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Public posts from BTC.email: product updates, release notes, and the history of the service. Join member conversations from Community in Settings.
Open member conversationsMember rooms and replies require an approved account. Release notes now live here as Community posts. Earlier posts describe the service at the time.
Clearer spacing in notification emails.
Clearer spacing in notification emails. Community announcement and reply emails now preserve paragraphs and line breaks, with room between each author, message, and action. Personal invitations keep the greeting’s line breaks. Address-change, Marketplace purchase, and Trial expiry notices now separate the current status, what happens next, and safety information. These changes apply to newly prepared emails. Emails already sent keep their original layout.
Read postCommunity now opens as a scrolling timeline.
Community now opens as a scrolling timeline. On a phone, posts fill the screen and scroll through replies and the reply box together. Close stays within reach, and closing a post keeps your draft and your place. Public posts have more room for reading.
Read postRich Community posts, personal history, and private images
Rich Community posts, personal history, and private images Community posts now support bold, italic, strikethrough, links, and up to four images with descriptions. New posts can be edited for 80 minutes after publishing; original versions remain in permanent history. My posts gathers your posts and replies, with filters for room, text, dates, images, and editing status. Search follows current text, and browser Back restores prior filters. Thread emails and opted-in network announcements were checked between two existing members. Email keeps the original publication text when a post is later edited. Images stay private to eligible members. Abandoned uploads are cleaned hourly, and images referenced by earlier versions remain protected. Composition, formatting states, image controls, errors, edit deadlines, and history navigation passed an attended VoiceOver check in Chrome.
Read postCompose shows progress while preparing the editor. Closing it during that wait keeps it closed when loading finishes.
Compose shows progress while preparing the editor. Closing it during that wait keeps it closed when loading finishes.
Read postPublic Community posts, clearer registration and trading, and reliable shortcuts
Release notes are now public Community posts, with complete historical posts and real author attribution. Member discussions remain private. Registering now tells you more at each step: a taken name offers free alternatives, signing in before confirming explains what to do and can send a new link, a recorded payment sends a receipt, and a registration that stalls gets one reminder. The marketplace now opens with your own names, shows ten names for sale per page, and explains short names inside How it works. Checkout keeps its accepted quote on retry, and purchase history shows the destination and original terms. Every footer link now takes a click, and Support sits beside Privacy and Terms. Inbox tools share compact hover surfaces and matching keyboard focus rings. Keyboard shortcuts now keep mail actions, editor formatting, and input-method typing separate.
Read postMore private email and sign-in alerts, and an inbox that opens ready
Trusted-sender images load through BTC.email, new-device alerts show an approximate network, and the inbox opens with your counts, labels, contacts, and sender details already in place.
Read postEmail forwarding, personal pilot invitations, and delivery failures in Outbox
Email forwarding now lives under Profile in Settings: confirm an outside address to receive copies of new mail that reaches your inbox, while keeping your mail in BTC.email. Personally invited pilot members receive a greeting and a private link to choose their password once their inbox is ready. When our email provider accepts a message and then cannot deliver it, Outbox and the send notice now say so with the reason, Contacts opens straight from a link, and connecting an agent starts with no permission checked.
Read postClearer inbox dialogs, suggestions, and wallet setup
Recipient suggestions now include people you replied to in conversations still in your Inbox or Archive, and before you set up a wallet, Total held says so and points to Set up wallet. Inbox dialogs share consistent spacing and clearer controls on smaller screens.
Read postYour Trial counts from approval
A Trial name's twelve months now start when your account is approved, so waiting for your wave never shortens your term. Replies keep Send and archive and quote in your own time zone, new signatures save, Undo waits for your mail instead of doing nothing, and mail you never let in stays out of sight, Trash included. Mail from another member now offers Send Bitcoin.
Read postRegister for the name you want, Contacts, and swipe on touch screens
Every Get started opens registration: register for the name you want, wait for your wave, and share your referral link while you wait. Contacts keeps the people you write to, Settings adds Date and time and an on-chain withdrawal, and on a phone or tablet you can swipe a conversation to archive or delete it and pull the list to refresh. A new Support guide helps you move from Gmail.
Read postConnect your agent, quieter controls, and clearer previews
Inbox and Community controls respect reduced motion. Community headings keep emoji intact when a long preview is shortened.
