Are you tired of email spam, phishing scams, and receiving newsletters even after you’ve unsubscribed? Are you a webmaster frustrated with spammers using your service to send spam and ruin the reputation of your email service? Well, I have good news: the end of spam is near.
I’ve been waiting for many years, since I first learned about Bitcoin, for email service providers to integrate Bitcoin and email. That time has finally come! We are one step closer to seeing Bitcoin-only email service providers.
Recently, ProtonMail added a Bitcoin wallet to their service, called ProtonWallet. But they didn’t stop there—they also enabled you to send Bitcoin through their email system. All you need is someone’s Proton email address, and you can send them Bitcoin directly.
This is a huge step forward for Bitcoin and email. We are getting closer to building the infrastructure for a future where Bitcoin and email work together to combat spam.
Here’s what’s likely to happen over time with Bitcoin and email:
With ProtonMail spearheading the Bitcoin-email revolution, other major email providers will likely add Bitcoin wallets to their services as well. Those that don’t will risk falling behind as Bitcoin moves towards becoming the world’s financial system. The world will need, use, and have Bitcoin wallets. One of Bitcoin’s best features is that you don’t need to provide any identification to open a Bitcoin wallet.
We can expect more companies to add Bitcoin wallets to their websites.
Email isn’t going away anytime soon, so having a Bitcoin wallet attached to your email is ideal. This also allows email providers to sell subscriptions. Since the user already has money in their Bitcoin wallet, they are more likely to purchase a subscription than if they were asked to use a credit card.
So, how will having a Bitcoin wallet in your email stop spam? We are moving towards a world where sending an email will no longer be free.
It will cost MONEY to send and receive a single email.
In other words,
It will cost BITCOIN to send and receive a single email.
That might sound expensive, but it seems expensive only because we’re used to the fiat system, where the smallest unit of currency is not divisible. Pennies are not divisible, but Bitcoin’s smallest unit, called Satoshi, is divisible and can be divided even further.
I suspect that eventually, it will cost 1 to 3 Satoshi to send or receive emails. Currently, 1 Satoshi is equal to 0.00064 USD. You can convert the amount on the Kraken Exchange:
https://www.kraken.com/learn/satoshi-to-usd-converter
How many emails does the average person send or receive in a day?
Personally, I receive more emails than I send. I would say I receive about 240 a month and send 60 a month.
If I do the math, it would cost 60 emails x 0.00064 = 0.0384 USD a month. That’s almost 4 cents a month. Unbelievable. For receiving emails, I suspect it would be free, with the sender covering the cost.
Email providers could create plans where sending an email costs 2 Satoshi—1 Satoshi for the email service provider and 1 Satoshi for the receiver. This way, both parties benefit with the sender thinking in his head. Is it really necessary to send my email since it’s costing me money?
This pure capitalist system type of email system, where everything costs money. It’s an amazing system because it will STOP SPAM. Here’s how:
As this type of Bitcoin email system gets implemented by major email service providers, it will become too costly to send spam, phishing scams, and other unwanted emails.
Scammers will have to move to non-Bitcoin email service providers, but as big providers realize that the Bitcoin email system has drastically reduced scammers and is protecting their customers, they will stop accepting free incoming emails from smaller providers.
Small email providers will have three choices:
implement a Bitcoin email system,
only deal with other non-Bitcoin email providers,
go bankrupt.
They will not survive.
Even though it will still be relatively cheap to send emails using Bitcoin, scammers will still attempt to send scam emails. Here’s another idea to deter them:
If you are an email provider and want to attract users without charging a subscription, you could require a deposit of $10 in their Bitcoin email wallet. If they don’t spam, you could return their deposit after 6 months, a year, or even the entire term they use your email service.
What spammer could afford that? NONE.
There are many options and subscription plans that email service providers could develop once the Bitcoin email system is in place. My ideas are just brainstorming, but one thing is certain:
We are heading in that direction, and I completely support this type of system because we all hate spammers and scammers.
Just like Bitcoin will make war unaffordable. Bitcoin will make scamming unaffordable.
Another benefit is that it will drastically reduce newsletters. I often click “unsubscribe” from newsletters, only to receive another one from the same website a month later.
It seems that website administrators have many different “departments”, each with its own newsletter. You can unsubscribe from one, but there’s no way to unsubscribe from them all. How sneaky is that? The Bitcoin email system will put an end to that. It will become too expensive for them—unless, of course, they are super-rich and can afford to waste money.
As for ProtonMail. I recommended their email service. I went from Hotmail to Outlook to ProtonMail.
I got tired of Outlook signing me out whenever i used a VPN or crossed into the USA & Canada border and required me to confirm myself. I also got tired of all the spam. Outlook is full of spam and phishing emails.
I never used Gmail because I hate google. Hopefully the Bitcoin & the future creates smaller email providers. Instead of big centralized email service providers. I suspect something better is coming.. a decentralized email service.
Until then.. I will continue using ProtonMail & ProtonWallet.
One thing i don’t like about them is their weird domains. They have too many. They have (@proton.me) (@protonmail.com) (@protonmail.ch) (@pm.me)
I used to visit protonmail.com but then it started re-directing to proton.me
At one time i thought it was a phishing site. They seem to of changed or added (proton.me). It’s extremely confusing. They should just stick to username@protonmail.com
I don’t even know which domain to log into my email with.
It’s making me want to use my own email domain or start my own email service.
The Proton company seems to be confused as well.
Dear CEO of protonmail. Keep it simple!
I would suggest you stick with one of their (@protonmail.com) emails. I prefer and the internet prefers the (.com) email addresses. (.com) addresses are professional and (pm.me) sounds like a scam email.
When your email service provider has the word “mail” in it like. (username@protonmail.com) It’s extremely professional.
I heard stories that the protonmail company was afraid of the internet regulators stealing their .com address. I will have to look into that.
But other than that. They are an excellent email service provider.
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