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Brad Mills
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Does anyone use BIP85 to onboard friends and family in a way that you can hold their keys for them to make onboarding to Bitcoin easier?

Looking for a good user experience around helping friends and family get setup with a bitcoin wallet where I can help them secure their keys until they are ready to go it alone.

Most people lose their keys, and holding a copy of everyone’s individual seed phrase is both a liability and not scalable.

I wish there was a way to onboard someone in your trust circle to a “starter wallet” as their Sherpa, where:

1) we didn’t have to go through the whole seed phrase / no 🔑 no 🧀 thing at the beginning of their stacking journey.
2) it doesn’t make security trade offs because I always have the ability to restore their funds if they screw up and switch phones or lose the keys or something.
3) the UX was smooth (not simply me generating BIP85 seed phrases and giving them to people to enter into their phone)

Anyone working on this trusted social onboarding tool?
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Laser · 169w
I'd like to do this once #Sparrow ships #BIP85 support...
counterweight · 169w
Not the most scalable and requires the person to trust you (Uncle Jim), but if you have your own LNbits instance, you can easily create new accounts there for them and set them up with a Lightning wallet in Bluewallet that's hosted in your LNbits. They can easily send and receive through lightning,...
Rob · 169w
I think a good solution is to run an lnd hub and get them to connect to your node through bluewallet. This way you are the custodian of their bitcoin and they can still spend it easily with the app
exit · 169w
If your friends can't handle the responsibility of keeping a seed phrase safe, they probably shouldn't be driving a car either.