diff --git a/blog/inheritance-when-trust-fails.html b/blog/inheritance-when-trust-fails.html index 6c6c1df..5d7340b 100644 --- a/blog/inheritance-when-trust-fails.html +++ b/blog/inheritance-when-trust-fails.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -The vanishing inheritance: when trust fails, mathematics doesn't — Bitcoin After Life - +Bitcoin Inheritance Without Notaries or Lawyers — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "The vanishing inheritance: when trust fails, mathematics doesn't", - "description": "Why traditional inheritance fails the people it should protect, and how Bitcoin time-locked transactions let a will execute itself without notaries, lawyers or custodians.", + "description": "Why traditional inheritance fails the people it should protect, and how time-locked Bitcoin transactions let a will execute itself without a notary.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/inheritance-cover-v2.webp", "datePublished": "2026-07-30T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-08-17T09:00:00+02:00", diff --git a/blog/it-all-starts-with-the-seed.html b/blog/it-all-starts-with-the-seed.html index 8f887f0..fc08bad 100644 --- a/blog/it-all-starts-with-the-seed.html +++ b/blog/it-all-starts-with-the-seed.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -It all starts with the seed — Bitcoin After Life - +Bitcoin Seed Security: The Coldcard Lesson — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "It all starts with the seed", - "description": "The Coldcard entropy incident is a reminder that everything in Bitcoin grows from the seed. Why Bitcoin After Life deliberately builds on Electrum instead of reinventing the wallet.", + "description": "The Coldcard entropy incident shows that everything in Bitcoin grows from the seed. Why Bitcoin After Life builds on Electrum, not a new wallet.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/seed-cover.jpg", "datePublished": "2026-08-03T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-08-14T09:00:00+02:00", diff --git a/blog/liquid-network-and-why-we-trust-only-bedrock.html b/blog/liquid-network-and-why-we-trust-only-bedrock.html index 1563706..1baefd5 100644 --- a/blog/liquid-network-and-why-we-trust-only-bedrock.html +++ b/blog/liquid-network-and-why-we-trust-only-bedrock.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -Liquid Network's $320M Lesson: Why BAL Only Builds on Bedrock — Bitcoin After Life - +Liquid Network's $320M Bug: Why BAL Builds on Bedrock — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Liquid Network's $320M Lesson: Why BAL Only Builds on Bedrock", - "description": "A $320 million bug on Liquid Network is a reminder of a rule Bitcoin After Life follows without exception: no sidechains, no Layer-2s, no experimental scripts — only Bitcoin's most tested primitives.", + "description": "A $320 million bug on Liquid Network shows why Bitcoin After Life uses no sidechains, no Layer-2s and no experimental scripts: only tested primitives.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/liquid-network-bedrock-cover.webp", "datePublished": "2026-09-12T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-09-12T09:00:00+02:00", diff --git a/blog/proof-of-life.html b/blog/proof-of-life.html index c7f714d..391b81f 100644 --- a/blog/proof-of-life.html +++ b/blog/proof-of-life.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -Proof of Life Without Surveillance: How Your Wallet Tells the Protocol You're Still Here — Bitcoin After Life - +Bitcoin Dead Man's Switch Without Surveillance — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Proof of Life Without Surveillance: How Your Wallet Tells the Protocol You're Still Here", - "description": "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.", + "description": "Bitcoin After Life never tries to detect death. How Check Alive works, why updating a will is free, and why postponing it costs a transaction.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/proof-of-life-cover.webp", "datePublished": "2026-09-26T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-09-26T09:00:00+02:00", diff --git a/blog/run-a-will-executor.html b/blog/run-a-will-executor.html index fa69b20..71df6f5 100644 --- a/blog/run-a-will-executor.html +++ b/blog/run-a-will-executor.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -Run a Will-Executor: Earn Bitcoin Fees by Powering Decentralized Inheritance — Bitcoin After Life - +Earn Bitcoin Fees Running a Will-Executor Server — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Run a Will-Executor: Earn Bitcoin Fees by Powering Decentralized Inheritance", - "description": "Every BAL inheritance transaction carries a fee for the server that broadcasts it — paid in Bitcoin, only on success. Why running a Will-Executor is a long-term, Bitcoin-native earning opportunity.", + "description": "Every BAL inheritance transaction pays a fee, in Bitcoin and only on success, to the server that broadcasts it. Why run a Will-Executor for the long term.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/run-a-will-executor-cover.webp", "datePublished": "2026-08-30T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-08-30T09:00:00+02:00", diff --git a/blog/should-you-tell-your-family-about-your-bitcoin.html b/blog/should-you-tell-your-family-about-your-bitcoin.html index 9d09133..8afea32 100644 --- a/blog/should-you-tell-your-family-about-your-bitcoin.html +++ b/blog/should-you-tell-your-family-about-your-bitcoin.html @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ Should You Tell Your Family About Your Bitcoin? — Bitcoin After Life - + - + @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ - + @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ footer .built{font-size:13px;color:var(--muted);margin-top:8px}
Blog -

