On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 6:14 PM Hesham ElBakoury <helbakoury@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is using Everything more energy efficient than email systems that are currently in use?Hesham
Energy efficiency is not a consideration in the Mesh messaging system.
If however, you believe there is utility in chain-type notary logs, the cross-notarization approach used in the Mesh is considerably stronger than the proof of waste approach used in Bitcoin and uses negligible electricity.
When looking at SMTP mail and DNS, the vast majority of time and effort goes into handling abuse. In the case of running DNS root servers, 99% of the load is pure abuse.
The Mesh does not prevent abuse but the fact that every message is authenticated and only authorized messages are accepted means that there is much less value in abuse to an attacker. The net is that while sending a Mesh message requires a lot of cryptographic operations not required in SMTP/STARTTLS, the net impact would probably be much less at scale.
