<p>There was a paper somewhere proposing a scheme for filtering email spam with the use of Bitcoin micropayments. I can't remember where I saw it and can't find it now. Anybody knows about it?</p>

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related: [Could bitcoins be used to filter spam?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2507/could-bitcoins-be-used-to-filter-spam),  [BCT: "include messages in transaction, alternate use: anti spam email"](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60272.0), [BCT: "Bounty proposal for a Bitcoin-based email to fight spam."](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75933.0)
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Defeating email spam with Bitcoin
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# Defeating email spam with Bitcoin

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-29)

There was a paper somewhere proposing a scheme for filtering email spam with the use of Bitcoin micropayments. I can't remember where I saw it and can't find it now. Anybody knows about it?

**Tags:** academic-research, spam, micropayments, email

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: related: [Could bitcoins be used to filter spam?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2507/could-bitcoins-be-used-to-filter-spam),  [BCT: "include messages in transaction, alternate use: anti spam email"](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60272.0), [BCT: "Bounty proposal for a Bitcoin-based email to fight spam."](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75933.0)  

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