Awesome new product built on the @Strike API: reacher.me
Solving the email spam problem with #Bitcoin and Lightning payments.
The public can now reach me at jack@reacher.me for $1
The future of the Web is using #Bitcoin as the internet's native currency.
Solving the email spam problem with #Bitcoin and Lightning payments.
The public can now reach me at jack@reacher.me for $1
The future of the Web is using #Bitcoin as the internet's native currency.
Email is likely the most successful mass-communication scheme of all time but has always had a spam issue.
In 2012, @Yahoo Research estimated 88% of worldwide email traffic was spam, and spam costs businesses and consumers an estimated $100M per year.
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…
In 2012, @Yahoo Research estimated 88% of worldwide email traffic was spam, and spam costs businesses and consumers an estimated $100M per year.
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…
What is spam?
Spam is an unsolicited message from someone you don’t know that would like some of your time and attention.
Given the fundamental architecture of the internet, spam is hard to prevent.
It’s difficult to restrict who can contact you and there's no cost to do so.
Spam is an unsolicited message from someone you don’t know that would like some of your time and attention.
Given the fundamental architecture of the internet, spam is hard to prevent.
It’s difficult to restrict who can contact you and there's no cost to do so.
The solution to internet spam has been theorized for decades.
Ideally, there is a cost to the sender, and an ability for the receiver to monetize their time and attention.
The cost for honest participants would be negligible, but prohibitively expensive for spammers.
Ideally, there is a cost to the sender, and an ability for the receiver to monetize their time and attention.
The cost for honest participants would be negligible, but prohibitively expensive for spammers.
This was @adam3us idea with HashCash.
However, because the internet did not have a native currency at the time, it was impossible to use global micropayments to solve the problem.
Thus, HashCash became a proof-of-work system to burden the sender with hardware costs.
However, because the internet did not have a native currency at the time, it was impossible to use global micropayments to solve the problem.
Thus, HashCash became a proof-of-work system to burden the sender with hardware costs.
Now that we have #Bitcoin and Lightning, the internet does have a native currency.
#Bitcoin is an open, global, instant, cheap, inclusive, and innovative payments standard that allows cash final transactions of any size.
No prior payment networks come close in comparison.
#Bitcoin is an open, global, instant, cheap, inclusive, and innovative payments standard that allows cash final transactions of any size.
No prior payment networks come close in comparison.
Now, we can solve the internet's biggest problems, like email spam.
Those that want to contact me with inquiries, questions, etc. can do so at jack@reacher.me
I'll take the messages more seriously knowing they paid money to contact me and that my time is being compensated.
Those that want to contact me with inquiries, questions, etc. can do so at jack@reacher.me
I'll take the messages more seriously knowing they paid money to contact me and that my time is being compensated.
Does this mean my family, friends, and colleagues need to pay to reach me?
No.
They already have, or will receive, my real email.
My Reacher email is for public use and acts as a global communications paywall that protects my time and attention.
Spam me all you'd like 🤑
No.
They already have, or will receive, my real email.
My Reacher email is for public use and acts as a global communications paywall that protects my time and attention.
Spam me all you'd like 🤑
Next time I go shopping? I'll use my Reacher email
Next time I present at a conference? I'll share my Reacher email
My current email is unusable, with 50k+ emails, and only a fraction I asked for
Now, for the same experience, I'll either get $50k+ or my time and attention back
Next time I present at a conference? I'll share my Reacher email
My current email is unusable, with 50k+ emails, and only a fraction I asked for
Now, for the same experience, I'll either get $50k+ or my time and attention back
Anyone with a @Strike account can get a Reacher email: reacher.me
You set the price to contact you, and anyone that sends you an email will get a reply with a #Bitcoin Lightning invoice.
After it's paid, the email will be forwarded to your real email.
You set the price to contact you, and anyone that sends you an email will get a reply with a #Bitcoin Lightning invoice.
After it's paid, the email will be forwarded to your real email.
It's not hard to imagine @Twitter and @elonmusk using the same to solve Twitter's spambots issue + monetize malice, @ghost to allow anonymous accounts, etc.
Now we can empower a better internet and enable a digital economy that was previously impossible.
#Bitcoin fixes this.
Now we can empower a better internet and enable a digital economy that was previously impossible.
#Bitcoin fixes this.
The code is open source. It's shockingly simple.
A hackathon project solved one of the internet's oldest problems for me and my email.
The web doesn't need tokens and bullshit.
We simply need to use the best monetary network in human history, #Bitcoin
github.com/strikewalker/r…
A hackathon project solved one of the internet's oldest problems for me and my email.
The web doesn't need tokens and bullshit.
We simply need to use the best monetary network in human history, #Bitcoin
github.com/strikewalker/r…
Give it a try and shoot me an email at jack@reacher.me!
Now that I know it's worth my time, I'll be reading over all the mail tonight over dinner
For the honest-good-faith emails, I'll respond, and donate the proceeds to @HRF
Cheers to a better internet for the world 🍻🚀🙂
Now that I know it's worth my time, I'll be reading over all the mail tonight over dinner
For the honest-good-faith emails, I'll respond, and donate the proceeds to @HRF
Cheers to a better internet for the world 🍻🚀🙂
To be clear, reacher.me is not my product or a @Strike product. I'm just a user.
Reacher was built by @bluesam in one of Strike's internal hackathons.
It's an open-source project. You can file issues and submit pull requests if you'd like:
github.com/strikewalker/r…
Reacher was built by @bluesam in one of Strike's internal hackathons.
It's an open-source project. You can file issues and submit pull requests if you'd like:
github.com/strikewalker/r…
I love Reacher as a glimpse into the future, a demonstration of what's possible with #Bitcoin + Lightning, and how powerful the @Strike API is.
Would take a hackathon to fix @Twitter's spambots problem, enable anonymous accounts on @ghost, allow global payments for @Airbnb, etc.
Would take a hackathon to fix @Twitter's spambots problem, enable anonymous accounts on @ghost, allow global payments for @Airbnb, etc.
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