A 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.

Historical update · October 21, 2026

Write without pressing Save: your draft saves after a short pause and when you leave or close the composer. Leaving the page also attempts a save; only a confirmed save is available from Drafts after reloading.

Change From on a new message until you send it, as in Gmail, even after it saves: the draft moves to the address you choose, and its earlier copy leaves Drafts once the move is confirmed.

Address mail as in Gmail: To, Cc, and Bcc turn each person into a chip with their name, suggest people you wrote to, imported, or allowed as you type, split a pasted list into chips, mark an address that is incomplete or already added, and move a chip between fields by dragging it or from its own menu.

Sign your mail as in Gmail: give each of your addresses its own formatted signature in Settings, choose which one new messages and replies start with, and it changes with From; Insert signature adds it anywhere, and a message you never wrote in is not kept as a draft.

Reply with the original quoted below your words, as in Gmail: Reply and Reply all start above the quote, which waits behind the three-dot button and opens to edit; your signature sits above or below it as you choose in Settings, and Gmail and Apple Mail fold the quote for the person you write to.

Write in your own style, as in Gmail: choose a default font, size, and text color in Settings, and new messages, replies, and forwards start in it; each message also carries a plain-text copy that keeps your lists, quotes, and link addresses for mail apps that show only text.

Take back a message after Send, as in Gmail: it waits five, ten, twenty, or thirty seconds, as you choose in Settings, with Undo in the notice; Undo or opening the draft brings it back unsent. Leaving the inbox or closing the tab submits early, and a submission that started cannot be recalled.

Open an unread conversation and it is marked read at once, after three seconds, or never, as you choose in Settings; your choice follows you to every device, and Mark as read and Mark as unread still work.

Read a reply without the earlier messages it quotes: the quoted part waits behind a three-dot button, as in Gmail, and one press shows it exactly as it arrived, in plain and formatted mail alike.

Look at attachments without downloading them, as in Gmail: a picture shows a small preview in the message, pictures and PDFs open in a viewer where the arrow keys move between files, and Save all downloads every file in turn.

Open Details under any message, as in Gmail, to see who sent it and to whom, the address or alias it reached, the full date, and whether the receiving server verified the sender’s domain; Download original saves a received message exactly as it arrived, and Mark unread from here returns the conversation to your list unread.

Return to any conversation or search with Back and Forward, as in Gmail: each has its own address, so a reload, a new tab, or a link you keep opens the same view, and Shift+Enter opens a conversation in a new tab.

Open a long conversation at its newest message: earlier messages you have read fold to one line with the sender and the start of what they wrote, a click opens any of them, and ; and : open or fold them all.

Star a conversation from its row, reader, or keyboard, then find it in Starred; uncertain saves require a refresh before another change.

Prepare connected snooze with saved return times, a Snoozed view, and checks that preserve later folder moves; hosted activation remains pending.

Keep conversations delivered to both your main address and an alias separate, so each action applies to the selected copy.

Select loaded conversations to archive, move, or change read state together; interrupted batches report partial progress and require a refresh.

Record delivery reports before acknowledging them, preserve recipient suppression, and prevent repeated complaints from falsely flagging a sender.

Retire legacy mailbox ingestion and vacation replies while preserving owner-only access to saved settings.

Retire creation and editing of legacy email templates and signatures, while preserving owner reads and accurate deletion results.

Close obsolete sending, scheduling, payment-era acceptance, and attachment uploads while preserving access to stored records.

Keep older attachments downloadable by their owner, distinguish unavailable files from missing records, and return a download link only after its receipt is checked.

Preserve saved legacy labels on failed updates, report unavailable reads, and confirm label deletion only when a row was removed.

Preserve other saved preferences when changing legacy pricing, confirm sender-rule changes after the database records them, and show a retry message when older addresses cannot be read.

Keep retained mail and schedules readable with accurate totals, private error messages, and confirmed cancellation results.

Keep legacy sent copies readable after folder moves and prevent correspondents from moving each other’s copies.

Reject malformed abuse reports and message references from another account while preserving report counts.

Keep a recovery wallet bound to its original account and refuse competing requests that would replace its key.

Requests for another legacy address verification email now receive support details; valid issued links still work once.

Keep repeated sign-in failures blocked for the full waiting period, refuse unavailable security checks, and distinguish service outages from incorrect passwords.

Answer password recovery before account lookup and email delivery, and keep account and provider details out of confirmation diagnostics.

Complete a requested password security check in Settings with an emailed code, clear retry guidance, and a way to request another code.

Send new-login alerts to your current verified account email and confirm device recording only after the database accepts it.

Opening an email-change confirmation page leaves the change untouched until you choose to confirm; new requests remain unavailable until hosted checks finish.

