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> > The intention is sender pays, recipient is paid, reflecting
> > the real scarcity of readers time. Mailing lists would be
> > sent out without postage, but with cryptographic signature,
> > and subscribers would have to OK it. Letters to the list
> > would be accompanied by payment, which would be something
> > considerably less than a cent, which would yield a profit
> > to the mailing list operators.
On 22 Mar 2003 at 13:24, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> However, it penalizes everyone without an infrastructure for
> electronic payment.
Would need infrastructure for micropayments. At present NO ONE
has any infrastructure for small electronic payments. Also the
payments would have to be anonymous, or somehow grouped, or
there would be massive loss of privacy.
The obvious solution is chaumian micro cash.
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