I'd love to have in-wallet messaging. No reason not to have this and I'm sure this is something easy to implement, especially with other coins already having messaging/chat features.
+1.
It would be like sending messages to a darkcoin address. Both anonymous (so that you don't know who sent the message, and can't answer) but also not anonymous (so that the senders address is known to you, but only you, so that a private conversation can take place).
It will not be possible to answer an anonymous message, because that would compromise the whole darksend anonymization process. (or could there be a way?)
Ofcourse sending a message should cost a small amount of DRK, maybe 0.01 or something, so that eventual SPAM could be limited...
Question is if messages are embedded in the blockchain or simply being broadcast by masternodes and probably saved and managed in the users wallet.dat?
Your thoughts evan?
This is a great idea. It just occurred to me that if messaging were implemented you might also be able to identify yourself (if you want to, of course) with the address. Maybe instead of signing up to online services with your email address, you could do it with your Darkcoin address. A place like DarkcoinTalk could be the first to implement it. It's quite difficult to find email services which won't ask for your identity, certainly without paying. So if you don't want to reveal your identity when signing up for email you basically have to pay (sometimes quite a lot), or commit fraud. Or set up your own email server.
Paying for sending messages is essential to prevent spam, but maybe it could be scaled so that very short messages are very cheap and then they get more expensive, the more data you send. Also with the current volatility, I think coding in set prices in DRK is a mistake. There must be a way of establishing some sort of ratio to things like difficulty, coin supply, market cap, masternodes, fiat currencies, precious metals or some combination of any of them, or something else.
