Since I don't own mining equipment, what is the difference between the costly signal of paying matterpool as a costly signal vs paying Baemail/the recipient as a costly signal?
Post by twetch#3375
Someone can accept payment for emails without actually reading them. With proof-of-work, it's the recipient's incentive to set the difficulty to the point where they want to read everything they get.
What the chain says
- Block
- 632 733
- Time
- 2020-04-29T20:00:29Z
- Signer
- 1Abd9yJS6mrzMmj1Ni6kjQB9GqtyaNujrm
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
- Name in tx
- twetch#3375
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
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As the recipient it is in my interest to get the payment that would otherwise go to a mining pool to attach that PoW.
Yes but it's not in the sender's interest to use that system as much. PoW aligns the interest of both parties.
It is in the sender's interest to do what is in the recipient's interest, if the sender wants to maximize the chance that the recipient reads the message.
That's just manipulation.