{"id":624368,"date":"2026-07-04T22:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=828387"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:30:45","slug":"ethereums-x-account-gets-fact-checked-by-zachxbt-proton-takes-bitcoin-not-eth-for-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/ethereums-x-account-gets-fact-checked-by-zachxbt-proton-takes-bitcoin-not-eth-for-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum\u2019s X Account Gets Fact-Checked by ZachXBT: \u2018Proton Takes Bitcoin, Not ETH, for Subscriptions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ethereum-plunges-_nwmk-postfix-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ethereum Logo on a mobile phone screen\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Onchain investigator ZachXBT publicly corrected the official Ethereum X account on July 4, pointing out that privacy company Proton accepts only bitcoin, not ether, as a cryptocurrency payment option for its subscriptions. The Callout Replying directly to a post from Ethereum\u2019s official account, ZachXBT wrote on X: \u201cProton does not currently accept Ethereum as payment [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onchain investigator ZachXBT publicly corrected the official Ethereum X account on July 4, pointing out that privacy company Proton accepts only bitcoin, not ether, as a cryptocurrency payment option for its subscriptions. The Callout Replying directly to a post from Ethereum\u2019s official account, ZachXBT wrote on X: \u201cProton does not currently accept Ethereum as payment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-624368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}