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receiver-trustless-inheritance.md

We are working in pairs. One person is HOLDER. One person is RECEIVER.

Instructions for RECEIVER

As receiver, you don't know much about Bitcoin!! So:

  1. Download a wallet on your phone. There are many apps, but we need to use signet. Please download Padawan wallet on Android or iPhone , which is signet by default and is very simple. If that fails, use the Electrum wallet on your computer, as instructed to the HOLDER.
  2. Create a new wallet, write down the seedphrase on paper, (go to Settings->Recovery Phrase), and create a receiving address. Give the receiving address to your HOLDER.

(wait for the HOLDER to create a transaction)

  1. When you get given a long hex string like this: 02000000000103b96f96d13fe2a476d4fef86fb..., you want to TRY to broadcast it. Go to https://mempool.space/signet/pushtx and enter that text into the box. You should see an error message: Failed to broadcast transaction, reason: non-final in red text. If you see a different error, something is wrong! If you don't see an error, the money has been sent.
  2. Wait 3+ blocks (so typically 30 minutes or more), check on mempool.space for the current block height. After that time, repeat step 3 and there should be no error. Check your phone wallet (Padawan) and you should have received the money after your HOLDER's untimely death!
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