I've set a Boost difficulty of 100,000 to baemail me cosmosstag@moneybutton.com.
Post by twetch#1489
As an inbox owner I wonder, what is the advantage of seeing a costly signal that paid miners instead of myself being paid by a regular baemail? Aren't miners taking my lunch?
What the chain says
- Block
- 628 711
- Time
- 2020-04-01T03:21:20Z
- 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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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.
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.
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.
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.