What I mean by private messaging is that once I submit a private 'message' or post, it will become unintelligible to everyone apart from the person or people with the means to unlock/decode it. Transparency as a principal is wonderful, but there are certain uses to which the Steemchain might be put that are not comfortable without privacy.
There may be many benign reasons to have private messaging on the Steemchain. I'm going to suggest a couple of reason that would be useful to me;
Personal messages -
I would like to be able to leave messages for members of my family that they will be able to read at some point in the future. For example;
- I'd like to compose a message for my daughter and have the Steemchain look after it until she is old enough to comprehend it. When the time is right, I will provide her with the means to unlock the message. She can log in to Steemit, find the relevant post and unlock the message that has been waiting for her in my blog.
- I might like to leave instructions for family members should certain advents come to pass.
- I might want to leave private messages to myself....like a diary, work notes, ideas or script drafts. Our blogs could be personal bodies of work as well as the means for sharing information and connecting.
There may be reasons that businesses, scientists or researchers would like to use the Steemchain but would also like a degree of privacy.
It would be very useful to be able to assign locks to groups of posts which could be globally removed....or even timelocks.
Perhaps there are issues with implementing private messaging on the Steemchain in the manner I'm suggesting. If you know what they are, I would certainly appreciate it if you left a comment or two to explain. There are ways to do all of the things i'd like to do off the Steemchain. However, the Steemchain is so advanced, resilient, efficient, secure, convenient......I find myself wanting to do everything on it.
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Happy Steeming