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BAL — Bitcoin After Life
BAL is an open-source plugin for Electrum, the gold standard of Bitcoin wallets, dedicated to managing Bitcoin digital inheritance.
With BAL you define your heirs, a delivery date, and a list of will-executor servers. If you stop accessing your wallet, the pre-signed inheritance transaction is broadcast to the Bitcoin network on the date you set — with no third parties or intermediaries holding your funds.
Why a plugin and not a new wallet?
Developing a new wallet (or forking Electrum) was not considered reasonable, so as not to put funds at risk. BAL leans on the most tested and secure open-source Bitcoin wallet — Electrum — with the goal that in the future the plugin will ship with Electrum by default.
Being open source, anyone can view, modify, and distribute the plugin code.
How it works in short
- You add heirs (name, Bitcoin address, amount or percentage).
- You set a delivery time (locktime): the date the inheritance is transferred.
- You set a check-alive threshold: if you open your wallet after this time, BAL offers to postpone the inheritance — because you are evidently still alive.
- The plugin prepares, signs, and broadcasts the inheritance transaction to the will-executor servers, which will send it to the Bitcoin nodes on the delivery date.
Where to go next
- New user? Start with Installation.
- Want to understand the core parameters? See Setting up heirs.
- Interested in running a will-executor server? See Running a server.
!!! note "Documentation status" This site is a draft based on the BAL Protocol 1.0 User Manual (revB). Corrections and contributions are welcome via the Gitea repository.