New Service Allows You to Get Tipped in Bitcoin to Read Email

cryptonews.com:

As some estimates indicate that more than 333bn emails are sent every day, a new service, Reacher, aims to allow its users to get paid in bitcoin (BTC) to be reached, and potentially filter out a major share of their spam.

The project presents its functionality in five steps: 

Reacher is an open-source project created by software engineer Sam Walker during one of the internal hackathons hosted by crypto payments app Strike.

Among some positive responses to the new product, Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike and crypto investment and payments company Zap, tweeted that, while the solution to spam has been theorized for many years, bitcoin’s emergence as the internet’s native currency could contribute to solving the problem.

“Now, we can solve the internet's biggest problems, like email spam. Those that want to contact me with inquiries, questions, etc. can do so at [email protected] I'll take the messages more seriously knowing they paid money to contact me and that my time is being compensated,” he said. 

He added that family, friends, and colleagues do not need to pay to contact a person as they have or will have the receiver's "real email."

Some users were cautious about how using a Reacher email address could impact their online activities.

“I order something from Amazon and they send me an email, then they get a response to pay sats and they don’t and then I never get the email?” inquired user Pirate Dead.

Another user, JW, argued that this solution doesn’t solve spam directly, saying that the same result could be achieved by getting the sender to solve a captcha. "It’s cool, but all it is in essence is a way to micro-charge for premium email delivery," said JW.

Meanwhile, others are trying to come up with ways to further enhance the