Settings save as you change them, and every change in Settings and the inbox confirms itself with one short notice in the corner, in the same words and look everywhere.

Share your profile to X or Nostr and the preview card shows your picture, your name, your address, and what you share.

Publish your own profile at btc.email/@yourname with a picture, your name, wallet addresses, and X or Nostr links you choose to show, plus one QR code for your profile or a wallet; visitors can save you as a contact or share your page, and a signed-in member who opens it starts a new message to you.

Share any public page and the preview card names that page: its heading and a line about it on the orange surface, instead of one card for the whole site.

Read in the privacy policy how BTC.email counts what members do and what visitors click: by the name of the action and its outcome only, never by content, address, or amount, and deleted after twenty-five months.

Work your mail from the keyboard with Gmail's shortcuts, from j and k through g then i, and press ? or the keyboard control in the header to see the ones your mailbox answers to, laid out in columns that fit your screen.

Decide who reaches your Inbox: people you write to and people you allow arrive free, a new sender who attaches your postage arrives too (in this phase the postage was test bitcoin), and everyone else waits in Spam with the reason shown.

See unread mail waiting in Inbox and Spam at a glance: the folder turns bold with its count, and a dot marks it when the sidebar is collapsed.

Feel every inbox and Settings button answer the pointer, including Move to inbox and Always allow sender on the Spam notice, now named for whether they move one message or every message from that sender.

Allow or block any sender from the message, the Senders list beside your folders, or Settings, by address or by whole domain; blocks win even when Bitcoin is attached.

Import your contacts as allowed senders from an Apple Contacts, Google Contacts, or Outlook export, read in your browser so only the addresses are kept.

Set your postage, choose whether new senders owe it, and let a sender who pays once stay allowed; see a recipient’s postage while writing to them.

See the homepage’s rising wordmark, sourced Satoshi quote, and direct link to the Lightning explanation, with reduced-motion support.

Read on About how BTC.email is built to pay you in bitcoin for the time a stranger asks of your inbox, with Satoshi’s own priority-hotline example as the source.

Browse names that are still free, from a single letter to ten, with a fresh sample on every visit, beside recently claimed addresses; check any name from the homepage and see the button turn green when it is available, while a short name points you to support, since those are assigned by hand for now.

Use the same compact header and dark footer across public pages, with full-width content aligned to the homepage gutters and About one click away from any footer.

Hover any text link, on the sign-in pages too, and see its drifting wave sit just below the letters instead of running through them.

Sign in or create an account through shorter forms beside illustrated scenes that share one layout, label style, and link home.

Choose your address when you create an account, confirm your email, and get an email inviting you to book a short walkthrough, since every account in the alpha was onboarded by hand before sign-in opened.

Sign in with an assigned mailbox name or full address during the approved-account pilot.

Ask for the confirmation link again right after registering, and see clear next steps when a link has expired or opens on another device.

Read account and notification emails with consistent spacing, simpler typography, larger action targets, and working support links.

Recover your password with your account email before choosing a username, or use your BTC.email address afterward.

Keep authentication and account pages out of visit and performance measurements, and prevent page URLs from becoming referrers.

Load signed-in, payment, and sign-in pages under a stricter script policy, keep them out of search results and caches, and refuse account changes sent from other websites.

Request account exports and deletion through support, as the private alpha asked; export preparation preserves account settings, profile data and retained pictures, pending mail, snooze schedules, and sender rules alongside mailbox content, with incomplete coverage stated.

Reach BTC.email at one address, support@btc.email, for help, abuse reports, privacy requests, and legal matters.

Choose a personal address without lookalikes of support, abuse, or other official names, which stay reserved for BTC.email.

Clarify Sent recipients, search limits, and draft recovery guidance in the connected inbox under test.

Land in your inbox right after signing in; older address-search bookmarks lead there too.

Manage your profile, mailbox, Bitcoin, and security under four tabs in one Settings page that opens on your picture and name, with every section introduced the same way and each alias beside its own action; a link into any section opens its tab, and older dashboard and account links lead there.

See your mailbox address and state, wallet, paid-mail status, credits, and recent payment records in Settings.

Send bitcoin from Settings to another member's @btc.email address, and receive it there (in this phase on a test network), with a review of amount, fee, and balance before anything is signed.

Add Bitcoin to a saved email for one @btc.email recipient; the bitcoin goes first, then the email, and sending the same draft again never pays twice.

Find Bitcoin activity from inbox search and the TX filter, and search it by address, note, or amount in Settings.

Read “Your keys, your bitcoin, your email, your responsibility” at the top of the Terms, linked from About: what BTC.email protects, and what only you can protect.

