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> Relaying devices earn a micro-payment

The thing is, it's almost impossible to guarantee payments work as expected in decentralized system, see "double spend attack". Bitcoin was designed to prevent it but does it by having common ledger which is a bit too much for a chat



Bitmessage tried this. Defunct now I think.




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