Re-thinking electronic mail
In my opinion, most of the problems with today&#x27;s email systems could be solved if the recipient system would require an ε payment to the recipients&#x27; public wallet. I don&#x27;t care what the value of ε is nor in which digital coin it is. But there should be a negligible cost to send email, and a benefit to the receiver.<p>I would even go further and alot email priorities, each high priority requiring a higher payment. So my bank notifying me of an attempted login might pay a little more, but that message goes to the top of my heap. Whereas aunt sally&#x27;s digital birthday card cost her near nothing and I&#x27;ll get to it when I&#x27;m done with all the attempted logins to my bank.<p>The best part of this system is that it really does not require actual money to be exchanged. If one prefers, he could just mine the coins he uses to send the mail with. That&#x27;s a feature, not a bug, to keep the system inclusive for all low-volume senders but far less so for spammers. It also makes scamming far less lucrative.