@Meaningness broadly speaking, the reason to want a blockchain is because you want a trust-less payments network
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however, if you look at how email deals with spam, you'll see trust and fiefs are a huge part of it.
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accordingly, pitch out the trust-less constraint (makes things inefficient & difficult)
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transaction throughput for most blockchain designs is abysmal.
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we trust a single all powerful entity for our social network (Twitter), I'm proposing a move back to email's established model
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partly out of a desire to remove unnecessary risk.
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All this seems right to me, which is why I asked @jdegoes about it… I’m probably missing something.
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*shrugs* I'm a technological Burkean.
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