Losing your seed phrase is perhaps a bitcoiner’s biggest fear. And for good reason. When seed phrases came into existence more than a decade ago, they were a vast improvement in user experience compared to managing raw private keys—strings of hex buried in files or password managers. They...
In 2013, seed phrases were a major step forward — replacing private keys and their unwieldy string of numbers and letters with a simple set of real words. They made recovering lost wallets easier and helped bring self-custody to more people. But today, they remain a single point of failure and...
Three routes to recovery are better than one high-value hide-a-key. You know that spare key your neighbor has, hidden under the mat or a fake rock or in a combination lockbox, in case they get locked out of their home? That’s basically what a seed phrase is: a high-value...
Bitkey roadmap update, April 2025 Bitcoin custody has always been defined by tradeoffs. Privacy, safety, and usability have been inextricably linked, forcing users to choose which qualities matter most to them, index on those qualities, and put up with compromise on the others. Most single-sig hardware offers good privacy, but...
Bitkey’s inheritance feature makes it easy and secure for benefactors to not only pass on bitcoin to a friend or loved one, but to also give beneficiaries the same security, usability, and recovery tools that Bitkey offers. Built on top of Bitkey’s strong foundation of recovery tools, inheritance...
Bitkey’s inheritance feature is the best way to ensure your loved ones get your coins when you’re gone. For most legacy financial instruments–your stocks, IRA, 401k, even your bank account–there’s a pretty clear process for getting what’s yours to your loved ones when you...
