i think about this exact thing, all the time. in fact, i've been meaning to sit down with my mum to show her how to move coins from the cold storage in case of me going kaput.

i would like someone to at least know how to move btc on chain.

what is a good way of showing them how to back up a wallet from a seed. could i just make a hot wallet and use that for teaching purposes?

Neither my wife nor daughter seem interested in the least, but I'll keep trying.

My wife's dad just died and had done no estate planning so now she wants me to give her all the passwords to the crypto accounts

I've done my best with my wife, but I think she has a ways to go. I'm confident that between her and my brother, they can figure it out.

I've been fighting with my wife for half a year now!! Why would she take the pill? She's only recently begun to accept and understand the value of Bitcoin!! But I still need to teach her more!!

My wife was the first person, I taught

And I'm glad she knows how fiat has has ruined everything, and is the solution

"I've heard bitcoin went down again, why don't you sell now, before it's too late? You've held it for so long already..." 🙂‍↕️

I find myself in a similar situation.

I already showed them how to use lightning. And I am unintentive to teach my wife how to use on-chain. Also about how I have private keys encrypted. (In case something happens, they can access the money)

I am also a rookie, and we still have to practice with multiforms, wallet hardware and more advanced details. (We keep learning without stopping a single day)

Good job!

This is important .. and becomes moreso as the value of your bitcoin increases. As a starting point, one other useful thing to do, if or when you have one, is to introduce your trusted bitcoin mate to your wife and daughter so they know who to reach out to for help if you go kaput! Post-kaput grieving for them isn't a time for clear, rational thinking, or recalling careful conversations that you're starting to have now. Having a trusted friend they can reach out to can be helpful for when they're ready.

And hopefully, this is many decades away! But! Good job on the forward planning :-)

Very important task!

Testnet is a great tool for teaching others.

Yep, but I could do more. IMO you need to use it to the point that it isn't scary and that takes a lot more time.

my wife has done a few onchain transactions.

I made her do a full wallet recovery from backups and it did not go well.

kids love zapping on nostr and SN, and we've done a wallet backup practice with seed words.

That's about as far as the family wants to go, so far.

My most trusted person already knows how to get my wallet back from the seed phrase. They're not even into Bitcoin, but I told 'em not to trust anyone else to do it.

I have a brother that can figure out tech things thankfully.

Yes to my sister's husband @BitcoinAbhi who's also my friend, if you consider him to be a kin.

My wife isn't at all interested, nor does she possess skill to learn the technology.

Yes, my brother knows everything about my stack, including the keys.

I too. But I think it's not a big deal.

Hahaha, I think my 3-year-old son will understand how to use a wallet before my wife... The poor thing doesn't even know how to use a debit card properly, and the bank app seems like science fiction to her.

Sometimes I think explaining how a 12-word seed works would be easier than getting her to remember her ATM PIN. But anyway, let's take it step by step... first I teach her that money doesn't live inside the phone. Then we move on to Sats hahahhahahahaha

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Here's the table of contents: Introduction 1 Exercise 1: Install Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet 5 Exercise 2: Create wallet in Sparrow—Alice 8 Exercise 3: Buy Bitcoin 12 Exercise 4: Receive bitcoin into your Alice wallet 16 Exercise 5: Recover your Alice wallet 21 Exercise 6: Create wallet Bob 23 Exercise 7: Your first send—transfer bitcoin from Alice to Bob 25 Exercise 8: Review the Alice to Bob transaction 28 Exercise 9: Explore the Settings window of the Alice wallet 31 Exercise 10: Create watch only wallet based on Alice 34 Exercise 11: Explore the Alice Watch Only wallet 36 Exercise 12: Receive bitcoin via a watch only wallet 38 Exercise 13: Use the Alice Watch Only wallet to send a transaction 40 Exercise 14: Create wallet Bob Legacy Script Type 42 Exercise 15: Create wallet Alice With Passphrase 45 Exercise 16: Review some transactions 48 Exercise 17: Send bitcoin from Alice to Bob—review fees 52 Exercise 18: Bitcoin fees—what you pay, and why 54 Exercise 19: Install Blue Wallet and create the Carol wallet 58 Exercise 20: Send bitcoin from Bob in Sparrow to Carol in Blue Wallet 61 Exercise 21: Send bitcoin from your exchange to Blue Wallet Carol 63 Exercise 22: Import the Alice wallet to Blue Wallet via the public key 65 Exercise 23: Import the Alice wallet to Blue Wallet via the descriptor 67 Exercise 24: Set up password protection on Blue Wallet 68 Exercise 25: Recover the Bob wallet in Blue Wallet 70 Exercise 26: Send all bitcoin from the Bob Recovery wallet in Blue Wallet to Alice in Sparrow 73 Exercise 27: Bonus—use Blockstream wallet 75 Exercise 28: Clearing practice wallets and creating a long-term wallet 78 Final notes and next steps 80 Resources 89