user13530: There was a paper somewhere proposing a scheme for filtering email spam with the use of Bitcoin micropayments. I can't remember where I saw it and can't find it now. Anybody knows about it?

user-1: Hashcash is one of the many anti-spam techniques used today, which is essentially a proof-of-work system designed to limit not only email spam but also denial-of-service attacks. A similar proof-of-work methodology is being used in bitcoin for block generation.
With an average of 150 billion e-mails sent out on a daily basis I cannot see how this could be deployed in the blockchain, which would then have to be adjusted to facilitate 1,7 million TPS while now it only serves 7 TPS (artificial limit). 
Also, bitcoin is not really made for such small payments which would result in tons of useless and unspendable dust outputs.

13530: <p>There was a paper somewhere proposing a scheme for filtering email spam with the use of Bitcoin micropayments. I can't remember where I saw it and can't find it now. Anybody knows about it?</p>
 -1: <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash" rel="nofollow">Hashcash</a> is one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques" rel="nofollow">many anti-spam techniques</a> used today, which is essentially a proof-of-work system designed to limit not only email spam but also denial-of-service attacks. A similar <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work" rel="nofollow">proof-of-work</a> methodology is being used in bitcoin for block generation.</p>

<p>With an average of 150 billion e-mails sent out on a daily basis I cannot see how this could be deployed in the blockchain, which would then have to be adjusted to facilitate 1,7 million TPS while now it only serves 7 TPS (artificial limit). </p>

<p>Also, bitcoin is not really made for such small payments which would result in tons of useless and unspendable dust outputs.</p>
