Matterpool is a bitcoin miner. The same infrastructure will be mining Boost+Bitcoin seamlessly soon. Regular users will not know or care who mines them.
Regarding the costly signal.... if you pay a fee to someone - how does it provide you "went without?"
Sending message options:
Both options provide different benefits/drawbacks. For ex, Option 2 does not allow receiver to just take the money.
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
14QXphEYn97GKtCkjChvfmastRBPsBwJdx VerifiedBut it seems that there are other solutions to the "went without" problem than (2) that also provide a benefit to the recipient.
I think I'm just failing to see what benefit PoW provides to people outside of Bitcoin students.
Perhaps I'm wrong, though.
That's a good question.
Non-bitcoiners are already familiar with "Boosting" or "promoting" a twitter or FB post. They can see Boost POW in a similar way.
For 1:1 messages.... Boost will serve more as a spam filter I think.