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+ 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 → +
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+When you hand something to a third party — even an automated one — the first question a careful Bitcoiner asks is: what do they learn about me?
+It's the right question. Traditional inheritance is a privacy disaster by design: a notary learns your identity, your family structure, your assets, and your heirs' identities, and all of it ends up in records that can be subpoenaed, leaked, or — in many jurisdictions — made public after probate. Custodial services are worse: they hold your coins and your data.
+Bitcoin After Life was built to need no third party at all. But it does involve Will-Executor servers, so let's answer the privacy question precisely, without marketing fog: here is exactly what a Will-Executor can see, and what it cannot.
+ +A Will-Executor stores one thing: your signed, time-locked inheritance transaction. Nothing else travels to the server — no identity, no email, no account, no documents. The BAL plugin doesn't ask who you are, because the protocol doesn't need to know.
+From that transaction, an executor — like anyone who inspects a raw Bitcoin transaction — can technically observe:
+That is the complete list. Let's now look at the much longer list of what remains invisible.
+ +Your identity. There is no account system, no KYC, no registration. To a Will-Executor you are a transaction, not a person. Bitcoin addresses are pseudonymous by design — the server sees strings of characters, not names.
+The rest of your wallet. The transaction reveals only the UTXOs it spends. Your other addresses, your total holdings, your transaction history beyond those specific coins: none of it is exposed by the protocol. The executor sees the inheritance, not your wealth.
+Your heirs' identities. Heirs appear as addresses. A name, a face, a relationship — none of that is in a Bitcoin transaction, and none of it is in what BAL sends.
+Your activity and your lifetime. Executors cannot tell whether you're alive, active, traveling, or simply quiet. The Check Alive mechanism that postpones your delivery date works through your own wallet — the server doesn't track you, ping you, or monitor you. There is no surveillance built into the protocol, because there is no need for any.
+Any way to profit from what it sees. This is the crucial point. Even the limited information above is useless for abuse: the transaction is already fully signed, so it cannot be altered; it is time-locked, so it cannot be broadcast early; and its outputs are fixed, so not a single satoshi can be redirected. A Will-Executor that tried to front-run, censor, or manipulate would gain nothing — and would lose its fee, which is only paid when the inheritance executes exactly as written.
+ +Most services protect your data with a privacy policy — a legal promise that can change with an acquisition, a subpoena, or a new CEO. BAL protects it with architecture: the protocol was designed so that the sensitive data never exists on the server in the first place.
+| What traditional inheritance exposes | What BAL exposes |
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| Your legal identity | Nothing — no accounts |
| Full inventory of your assets | Only the UTXOs in the transaction |
| Heirs' names and relationships | Heirs' addresses only |
| Family structure, stored in public records | Nothing — no records exist |
| Protected by: a privacy policy | Protected by: protocol design |
You cannot leak what you never collected.
+ +The protocol's defaults are already strong, but Bitcoin hygiene adds another layer:
+A Will-Executor sees one signed transaction: some addresses, some amounts, a date. It does not know who you are, what else you own, or who your heirs are — and the cryptography guarantees it can do nothing harmful even with what little it sees.
+Compare that with the alternative: a folder in a lawyer's cabinet containing your name, your family's names, and the full list of what you own.
+Inheritance used to require giving up your privacy to be safe. We built BAL so you could keep both.
+ +Want the technical detail? The full protocol walkthrough is in the manual, and both the plugin and the server are open source — verify, don't trust.
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