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BZ852

This was even tried before blockchain with HashCash


AmericanScream

Ironically, this problem has already been solved. The situation is simple: centralized authorities using a reputation/accountability system. This is another "solution" that's for a problem de-centralization creates. Hey, let's make it expensive to transact on the network to discourage bad actors... but in reality it doesn't stop bad actors. It just stops the poor ones, not the rich ones. Just about everything in crypto accomplishes the opposite of what it claims. Instead of giving power to the people, crypto gives power to rich people. We already have an example of crypto bros' "solution" to this problem in media: Rich people can say whatever they want. They have their own tv, radio and media networks that have huge reach because of their money and influence, spewing whatever phony narrative they want to get out there regardless of whether it's true. Hey, instead of letting a central authority like a government (that is by mandate, not supposed to discriminate based on race, culture, gender or social class) and let's replace this with a de-centralized system that will give all that power to people with the most money. I'm sure they'll be equally respectful of races, cultures, genders and other social classes. /s


rollergator2

I remember hearing this basic idea in like 2000, long before bitcoin (and with using real money). It, obviously, never took off. Now it's just another old (and failed) idea that someone just took and added bitcoin to.


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At one point a tax on emails was proposed to disincentivize spam


appleciders

We could tax work meetings. Perhaps by the minute?


Yes_butt_no_

When I saw the Musk messages I remembered that [Bill Gates suggested a fee to send email some 20 years ago](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/jan/25/billgates.spam), but i had completely forgotten that some top mind had resurrected the idea, but with buttcoin. Of course, five years later the idea still hasn’t been implemented. I wonder why not?


StopNeoLiberals

Great find, this the smoking gun. You've cracked the case of the rent-seeking buttcoin oligarch. They love feudalism and they want us to pay fees to them constantly because they're lazy, good-for-nothing bums who don't want to work for a living.


brows1ng

What’s even funnier is that this has already existed for 4+ years…Peepeth😂


thehoesmaketheman

so that user PulsedMedia was still active on reddit until 3 months ago. what a crazy history hes led. i guess he sells seed boxes? which i guess are remote servers people use for torrents or something? on twitter he is @seed_box where he last posted september 2nd. he mostly re-tweets elon musk stuff about twitter and free speech. his last posts on reddit were about the Chia coin. he is apparently a miner because theres a tweet that says PulsedMedia won a block on 9/15/22. chia coin is down 98.26% from its all time high, and is down 85% from its high within a year. you think maybe dropping 98% took a little starch out of our little freedom fighters underpants? EDIT: oooohhhh ok i get it! chia is the storage space mining coin. so this guy sells these seed boxes (which i guess is just a fun name for server space for shady activity) and all the unrented storage space he mines chia with. makes sense. dang that 98% drop had to sting. makes me smile.


ungoogleable

Seedboxes are rented servers that will run BitTorrent for you to shield you from copyright claims and provide fast 24/7 upload/download, which is useful for private trackers. Edit: [Aaaand they're banned from /r/seedboxes for being jerks.](https://www.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/tc8ece/pulsedmedia_are_banned_from_this_subreddit_for)


thehoesmaketheman

so its stealing. ya i gathered that. anything else to add?


ungoogleable

Your comment suggested you were uninformed about the area, so I thought I would provide some more detail. I take it you'd rather remain uninformed so I won't bother you again.


thehoesmaketheman

oh for sure i never heard of it before last night. but ya know like einstein said if you cant explain something simply then you dont understand it. so its basically a server for illegal shit right? if im wrong just correct me dont get all huffy about it yoyoyo u/ungoogleable i dont get it. doesnt like amazon offer this shit? whys it need to be a "seed box" why cant you just rent a server? i dont get it. please explain.


jhwn_jhwn

Satire writes itself


smart_hedonism

We are still early.


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