10 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 17 Oct 2022 \ on: #Bitcoin Sats Email gatekeeper (LN) service bitcoin
Awesome! Reacher beat you to it though.
I also think solutions like this suffer from many people - who might otherwise send me email I want to receive - not having sats. I think it might be better to allow people to pay for priority in a person's inbox rather than prevent them from sending at all. Or, perhaps, emails without sats or presence on the whitelist, go to another folder.
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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @timechain 17 Oct 2022
Yep. Last I saw though, you need a Strike account. : (
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 17 Oct 2022
Good point, perhaps there's an opportunity for something that doesn't require a Strike account!
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155 sats \ 2 replies \ @Misha_Dany OP 18 Oct 2022 freebie
My biggest concern with Reacher is privacy - another layer, trust to a private company.
Also, ideally, I'd want to hold on to my original email address and just have a paywall-service layer sorting my emails.
That way If I needed to - I could still go and see all emails sent to me in some folder that's tucked away.
Anyhow, keeping my eyes out on a service that I can use. Else, might have to build something, lol
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155 sats \ 1 reply \ @timechain 18 Oct 2022
Just an idea off the top of my head on a possible path: you know how there is a place for a message with a LN payment? you somehow automate a way to put the sender's email address in there, which temporarily whitelists the email address for one message.
Also, so I know monetizing software is a bit taboo in the Bitcoin space, but instead of relying on donations, you can take a small % (1 to 5%) of the sats to help keep it nice and maintained well. If you make it FOSS, someone will copy it anyway and put out a free, but not well-maintained version anyway.
Built in monetization models are great. Bitcoin is made out of incentives. If we had a professional, working version of every product that was started on Bitcoin, but was abandoned due to the developers not getting anything out of it, Bitcoin would be decades ahead.
Also, if the model could support itself that way, it could stay ad-free. Because ads go hand in hand with collecting data.
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155 sats \ 0 replies \ @Misha_Dany OP 18 Oct 2022 freebie
Love the idea.
Also, "monetizing software is a bit taboo". Seriously, wth! Except the miners, which is at the core of why the bitcoin network works in the first place, lol!
We can make a case that NOT monetizing is anti-Bitcoin.
Anyhow We should ALWAYS monetize, and it does not have to be seen as bad or done is some shitty way.
  1. Release open source. Most people won't bother self-hosting anything.
  2. Offer hosting / service for a fee.
We won't reach any meaningful adoption without proper incentives.
" If we had a professional, working version of every product that was started on Bitcoin, but was abandoned due to the developers not getting anything out of it, Bitcoin would be decades ahead."
^ Now that's a great idea @timechain!
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Misha_Dany OP 17 Oct 2022 freebie
Yeah I've been thinking about folder structure, where all Sats emails sit in a folder similar Social or Promotions in gmail.
  • That way, these paid emails are not disctracting.
  • You'll have an option to never see them, or scroll through in your free time.
This angle is more of a spam blocker. Another feature is to do something like Vida platform or many of the OnlyFans like platforms. But for now I just wish the spam industry shrinks
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