if you're one.

>>vasco+171
I'm sure there's literature out there on how much astroturfers are paid.