bitcoinafterlife
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:material-heart-pulse: Check Alive
Check Alive is the plugin's "are you still around?" mechanism. It is available in advanced mode.
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Advanced mode exposes Check Alive and the other fine-grained parameters.
What it does
Check Alive defines a period of inactivity. When you open Electrum and more than that period has passed since the last postponement, the plugin asks whether you want to push your delivery date further out — because you are evidently still alive.
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The threshold can be expressed as a relative period or an absolute date.
Example
You set a delivery date 2 years out, with Check Alive at 6 months.
| What you do | What happens |
|---|---|
| You open Electrum after 3 months | Nothing — you are inside the Check Alive window |
| You open Electrum after 7 months | The plugin points out that your delivery date is now only 1 year and 5 months away, and offers to postpone it |
| You stop opening Electrum altogether | Nothing postpones the will. On the delivery date, the Will-Executors broadcast it |
As long as you keep using Electrum within the Check Alive window and accept the prompts, your will is never executed.
!!! tip "Disabling it for a quick test" Setting Check Alive to a date in the past effectively switches it off. This is what you want when testing the plugin with a delivery time only a few hours away, so the prompt doesn't get in the way.
!!! warning "Postponing is not free" Accepting a postponement may require invalidating the previously committed transaction on-chain, which costs a miner fee. See Postponing vs anticipating.