Should You Tell Your Family About Your Bitcoin? What They Need to Know, and What They Don't

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Should You Tell Your Family About Your Bitcoin? What They Need to Know, and What They Don't

@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ footer .built{font-size:13px;color:var(--muted);margin-top:8px}
-Two people talking at a table: a speech bubble with the Bitcoin symbol, and a dotted path through a calendar date to the heir's wallet +Two people talking at a table: a speech bubble with the Bitcoin symbol, and a dotted path through a calendar date to the heir's wallet

It usually happens at dinner. The conversation drifts to a relative's estate, or a friend's sudden illness, and for a second you think: I should tell them about the bitcoin. Then someone asks for the salt, and the moment passes. It has passed many times.

diff --git a/blog/the-quietest-day.html b/blog/the-quietest-day.html index 0b67dd2..f8f2da9 100644 --- a/blog/the-quietest-day.html +++ b/blog/the-quietest-day.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -The Quietest Day: What Really Happens When Your Bitcoin Inheritance Arrives — Bitcoin After Life - +What Happens When a Bitcoin Inheritance Arrives — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "The Quietest Day: What Really Happens When Your Bitcoin Inheritance Arrives", - "description": "A well-designed Bitcoin inheritance should be a non-event on the day it arrives. What the heir actually does, what to leave them years in advance, and why an address without a key is a tomb.", + "description": "Delivery day should be the most boring day of a Bitcoin inheritance. What the heir does, what to leave them, and why an address without a key is a tomb.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/the-quietest-day-cover.webp", "datePublished": "2026-09-19T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-09-19T09:00:00+02:00", diff --git a/blog/what-a-will-executor-can-see.html b/blog/what-a-will-executor-can-see.html index b3ae6d1..0f335ea 100644 --- a/blog/what-a-will-executor-can-see.html +++ b/blog/what-a-will-executor-can-see.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -What Can a Will-Executor Actually See? Privacy in the BAL Protocol — Bitcoin After Life - +Bitcoin Inheritance Privacy: What a Will-Executor Sees — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "What Can a Will-Executor Actually See? Privacy in the BAL Protocol", - "description": "A Will-Executor holds one signed, time-locked transaction — nothing else. Exactly what it can see, what it cannot, and why privacy here comes from architecture, not from a policy.", + "description": "A Will-Executor holds one signed, time-locked transaction and nothing else. What it can see, what it cannot, and why privacy comes from architecture.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/what-a-will-executor-can-see-cover.webp", "datePublished": "2026-09-06T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-09-06T09:00:00+02:00", diff --git a/blog/what-happens-to-your-bitcoin.html b/blog/what-happens-to-your-bitcoin.html index 032b0c0..3afa9c1 100644 --- a/blog/what-happens-to-your-bitcoin.html +++ b/blog/what-happens-to-your-bitcoin.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -What Happens to Your Bitcoin When You're Gone? — Bitcoin After Life - +What Happens to Your Bitcoin When You Die? — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "What Happens to Your Bitcoin When You're Gone?", - "description": "Self-custody means no one can seize your bitcoin — and no one can help your family if you're gone either. Why time-locked transactions are the honest answer to Bitcoin inheritance.", + "description": "Self-custody means no one can seize your bitcoin, and no one can help your family if you're gone. Why time-locked transactions are the honest answer.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/what-happens-to-your-bitcoin-cover.webp", "datePublished": "2026-08-15T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-08-15T09:00:00+02:00", diff --git a/blog/why-electrum-and-timelocks.html b/blog/why-electrum-and-timelocks.html index 0f89f53..739a048 100644 --- a/blog/why-electrum-and-timelocks.html +++ b/blog/why-electrum-and-timelocks.html @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ -Why We Built BAL as an Electrum Plugin — and Why Timelocks Remove the Need for Trust — Bitcoin After Life - +Electrum Inheritance Plugin: Timelocks Replace Trust — Bitcoin After Life + - - + + - - + + @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Why We Built BAL as an Electrum Plugin — and Why Timelocks Remove the Need for Trust", - "description": "Signing is the most security-critical operation in Bitcoin, so BAL never signs. How building on Electrum and on nLocktime replaces trust with consensus rules and on-chain incentives.", + "description": "Signing is the most security-critical act in Bitcoin, so BAL never signs. How building on Electrum and nLocktime replaces trust with consensus rules.", "image": "https://bitcoin-after.life/blog/img/why-electrum-and-timelocks.webp", "datePublished": "2026-08-23T09:00:00+02:00", "dateModified": "2026-08-23T09:00:00+02:00",