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Email on Blockchain. Send and receive emails over blockchain

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Email Over Blockchain

Yes! an actual Blockchain Mail App 💚
Send and receive emails over blockchain

Why Blockchain Mail?

  1. First of all, YOU are in control. No one can restrict your access in any way.
  2. Finally no spam. Because sending emails through Blockchain costs a fee.
  3. Secure by default. Blockchain is secure by default.
  4. It is always there. Your email is always there. no one can delete them nor change them
  5. YOU can only read them. cryptography technology in Blockchain make sure you are the only reader of your mails

About EOB (Email Over Blockchain)

It is a fun project, to demonstrate how blockchain email could look like. It is a simple app that allows you to send and receive emails over Blockchain.

EOB is on top of the LBRY protocol. However It is not the best fit for such a service, but it is good enough.
Feel free to contribute 😀

How it works

EOB works with the LBRY blockchain.
Sending an email is creating a transaction in the blockchain, this transaction contains email metadata.
So you keep the mail metadata in the blockchain and the mail itself in somewhere like IPFS.
Each LBRY channel is an account here. You can send and receive emails to/from channels.

Screenshots

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Requirements

  • lbrynet: you can run lbrynet by running the LBRY desktop application.

https://lbry.com/get

Install & Run

git clone https://github.com/mlibre/email-on-blockchain.git
cd email-on-blockchain
npm i
npm install --dev-only

Make sure lbrynet is running.

lbrynet start

Then run the app.

npm start

Issues with LBRY

  • Mails on lbry protocols are not encrypted yet!
  • If the sender of the mail abandon the claim, metadata will be lost

LICENSE

LICENSE File

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