If you received money for sending you a message, how do I know you didn't just take the money and not read the message? With Boost, you know it's likely that your messages will be read.
Post by twetch#1489
The sender runs this risk in both scenarios, but I am more inclined to read the messages that pay me instead of someone else. If it was bullshit at least I was compensated for waisting my time.
What the chain says
- Block
- 628 718
- Time
- 2020-04-01T04:01:20Z
- Signer
- 1G7DLq695juhR7QFz5jn1AaXH55Hxn4kZS
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
- Name in tx
- twetch#1489
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
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It’s your choice, for this reason. If you want a good signal Boost will seethe you better - but ultimately it is up to you to choose your inbox economics. If you prefer to be paid, set your Boost threshold higher than your Pay threshold.
I think it's fine to demand money to receive a message but there should be a legally binding contract obliging you to read the message.
Please write a script whereby the sender funds an output which can only be redeemed by decrypting the Baemail. A send and a release funds to self?
Maybe you could use Legally Chained for that. @1350
I was going to figure this out myself, or ask Stas.
With Boost it's your incentive to set the difficulty to exactly the level which limits information to an amount that you actually want to read. If you get paid to receive the message nobody really knows if you would really read it, despite what you say.
I see your point, but I think that setting a minimum price for the messages to appear in my inbox would be more interesting.
Boost doesn't guarantee to the sender that I will read a message, so I see no difference. The miner already got the money anyway.
It doesn't guarantee. It's just something that you can expect. When you accept money, there's a reason to receive the message other than because you want to read it.
What kind of customer would be your main target for this? Companies trying to reach people to which they are not familiar?
I think boost is a great idea but the more obvious use cases for me are not email inboxes. Public sources of info is a strong one IMO