Essays and practical notes from the Bitcoin After Life project — on why inheritance breaks down, and on what mathematics can guarantee that paperwork cannot.
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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