Essays and practical notes from the Bitcoin After Life project — on why inheritance breaks down, and on what mathematics can guarantee that paperwork cannot.
Bitcoin After Life never tries to detect death. How Check Alive works, why updating a will costs nothing while postponing it costs a transaction, and why the only proof of life the protocol sees is your own signature.
Read the article →A well-designed inheritance should be a non-event on the day it arrives: a block, a confirmation, a balance appearing. What the heir actually does, what to leave them years in advance, and why an address without a key is a tomb.
Read the article →A $320 million bug on Liquid Network is a reminder of a rule BAL follows without exception: no sidechains, no Layer-2s, no experimental scripts — only Bitcoin's most tested primitives. What actually broke, and why our whole design refuses to depend on anything less proven.
Read the article →A Will-Executor holds one signed, time-locked transaction — and nothing else. Exactly what it can see (a few addresses, amounts, a date), what it cannot (who you are, what else you own, who your heirs are), and why that protection comes from the protocol's architecture, not from a privacy policy.
Read the article →Every BAL inheritance transaction carries a fee for the server that broadcasts it — paid in Bitcoin, only on success. What running a Will-Executor actually involves, how the economics work, and why it's a long-term, Bitcoin-native earning opportunity nobody is talking about yet.
Read the article →Signing is the most security-critical operation in Bitcoin, so the plugin never signs: it asks, you decide. And nLocktime is not a policy anyone can break — it is a consensus rule, which turns the Will-Executor into something closer to a mailbox than a bank.
Read the article →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.
Read the article →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.
Read the article →The world is full of inheritances gone wrong, and the traditional system often exposes the vulnerable instead of protecting them. Time-locked Bitcoin transactions offer a will that executes itself — no notary, no human executor, no third party to trust.
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