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Notes on inheritance, Bitcoin and sovereignty

Essays and practical notes from the Bitcoin After Life project — on why inheritance breaks down, and on what mathematics can guarantee that paperwork cannot.

What happens to your bitcoin when you're gone?

Self-custody means nobody can seize your bitcoin — and nobody can help your family if you're gone either. Why seed-sharing, custodians and wills all quietly fail, and how a time-locked transaction lets your heirs receive the coins without ever holding your keys.

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It all starts with the seed

A weak-entropy flaw let attackers sweep over 1,000 BTC from dormant wallets in forty minutes — from open-source firmware that had been public for years. Everything in Bitcoin grows from the seed, and that is why we built on Electrum instead of reinventing the wallet.

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