A 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.

Historical update · October 25, 2026

You can enter an operator-issued coupon at signup. Apply shows the amount due before you register; a full discount covers the price, while email confirmation and operator approval still come first.

Paid entry adds a cost to creating accounts. Authenticated members can write without per-message fees; outside senders need your permission, and no payment buys access to your Inbox.

There is no Spam folder. A message from someone you have not let in is deleted as soon as it is checked, and nothing waits for review. If it arrived inside a conversation that also holds your own mail, that conversation moves to Trash instead.

Move to spam is gone from the toolbar, the row menu, drag targets, bulk actions, and the ! key, which now blocks the sender. Report phishing still records the report and blocks the sender, and moves the conversation to Trash.

Blocking a sender from a message moves that conversation to Trash. Filters lose Never send to Spam; a filter that did nothing else is gone, and the rest keep their other actions.

Settings and the FAQ say what reaches you: people you write to, people you allow, members whose mail is authenticated, and anyone who puts one of your access codes in the subject line. An authenticated stranger hears once how to get through; blocked senders hear nothing.

The Marketplace is one public page: a table of names for sale that you can search, filter, and sort by name, length, price, or listing date, with prices in sats and an estimate in US dollars. The separate auctions page is gone.

Buy a name as an alias, the easy way to add a name: it delivers into the inbox you already have, your address stays the same, and nothing starts retiring. You can still make a bought name your address instead.

List an alias for sale, not only your address, and list more than one name at a time. When an alias sells, it leaves your account and your address stays the same.

A chosen name is now a one-time payment in sats, with no subscription and no renewal. Names of eight or more characters offer Trial, Standard, or Perpetual, and names of five to seven characters are Perpetual only. Trial lasts twelve months. A Forward-only option was offered and withdrawn the same day, because forwarding was not part of the product.

An alias now costs what its name would cost to buy outright, less twenty percent. Pick Trial, Standard, or Perpetual for a name of eight or more characters, or Perpetual for five to seven; the shortest names stay reserved for bids. You can still remove an alias or sell it on the Marketplace at any price.

Changing your address costs the full price of the option you pick for the new name, with the same choices.

Only a new member's first Standard or Perpetual signup earns a referral reward.

When a member sells a name on the Marketplace, BTC.email now takes fifteen percent of the listed price from the seller's proceeds, and the buyer pays a ten thousand sat transfer fee on top of the price. Checkout shows the platform take, the transfer fee, and the seller's net before you confirm.

New accounts are approved by hand, so activation can take a little while.

Settings has a new Marketplace tab between Bitcoin and Security that holds your listings, your purchases, and your short-name bids.

The Settings Marketplace tab now shows the newest names for sale, so you can buy one as an alias without leaving Settings.

A Marketplace purchase that was never paid, such as one your wallet declined, now shows Payment failed in Settings and frees the name again, instead of waiting for payment forever. A payment for one name always settles that name, even when you have started more than one purchase.

Marketplace retries keep unknown confirmations, recover recorded payments before new-purchase checks, and check the full remaining balance and recipient wallets before another payment.

Settings keeps paginated purchase and sale history, shows seller proceeds, and resumes an existing purchase after a reload with its original confirmation.

A primary purchase cannot overlap another primary purchase, address change, or primary listing. Reopening checkout keeps the original sale and payment keys.

Marketplace confirmation shows the name’s existing purchase terms and exact Trial deadline. The sale preserves those terms; buying a name does not restart its Trial.

Changing your primary inbox preserves folder names, colors, saved filters, queued filter work, and hidden-folder choices. Folder transfers recover safely after a lost response.

The shortest names, from one to four characters, are reserved. You can place a bid on one from the Marketplace page or Settings, but a bid takes no payment and is placed on reserve with no guarantee of release. Names are released by hand, later or after review.

The Terms, the Privacy Policy, Support, Features, and the FAQ describe alias listings, alias purchases, and short-name bids, and the sale emails say what changes when the name is an alias.

An alias is now a true alias: just another address that delivers into your main inbox, with no separate inbox, login, or monthly cost. It still costs the price of its name, you cannot send from it yet, and any member can add one. Aliases you already have keep working.

Hosted bitcoin wallets run on the Bitcoin network (mainnet) with real bitcoin. Every transfer you confirm is final, and the Bitcoin tab, the Terms, and the wallet screens say so. Earlier entries below are kept as they happened.

Wallet activity lists only transfers on your wallet's network, the Bitcoin tab's lists lose their stray bullets, the inbox link to the full activity ledger opens the Activity section in Settings, and the Bitcoin tab's balance no longer breaks a word across lines.

Every page now ends on a new orange footer with the btc.email wordmark, a Get started link, and grouped links to the product, company, and legal pages, including the release notes. In dark mode it matches the dark header.

The homepage and registration show the right pricing hint from the moment the page appears, instead of changing it after the page loads.

With text enlarged to twice its size, the footer and the Get started button stay within a phone screen.

After you register, the page turns to a check-your-email scene and lists the next steps in order.

Account pages keep their illustration in place from one step to the next. Linking a recovery wallet in Settings shows why a code failed and offers a new one, instead of an empty dialog or a run of new codes.

A link to a Settings tab shows that tab as soon as the page appears.

The Bitcoin tab draws its panel borders, and it shows dashes rather than zeros until your wallet has been read.

In the inbox on a phone, keyboard focus never hides under the bottom bar, a message's action menu stays reachable above it, and notices rise above it. The bottom bar names each of its buttons again, and selecting a message puts the action bar right on top of it. The Transactions list lines up with the mail around it. A long message prints across pages instead of leaving the first page blank.

The new sign-in alert email names how you signed in, such as Email and password or Lightning wallet, and fits a phone screen.

Your inbox reads in one of four views, chosen from the new view control at the end of the inbox header or from Settings. Ledger, the default, fits each conversation on one line beside the message you are reading. Stack groups your mail by day. Sheet lays it out as a sortable table and opens a conversation right under its row. Islands, an experiment, gathers everything from one person into a single running conversation, and shows each conversation's subject when the message has no preview. On a tablet or phone, every view keeps a conversation on one line, with More and its Bitcoin receipt at the end.

A conversation can now also open in a window over the list or docked at the bottom right, like a draft, from the reading pane control on the message or from Settings.