New Email Service Tackles Spam With Bitcoin Micropayments
A recently launched service called Composed aims to boost the fight against spam by charging bitcoin micropayments for emails. Composed users are assigned an email address with a getcomposed.com domain name and can decide how much they wish to charge senders for an email. Anyone wanting their message to arrive at that address will have to respond to an automated reply and pay for the privilege by sending bitcoin or fiat currency via PayPal. Ryan Gerard, who created the service, said: "When it costs spammers real money to send email, they will send less of it. Using bitcoin for....
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