Future Use Cases for Blockhain Technology: Distributed Email Services

Future Use Cases for Blockhain Technology: Distributed Email Services

Regardless of which email provider a consumer uses today, all of these services are centralized in their very own way. Let’s take internet service provider mailboxes, for example, which are complementary when signing a contract with one of these companies. They offer a handful of free mailboxes to the customer, but there are strings attached that are not....


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