On that note... Has there ever been an Adam Back style email service? I.e. you need to send me 10k sats for your email to land in my inbox? Google wasn't particularly helpful 😅 

 That's what Earn was like for a while. I built my own though. 
https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-create-bitcoin-email-paywall-with-btcpay/ 

 hahaha maaaaate that takes me back 

 first impression i got from that visual was a mugshot wanted poster