Responding to
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196138.msg2045167#msg2045167 here because I'm still in newbie purgatory.
FlameWar 2.0. Now with Actual Facts! (gasp)
From
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/015014.htmlSatoshi said this:
Once it gets bootstrapped, there are so many
applications if you could effortlessly pay a few cents to a
website as easily as dropping coins in a vending machine.
A few cents. Not 0.7 cents.
A little later, in
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/015041.html he said this:
Interestingly, one of the e-gold systems already has a form of
spam called "dusting". Spammers send a tiny amount of gold dust
in order to put a spam message in the transaction's comment field.
If the system let users configure the minimum payment they're
willing to receive, or at least the minimum that can have a
message with it, users could set how much they're willing to get
paid to receive spam.
Fixing the 'dusting' problem is
exactly what this change is all about. Go back to your freedom fries people, nothing to see.