Read postCommunity, clearer Marketplace choices, and an inbox that fits
Approved, active members can talk in Community with their existing profile. Marketplace choices are clearer, the inbox adapts to enlarged text, and About and Features explain the network behind your address.
Read postA paid network, and one Marketplace for names
New inboxes have a one-time signup price in sats and require operator approval. Operator coupons can reduce or cover that price. The Marketplace brings names, aliases, and short-name reserve bids together.
Read postAbout, Features, and a longer public brief
About tells why unwanted mail stayed cheap to send, and why neither mail nor Bitcoin has an owner. A Features page explains the inbox, the public address, and how Bitcoin fits. The public brief now walks from networked mail and spam through Bitcoin, says why neither protocol has an off switch, and keeps a dated record of how long the founder has held the idea.
Read postClearer public pages, and preparing mail incident notices
Public pages stated what the private alpha did at the time. Controls that were smaller than a fingertip now meet the tap size. Private mail monitoring now records core failures and recovery, with bounded retries and explicit review of uncertain notices. Notifications remain disabled until hosted checks pass. On a phone, the inbox is the message list, with Inbox, transactions, compose, starred, sent, and the other folders along the bottom.
Read postTemplates, scheduled mail, and a more comfortable composer
Save messages you write often as templates and manage them in Settings. Scheduled send is ready for hosted pilot checks. The composer gains Gmail’s link bubble, emoji search, and keys, plus Send and archive and a default reply choice, a message or conversation prints cleanly, and search understands Gmail’s operators, with Gmail’s search options, search chips, and suggestions as you type. Unsubscribe from a mailing list in one step, as in Gmail, and a sender’s name opens a card to write to them, find their mail, or allow or block them. Mute a busy conversation so its replies skip your inbox, take back a change with Undo or z, choose what opens after you file a conversation, report phishing beside Move to spam, and see new mail arrive in the tab and above your list.
Read postA clearer public face and a quieter inbox preview
The homepage introduces BTC.email with a rising wordmark and Satoshi’s words. Public pages share compact navigation and consistent reading layouts. The sample inbox has clearer Bitcoin attachments and lasting feedback. In this phase, approved members could send and receive test bitcoin by email address on a test network.
Read postA new public face for the rebuild
BTC.email has a new orange homepage, shared navigation, and clearer About, FAQ, support, and legal pages. The product rebuild continues on the reconnected hosting.
Read postBTC.email starts again
After a pause, work on BTC.email resumes. The first step reconnects every hosted service; the next replaces the design from top to bottom.
Read postA private alpha, then a pause
The homepage now says plainly that BTC.email is a private alpha. New development paused until a launch partner was in place.
Read postMore ways back into your account
Getting back into your account no longer depends on a single route, and the service gained the groundwork for scheduled mail, folders, and labels.
Read postA calmer homepage, in light or dark
The homepage now gets to the point: search for a username first, see what it costs right below, and pick the theme that suits you.
Read postSent mail, Lightning addresses, and answers
Mail you send now comes from your own @btc.email address and is kept in a sent folder, every username can receive Lightning payments, and common questions have a home.
Read postClearer public claims
The public pages stopped describing features that did not exist yet.
Read postClearer testnet status and safer sign-in
Testnet notices, account protection, and stronger text contrast made the service easier to understand.
Read postOne interface for every client
BTC.email gained a shared programming interface, replacing the earlier mail app.
Read postA full mail app, and paid mail that pays you
A full web mail app joined the service, and a sender's payment now credits your balance the moment their message arrives.
Read postLive prices and safer forms
Prices now follow the live bitcoin exchange rate, and every form checks that a request really came from you.
Read postA homepage that shows what is possible
The homepage started suggesting usernames as you type and showing names other people had just claimed.
Read postPay to reach an inbox
The core idea came to life: a stranger who emails you is asked to pay a small Lightning fee first, and their message reaches you once they do.
Read postClaim a username, pay with Lightning
The first working build: search for a username and claim it with a Lightning payment, on Bitcoin's test network, so no real bitcoin moved.
Read postWhere BTC.email began
BTC.email started from an old idea: a small payment as a spam filter. These first days set out the plan for a spam-free inbox built on Lightning.
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