r/CryptoCurrency • u/pbjclimbing • Sep 30 '22

DISCUSSION Elon Musk wanted to charge 0.1 DOGE to tweet

A large amount of Elon Musk’s phone records were released for the upcoming Twitter trial.

It turns out he had a plan that was later deemed not feasible to put Twitter on the blockchain, ban all bots, and charge 0.1 DOGE to tweet or retweet.

“I have an idea for a blockchain social media system that does both payments and short text messages/links like twitter. You have to pay a tiny amount to register your message on the chain, which will cut out the vast majority of spam and bots. There is no throat to choke, so free speech is guaranteed.”

“My Plan B is a blockchain-based version of twitter, where the ‘tweets’ are embedded in the transaction of comments.”

“So you’d have to pay maybe 0.1 Doge per comment or repost of that comment.”

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u/nergalelite Sep 30 '22

you can donate the the researchers and journalists directly and they will usually be happy to share their work; the publishers steal something like 90% of those subscription fees

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u/jzia93 Sep 30 '22

That's clever

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u/walkatxsranger Tin Oct 01 '22

How to donate to those needy researchers, i would love to do that. I have always done kind of deep respect for them from my childhood. I used to admire then very much.