spam

Satoshi ↔ Dustin Trammell Correspondence

Satoshi responds to Hal Finney's point about botnets and pay-per-send email, proposing an economic argument where fake mailboxes could 'reverse-spam' spammers by harvesting their POW tokens, creating a self-defeating cycle. He also describes e-gold's 'dusting' spam problem.

Bitcoin v0.1 released

Satoshi discusses how proof-of-work tokens could mitigate spam by creating economic incentives that make spamming unprofitable, including the concept of reverse-spamming with fake mailboxes.