Read Terms that matched the private alpha: personal onboarding, address payments in real bitcoin, refunds when an address cannot be assigned, paused paid email, and time to move your bitcoin before an account closes.

Search from a bar that spans the inbox header, and filter by All mail, Unread, or TX; the sample inbox also matches Bitcoin amounts and receipt details.

Reach dark mode and Settings from the same two controls at the end of every signed-in header.

Open your signed-in devices in Settings straight from a new sign-in alert.

Reject invalid account requests before recording a sign-in, starting an email change, or sending a recovery request.

Reject invalid pricing and sender-rule updates in both web and versioned APIs before changing saved settings.

See the inbox header, folders, and panes held apart by one even gap, and the loaded-message count clear of the pane edge on narrow screens.

See checkboxes at their normal size on phones, with the same large tap area around each one.

Save price and sender rules for first-version addresses again from Settings; they apply once payments return.

Know when a figure could not be loaded instead of seeing zero, and see that Lightning payments are paused until a new provider is connected.

Prepare a Bitcoin wallet from Settings once wallets open for your account; in this phase it ran on a test network and held no real bitcoin.

Receive mail from new senders without a payment request, while paid sending through the developer API is paused.

Read public-page headings at a bounded size that stays readable on wide screens, with compact, right-aligned update dates on legal pages.

Hover any underlined link to see a slow drifting wave the width of its text, with a still wave when motion is reduced.

Hover a page action, such as Read the About story, and see its single bar instead of a stacked underline and wave.

On a phone, see the footer’s two lines evenly spaced, the Check button sitting squarely inside the claim field, and the header’s color above the page and the footer’s below it instead of a white or orange strip.

Find a Transactions folder in the inbox sidebar that gathers mail sending or receiving Bitcoin.

Return to a fresh Inbox by clicking the BTC.email mark inside the app.

See the costs behind the service on the demo pricing page, by category rather than vendor, including attachment scanning.

Read how Satoshi described paid email at Bitcoin’s beginning, with original sources and a clear distinction between our early model and the rebuild.

Find the FAQ below the About story, with a clear heading and existing FAQ links redirected to the new section.

Use matching buttons in the collapsed sidebar, with one place to start a message.

See received Bitcoin beside the conversation star, then open its sample receipt when needed.

Spot Bitcoin with a quiet icon after Snooze in the list, while keeping the full amount and original pulse in the reader.

Open a compact two-column sample receipt with payment details and expandable proof, or copy its clearly marked sample details.

Use consistent dialog typography, spacing, close controls, and mobile layouts across account, inbox, and confirmation screens.

Dismiss dialogs by clicking outside, with unfinished compose drafts kept for later. Inline replies stay in the conversation.

Keep the sample composer visible on narrow screens when the reading pane has no selected conversation.

Keep your chosen snooze time visible when correcting a date that has already passed.

Add Bitcoin through a clear amount field and quick choices, then review it before simulating a transfer.

See consistent results for drafts, links, files, and mailbox actions, including inside the centered and full-screen composer.

Clarify that the earlier Lightning host has shut down, no payment provider is connected, and the limits of duplicate-email protection.

Load the connected inbox fresh on every visit, so its account status is never a stale cached page.

Read formatted mail inside the connected inbox in an isolated frame, with a new-tab option.

Explore a guided demo mailbox during onboarding, with explained spam, allowed and blocked senders, and more mail to load; it never touches your real mail.

Keep your own sent mail out of spam and inbox moves, and see unavailable message actions only when you point at a message.

See address prices by length in sats and dollars during onboarding, and register a chosen address on the spot with its confirmation email.

Hear every inbox folder count and message body correctly with a screen reader, with clearer contrast on quiet controls.

Pay for a short address with a Lightning link emailed after you confirm, then get an email as soon as your address is active and you can sign in.

Change your address from Settings with your password, pay again for a short name, and undo within seven days; the old address and its mail are then deleted and held for a year before anyone else can claim it.

See every address you have registered or changed to, with its price, date, and status, in Settings.

Buy aliases from Settings: mail to each alias arrives in the same inbox, replies go out from the alias it reached, and new messages can choose any of your addresses as the sender.

Remove an alias with your password and restore it within seven days; after that its mail is deleted and the alias is held for a year.

See the inbox menu, Compose, and folder icons share one edge, with the search bar squarely above your mail and the same margins at every screen size.

See which alias a conversation reached beside the sender in every inbox layout, including the split view and on phones.

Reply to senders whose name contains a period, such as J. Smith; the reply now fills in their address.

Keep your name yours in every spelling: once you hold eightlee, nobody else can claim eight.lee, eight-lee, or eight_lee, and any spelling signs in to your account.