Mailchain’s tenets guide its approach to design and decision-making.
Unless you know better ones…
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User experience: Users expect a good experience. There should be no compromise on delivering the best experience within the bounds of today’s available technology.
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Enable Anonymity: Many blockchains offer a degree of (pseudo-)anonymity to public addresses or accounts. Mailchain enables the preservation of anonymity to the degree permitted by the underlying protocol.
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Enable Decentralisation: Many blockchain protocols are designed to run applications and store data in a decentralised way. Wherever possible, Mailchain removes centralized dependencies respecting that users may wish to run the software in a decentralized configuration.
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Standards-based: Mailchain seeks to follow and contribute to existing standards. If no standard exists, we will propose new, open, high quality standards that others can adopt.
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Low Cost: Interacting with blockchains can have an associated cost (e.g. Gas, transactions fees, storage fees etc.). Mailchain seeks to optimize the costs of sending messages.